Mad Max Review

MAD MAX

 

Format:                          PS4
Rating:                           15+ 
Strong post-apocalyptic Themes and Violence
By:                                 WB games
Players:                          1
HDD:                             34gb
Video:                            720p, 1080i, 1080p
Remote play:                 PS VITA

  
I am finished with MAD MAX after many hours of game play. I say i am finished, but i haven't actually completed the game. The story mission, which i have to complete to proceed, involves completing a barrel checkpoint race, and i simply cant do it.

The open world is huge with plenty to do. The locations and enemies are varied and interesting. The missions themselves are very similar, kill all the enemies, blow up all the things, kill the big boss, but the variety in locations and enemies really help to differentiate them.

The game itself is beautiful, the lighting and weather effects are amazing. The world is mostly desert so the game has done well to make this bleak post- apocalyptic landscape feel real and at times breathtaking.

I played the game on PS4, i don't have the VITA so i cant comment on that. I actually got the Post-Apocalyptic edition which included; The Ripper car body DLC, Road warrior DLC, Collector box, Game, Exclusive Steelbook game case, Mini mad max licence plate, and Mad Max Fury Road Blu-Ray (the movie was meh).

The in game pictures you see here are captured with the PS4 controllers share button. I only realised later that the game itself had "cinematic mode", which removed the mini-map, and other meta artifacts, allowing for cleaner captures.

MAX cant jump very high and he moves very slow, it wasn't until almost 50% through the game that i realised he had a sprint feature...Moving quickly along.

"Stay vigilant my angel. This is red eye land, and they mostly come out at night. Yes, yes, mostly."

The game has a great sense of humor and it really helps to break up the sometimes gloomy world. 
It also needs to be said that for a post-apocalyptic world, society seems to have come a long way. There doesn't seem to be much sign of sexism, homophobia or discrimination based on disability. It seems that the need for mutual survival has overridden such bigotry and prejudice.

As you saw at the top i really like this game. Some things i didn't like were; 
The forced barrel race mission.
My map bugged out with a few locations, keeping them check-marked after the mission was finished.
I wish that it would tell me which enemy car i was in and if i already had it in my collection.
I wish that if i took a car to my garage that i already had in my collection, i would get a bit of scrap or something.

Abbott has been deposed.

Will there be a difference?

In a move that came far too late, the Liberal party has ousted their leader Tony Abbot, with Malcolm Turnbull becoming Australia new Prime Minister.

 In my opinion Mr Turnbul needs to do four things to prove to the australian people that the rot began and ended with Abbott, and isnt spread throught the Liberal party like skidmarks on speedos.

1. Immediately support marriage equality. The law should just be changed back, as Howard's changes were unconstitutional. If that cant be done then a free vote needs to happen, now.

2. Immediately cease offshore detention of refugees, close those refuge prison camps and hold a royal commission into the atrocities that the policy and the officials in charge oversaw.

3. Make good on the election promises that Mr Abbott broke; changes to the ABC, SBS, Pensions, The NBN, Gonski, GST etc. This not only disgraced the Liberal party but undermined our system of democracy. We cant have our political parties saying anything to get voted in, with no intention of keeping to what was said. 

4. Proper funding to indigenous community, cease plans to close them.

Obviously there are other things that need to be done before taking the Liberals to an election, such as getting real counselors back into schools, stop the attacks on the poor and sick, real action on climate change, having a minister for women who is actually a woman, having a minister for science, a minister for equality?

The ministers responsible for bad Liberal policy need to go, and some should just never be given portfolios; Morrison, Hunt, Joyce, Pyne, Hockey, Abetz, Andrews, Bernardi, Fierravanti-Wells, Dutton and Truss, are ministers i think he would avoid for various reasons.

It remains to be seen if we just witnessed a bucket swap.

Celebrating Bigotry

A criminal bigot receives a heroes welcome

Kim Davis the bigot who defied the law, failed to do her appointed duty,  and refused to issue marriages licenses, was released from jail into a hate rally where religious extremists praised her as a hero.
That's right, these "christians" openly praised her discrimination, her criminal refusal to do what the court has ordered, her refusal to follow the American constitution. She discriminated against gays, lesbians and religions that do accept the natural variation in human sexuality, and straight people were also discriminated against, by her, and she is being praised...

What offended me more was that some people have been identifying her with those who fought for African American rights.  When a much more accurate comparison would be that when America ended the Anti-miscegenation marriage laws, she would have been refusing to marry anyone because she didn't like interracial marriages.

She has also astonishingly been likened to a Jew under Nazi rule! This is down right offensive, it totally disrespects the over
100,000 homosexuals who were persecuted by the Nazis, not to mention the actual Jews who were victims of The Holocaust. Seeing as though she is the one discriminating, and being bigoted, i really do question what side of history she would have been on if she had actually been there. 

Her stance is indefensible, she is failing to do her job, she is defying the constitution, the law and the courts. She is denying the fundamental rights of others because of her interpretation of her chosen religions current version of marriage, which has noting to do with the legal definition.

Lets say i am Wiccan (my religious beliefs prevent me from eating meat), and i work at a vegan food store, now the owner decides to allow some fish pasta on the menu. 
I do not have the right to stop serving customers pasta. It does not impede my religious rights that the shop now serves fish pasta. If my religious beliefs do not fit with what my job entails it is up to me to seek more suitable employment. In fact if i had refused to sell fish pasta to a Catholic on Lent or Good Friday, i would be discriminating against them and their religion.

 Lets not forget that no one religion owns marriage, that it existed in many forms before Christianity and that the christian definition has changed over the years. Kim Davis definition does not reflect history, the law, other religions definitions or even other Christians definitions, that is why the freedom of religion laws are there to protect innocent people from arrogant people like Kim Davis.

The fanatical anti-gay and religious bigots seem to be trying to portray Kim Davis as some kind hero, when it is she who is breaking the law, she who is defying the constitution, she who is forcing her beliefs on others, she is the one against freedom of religion, it is she who is discriminating and being bigoted. Don't fall for it, not for one second. This is about anti-gay hate and the homophobes not liking that their views are losing favor.

 I call upon all Christians to contact there churches and demand that their religious leaders condemn this woman's actions, and renounce any implied support of her.