Learning special attacks and parries lets you deal with goons more quickly, but in response the game simply increases the size of the mobs you face. The camera can be awful during fights, sometimes completely obscuring Max and his enemies.

Invading enemy camps is always done on foot, and while melee combat works similarly to what we've seen in the Arkham games-parry blows with one button, deliver your own by mashing another, chain attacks together for damage bonuses, and execute special moves when prompted-it's simply not as fluid or flexible. Of course, you need to get out of your car quite often, which is where some of the fun of Mad Max can start to fizzle.

Upgrade your car enough, and unarmored vehicles become one-hit kills. You're not always the hunted, either: sometimes enemy drivers will realize they've bitten off more than they can chew and beat a hasty retreat, meaning you get to become the pursuer. Best of all, you can a rip a driver right out of his seat, either through an unarmored windshield or a door you've removed, and then catapult him through the air. As you upgrade the harpoon you'll gain the ability to tear off a car's wheel, completely neutralizing it. Yank off armor, piece by piece, to expose a gas tank which you can then detonate with a shotgun blast. Target a rear bumper and you can slingshot your car into it for extra ramming damage.

Target a car's doors and you can tear them off. Luckily, you've got something they don't, and it's one of the most enjoyable weapons I've used in a game: a kickass car-mounted harpoon. As you explore the wasteland you'll randomly encounter lone vehicles or multi-car war parties bristling with spikes, loaded with explosives, or carrying crews of hooting War Boys.

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