Everyone knows those two same formulas:

A good movie will usually translate into a bad or mediocre game OR a good game will translate into a bad or mediocre movie.

Luckly, this is an exception to both rules.

While the game is repetitive, since basically you drive from A to B and smash people in the face and blow ♥♥♥♥ up while on the road, the game is rather fun. The game isn't plagued by performance issues at least on my PC, even though I don't fully meet the recommended requirements but still am running it on high settings WITH a godly performance. The devs sure did their homework with optimizing.

The gameplay is repetitive. If you played Far Cry 2 then you'll know what I mean when I say you'll need to drive EVERYWHERE. Luckly there are plenty of fast travel locations that can be quite easily unlocked. The combat in this game is repetitive, be it on foot or the vehicular combat. On foot it's very reminiscent of the batman games, you dodge, parry and beat the crap out of every single soul that crosses your path. But it is pretty fluid.

On the road, the combat is pretty interesting. The cars handle about as well as you'd expect them to handle on sand and rock, that is to say, not so very well, but upgrading your tires helps! Basically, you get as much speed a possible to crash into the other guy and blow him up, before he does the same to you. Your car also has some interesting gimmicks such as side burners so you can get up close to the other cars and melt them, a post-apocalyptic harpoon launcher, that can also launch harpoons with the added "oomph" of exploding tips, a sniper rifle for taking out snipers or vehicles at long range, as well as lots of other sharp and pointy things to grind other cars to scrap, or keep people from boarding your car and beating the ♥♥♥♥ out of you. You can also, of course, trust your shotgun to shoot the other drivers in their face, shoot their tires out, or even blow up their gas tanks, and if needed, defend against people boarding your car.

Basically you'll travel the wasteland looking for scrap so you can upgrade your car and your gear, water so you can keep yourself healthy and eventually give it to thirsty wanderers, and fuel to keep your car running. While scrounging up these things you will come across some interesting objects that say something about the old world as it began to descend into madness, usually upon inspecting these, the protagonist will deliver a one liner with his views about things.

Altough the gameplay is repetitive, the map is HUGE. I'm 10 hours in and I haven't advanced much into the history, as I'm focused on clearing all the tidbits on Jeet's territories. That is to say, clearing out camps, sniper towers, minefields and their "scarecrows". If you are one of those hardcore 100% completiniosts, this game will probably drain you quite a few hours of your life.

All in all, this is a very good game and an interesting singleplayer experience. The graphics are good, the game runs great and the post-apocalyptic vehicular carnage is about as blood as you'd expect it to be, with people getting impaled on your car as they try to board it, cars losing a tire because of a very hard crash, and running down other wastelanders as you drive somewhere to scavenge, all followed by the classic meal of maggots or can of dog food, because that's what's for dinner in the apocalypse.

Edit 23/11/2017: After enough time has passed, I replayed this game. The elements that made me fall in love with it, mostly the car combat an regular, on-foot combat are still very much as good as I remember them. Though, now it does seem that all that driving from one place to another is... tiring to say the least. This game unfortunately lacks the option to "undo" things after completion, meaning that if you wish to go after convoys again... better start a new game.
Other than the tedious driving from one place to another and the inability to reset things once you've completed the history of the game and feel like chasing some more convoys, this game does hold up nicely against the test of time. If you're a die hard completionist, by all means, buy this game, it'll take you a while to get that sought after 100% completion!

Everyone knows those two same formulas: A good movie will usually translate into a bad or mediocre game OR a good game will translate into a bad or mediocre movie. Luckly, this is an exception to both rules. While the game is repetitive, since basically you drive from A to B and smash people in the face and blow shit up while on the road, the game is rather fun. The game isn't plagued by performance issues at least on my PC, even though I don't fully meet the recommended requirements but still am running it on high settings WITH a godly performance. The devs sure did their homework with optimizing. The gameplay is repetitive. If you played Far Cry 2 then you'll know what I mean when I say you'll need to drive EVERYWHERE. Luckly there are plenty of fast travel locations that can be quite easily unlocked. The combat in this game is repetitive, be it on foot or the vehicular combat. On foot it's very reminiscent of the batman games, you dodge, parry and beat the crap out of every single soul that crosses your path. But it is pretty fluid. On the road, the combat is pretty interesting. The cars handle about as well as you'd expect them to handle on sand and rock, that is to say, not so very well, but upgrading your tires helps! Basically, you get as much speed a possible to crash into the other guy and blow him up, before he does the same to you. Your car also has some interesting gimmicks such as side burners so you can get up close to the other cars and melt them, a post-apocalyptic harpoon launcher, that can also launch harpoons with the added "oomph" of exploding tips, a sniper rifle for taking out snipers or vehicles at long range, as well as lots of other sharp and pointy things to grind other cars to scrap, or keep people from boarding your car and beating the shit out of you. You can also, of course, trust your shotgun to shoot the other drivers in their face, shoot their tires out, or even blow up their gas tanks, and if needed, defend against people boarding your car. Basically you'll travel the wasteland looking for scrap so you can upgrade your car and your gear, water so you can keep yourself healthy and eventually give it to thirsty wanderers, and fuel to keep your car running. While scrounging up these things you will come across some interesting objects that say something about the old world as it began to descend into madness, usually upon inspecting these, the protagonist will deliver a one liner with his views about things. Altough the gameplay is repetitive, the map is HUGE. I'm 10 hours in and I haven't advanced much into the history, as I'm focused on clearing all the tidbits on Jeet's territories. That is to say, clearing out camps, sniper towers, minefields and their "scarecrows". If you are one of those hardcore 100% completiniosts, this game will probably drain you quite a few hours of your life. All in all, this is a very good game and an interesting singleplayer experience. The graphics are good, the game runs great and the post-apocalyptic vehicular carnage is about as blood as you'd expect it to be, with people getting impaled on your car as they try to board it, cars losing a tire because of a very hard crash, and running down other wastelanders as you drive somewhere to scavenge, all followed by the classic meal of maggots or can of dog food, because that's what's for dinner in the apocalypse. Edit 23/11/2017: After enough time has passed, I replayed this game. The elements that made me fall in love with it, mostly the car combat an regular, on-foot combat are still very much as good as I remember them. Though, now it does seem that all that driving from one place to another is... tiring to say the least. This game unfortunately lacks the option to "undo" things after completion, meaning that if you wish to go after convoys again... better start a new game. Other than the tedious driving from one place to another and the inability to reset things once you've completed the history of the game and feel like chasing some more convoys, this game does hold up nicely against the test of time. If you're a die hard completionist, by all means, buy this game, it'll take you a while to get that sought after 100% completion!