Avalanche's Mad Max might have gotten off to a slow start, but it eventually emerged as one of the most hidden open-world gems out there. The story of how it came to be a cult classic rather than a literal classic isn't one for this article, but it does include Mad Max film director George Miller and his good pal Hideo Kojima, and also helped pave the way for Fumes, which is following firmly in the tyre tracks of Avalanche's 2015 game.
Fumes puts you in the driver's seat of a retro-looking rustbucket in the midst of a sprawling desert filled with enemy rustbucketeers looking to do you harm. It's a dusty, grimy, world in which every vehicular inhabitant feels like it's held together with duct tape and a dream, where the rattle of your roof-mounted autocannon feels like it's more likely to shake your own car apart than do meaningful damage to your opponents.
