Map Size?

[Apocolyptica]

Is there any indication how big the map is say compared to GTA V?

[Memnoch]

There are some shots of the game map in some of the videos I have seen. No easy way to make a comparison unfortunately. You can see large swathes of map broken up into regions completely covered with icons. But from memory there were blank areas outside of this with one or two icons on them, perhaps these high level areas others have mentioned. Perhaps looking back at the maps, identifying some iconography that represents something we can see in the distance might give us a clue?

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

From what I have seen and heard, it is around the same size or bigger than Just Cause 2's map. It'll likely make GTA V look like a joke, map size wise at least.

[Memnoch]

I would be both suprised and delighted if it was quite that big.

[Human After All]

I dont thing its as big as just cause 2 or even bigger. I have read somewhere that driving from 1 huge outpost to one of the other side took about 10-14 minutes. that would be more like a slightly bigger version of the gta 5 map.

[Memnoch]

GTAV would be more believable.

[MOBIUS_01]

This map size is MUCH larger than GTAV... technically, because the game has "soft boarders" the map goes on forever aswell

[Mr Castrol]

They said it's same size as just cause 2 and little bit bigger they said

[♡ Katalina Aryze ♡]

Very very small.... it can't possibly be a huge map because 1.) It's a wasteland/Desert. 2.) The engine is not optimized for streaming a large locale. 3.) There are no huge landmarks like carriers, enemy bases, deserted towns for you to discover... 4.) Long-scale races/car battles with you vs 20 enemy vehichles. 5.) Rpg elements to level up Max. 6.) Over 2,000 car parts scattered about. Devs just want them to be so close together & even if you had all those things, the map still wouldn't be huge just because... ;) None of those things support a huge colossal map so support an average action sized game map because Avalanche doesn't want to challenge themselves or anything by doing something crazy like making it bigger than Just Cause 2. God forbid that they try.... :'(

[DukeWooze]

Well to me from that stream the other day it looked pretty big. Personally, I think it's probably the same size as GTA 5. Honestly I don't see why not. JC2 was pretty big, but there were many mountains that sucked up space like Skyrim. However I would not doubt that most of the map is open desert.

[♡ Katalina Aryze ♡]

Originally posted by Wooze The Duke Of Nubia:

Well to me from that stream the other day it looked pretty big. Personally it's probably the same size as GTA 5. Honestly I don't see why not. JC2 was pretty big, but there were many mountains that sucked up space like Skyrim.

I think it will be same size or bigger. Honestly, it makes sense because GTA5 has planes, trains, boats, and cars. Mad Max just has cars and it's desert setting would enable Mad Max to be much larger very easily. Who knows how far out the soft borders expand *not that anyone will ever find out cuz they'll die from sandstorms and getting blown up*

I'm not sure which was bigger... Just Cause 2 or GTA5 but Just Cause 2 felt far larger to me while GTA5 paid exquisite attention to detail.

[Human After All]

Just Cause 2 is about 37 km from one end to the other, GTA 5 is about 17 or so. So Just Cause 2 is two times bigger. I doubt that the world of Mad Max ist that big. A 40 km desert would be extremely huge.

[♡ Katalina Aryze ♡]

It also matters when dev's allow you to explore in every small building or large building, including houses. I remember when this one guy was arguing with me somewhere about next-gen opem worlds. He insisted that there will never be an open world gaje which allowed you to enter in every place you see. Then I mentioned the name "Red Faction: Guerilla" and he got futious when he remembered I was right

Point being? Is was a huge game map that lacked detail of games like GTA5 but felt more alive in other ways because you could walk in any placeand destroy anything that looked destroyable. Not only that but if you blow up a bridge, it affects the storyline -you dont have to blow up or destroy anything in the game but if you do ymit will affect your rep and the game. Which made it one of my favorite open world games. And the mauraders but reminded me of Mad Max :p

I felt like Watch Dogs map was small BUT the ability to hack into the environment makes it always fresh to enjoy, besides that the story writing is done greatly and it's much longer game than GTA5 or Just Cause 2.

I think the most believable open world right now is Witcher 3 which dwarfs Skyrim and GTA5. The ecosystem is on point, people live lives like Skyrim so wirk during day and home at night but the locale is just a massive place.

GTA5 is nice cuz it offers unprecedented freedom, it digitized California pretty well but being that I used to live there it's a little off in areas.

Watch Dogs was small but te-created Chicago much better than GTA5 did Santa Monica and Hollywood. Watch Dogs literally did landmarks and streets. The map is like looking on Googke earth lol Well close enough.

Witcher 3 is the most detailed world I've played as of now andthe biggesr, probably til Fallout 4 anyways.

Red Faction:Guerilla and Just Cause are the most funnest and satisfying games I've ever played.

[Bum nut plus +]

what is a map with soft borders? also the map is massive but not as big as JC2 but bigger than gta v

[DukeWooze]

Ya know I also realized that there is no water in Mad Max's map, so the map might be pretty damn large. (perceptivly I mean since there is no open sea to block you)

[DRAGONER]

Originally posted by Human After All:

Just Cause 2 is about 37 km from one end to the other, GTA 5 is about 17 or so. So Just Cause 2 is two times bigger. I doubt that the world of Mad Max ist that big. A 40 km desert would be extremely huge.

Dude Just Cause 2 is 400 square miles. GTA 5 is a little less than 50 square miles (which is still huge) Just Cause 2 is like 8 times the size of GTA 5. But I wouldn't see why they would go with such a map size for Mad Max because Just Cause 2 was huge but very empty there were miles and miles and miles of just negative space with nothing to do. I don really like that in games. If they manage to make Mad Max 400 square miles or larger and fill it with tons of stuff to do I am fine with it but if they just make it big for the heck of it and there isn't much to do I wouldn't see the point.