The Mad Max video game looks good so far. I'll retain some skepticism however. Like horror movies of late, video games have become more and more PG-13 rated. I can only imagine Mad Maxx, which features some seriously adult themes, is going to be similarly hamstringed. Even the Dead Space series has grown more and more into a shooter. The first installment was quite good at scaring you. The third installment... not so much. They were worried people would get bored... so they amped up the attacks so that they were in every bloody corridor. One of the best ways to spook someone is to keep providing opportunity and trick the audience into thinking something is going to jump out only for nothing to happen. Thus, when it truly does happen, you're thinking that it won't.

I'm truly looking forward to the new Alien: Isolation videogame. There is but one alien in the scenario, and Amanda Ripley, daughter of protagonist from the first movie must somehow evade and escape the facility she's trapped upon. One of the best things about the game is that you don't have a weapon and the alien is- unkillable!

I'm a bit surprised how the entire industry has gone "open world". Then again, as they've discovered. Once you build a bunch of assets for a world you can make almost any game you could possibly want from those assets.