Mad Max: Fury Road is an all-out, no holds barred assault on the senses. With the film's stunning visual style, striking cinematography and explosive practical effects, it's hard to image how the film could look any better.
How about by taking some of the film's iconic vehicles, going back 20 years and making them look like they've just been squeezed through an NES? Illustrator Mazok Pixels and animator Misha Petrick have done just that with some stunning pixel art inspired by Fury Road, in which they have brought to life a number of the film's iconic vehicles.
First up is Max's Interceptor, which sadly doesn't even make it to the end of the film. Then we have the Motorats, Elvis and the tetanus delivery car known as Plymouth Rock. Each one is beautifully animated and is the spitting image of the respective vehicles from the film. If, you know, Mad Max: Fury Road was actually an NES game, that is.
My personal favorite has to be the Peacemaker. When it comes to wheels vs. treads, always pick treads.
Some of the film's largest vehicles are yet to come, like the massive concert-on-wheels that the flame-spewing guitar player named the "Doof Warrior" peforms on for much of the film.
It's enough to make you wish a 2D Mad Max game had been released back in the early 90's. I can picture it now: players play Max as he goes from left to right, jumping from vehicle to vehicle along the Fury Road. It would be an old-school beat em' up with a variety of melee and long-range weapons. Of course there would be drivable vehicle segments as well, where players take control of Imperator Furiosa's War Rig and must battle it out with the in-pursuit forces of Immortan Joe.
It's making me depressed just thinking about how a game like that doesn't exist. While the upcoming open-world Mad Max game for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC looks like a fun time, there is just something about the painstaking attention to detail in these images that fit perfectly within the apocalyptic world director George Miller has once again brought to life on screen. Oh well. At least we have some amazing art to gawk over. Well done Mazok and Misha. Well done.
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