Mild-Mannered Max

The Steam promotional content had me optimistically expecting Hard Truck: Apocalypse to be some kind of middle ground between Mad Max and Red Faction: Guerrilla, driving around a nuked-up open world with way too many machine guns. And, well, that's sort of accurate -- but what most strongly characterized my time in Hard Truck: Apocalypse was the lack of things to do. Driving across mostly-empty expanses of barren world. Holding down a trigger to burn down an incompetent enemy, who barely fights back or poses any risk. Clicking through conversations where most of the dialog choices only had one option. And it's not like there's an epic story to suffer through this tedium for. What is the point?

It hardly matters that the production values are so poor, including baffling voice acting that sounds like it went through a few rounds of Google Translate. The gameplay itself just isn't interesting.