When the Mad Max trailer debuted at Sony's E3 media conference last week, many Australians felt a flicker of national pride. For those unfamiliar with the film franchise, it is inherently, undeniably Aussie, set in a Down Under dystopia where the dusty outback serves as the playground for vehicular warfare between Australian cars. A young Mel Gibson was the Australian star. George Millar was the Australian director. The first Max helped usher in the Australian New Wave.
It was a surprise then, at Warner Bros.' Behind Closed Doors demo at E3, to hear Max speak not with an Aussie twang but a gravelly American growl, a cookie-cutter 'tough-video-game-angry-man' accent. Surely developer Avalanche Studios isn't seriously stripping the franchise of its Australian roots? Surely we're not yet at a point where all game protagonists need to be white-washed into a collective pool of generic American anti-heroism?
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