RAGE 2
RAGE 2 brings together two studio powerhouses – Avalanche Studios, masters of open world insanity, and id Software, creators of the first-person shooter – to deliver a carnival of carnage where you can go anywhere, shoot anything, and explode everything. An asteroid has annihilated 80% of the earth’s population and humanity’s numbers are dwindling. Ruthless and bloodthirsty gangs roam the open roads and the tyrannical Authority seek to rule with an iron fist. As Walker, the last Ranger of the wasteland and a threat to their power, you have been robbed of your home and left for dead. Now you’ll have to rage for justice and freedom. With ludicrous vehicle combat, super-powered first-person mayhem, and an open world full of emergent madness, you will tear across an unforgiving wasteland battling sadistic gangs to find the tools and tech needed to crush the oppressive rule of The Authority once and for all.
Steam User 21
-game is kinda like Doom 2016 (gameplay and music ) set in mad max world with some rpg elements on top .
its fun but super short imo , there are like 6 very mediocre main missions i think that will take you around 2 hours max to complete and that's it you're done , the rest is just filler side quests that consist of you killing goons in camps and collecting weapons and powers scattered around the world map kinda like in most far cry games.
there 2 expansions but you gotta fork 10$ to buy points so you can buy them
imo more than 3$ its a ripoff so get it on sale
5/10
Steam User 30
If Far Cry and DOOM Eternal had a baby
Sub par story. Empty esk world á lá Ubisoft. But the gameplay is fun and cool, it's really FC+DOOM combined.
Buy it at a big discount.
Steam User 36
lets talk about rage 2
A dead world that is coming to life and crazy people that are busy killing
Unfortunately, compared to the first version, the story is very short, but there are thousands of different missions for more fun but repetitive
The graphics of the game are acceptable
The gameplay is very similar to Cyberpunk 2077
The design of the environment is really amazing, and one part is desert and dead, another part is plain and desert, and another part is similar to rainy marshes
I think 8 out of 10 is fair
Steam User 32
Play it for the gameplay, everything else is bullshit that gets in the way. This game would have been way better if it was an arena shooter or roguelike where you earn upgrades and new powers from some sort of permanent progression currency. Rather than the open world boredom that it is. No point wasting words on explaining the rest of the game, everything from story to world is very forgettable, Just play it if you want more gameplay similar to modern Doom with it's own spin on weapons and powers.
Steam User 16
Great game with dishonest way to sell the DLC with game currency you need to pay with real world currency.
It's very fun and don't regret my time and money spent with this one bit, fell in love with it via gamepass.
Want to enjoy most of this game but avoid buying rage coins? get deluxe edition.
Steam User 15
honestly just a simply fun game with a crap story but fantastic gun-play
Steam User 15
This is Max Max 2.. but with guns, jedi powers, and an alternate dystopian plot.
It's Avalanche's "take too little content, and cookie-cutter it across way too big of a game world" template once again.
If you've played Max Max and/or Just Cause, and thought "wow, this is the most repetitious BS ever!" then this is not the game for you.
The problem is they tacked on Id's Doom-style gun combat. And, the original Rage had some long shoot-out areas. So, folks go into this thinking it's going to be some non-stop action a la Doom.
NOPE.
It's an Open World Survival game with random Mad Max driving combats and base take overs with Doom-style gun play for the guns. But, 80% of your time will be wandering the wastes looking for the next point of interest. Or, avoiding combats.. b/c they waste your resources while barely giving you anything worth your time to compensate.
Here's the Max Max video game formula copied into RAGE 2
- Massive game world filled with roads and random copy-pasta'd points of interest
- Random packs of vehicles roam around looking to pick a fight
- Convoys with big rigs wander around every now and then
- You can find & drive various vehicles, but there's a "Magnum Opus" main to upgrade
- Bases scattered through-out to clear (in this case, looking for an Ark Chest that has goodies)
- Spend 10-15 mins killing enemies at a base, then 2 hours scavenger hunting loot boxes to get a 100% clear at the base (BOO!)
- Various other random cut-n-paste encounters, like Authority towers to destroy, etc.
- Killing enemies is pointless, because you waste a lot of resources for barely any gain. So, most of your time is spent avoiding combat unless necessary.
Now let's throw in Doom-style combat...
- Bullet-sponge enemies that take 5 assault rifle rounds to the face before they go down. And that's on EASY mode!
Now let's throw in Star Wars, b/c ...
- Every stupid game has to have Jedi Powers now. And this makes absolutely NO SENSE for RAGE. There was no indication from the first game that the nanos would give people magic powers. Yet here we are.. b/c jedi powers in every game is all the (*cough*) rage these days.
Now let's throw some "Avalanche being dumb" mechanics into the mix...
- an absolute carp-ton of keys to bind. Avalanche can't figure out how to incorporate more actions into less keys, so you're bombarded with tons to map.
- convoluted UI's that make it difficult to tell what to click on or do. Did you just double-click that thing to unlock it, silly goose?! No, you're supposed to press AND HOLD the "F" key to unlock that thing.
- And why do they have an obsession with pressing AND HOLDING keys? I want to go up a ladder. In other games, I just touch the ladder, and aim up or down to climb up or down. In RAGE 2, I have to aim at the ladder to get the interaction prompt, then press and HOLD the "use" key, wait for a 1 second timer to count down, then the character breaks immersion by taking complete control and climbing the ladder for me. I'm tired of pressing and holding keys. I don't know if they think this makes the game more "interactive" or what, but it's annoying.
Getting back to combat....
Enemies barely drop anything. Feltrite is the "XP" of the game world. You kill someone, they MIGHT drop 3-4 when they die. And that disappears in 10-20 seconds if you don't rush up and grab it. It gives you a minor health boost, too.
- But, some enemies don't drop any
- 3-4 Feltrite is literally 3-4 xp.. most stuff costs 500 Feltrite to even start upgrading
- The minor healing it gives you is pointless, b/c you have to rush up to get it while getting your face shot off doing so
- You wasted a whole clip killing some dude to get it.. so now you're low on ammo
Doom-style combat doesn't mean anything if you don't get anything out of it worth while.
The main reason you get into a fight is to clear an area, like a base, so you can wander around in peace for 2 hours trying to find all the loot boxes.
The rest of the time, you're just skirting around fights to avoid them.
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So, after carping on the game for most of this review, why do I thumbs-up it?
Because it's a "shut your brain off and grind" fest.
I carped all over Mad Max, too.. but it's the kind of game you can come home from work, switch your brain off, and just go head out and explore, get in a fight, shoot someone in the face, and wash-rinse-repeat to zone out and relax.
While RAGE 2 also tries to push vehicles on you, I've been playing the whole time on-foot. Like Mad Max, it's makes it a bit more tense hearing the sound of on-coming engines when you're on foot. You have to scurry off and hide. That has enhanced the "open world survival" aspect of the game.
I've also been playing without powers. I dont' want to use jedi powers. I'm annoyed they included them. So, I'm not using them. I just want to shoot people in the face. (Which is why the bullet sponge enemies annoy me. And, why the paltry rewards for doing so annoy me.)
If you're looking for non-stop action, go play Doom or Borderlands.
If you're looking to switch your brain off and grind, or wander around and go "I wonder what's over that hill?" then this is the game for you.