01/02/2024 (2 of 2 found this helpful)

Why U Mad Bro?

I remember playing the first Rage in co-op and having a decent time with it - a solid enough FPS from ID Software. I never expected a sequel but here we are. Rage 2 ditches the co-op and instead churns out an open-world style game that shares more with games like Far Cry and more recent Assassin's Creed than ID standards DOOM or Quake. With open-world games becoming so prevalent, Avalanche Software and Bethesda would have to bring something new the table to truly impress. Rage 2, however, falls into merely average territory.

Looks and Stuff: The game does looks pretty good. Most post-apocalyptic wasteland games tend to fall into the bland browns - deserts, ruins, etc. and while Rage 2 has plenty of that - it manages to spice things up with more vibrant swamps and forests that at least ...

Rating of
3.5/5 

10/06/2019 (2 of 2 found this helpful)

Power Through

“RAGE 2” is the sequel that no one asked for and no one expected. Way back in 2011, a year before my official return from complete PC gaming apostasy, id Software – the brain trust behind the very (dismal) origins of the FPS genre with series like ‘DOOM,’ ‘Quake,’ and ‘Heretic/Hexen’ – released a new IP for the first time in over a decade: “RAGE.” The game was met with mixed reviews from id fans, but as someone with a less-than-rosy view of id’s so-called ‘classic’ FPSes, I found it to be a refreshing change of pace from that developer. However, the majority rules in most cases, and it seemed that “RAGE’s” score of ~80 on metacritic wasn’t the overwhelming success required to churn out annual sequels year-after-year, as Activision did with ‘Call of ...

Rating of
4/5