It’s a marriage that simply doesn’t seem possible, yet it works incredibly well. Avalanche’s open-world expertise paired with id Software’s particularly visceral brand of shooting is a pairing no one even knew they wanted. RAGE 2 already had a steep hill to climb. People were confused when it was announced. A sequel nobody asked for to a mediocre game from 2011" My first gut-reaction to RAGE 2 was “why do we need another over-the-top post apocalyptic shooter"” Then I got some hands-on time with the game myself, wised up, and changed that thinking to “why don’t we need another over-the-top post-apocalyptic shooter"”
To be fair, RAGE 2 has its own special brand of crazy. I’ve seen it compared to Borderlands, and while the similarities are there, it also retains influences from a number of different places, enough to make it feel like its own thing. It’s actually so different from the first game in tone and gameplay, only the setting and some crossover characters really warrant the “2” in its title.
Set some years after the events of the first game, RAGE 2 is about humanity accepting the apocalypse and beginning to move forward. It’s still a massive wasteland full of violent factions, but it’s a bright and colorful world where people have accepted that this particular brand of violence and chaos is more or less life now. The splash of color helps to set it apart from oth...