RAGE 2 Reviews

I'll keep this short and quick. Rage 2 is a fast paced combat shooter that is really enjoyable when you get a lot of the abilities (you can get them as early as you like). I played on the ultra nightmare difficulty to start the game (don't recommend) but it is advisable you switch to this difficulty after leaving the starter area and gained 2 or more abilities because... The game is super easy, really easy, really really easy. In sum, The combat of this game is really fun but repetitive but still really fun and everything else kinda sucks about it. Oh and don't buy rage coins to buy that 1 DLC that's not included. It sucks and has nothing fun or good about it.

gets better the more you play it, damn good game....

While it unfortunatly lacks the same thing the original does, the combat is very doom inspired and addicting, and the side missions (While they feel like a chore) are still fun! fun game to turn your brain off and play!

Unplayable in 2025, do not buy - moving the mouse defaults the game to like 30fps or so. It's not the hardware, moving via keys is buttery smooth, moving the mouse stutters like shit. Tried every combination of VSync, Quality, res scale, does absolutely nothing. Oh, yeah, turning VSync off fixes it kinda, but now I got horrible tearing and the game draws 3x as much power than it needs. Shit engine I guess, they should have sticked to it tech for this one...

RAGE 2 is the video game equivalent of junk food for fans of the modern DOOM games. RAGE 2 isn't a good game. In fact it's probably a bad game. Its open world feels empty and bland. Its story campaign is unbelievably short and uninteresting. The dialogue and attempts of humor are very cringe. The side activities are repetitive and feel half-baked. The half-dozen different upgrade trees feel unnecessary. It has shady micro-transaction RAGE coins that are required to buy to get access to all of the content. It has bugs, glitches and worst of all it crashes frequently. HOWEVER despite all that the core combat loop is stupidly fun (As other players have described it). It has fun abilities with satisfying gunplay to please your inner DOOM Slayer. This alone motivated me to play through the entire game and a decent amount of its side content and one of the DLCs. Despite that even on hard difficulty you will get way too powerful making any fight a complete joke. I was starting to get bored by the end making RAGE 2 a "turn your brain off" kind of game. Like junk food you might find cheap convenient enjoyment out of RAGE 2 but you know it isn't good for you.

When playing Rage 2 it is impossible to not compare it to its predecessor, as well as other contemporary titles with similar themes. Rage 2 fails miserably when compared to Rage in every respect. What it gains in graphical fidelity it wastes completely on unnecessary details which only serve to highlight the dull empty environments and common glitches. The story not only makes no sense, it sprinkles in terribly animated cutscenes in unnecessary places which completely break up the pace of the game. Even the vehicles somehow feel worse to drive, exacerbated by the open-world layout. Comparing Rage 2 to a similar game from several years prior - Fallout 4 - it is not only graphically inferior to the unmodified game but also mechanically inferior. One hour was more than necessary for me to see how abysmal everything about this game is. If I could recommend that this game is removed from the Steam store, I would, it's honestly that much of a scam and a waste of money.

Can't help but feel like this game just didn't get enough time to bake. Positive score because I did enjoy playing it, but I wouldn't call Rage 2 a great game. Probably some of the most fun combat in any FPS I've played, but it's the only thing this game has going for it. My playthrough pretty much consisted of seeking out bases and clearing them, and once those were all done, it didn't really feel like there was much else to do since the story, world, and characters aren't very captivating.

I'd give it a "mixed" if I could. Menus hitch, characters are sometimes invisible, and the world sometimes unloads, BUT, the atmosphere is nice, combat is switch-your-brain-off fun, and the presentation is engaging enough for me. Finding outpost items can be a little heckish though, especially when sometimes you need to find a true-to-life sized Samsung Tablet in a 4 story facility- scratch that, some outposts have CRATES that I wasn't able to find, so I gave up and moved on. There's no shortage of activities to do though. I'm having the same vein of fun that I did with Just Cause 3/4 and Mad Max. Just... this could have used some more time with QA and a longer bug fixing phase.

The game play is not bad, your typical over the top shooter but the fact that so much of it is repeated content and the story can be finished in about 5 hours with minimal side missions is just sad. The original had so much more soul in it, this was just a quick way to make a buck.

4.5/10 ok game play but boring world and story.