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  1. Jan 19, 2020
    4
    Congratulations to the developers for so faithfully recreating the tedium of the original game.
    Oddly, splashing shocking pink over everything doesn't breath life or interest into a game that's beige to the core.
  2. Sep 17, 2019
    4
    A pure grinder. It's like they assumed if they included a checklist of features that make other games great, they'd have a great game. Open world? Check. Upgradeable weapons and abilities? Check. Crazy characters? Check. Etc. Except if there's a story I don't know what it is, the controls make me nauseous so I can only play in short bursts (if I still played), they made EVERYTHINGA pure grinder. It's like they assumed if they included a checklist of features that make other games great, they'd have a great game. Open world? Check. Upgradeable weapons and abilities? Check. Crazy characters? Check. Etc. Except if there's a story I don't know what it is, the controls make me nauseous so I can only play in short bursts (if I still played), they made EVERYTHING upgradeable, it's confusing as heck, and pointless. The abilities suck, and you don't even notice the upgrades to the weapons. You just drive around shoot guys over and over. Expand
  3. May 16, 2019
    4
    This game is way worse than I thought.

    The graphics looks like something from 2012. The story is bland and so are the characters. The driving is just copy pasted from Mad Max and the shooting is nothing special, feels like an average fps game. The worst part though is the optimization for PC. I don't know if it is because of denuvo but it stutters and lags all the time. Compared to much
    This game is way worse than I thought.

    The graphics looks like something from 2012. The story is bland and so are the characters. The driving is just copy pasted from Mad Max and the shooting is nothing special, feels like an average fps game. The worst part though is the optimization for PC. I don't know if it is because of denuvo but it stutters and lags all the time. Compared to much better looking games like the Witcher 3, Crysis or even my modded Skyrim, this POS runs like crap. I know it is not because of my computer since I can run almost any modern AAA game without problems (Resident Evil 2 Remake, Witcher 3, Battlefield V and Fallout 4 are just some examples).

    I am disappointed since I really wanted this game to be good. Avalanche usually release good games but this is not one of them.
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  4. May 15, 2019
    4
    Boring. Lacks good story and writing. Feels like farming Ubisoft games, but worse. Open world is boring. AI is stupid. Shooting mechanic feels good.
  5. May 14, 2019
    4
    Would not recommend unless on sale.

    Its a decent game but its not worth of its current price tag.

    Contents start to run dry and become repetitive after awhile. But the gun play is good and dynamic.
  6. May 18, 2019
    4
    It looks bad, it sounds bad, it plays bad. It should be called "Boring Rage 2". This is a soulless game. I won't recommend anyone to play it.
  7. Jan 1, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I literally finished the game in 5 hours, yes 5 hours for 60 bucks, 5 hours of fetch quest, of boring and empty open world and unimaginative and bad story, the dubbing isn't always great, the cars are awful to drive with a keyboard, you definitely need a controller for that.
    The gameplay is good, some classic fast fps gameplay that you probably have already played in rage 1, Wolfenstein, doom. But nothing new, interesting.

    Nothing really linked the two games except a 5 min cinematic in the beginning of the game, two or three Easter eggs which are really cool and that's it.
    The bad guy is cool but you will only see him three times, yeah, I'm not even joking, his voice is the only one that is worth noticing.
    All the upgrades feel useless, the open world looks awful and it's one of the ugliest games I have ever seen in my life, there is no consistence to this game, sometimes it looks really good (most of the time it's inside the city etc.) and sometimes it looks awful.

    This game has nothing for him, it's boring, ugly, uninteresting and expensive.

    This is the last time I will ever be hyped for a Bethesda game, I waited so long for this one, loved the first one so much, but that’s what I got, 5h of bad experiences for 60$

    They couldn’t even protect the game correctly, they forgot to implement denuvo for the game which is crazy to me, that just shows how careless they were.

    Go buy Mad Max, Rage 1 or any other game at that point, everything else will be a better experience than this game.
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  8. Jun 3, 2019
    4
    Well, first few hours of this game was pretty fun and actually kinda promising. But then, when you get deeper into the game it gets monotonous, repetitive and pretty much boring in general.

    The combat system is fun (but only for a few hours, at least for me personally). Gunfight is similar to Doom (2016), it's just in Rage 2 this combat gets boring pretty quickly because lack of good
    Well, first few hours of this game was pretty fun and actually kinda promising. But then, when you get deeper into the game it gets monotonous, repetitive and pretty much boring in general.

    The combat system is fun (but only for a few hours, at least for me personally). Gunfight is similar to Doom (2016), it's just in Rage 2 this combat gets boring pretty quickly because lack of good weapons, same enemies and boring map. It's also frustrating that even with good upgrades on your character you still have to put 2/3 of your magazine bullets to one enemy so it's slows down a pace of combat.

    Driving in this game for me was okay. I got hang of it pretty fast, so it wasn't cancer for me, like many other reviewers have stated.

    Story, secondary characters and map of the game - all these 3 aspects was a let down for me. There's no depth in story whatsoever, you just get boring villain and that's about it. Pretty much all the time I was playing Rage 2 I sat on my chair with complete poker face, no emotions (I played this on hard). Now I remember playing Mad Max - and there were such a great moments story related, such an amazing cutscenes and intense fighting in enemy camps. Sadly, Rage 2 has pretty much none of that.

    Graphics, audio and sound was alright. Although there was some few bugs with physics, some textures missing or some voice lines muted, but nothing game breaking.

    Let me just say this - if it was indie type of game, for let's say around 20-30 euros then this would be good, or at least okay. But as a Triple A game I expected much more content from Bethesda, id and Avalanche Studios (bear in mind the latter also developed Mad Max which was great game for me).

    This definitely not worth 60/80 euros, no way. Wait a sale, till the price drops to half, because for a full price, the content you get - this is a f**king joke.
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  9. May 16, 2019
    4
    So.. there are alot of faults with this game, Sound, Graphics, AI, oh the controls..

    overall graphics are fine, sure the graphics looks a bit old but this is not a problem. sounds are not as good! sound clips out, get fragmented or vanishes completely in really important events like the main story missions, AI is.. not bad but not good either, they don't really do anything but run
    So.. there are alot of faults with this game, Sound, Graphics, AI, oh the controls..

    overall graphics are fine, sure the graphics looks a bit old but this is not a problem.
    sounds are not as good! sound clips out, get fragmented or vanishes completely in really important events like the main story missions,

    AI is.. not bad but not good either, they don't really do anything but run towards you hiding occasionally, and throwing a grenade.. or 10

    i personally hated the controls, i tried playing on a keyboard at first but gave up and switched to a Xbox one control, which was OK.

    the story is about 5-10 hours, and the story is pretty much just going to the other side of the map killing somebody. ingame history is a bit flawed, it does not make you more interested in the game and makes you start to to "overlook" those random datapads scattered around the world

    the normal difficulty is insanely easy.

    driving is occasionally fun, in the beginning anyway, when you get a certain vehicle you stop using any other vehicle and only go "driving" with that specific vehicle, completely breaking the game as you have unlimited fuel. when it comes to modding the vehicles in this game, it seems that you can only upgrade your first vehicle, any other is a no go, which for me was quite boring.

    weapon and skills modding sure looks amazing at first but after leveling everything to max, its a bit basic, more bullets per second type of mods. the skills get stronger but it does not give the skill any difference in looks or "impact" on the user! a level 5 skills looks like a level 1 skill.

    i like the weapons tough! the second function of every weapon does bring something to the table,
    but is not enough to carry the whole game. the game is called Rage, and should be about Rage, the power of Rage, and what rage can do to people! both when it comes to skills, and shotguns

    i do not recommend this game
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  10. May 15, 2019
    4
    Sorry for my English!

    Rage 2 is a shame. It has potential, but it's never utilized. The story? Ridiculous. Worst story I've ever heard, and I reading Sci Fi since 1990. Graphic? Boring. Not bad or ugly, just boring. Characters? Boring too. Color palette? What is this pink ummm... trash? World? Wasted potential: you can't enter most of the buildings, there are really no
    Sorry for my English!

    Rage 2 is a shame. It has potential, but it's never utilized.

    The story? Ridiculous.
    Worst story I've ever heard, and I reading Sci Fi since 1990.

    Graphic? Boring.
    Not bad or ugly, just boring.

    Characters? Boring too.

    Color palette? What is this pink ummm... trash?

    World? Wasted potential: you can't enter most of the buildings, there are really no dungeons/mazes, and those that exist, way too small to have fun.
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  11. May 17, 2019
    4
    The game isn't worth 60$
    The combat is a major downgrade from DOOM 2016 ,the weapons sound effects are laughably bad the pacing is simply ****
    The vehicles are a bad joke avalanche studies canser is spreading into ID SOFTWARE creative direction.
    A hard skip untile the fix this broken peace of ****
  12. Mar 8, 2021
    4
    Can Rage 2 bring you a proper amount of hours of intense fun ?

    Well... Not quite much. From my opinion, they are many downsides to the game, but my overall experience fits into one word: tasteless. Feels like "one more FPS where you shooty-shooty in an open world, accompanied by a story trying to justify shooty-shooty in even more exotic places". It had good promises, but falls short of
    Can Rage 2 bring you a proper amount of hours of intense fun ?

    Well... Not quite much. From my opinion, they are many downsides to the game, but my overall experience fits into one word: tasteless. Feels like "one more FPS where you shooty-shooty in an open world, accompanied by a story trying to justify shooty-shooty in even more exotic places". It had good promises, but falls short of expectations.

    The story didn't catch much my attention, to start with.
    The graphics aren't that great. It's mostly a desert, and you'll have to go through places you already know to get to the action, but now they are boring to experience as much as they are boring-looking.

    Most importantly, and what really raised my hopes for playing this game: what was supposed to be the variety of gameplay. Many weapons, supposedly great spells and MOBILITY. To me, you can't miss a game if you give some verticality in level design, and funny ways to move both horizontally and vertically. Rage 2 kind of made me lie: there are both, but it feels like the engine is still feels rough to handle and that you would be more useful hiding and shooting, leaving movement spells alone and useless. The variety of weapons is great, but it's only a product line to choose from, as you need to invest points and really commit to a weapon for it to become effective. Kinda sad when you want to try variety and realize that all other weapons are worthless 'cause you committed to one and only.

    Doesn't mean Rage 3 couldn't be a great game. Really, what makes Rage 2 bad is that the gameplay offering sounds great but the game barely scratched the surface of what these concepts are: a variety of weapons that is meaningful, that you are interested in and that is put to good use through good game design, spells that are situational but that you can commit towards if you wish, and meaningful mobility.

    I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, really. If you're a fan of shooters, spend more time on Doom, if it's RPG you like, go for the Fallout series. Avoid Rage 2, it won't bring you much fun.
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  13. May 10, 2021
    4
    Game just boring and short. Very short. There are only 5 quests and you can beat it under 6 hours, and there is nothing left to do. Every sidequests location is copy of previous one.
    Yes, gunplay is nice, and pretty various, but honestly i used only two guns and never used special abilities on hard difficulty. Ofc you can use abolities but it's kind of pointless.
    Besides of main quest it
    Game just boring and short. Very short. There are only 5 quests and you can beat it under 6 hours, and there is nothing left to do. Every sidequests location is copy of previous one.
    Yes, gunplay is nice, and pretty various, but honestly i used only two guns and never used special abilities on hard difficulty. Ofc you can use abolities but it's kind of pointless.
    Besides of main quest it just a driving to point on map, shot, loot, repeat. But why someone wants to spend time on this boring routine? Game give no prize for exploring and looting, yes you get crafting materials, ability points etc, but you don't need non of these things to beat the game.

    If Rage 2 was a linear shooter it be fine. But if we talking about open world, exploring game, for if so Rage 2 boring, pointless and doesn't worth time spending.
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  14. Aug 15, 2021
    4
    Performance is bad, running the game above 60fps and 1080p gives problem. That out of the table, game itself is boring, it feels like a cheap Far Cry with some Doom stuff in it. After 2 hours there's nothing in the game that makes me want to come back.
  15. May 19, 2019
    3
    I miss when Devs would make the game they wanted,not what research and marketing think we want.Rage 2 has the dullest open world since Mafia 3 and the main difference between Rage and Rage 2 is that it simply takes longer to drive to the core loop.I also miss the mini games from the first game.These,combined with races and MBTV at least made a corridor shooter a little more interesting.AnI miss when Devs would make the game they wanted,not what research and marketing think we want.Rage 2 has the dullest open world since Mafia 3 and the main difference between Rage and Rage 2 is that it simply takes longer to drive to the core loop.I also miss the mini games from the first game.These,combined with races and MBTV at least made a corridor shooter a little more interesting.An open world game needs variety and a lot of weapons,tools and loot,none of which this game has.Sure it has some powers (If you call double jump a power,),but sadly they are mostly dull and the player has to work really hard to eek some fun out of this lifeless shooter.Characters and story are uninteresting and I coundn't have cared less who anyone was or what they said.That includes my own incredibly generic "Ranger" who is Joe or Jane Nobodycares.At least the shooting itself is expectedly solid. Expand
  16. Dec 30, 2020
    3
    Graphics remind fallout 3 with some improvements. Wasteland is mostly boring, with dummy buildings you can't come in. Lots of glitches, like ammo clips flying high in the air, characters talking to invisible people, car stuck in holes etc. etc...
  17. Apr 17, 2021
    3
    The only thing you will "RAGE" about is one of the most stupid game design decisions ever made. There is NO intra-progress save. It's all huge checkpoint based. I can sort of understand this for a console game in the past where there there was not enough storage, but then that would be an excuse for anything like the Xbox since it's so much like a PC (with a HD to store saves on).

    The
    The only thing you will "RAGE" about is one of the most stupid game design decisions ever made. There is NO intra-progress save. It's all huge checkpoint based. I can sort of understand this for a console game in the past where there there was not enough storage, but then that would be an excuse for anything like the Xbox since it's so much like a PC (with a HD to store saves on).

    The game is a contradiction. It pushes this fast paced gameplay with the music, fast moving and shoot enemies, and that you want to move in fast with quick moves to pick up the nanites. But then one mistake it's over, you die then you have to do the objective that you are on all over again.
    The checkpoints are literally the whole base! So you can't play it fast like they want you to because then you will just have to do the same 5 to 30 minutes you played, over and over again.

    I don't know who is left from the original crew at Id. This is totally lame. This is checkpoint game mechanic that might have been okay 20 years ago, but inexcusable now. It's just a very lazy decision, maybe a decision made because the game engine was broken or something.

    Is you want to play a real post apocalyptic car game play the underrated Mad Max 2015 game. It blows away this confused hot mess.
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  18. May 18, 2019
    3
    Another mediocre, bland and repetitive open world game. Bad graphics with tons of low res textures, bad story and 90% of the game is just "optional" repetitive garbage. It's really short and can be completed in 10 hours. Also this game is built on top of Mad Max (another garbage game) which is super obvious. I can't mention a single high quality game developed by Avalanche, because thereAnother mediocre, bland and repetitive open world game. Bad graphics with tons of low res textures, bad story and 90% of the game is just "optional" repetitive garbage. It's really short and can be completed in 10 hours. Also this game is built on top of Mad Max (another garbage game) which is super obvious. I can't mention a single high quality game developed by Avalanche, because there simply are none. Expand
  19. May 16, 2019
    3
    Rage 2 is just a crying shame. I would genuinely love to be a fly on the wall in these studios to see exactly how they make such a mess out of such an opportunity of a game as Rage 2. Seriously who in their development team thought that the writing was okay? I've never felt so uncomfortable listening to dialogue in a video game before. Do they not put any thought into making these games?Rage 2 is just a crying shame. I would genuinely love to be a fly on the wall in these studios to see exactly how they make such a mess out of such an opportunity of a game as Rage 2. Seriously who in their development team thought that the writing was okay? I've never felt so uncomfortable listening to dialogue in a video game before. Do they not put any thought into making these games? How can we possibly make it so the world doesn't feel so empty and lifeless, how do we make it so missions all seem unique and have you doing interesting and varied tasks? Clearly these questions were not asked.

    It's a real shame because there are some incredible people who work on these games, I just wish the heads of these companies would give them the creative freedom and time they need to make good games.
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  20. Jun 3, 2019
    3
    Mindless shooter with no story whatsoever, bad to mediocre graphics and semi good shooting. Put on top of that a laggy menus , obtrusive tutorials and popups with the worst driving mechanics i saw in a game since 20 years back and you have a recipe to successfully bury the RAGE franchise.

    Good job Bethesda. i wish you didn't make a second installment as i would have kept the first RAGE
    Mindless shooter with no story whatsoever, bad to mediocre graphics and semi good shooting. Put on top of that a laggy menus , obtrusive tutorials and popups with the worst driving mechanics i saw in a game since 20 years back and you have a recipe to successfully bury the RAGE franchise.

    Good job Bethesda. i wish you didn't make a second installment as i would have kept the first RAGE in my fond memories as one of the more innovative and fun games of its time. But now that its gone.

    I cant understand why this was rated by a top review sites with more than 6 .
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  21. May 14, 2019
    3
    Good gunplay and lot of upgade buffs

    BUT

    BAD story
    Bad characters
    Bad voice acting
    Bad empty world
    Boring overall
  22. Jun 28, 2020
    3
    I would be rating this a lot higher if it weren't for the extremely anti-consumer practices that Bethesda/id have implemented into the game. DLC that you already paid for locked behind a Bethesda.net account, Denuvo DRM implemented into the game and only announced to the public less than a day before release, shameful microtransactions in a $60 singleplayer videogame. It's atrocious. II would be rating this a lot higher if it weren't for the extremely anti-consumer practices that Bethesda/id have implemented into the game. DLC that you already paid for locked behind a Bethesda.net account, Denuvo DRM implemented into the game and only announced to the public less than a day before release, shameful microtransactions in a $60 singleplayer videogame. It's atrocious. I refuse to even discuss the gameplay, story, graphics, sound or say a single positive word about the game, because of the previously mentioned and absolutely disgusting facts. Do not buy this game. Do not support anti-consumer companies like Bethesda and now (much to my dismay) id. I had hoped and prayed that Fallout 76 was a fluke and that Bethesda could still redeem themselves, but it's obvious now they have changed and I will never purchase another game that is in any way attached to their brand, because they can no longer be trusted. Expand
  23. May 18, 2019
    3
    rage 2 отменная дрысня. Какие нахрен яркие цвета и мыльное мыльцо? Вы там что курите?
  24. May 26, 2019
    3
    Говоря откровенно это не игра, лишь буря из говна и цветов,абсолютно пресная история,отвратительные персонажи, однообразность геймплея, а также игра просто скучная и надоедает очень быстро,никакой атмосферы ни пост-апокалипсиса, ни в принципе хоть какой либо атмосферы и пустой мир.Взять в пример вышедшую не так давно farcry 5, он схож по механике, но вот только там атмосфера на уровне.АГоворя откровенно это не игра, лишь буря из говна и цветов,абсолютно пресная история,отвратительные персонажи, однообразность геймплея, а также игра просто скучная и надоедает очень быстро,никакой атмосферы ни пост-апокалипсиса, ни в принципе хоть какой либо атмосферы и пустой мир.Взять в пример вышедшую не так давно farcry 5, он схож по механике, но вот только там атмосфера на уровне.А почему? очень просто дело в том что правильно подобрано звуковое сопровождение и цветокоррекция.Мчатьт по ночным дорогам сквозь захваченые дома и селения сектантами и слушать рок, крайне атмосферно. Мир. Разрабы попытались разнообразить мир,но сделали это крайне тупо, просто вшили в игру код по которому в рандомном месте на обочине появляется группировка бандитов или дорожное огорождение тех же бандитов.Итог. Один балл за неплохую физику стрельбы,второй балл за физику машин и третий за попытку(да именно попытку) сделать харизматичных персонажей. P.S Игра очень мыльная и плохо оптимизирована,часты просадки фпс и это на моем довольно мощном пк, который тянет на ультра в 60+ фпс, что в fallout 4, что в bf 1(при большом угле обзора), что в ведьмаке 3 и так далее. Expand
  25. Jul 30, 2019
    3
    Hey, Bethesda, what's wrong with you? You did great games, Morrowind, Fallout, etc. And now you doing THIS? No, game is not bad (and also not good), but very short and very boring after a few hours. And it's very expensive for this little story.
  26. May 16, 2019
    3
    It's a Single-Player game with a store where you can buy cosmetic items with real money, enough said!
  27. May 24, 2019
    3
    The game looks like it was really good originally, and deliberately ruined with terrible design decisions. The guns are a letdown (after the "open world DOOM marketing bulls**t), and the driving mechanics are just simply the worst I've ever seen. And the main storyline locked behind it! You have a lot of patchin' to do guys!
  28. Jun 8, 2019
    3
    Utter trash and bland game. The definition of a game which shouldn't be open world. Massive and empty world. The gameplay is mediocre, if you love bullet sponges it is the game for you. The new "special powers" are pointless. If you want a better first person shooter, save your money and get 2016 Doom, a much better game.
  29. Dec 15, 2019
    3
    There was so much potential with this game. The combat is fun and fast paced, but I cannot recommend this unless you you're a masochist. If you are buying to have fun with combat, you will only get a few hours out of it. The levels and enemies become repetitive in an uninspired open world, and you will eventually hit the absolute worst, shoved in, half baked, **** racing mechanic wall IThere was so much potential with this game. The combat is fun and fast paced, but I cannot recommend this unless you you're a masochist. If you are buying to have fun with combat, you will only get a few hours out of it. The levels and enemies become repetitive in an uninspired open world, and you will eventually hit the absolute worst, shoved in, half baked, **** racing mechanic wall I have ever had the displeasure of playing. If you thought you could avoid the garbage driving this game has to offer, think again. They force you to have to complete a racing mission TO PROGRESS THE STORY, and unlike so many other players, I was not and am not willing to change out my hardware or ram my head against the wall for hours and 20+ tries to complete it. I uninstalled after trying for 20 minutes. This should have never made it in the game, and the only reason it did is to pad out time on an already bland and short campaign. Expand
  30. Jan 8, 2020
    3
    Отвратительный сюжет, отвратительный интерфейс, блевотный цветокор, никчемные персонажи, физика транспорта говно, вся игра состоит из тупого гринда и аванпостов, просто 0/10, единственное, что вытягивает это уныние - это стрельба, она сделана классно.Отвратительный сюжет, отвратительный интерфейс, блевотный цветокор, никчемные персонажи, физика транспорта говно, вся игра состоит из тупого гринда и аванпостов, просто 0/10, единственное, что вытягивает это уныние - это стрельба, она сделана классно.
Metascore
73

Mixed or average reviews - based on 55 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 55
  2. Negative: 0 out of 55
  1. Aug 1, 2019
    70
    We have to admit that the single player in this game has no potential. Not everyone wants to play all day long, exploring the map, like in Fallout – it just gets boring. Rage 2 could become a perfect Battle Royale experience or pretty simple MMO, but as the game, designed for single player walkthrough, it can keep your interest only for a couple of evenings, perhaps forcing you to come back from time to time to explore all corners of this world.
  2. Jun 28, 2019
    68
    Rage 2 can be an enjoyable experience… to a certain extent. Unfortunately, you will hit that wall in just a few hours.
  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Jun 26, 2019
    81
    Beautiful and varied world, high-speed vehicle combat, fine-tuned gunfights - on its own, every aspect of this game is great. But Rage 2 as a whole is somehow less than sum of its parts. [Issue#238, p.34]