RAGE 2

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  1. David-Davidson
    Apr 6, 2021
    2
    So much opportunity, so little development.
    You get one vehicle you can upgrade and a whole slew of other vehicles you can unlock simply by driving them back to a town. You can't upgrade them, they're cookie cutter cars, but the upgrade parts are constant unlocks. There is really no endgame mode for this open world game,, it's fun until mid game than then it's just a boring mess.    So much opportunity, so little development.
    You get one vehicle you can upgrade and a whole slew of other vehicles you can unlock simply by driving them back to a town. You can't upgrade them, they're cookie cutter cars, but the upgrade parts are constant unlocks. There is really no endgame mode for this open world game,, it's fun until mid game than then it's just a boring mess. Everything is so cookie cutter and lazy it's an insult to Id software. The gunplay is great which is obviously I'd software doing that but everything else is crap. I'm so glad I got it free on epic rather than laying for this hot mess. It deserves no praise whatsoever. Clearly Id and are better at linear games like doom 2016 and doom eternal but this game is awful. I'm giving it 2/10 because China paid for it.    … Expand
  2. thegamemaster8
    Jan 1, 2020
    2
    GOOD:
    -good gameplay
    -big and interesting open-world
    BAD:
    -TONS OF BORING MISSIONS
    -BAD JUMPING CONTROLS
    -TONS OF GLITCHES
    -SOAPY GRAPHICS
    -AWFUL PLOT
    -BAD OPTIMIZATION
    -BAD DRIVING CONTROLS
    -LOTS OF GRIND
    RESULTS:
    -2+ PLUSES
    -8- MINUSES
    SCORE 2/10
    THIS "GAME" IS TOTAL GARBAGE,I DONT RECCOMED YOU PLAYING THIS.
  3. Myxobouka
    May 15, 2020
    2
    Повторяющиеся локаций и боссы, всратый баланс и сложность(даже на ультро-сложности челенджа 0). "Сверхзахватывающие" сражения с башнями правительства. Всратые машины. Пустой мир. Дофига мыла и херовая оптимизация.Боты бегущие в стену...
    НЕ рекомедую.    Повторяющиеся локаций и боссы, всратый баланс и сложность(даже на ультро-сложности челенджа 0). "Сверхзахватывающие" сражения с башнями правительства. Всратые машины. Пустой мир. Дофига мыла и херовая оптимизация.Боты бегущие в стену...
    НЕ рекомедую.
  4. Tenbux
    Feb 23, 2021
    2
    The good: I had a good time with some of the fighting and the vehicle combat.
    The bad: Good lord where to start.
    1)Weapons. I've never seen a first person shooter that so actively punishes you for using an assault rifle. The damn thing is somehow unwieldly, underpowered, unlikely to kill anyone without putting a full magazine in them, and god help you if you try using it at skirmish    The good: I had a good time with some of the fighting and the vehicle combat.
    The bad: Good lord where to start.
    1)Weapons. I've never seen a first person shooter that so actively punishes you for using an assault rifle. The damn thing is somehow unwieldly, underpowered, unlikely to kill anyone without putting a full magazine in them, and god help you if you try using it at skirmish range. Every time I equip this thing killing anyone is a chore, even after upgrading the rifle AND myself. It's useful for one thing: Targets that are stationary or too large to miss. Against men, it's useless.
    The rocket launcher even feels weak. Its fine against men, but not even so hot against big sentry towers.
    Grenades feel useless. I've chucked many into large groups of enemies inside enclosed rooms and failed to kill anyone. Wingsticks are useless without lock-on, and basically kill one guy WITH lock-on unless micromanaged. Which is time I could better use shotgunning people in the face.
    Speaking of shotguns, they're apparently useless against scrap metal armor. Shotgun a man in the face at point blank and his helmet/cuirass just flies off. Still, the shotgun is by FAR the most effective weapon and synergizes with the very melee heavy nano abilities. Shotgun manages to be fun due to this.
    2) Keyboard controls are wackily unwieldly. Having to hold control to activate nanotrite powers forces me to take a finger off my movement keys, which limits my movement.
    3) Dialogue. My GOD dialogue. Nearly every NPC talks four times longer than they have any business doing. The writers clearly thought they were comedy geniuses despite having their comedy glands surgically removed, so they attempt to have Borderlands-like LOLWACKY characters that are just annoying, grating, and dumb as hell. I spent an awful lot of time just moaning "oh my GOD shut up already!!"
    4) Bugs. I fell through the floor of a bossfight, and spent a while trying to get back in bounds before falling to my death. More than one "kill everyone" objective failed to trigger after killing everyone at a site. An internet search reveals I'm far from alone in these problems. The level geometry failures are amateur hour crap.
    5) Super schizophrenic difficulty. Waltz through one hostile site without trying, travel 200m to another site and encounter something that seemingly expects a fully upgraded and fully armed player. Or an infinite pile of enemies that will eat all your ammo and keep coming. The difficulty ratings of sites don't seem to have much to do with this.
    6) The music is mostly someone slamming pots and pans together while alternately screaming and hissing. It drowns out every firefight so badly that I turned it off entirely.
    7) They decided to go Open World (TM) so there are few proper set pieces or unique activities. Just loads of road between you and Generic Bandit Site A and Generic Mutant Site B. And unlike other Avalanche engine title Just Cause 3, vehicle is the only travel tech to use.

    Basically I had some fun. Mostly in spite of the game. I wouldn't recommend it unless you like putting up with lots of crap between your bouts of fun. Go with something that isn't craptacular generic open-world.    … Expand
  5. RichSun
    Aug 31, 2021
    2
    buy it when its on discount and when you have nothing to play. but probably worths only under $10. I bought for around 18 AUD and regretted my purchase. Rage original game was a flawed but interesting take on an wasteland driving and shooter game, this one is far more boring without any interesting or attractive characters. Not to mention the bugs around, I ended up having to delete thebuy it when its on discount and when you have nothing to play. but probably worths only under $10. I bought for around 18 AUD and regretted my purchase. Rage original game was a flawed but interesting take on an wasteland driving and shooter game, this one is far more boring without any interesting or attractive characters. Not to mention the bugs around, I ended up having to delete the game since I dont have an autosave to go back to before the bug was noticed by me - you tend to side track to other quests without focusing on progressing main missions right away since it is an open world game. It was one of the main missions "the Signal" where the audio would be indicated as needed to be played no matter how many times you played the damn thing. and every time you log into the game the audio log starts to play automatically - how ironic.
    This seemed to be a issue for many people and yet after 2 years it still is not fixed and the developer focused on happily release more paid DLCs in the meantime
    so make sure you do save multiple files or you could regret like me    … Expand
  6. realWhiteMan
    Apr 8, 2023
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My rating is based on my impressions of the game. This is not an objective review. I play quite a big number of titles per year and decided to review them as a peace of art and not as a product.… Expand
  7. a_big_favor
    May 16, 2019
    1
    Remember when Rage was a bad shooter with mechanics from other games at the time were poorly implemented onto it with no reason or purpose? Well Rage 2 resisted being a battle royale but couldn't resist other poor mechanics.
  8. Ramiro1992
    Mar 31, 2020
    1
    Feminist piece of crap. Ugly and repetitive all the way, ugly and boring characters and no storyline whatsoever, poorly optimized for pc, terrible graphical issues, the game is an insult to any serious gamer, damn, people should have stopped buying ID games after Rage 1
  9. atomi
    Dec 15, 2019
    1
    mandantory racing quest in order to progress is just a bad design decision.
  10. geronnymo882017
    May 14, 2019
    1
    Typical bugthesda game. To be honest the shooter mechanics are great, but the rest is awefull. Empty open world, boring characters, zero and I mean ZERO story.
    For 10-15 h campaign it is not worth 60-70 $/€. Days gone is a ton more fun than this game and has no microtransactions
  11. Kunray
    May 14, 2019
    1
    I really want to refund , but hope that patches will fix at least half of the problems.
  12. ale12
    May 13, 2019
    1
    Cero variedad de armas. usas el mismo fusil todo el tiempo. Ni el color le puede cambiar. Si quieres un juego con historia floja, solo disparos y los mismo y lo mismo este es tu juego. Un call of duty mad max.
  13. ChrisTheCrusade
    May 18, 2019
    1
    Great gunplay. I just used the generic ass "assault rifle" the whole time. Spent all my points upgrading it and melted everything.

    The best weapon in the game is just spamming "F" and melee killing in one shot. "braaaappppp > melee > Braaaaaapppp > melee" = you win, over and over and over. The plot sucks, you're 25 years old and have never been outside the small base. You never met    Great gunplay. I just used the generic ass "assault rifle" the whole time. Spent all my points upgrading it and melted everything.

    The best weapon in the game is just spamming "F" and melee killing in one shot. "braaaappppp > melee > Braaaaaapppp > melee" = you win, over and over and over.

    The plot sucks, you're 25 years old and have never been outside the small base. You never met any of these people who all know the woman who raised you? You never knew about any of the 10 "projects" your own people were working on? You have a base full of super advanced technology and the best soldiers but somehow the "authority" sneaks up on you and wipes your whole base out, but when you leave the base you can stomp any "authority" forces out like they are nothing? Every ARK is literally within a 2 mile radius but the "rangers" have never scouted them?

    The whole game is an unbelievably boring check mark chasing, follow the dots, run of the mill shooter.

    The NPCs just make me want to kill every thing in the game. You never need to hear anything they say. They just talk agonizingly slow about what checkmark to chase, there is no back and forth, no selectable retorts. Just save your time, press E to talk to them and instantly press F to skip the voice dialogue. I listened to all of the dialogue from the totally boring NPCs from 2 towns and I just wanted to nuke the entire game.

    After winning the "race" in one try without the rest of the cars even near me I just uninstalled the game.

    Everything feels like a chore. Why "race" when all you need to do is press forward and steer?

    You can perch/peek and kill all the authority turrets without taking any damage.

    You can take all the zones just by running around and melee one shotting every enemy.

    All the mutant fights are the same, throw 6 grenades, then you sidestep and shoot them in the face while jumping.    … Expand
  14. SilasGnom2000
    May 22, 2019
    1
    Denuvo, Microtransactions (in a single player game!), Bethesda-net... NO
    I expected better from you Bethesda
  15. Villas42
    May 15, 2019
    1
    Pros
    Amazing gunplay

    Cons
    empty world
    bad voice acting
    outdated graphics
    way too shiny and weird lighting and colors
    bad characters
    bad story
  16. clownworld2019
    May 15, 2019
    1
    Another Game of The Clown Year contender full of SJW garbage.

    You play as some kind of solder who constantly needs to be told by women what to do, because you're a dumbo white male who doesn't know how anything works or what to do. Despite women making up 4% of FPS gamers, and 15% of the army force we need to have a 50/50 split in games such as these despite women looking like    Another Game of The Clown Year contender full of SJW garbage.

    You play as some kind of solder who constantly needs to be told by women what to do, because you're a dumbo white male who doesn't know how anything works or what to do.

    Despite women making up 4% of FPS gamers, and 15% of the army force we need to have a 50/50 split in games such as these despite women looking like complete clueless clowns in such roles.

    I can suspend my disbelief when playing a female in a game such as Tomb Raider, but having women on a battlefield, telling men what to do, and not cowered in the corner having a panic attack is just laughable.

    Don't bother with this, wait for Doom Eternal.

    But since it's another ID software / Bethesda production, i would wait for reviews and gameplay videos.    … Expand
  17. HydroSkillet
    May 23, 2019
    1
    This game is just awful. Complete waste of money. Looks ok, but that's about it. I would recommend waiting for ANYTHING else.
  18. deathhead01969
    Jul 9, 2019
    1
    Good game until you try to access player menu, then it freezes or crashes to desktop. Also it has very little to do in such a big open world, seems unfinished and should not have been released yet.
  19. BigLug
    Aug 21, 2019
    1
    I bought Rage 2 when it was just released in May. It had many problems - it crashed frequently but it ran. Then Bethesda applied a fix (Hot Fix 2) after which my game no longer ran. After playing for several months, the game crashed when launched. Bethesda put me through a ton of procedures to fix the problem. Nothing worked. After playing Rage 2 for 3 months they said my computer wasI bought Rage 2 when it was just released in May. It had many problems - it crashed frequently but it ran. Then Bethesda applied a fix (Hot Fix 2) after which my game no longer ran. After playing for several months, the game crashed when launched. Bethesda put me through a ton of procedures to fix the problem. Nothing worked. After playing Rage 2 for 3 months they said my computer was inadequate. They couldn't fix my problem & they won't refund my $90. Be warned this could happen to you.

    I liked Rage 2 but I will never buy a Bethesda game again.    … Expand
  20. miguelgmm
    Sep 9, 2023
    1
    El combate tanto a pie como en coche es muy bueno y dinámico, pero es lo único bueno que tiene.
    Todo lo demás es malísimo, espera mas ya que el primero fue muy bueno y aun así es mejor que su secuela.
  21. skozombie
    Feb 27, 2021
    1
    The game is ok generally. Kinda like Doom combined with Borderlands (without loot). There are bugs, plenty of bugs. The worst one being the final mission being bugged so that if you save and quit at the wrong time, the FINAL mission will be locked out. Kiss those hours of lead up missions and side quests goodbye!

    Having such a game breaking bug, so long after it was discovered is    The game is ok generally. Kinda like Doom combined with Borderlands (without loot). There are bugs, plenty of bugs. The worst one being the final mission being bugged so that if you save and quit at the wrong time, the FINAL mission will be locked out. Kiss those hours of lead up missions and side quests goodbye!

    Having such a game breaking bug, so long after it was discovered is inexcusable. The game should be removed from sale until it's fixed.    … Expand
  22. StarkAgentos
    Apr 24, 2022
    1
    В этой игре всё не так. Преобладающий цвет - розовый. Повестка на месте. Стрельба не ощущается. Персонажи никакие. Сюжет никакой. Геймплей скучный. На экране постоянно показываются подсказки по типу "нажмите w, чтобы идти вперёд". Такого говнища я давно не встречал.В этой игре всё не так. Преобладающий цвет - розовый. Повестка на месте. Стрельба не ощущается. Персонажи никакие. Сюжет никакой. Геймплей скучный. На экране постоянно показываются подсказки по типу "нажмите w, чтобы идти вперёд". Такого говнища я давно не встречал.
  23. Grismar
    Feb 20, 2021
    0
    Pretty good graphics (though glitchy in places), an interesting and novel FPS fighting style with a good feel and flow if played right. An interesting graphic style, OK voice-acting in places. But terrible mission design, a completely unfinished game world with so many loose ends and mistakes. This game feels like it was rushed out in a bad way and it's such a shame of the good parts - thePretty good graphics (though glitchy in places), an interesting and novel FPS fighting style with a good feel and flow if played right. An interesting graphic style, OK voice-acting in places. But terrible mission design, a completely unfinished game world with so many loose ends and mistakes. This game feels like it was rushed out in a bad way and it's such a shame of the good parts - the bad is just too much to be able to enjoy the good, and in the end it fails as a whole. I'd hate to be someone that poured their soul into making some of those pieces, only to see it wasted on this turd of a release.… Expand
  24. EliteEvil
    May 21, 2019
    0
    BFG behind paywall.

    I thought the day 1 edition of rage 1 was bad (I have it, and where you choose between 3 classes with slightly different bonuses you can instead choose a fourth class with all the bonuses) but putting the best gun in the game behind a paywall?
  25. stgreylv
    May 13, 2019
    0
    Bugs, crashes, 5$ for a gun skin microtransactions, This is a farewell to company that released Morrowind.
  26. 80sChild
    Jul 6, 2019
    0
    Game is so epic it crashes at launch. Also, a base ps4 and Xbox can run this game but PC needs a minimum of Ryzen proc? Really Bethesda? Wow. Another "fantastic" PC release for Bethesda.
  27. Ted_Tris
    May 18, 2019
    0
    Boring, silly, folly.

    The designers of the avalanche studio game are something extremely untalented.
    Just cause x, mad max, Rage 2..
    Developers should be given prison.

    Bad gameplay
    Terrible gunplay
    Overcomplicated ui
    Trash music
    Terrible facial animation
    No story

    Typical avalanche trash game.
    Shame...
  28. MGee
    Dec 4, 2019
    0
    Even now, over a half a year since release, you can still accidentally break the main quest permanently with no fix in sight. Want to finish the game? I will hope for you that you can because nobody at Bethesda does.
  29. rale317
    May 14, 2019
    0
    Poor controls, repetitive gameplay, crap story.. You got about 6 hours of campaign with another 20 hours of repetitive fluff.. Don't buy unless you can get it for sub 20 bucks.
  30. AlanGord
    Mar 12, 2022
    0
    Devs should fix their game instead of joining political flashmob. Closing purchases of your products for people of Belarus and Russia is antidemocratic and should be punished.
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 55 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 55
  2. Mixed: 21 out of 55
  3. Negative: 0 out of 55
  1. PlayGround.ru
    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.
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  2. Riot Pixels
    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.
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  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]
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