RAGE 2 VEHICLES UPGRADE
Specialty chests contain cash and feltrite crystals needed to upgrade your character and purchase items from vendors. Each encampment contains specialty chests, resources crates, ammo pickups, and data pads that help flesh out aspects of the story and lore. This is where the pacing of flying around the camp blasting everything into bits comes to a screaming halt. Once you’ve cleared a camp, you’ll then proceed to collect items and resources so you can move to the next location fully stocked and ready to go. This is how you will take on every single location in the game. You will stumble across a base, whether it is something marked on your map as a quest, a bounty, or a location you’ve discovered all on your own, you will then proceed to kill everyone and everything in the camp and loot it for supplies. The overall gameplay loop present here is going to be repeated during each and every encounter. Much of the ad campaigns based around the game show an action packed spectacle, but fails to show the downtime that makes up much of the experience. While that may sound fun, and it is usually is, it is the pacing between those moments where Rage 2 fails miserably.
Whether that is side-checking another car as you boost down the road, or decimating bandits and mutants galore as you wield a vast array of weapons and special powers, you have a wide array of throwing down no matter the occasion. Rage 2, much like any open world wasteland, is built around small moments spread out across numerous settlements, bandit camps, and bite-size areas that are there to push you into combat. What story that is here is largely forgettable, featuring a cast of characters you’ll barely remember once the credits have rolled, not to mention one of the worst endings I’ve seen in years. While it’s unclear exactly how many people are going to play Rage 2 for its story, those that are looking for a gripping narrative are not going to find one here. In fact, when one of my allies told me that I was preparing for the final battle, I assumed that the plan was about to go to sideways and I’d retreat back and lick my wounds, propelling the story forward and setting up a massive finale. The overall campaign sits around the 8-hour mark but there is strangely very little story here despite the big setup and being introduced to its cast of characters. The casualties are high and once the battle is done and dusted, you are then tasked with taking out their leader, General Cross. You play as Walker, an orphaned soldier that gets caught up in the action when the evil Authority launches a full-scale assault on a Ranger base. Is the combat stellar? Yes, but as I’ve mentioned just previously, it is pretty much all that this sequel really has going for it.
I don’t discount the opinions of those who have found massive enjoyment in the title, I just disagree that the game is “great” from a total package point of view. For as much fun as you can have in Rage 2, it still sadly comes off as a vast disappointment.ĭepending on what you want from Rage 2, will determine what side of the camp you’ll occupy when it comes to the discussion of “is it good?” While I can answer that with a “yes”, it is an answer that comes with several caveats and some hesitation. While the adrenaline pumping combat is certainly a selling point to this colorful and energized sequel, it is one of the only aspects of the game that impresses on any significant level. I was a fan of the original and when it was announced that the team behind the Mad Max game was at the helm, I was even more intrigued it seemed like a match made in wasteland heaven. Rage 2 is a title that I was largely invested into when it was first showed off at the Bethesda E3 2018 Press Conference. Come for the combat, stay for… the combat.
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