Rage 2 Reviews
Check out Rage 2 Review Scores from trusted Critics below. With 29 reviews on CriticDB, Rage 2 has a score of:
“Despite technical hiccups and design choices that slow down the action, Rage 2 still manages to make you feel like a postapocalyptic superhero.”
Read Full Review
The satisfying action and relentless chaos of Rage 2 peppers a formulaic open world with thrills.
Read Full Review
Rage 2 has incredible gunplay and brilliant graphics, but that spit and polish can't hide its lame open world and generic characters. It all adds up to a paint by numbers open-world shooter that players will forget about as soon as the credits roll.
Read Full Review
I was pleasantly surprised with the shooter chimera that is Rage 2, which ended up being open world mini-Doom 2016. It’s not going to make anyone a believer the free roam format, but folks already predisposed to those vices will find plenty to sink their teeth into.
Read Full Review
In this case, the positives do really outweigh the negatives. Rage 2 is a strong shooter that tries its best to emulate the feeling of the more recent DOOM and Wolfenstein entries. It's story may be weak, but with a colorful, crazy open world and plenty of activities to sift through, its hard not to recommend this post-apocalyptic party. And honestly, its even better that it's single player-only game. We could always use more of those.
Read Full Review
While it's a bit slow to start, frontloaded with tutorials and exposition, and generally muddled at the outset, Rage 2 shapes up into an incredibly fun time and a natural evolution of a franchise I was worried Id had written off as a dead end.
Read Full Review
It’s unapologetic and uncivilised, stuffed to the gills with lairy lawlessness in a way that comes across as more needy than necessary, neon graffiti scuffing up every environment, and hot, punky pink squirting across… well, everywhere you look.
Read Full Review
Rage 2 isn’t the biggest game in the world. Nor is it the prettiest, or the most polished. Once you’ve explored its tame open world enough to open up your combat options however, it doesn’t really matter. In the heat of battle, the only thing you’ll be experiencing while playing Rage 2 is sheer joy. And it’s good enough to make all the boring bits in between feel worthwhile. It’s not perfect, but it shows that id’s brilliant brand of combat can be enhanced and implanted into an open world. Hopefully the open world will be better next time though...
Read Full Review
Rage 2 brings id-style shooting to an open-world and it works! Our review...
Read Full Review
Rage 2 has some problems, but taken entirely as an FPS it’s probably my favourite game of the year so far. The open world needs a bit more personality, there needs to be more actual story missions, and you could drown in the amount of upgrade options there are - but none of that matters once you get into combat. I spent over 20 hours in Rage 2 and every moment was a blast, with constantly exciting shooting that rivals Doom for thrills. And I’ll be carrying on playing it after this review,...
Read Full Review
Much like its predecessor, Rage 2 stirs up Doom, Borderlands and Mad Max and comes out slightly less than the sum of its parts. Outside of some dreary lulls in the action, the characterful apocalyptic open world is a blast, with each settlement or point of interest a little pocket of adrenalin-soaked, heart-troubling frenzy that'll have you begging for the next fix.
Read Full Review
Bethesda Softworks has done great work reinvigorating its library of IPs over the past few years. MachineGames’ take on Wolfenstein and id Software’s Doom 2016 were fantastic games and the idea to reinvigorate additional IP is a solid idea. Rage 2 should make sense on paper, but falls flat in execution. There’s a lot of fun to be had in the minute-to-minute gameplay. The mixture of inventive guns and powerful Nanotrite abilities make for fluid and engaging combat scenarios. That excellent gameplay, however, is held back by its story, mission design and open world. The story is dreadful and short...
Read Full Review
I am so surprised by Rage 2. From the preview events, which mostly showcased its gameplay, I thought this game could be pretty special. Love it or hate it, the “attitude” those initial Rage 2 trailers exhibited made it distinct. Implementing that in a colorful open-world with Doom-style shooting is what I’ve been dreaming of since last year’s E3. In some ways, what we got is exactly that. But for everything Rage 2 does right, there’s another thing hindering it from being great.
Read Full Review
Rage 2 is a short game with a weak story and dull open world elements. However, the core shooting gameplay is strong enough that hardcore FPS fans may still want to give it a look once the price goes down. The opening hours prove that the potential was there for Rage 2 to be something great, and maybe it will reach that potential with future updates, but at launch, the game falls way short of expectations.
Read Full Review
I don’t think many folks expected to see a Rage 2. The original Rage was a thoroughly fine experience that didn’t sell all that well, and open world games have come a long way since 2011. You’d think Bethesda and id Software would let this particular sleeping dog lie, and yet, prior to last year’s E3 they announced they were reviving Rage with the help of the open-world specialists at Avalanche Studios.
Read Full Review
When RAGE 2 first got announced, my colleagues at WayTooManyGames started bantering about how the game looked like the typical “Leo game”. It looked like a dumb, loud, unapologetic, and incredibly over-the-top title, just the way I like it. The folks at Bethesda even hired one of my favorite musicians, Andrew W.K., whose music can easily fit in with the description I just mentioned, to play at their 2018 E3 conference, as well as voice a character in the game. Suffice to say, I was really...
Read Full Review
Open world games are a weird breed. The old elevator pitch of unchained exploration has been co-opted by overly familiar mechanics and invisible borders. One feels less freedom, and more rising panic, at your ever-expanding task list. Rage 2 sits neatly in the center of the open world spectrum. This game doesn’t break much in the way of new ground, but it elevates established ideas to a fun, frantic place. I wasn’t often surprised by what I experienced, but I was ceaselessly compelled.
Read Full Review
RAGE 2 is an accomplished first person shooter, but a bland and disappointing open world experience.
Read Full Review
Still. These are the rough edges to a game I'm tempted to call a diamond, or at least a bit of beryl. The parts I like far outweigh the parts I don't. I've got my weirdo NPCs, my Ark hunting, my Whoopinkoffs and Dimbledicks. I've found every Ark, now, but I still plan on gambolling between side activities. I still want to explore, even though I wish I was exploring a world that had been less generically destroyed.
Read Full Review
When it was first revealed that we would be getting a sequel to 2010’s RAGE, many of us didn’t know what to think. A common response was “why?” RAGE 2 was developed by Avalanche Studios (in conjunction with id Software) and is an open-world first person shooter, with an apocalyptic setting — Think Mad Max or Borderlands. In much of the game’s marketing, RAGE 2 was depicted as a wacky, punk-inspired game, giving things a bit more color than its predecessor.
Read Full Review
Rage 2 is a disparate experience. The shooting and arsenal are top-notch, allowing players to wield great weapons like a kickass shotgun that dishes out deadly spreads and potent focused fire with an alternate attack. That combat is enhanced by an overdrive mechanic that lets you cut loose and absolutely destroy hordes of enemies in a psychedelic bloodbath as you gain more powerful attacks and serious life regeneration during these berserker states. But outside of the heat of battle, Rage 2 has serious flaws including weak characters, boring activities and enemies, and an absolute snoozer of a shallow open world.
Read Full Review
Rage 2 is a chaotic, fun, and rewarding adventure that combines a light but interesting narrative with explosive combat and a well-structured open world. It won't blow you off your feet, but you'll have plenty of fun blowing everyone else off theirs.
Read Full Review
Rage 2 has room to grow, but it's also a great game to pick up and play. Combat is visceral in all the right ways, and exploration is always rewarding. A few technical issues and a general sense of sameness keep it from pure excellence, but Rage 2 still represents a good time.
Read Full Review
As a shooter Rage 2 is incredible. It's everything around that core competency that brings the game down. A lack of narrative, world building, and questionable design decisions in terms of progression leave the experience feeling flat.
Read Full Review
The interplay between the AI, your abilities, the physics of the world, and your guns is some of the best I’ve seen, and I never thought I would be saying anything like that about a sequel to Brown Shooter: Apocalypse. There’s much more to this than its kooky, pink-hued marketing campaign. If you sleep on it, you’re sleeping on one of the best - if not the best - single-player FPS games of this generation.
Read Full Review
With its large open world and vast array of upgrades to earn, Rage 2 feels very much like an antidote for Far Cry fans who have overdosed on that particular style and want a new take on the large-scale shooter-RPG idea. Though Avalanche hasn’t quite figured out what makes a world feel alive and dynamic or how to make good use of its vehicles, it absolutely nails the moment-to-moment combat thanks to a Doom-inspired energetic pace that few shooters manage to pull off. Combined with a steady stream of great weapons, abilities, and upgrades, its firefights are constantly reinvigorated even...
Read Full Review
As much as I wanted Rage 2 to work, it just doesn’t deliver the best that it could from the two top-notch studios working on it. Right now, I can’t rightfully recommend picking it up at full price, as I just don’t feel there’s enough content here to warrant what they’re asking. The developers do have a lot of plans to continue creating content in the future, though, so maybe we’ll see a game worth returning to after a few months. For now, Rage 2 feels like the final shrill beep on the ECG before the flatline hits. The last...
Read Full Review
Rage 2's great gunplay can't salvage an empty world, shoddy writing, and multiple wasted opportunities.
Read Full Review