Rage 2 Review – Wasted Land

At a certain point in Rage 2, you become an unstoppable force, a lone wolf that can take down bandit camps, monsters 10 times your size, and crowds of deformed humanoids with your gratifying, destructive abilities and weapons. Not only does your suite of superpowers make combat a blast, it’s the key to developing a satisfying momentum. It’s too bad that, more often than not, the game doesn’t do enough to keep that momentum going.

Rage 2 doesn’t waste a lot of time trying to explain to you why things are the way they are. It instead thrusts you into an open world with its fair share of places to go and things to do. In addition to bandits, mutants, and monsters, there’s the villainous organization, The Authority, who wiped out your hometown. As the last ranger–elite soldiers with superpowered suits–it’s up to you to corral three key leaders by carrying out their missions and finishing Project Dagger, a biological weapon to kill the Authority’s seemingly immortal tyrant General Cross. It doesn’t really matter who’s who, just that you need to destroy those who are hostile. You’re only marginally “super” at the start, but the gradual ascent to hero status is rewarding in that you accumulate a roster of devastatingly fun toys.