As promised, Bethesda has released the first official gameplay trailer for RAGE 2. In RAGE 2, players will dive headfirst into a dystopian world devoid of society, law, and order. Players can go anywhere, shoot anything, and explode everything.
The game brings together two studio powerhouses as Avalanche Studios and id Software are working together for this project.
Regarding the game’s story, Bethesda had this to say.
“In the year 2185, humanity’s numbers are dwindling. Ruthless and bloodthirsty gangs roam the open roads and the tyrannical Authority seek to rule who remains with an iron fist. You are Walker, the last Ranger of the wasteland. Robbed of your home and left for dead, you’ll tear across an unforgiving wasteland battling bloodthirsty gangs to find the tools and tech needed to take the fight to The Authority and crush their oppressive rule once and for all.”
Enjoy!
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it looks like it could be good, but that marketing is terribad!
I like what I saw I’ll keep an eye on.
Same here. Not enough to go on yet and in any case I won’t be buying the game on release. I always wait a couple of years for AAA games to be patched/ polished and pick them up for $10 to $15.
I’m the same with AAA, esp on PC, but they did well on Mad Max (not so much with Just Cause until patched). I think they were different studios under the same Avalanche label.
Not a ton of info yet though as far as performance polish, but some of the break down videos digging in frame-by-frame show quite a bit of what’s in there gameplay wise. Also some good info on Bethesda’s blog. MrMattyPlays has a good and quick vid.
Protagonist has Jedi-like abilities using something called Nanotrites – didn’t finish the first one so not a lore guru. We will have like a “force” push/disintegrate (assuming lots of other “powers”) and can channel Nanotrite abilities through weapons themselves (there’s other info too).
Seems like battles are packed with enemies on screen and we run around with Doom-like franticness, the level of destructiveness like Just Cause, and good attention to the post apocalyptic wasteland like Mad Max.
They should have used this as Reveal Trailer. Yesterday’s Live Action Trailer was repugnant.
it was so bad my d*ck retracted inside my body like dog d*ck
Then you better make sure you dont get excited, because your liable to pierce your brain from within.
Pete Hines really sucks at his job. DOOM was so horribly marketed that everyone thought it would suck until it actually came out, Wolfenstein 2 used f*cking Antifa memes for marketting, and Prey & Dishonored 2 really undersold what they were expected to (I’m sure at least partially due to poor or lack of marketting).
People thought Doom was going to suck because it wasn’t a complete a total throwback to the original or played the exact same way after 25 years. The marketing had nothing to really do with it.
It absolutely had to do with marketting, look how slow the game seemed to play in the reveal gameplay (lengthened glory kills, controller/weapon wheel)…
https://youtu.be/4clvjusF_HI
vs how it actually played
https://youtu.be/anrvBD4aTGY
Its looks 7/10
“looks”
Its a alpha game and the graphics will be downgraded
My guess is its on pc and they use a conttoller so peasants think OMG LOOK SOO GOOD ON MY POTATO BOX …..
hey, remember how i told you first that you couldnt judge it from the last game, its gonna be completely different? Well there you go i was right again.
better than that live action trailer at least. just need some details at e3 to decide if i’m really interested or not.
Like i said, the fact you didnt like the last game which came out in 2011 doesnt mean that this will be the same. It looks nothing like the first, they kept some mutants but everything else is different.
Why does this remind me of the last few call of dutys so much? Hmm, could it be the high tech weapons with holographic sights, the gloves that look like they are part of a exoskeleton armor from the last few cod games? Could it be that your character can jump up in the air and throw cybernetic power waves from his hands like black ops 3, could it be the ridiculous amount of enemies on the screen….to be fair thats just cause 3 as well.
Looks super fun, but it is clear this isnt like the last game, weapons are too high tech, look at that pistol , it could come from any of the last few call of duty games., the enviroments and visuals look alot like call of duty….or far cry, doesnt have that dusty graffiti look to it, no destroyed cities and crumbling buildings, the soundtrack is too over the top, completely different game, we havent seen any character in order to tell if they are as good looking as the last game. But yeah rage is dead, this is avalanche’s mad max with guns from a fps perspective. This is mafia 3, homefront the revolution not rage. Still looks fun, but its a bit too high tech to replace fallout as a open world apocalyptic game.
It’s basically another Prey reboot
yes
ironically i would be more impressed if it took it down a notch, more atmopshere, less over the top music, less over the top gameplay, less enemies and more wasteland like taped gotehrer guns. I feel like i am watching a trailer for the next cod or just cause game…oh wait thats what it is, well as long as the combat is like doom and the open world isnt copy pasted identical collectathon objectives.
No doubt it looks fun, but its an anathema to the previous game. Seems like another repetitive open world game that doesnt take itself seriously.
I’ve had a lot of fun with the original Rage. The biggest problem with the original was obviously story and characters though. And with Avalache(just cause devs) joining up with id its gonna be even more over the top.
Also did anybody ask for this? I don’t recall anyone saying “I wish there was a sequel to Rage” rofl.
no but milking known franchises is a safe bet for revenue.
its like they got to pay some sort of tax when making a new ip.
i wanted as sequel but not this, This is like prey, good but not prey
It didn’t even come out bro
if you can argue that prey was anything like prey 1.
Too colorful, I think.
Telekinesis powers. ?
looks like a game made out of assets from older bethesda titles, doesn’t necessarily make it bad but this is very ubisoftish.
honestly the first part of the trailer is like a trailer for infinite warfare 2: crashed on a alien planet.
so… crysis 2/3 then? it has sci fi weapons, super powers, a post-apocalyptic world and the things you’re fighting can hardly be considered human. it’s basically an open world crysis, except the bad console “crysis” from the looks of it.
This looks fun as hell!
I agree and would go as far to say day 1 for me, I feel like I am already sold on it. Be cool to see the full play through at E3 for more details. What a turn around from yesterday LOL 🙂
Freaking ad on the video… opened a new tab by itself…. your android device is slow bla bla abs a faquing voice on the speaker. What a cancer
You don’t have some kind of adblock? no ads for me, maybe it’s malware
I liked the first one and it look like im gonna like this one as well.
Going to be really disappointing if theirs not 2 players Coop for this. Missed opportunity for sure.
after good but not great original they decided not to fix its problems but make headshot with open world, what a sad times
Looks way less douchy than the live action trailer. Hopefully it’s as fun as it looks.
Holy sh*t, I am interested, looks like mixture of Fallout, Doom and Borderlands.
Of course people are going to complain, they did the same s*** with Doom(2016) and the game ended up being great and well worth spending money on.
Looks awesome, I was really worried after that 1st trailer for it was terrible, this on the other hand looks epic!
Such a shame they did not release this trailer 1st they would of hit it out of the park. All well doesn’t really matter now I guess, got to move forward.
Why would you judge a game by a live action teaser? As if it has anything to really do with how the game, or gameplay would turn out?
Because those videos purpose is to usually sets the mood, theme, style, vibe and what the game world will feel/be like. So most will get their first impressions that way, I personally always wait for the first gameplay trailer for a proper judgement of any game.
I don’t think anyone can admit the first trailer made them feel good and like “oh yeah day 1 for me that was awesome” and also not think the game would be a version of Saints Row in a MAD MAX style world.
Anyways it is in the past who cares, the game looks awesome in this trailer and that is what matters.
You bring up a solid point Kai, and I’ll admit it. The first teaser got me excited to see what the actual game play would look like due to what happened with the Doom reboot. People judged the game wrong by what the first videos looked like and the game ended up being awesome and incredibly solid!
But I’m with you, it’s in the past now. I was just curious as to why you thought that way and thank you for explaining it.
Cool, so it worked for you which is good, everyone has different tastes which we must respect. I personally like hard core serious games so that is why I disliked the 1st trailer. On the flip side I loved the nuDoom 1st trailer but most of my friends where pretty much hating on it and worried. Which really shows the power(good or bad) of these first impression none gamepaly trailers.
All good, glad to and thanks for being cool with your responses too and not fighting over it like some others on the NET and having a good discussion 🙂
Did anyone notice how in every new game they’re trying so hard to implement maximum speed and movement in gameplay? It’s kinda annoying to me beacuse I’ve always considered it to be a Doom trademark which blends perfectly to that game. And here they added a gank fest of enemies (also Doom)+speed. Come on Betheseda I want sth original! Even game setting doesn’t go in it’s favor, but it looks they changed it a bit from first game… Don’t get me wrong, it looks ton of fun but like always, I’ll wait for concrete player reviews and more gameplay.
RAGE played it kinda safe but this looks like theyre not taking it too seriously and decided to go all out on the wacky side of things. That has me interested, keeping an eye on this one.
A question that needs answering. Does it have both campaign and multiplayer? Because the way the gameplay trailer looked, it felt…. as if…. it was……..a………?
Needs battle royale mode. That’s what the kids want now.
This game will fail just like the first game.