The first in-game footage of RAGE 2 are revealed today with the titl's first gamepaly trailer and screens. The game, developed by id Software and Avalanche Studios, the game will release in Spring 2019. More will be revealed during the BE3 Showcase on June 10 but you can also learn more now about the open dystopian world and the game's features in a new blog post at Bethesda's site.
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Really loving the art style, gameplay, the characters and enemies' designs, the weapons, even the music is getting better the more I hear it.
They even kept the art style of the original Rage and improved the boomerang mechanic - after seeing it, I realized how much I've missed it since 2011. The gameplay mechanics of the first game, which are already stellar, just got even better.
The open-world design is really great for Rage 2, something the first game sorely lacked. This feels so much more like a "Post-Apocalyptic Fallout/The Elder Scrolls Mad Max style" FPS with "Doom (2016) gameplay"!!!
That yard scene with all the containers immediately made me think of Doom (2016), like an open-world Doom (2016)! Which is insanely promising. I need to see more like a proper gameplay session, but so far everything I've seen has put a very big wide smile on my face.
This feels like a proper and more serious take - while retaining some humour - on the what Borderlands was trying to achieve, but never really did it. With Avalanche Studios in cooperation with id Software at the helm, gameplay and atmosphere will come first above everything.
Rage 2 has jumped to the top 3 of my most anticipated games for the foreseeable future - after Red Dead Redemption 2 and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Can't wait to see more at E3 2018.
PS. Really bummed out we're only getting Rage 2 in 2019. Can't have cake and eat it too...
Seems like they're going for a Punk-Rock mixed with Heavy Metal style of music for the fight scenes, similar to what Doom (2016) does with Heavy Metal music during fights.
Which work exceptionally well for Doom (2016), hopefully this does the same for Rage 2. Though because of the very heavy and unique Punk art style and music, I'm sure it will be a very divisive game - people will either love it to death or hate it to death.
Wasn't interested in Doom in the end for a couple of reasons, but this works. If it's open world without being too open world full of the usual mundane stuff and actually properly designed as a shooter, then this could be what the original was intended to be. They should have just shown this and ditched the awful teaser, which was pointless in the end.
Wasn't interested in Doom in the end for a couple of reasons
as long as the world doesn't just serve as a thing to spend time travelling across like it was in rage it should be good to go. that was the biggest issue with rage, it would have been better served as a completely linear set of levels. the open world didn't add anything at all.
The game looks really fun, thank god that awful teaser was just a bad marketing stunt. The horrid punk music is still here, but I hope that also gets replaced in game with better sounding ost :D
Yesterday I said the first one was crap, this one might be good.
as for what id can do with the apex engine, as you say, we'll see.