RAGE 2

The game has no soul of the first Rage game left. The story is laughable. the characters are laughable, cardboard cutouts. theyre CRINGE. "Remember what they told us in the Academy? you can use ranger suit to....". What Academy? Is this Anime? You dont need an ACADEMY to explain a single function of a suit in single sentence! The "Mother" or what ever looks like a mega Karen. im suprized she didint LET ME TALK TO THE MANAGER the general to death in the cutsene. Any order she gives in the cutscene is cringe, like they so stereotypical! it feels she is saying them for the sake of stereotypics instead of giving orders that are really needed to impact the battle in a positive way for her side. anyway, skipped all the cutscenes and the holo in the basement. Cudnt be bothered to listen the pointless BLAA BLAA BLAA. The pink color scheme takes all seriousness out of the game and makes it feel more like borderlands. But even borderlands is more respectable. compared to that Rage 1 had that post-apocalyptic feeling. a feeling of survival and new tomorrow. i enjoyed the gritty desert setting and mankind trying to claw itself out from extinction. The SARCAIN menu is much more complicated and convoluted than in Rage 1. its made more complicated and less obvious/clear cut. The icons in the merchant menu are confusing and the colorscheme dosnt help at all. In Rage 1 i cud just simply make out what the items were and what peaked my interest. Inthsi game i have to look at each square for 3 seconds to make out if it is and USB stic or a cave painting of a man riding a sled downhill. Its like one of those "prove youre not a machine" -prompts. in Rage 1 i cud take all in the first second and decide what i wanted in the next. now i have to decode each icon. THe rage 1 protagonist was betten when he was shut up. Rage 2 protagonist (i picked the man) feels like a loser hipster / wuss instead of a macho manly man. As i contemplated this while playing it made me miss the old games where the characters were MANLY. It reminded me of Nathan Hale of Resistance series in the Resistance 1 cutscene where he is doting a John Shepard like hair and beard, checks out that the room is clear through the sights of his assault rifle, takes one look at the room GRUNTS AND SPITS ON THE FLOOR, drops old mag on the floor as he rises steps onto a podium, SLAMS IN A NEW ONE, FIST SMACKS THE 'OPEN SHUTTERS'-BUTTON on the Angel (a telepathic alien boss) containment tank, shoots it throught the glass on full auto despite its telepathic attak, looks down on the corpse in despisement and strolls out of the bunker door whit an expression of anger like he had been sent on a another milk run errand to do other peoples ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ job. ah, how far are those days of manly charachters. I refunded the game. Im plannign to buy The last caretaker instead. Oh and i completed Rage 1 on nightmare difficulty on the first playthrough and enjoyed it. Died only twice, once on the road block after Hagar settlement because i was an idiot and just drove in to the missiles lol and another time to the boss in the dead city before i found out what the ♥♥♥♥ i was supposed to do.