15 minutes of raw, new Rage 2 gameplay has emerged, courtesy of a recent on-stage demo. The result is the most honest look at the upcoming and zany first-person shooter, but perhaps not its best showing.

Rage 2 is easily one of my most anticipated 2019 games, even if I think it's a little too colorful and tries a little too hard to be madcap at times. But the promise of it being jointly developed by first-person shooter experts id Software (makers of DOOM) and open-world experts Avalanche Studios (Just Cause, Mad Max) is too promising not to be excited about. That said, this new footage has me a little less excited than before seeing it.



Now, it's worth pointing out that the person playing the demo: isn't very good. Further, it's meant to show certain abilities and gameplay features, not showcase the fluidity of the game's gameplay in general. But beyond the abilities of the demo-er getting in the way at times, there also seems to be something wrong with the game's textures in the footage. Whether this is a video issue or just an issue with the game, isn't clear. Maybe it's neither. Maybe the textures just look like that? I hope not.

Rage 2 is in development for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, and is poised to release worldwide on May 14, priced at $59.99 USD. At the moment of publishing this, there's been no word of a Nintendo Switch port. However, previous Bethesda games have come to the Nintendo console in the post-launch period, so it's possible the same will be the case with Rage 2.

Posted: Jan 06, 2019 8:39 pm
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