Get Ready to Die with Rage 2

<p>After teasing the validity of Rage 2&&num;8217&semi;s existence following the Canadian Walmart leak&comma; Bethesda has officially announced Rage 2&period; Bethesda put out two trailers&comma; with the first acting as a tone setter and the second being the gameplay reveal&period; Rage 2 is set for a 2019 release and is being co-developed between iD Software and Avalanche Studios&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Announcement Trailer<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"M7eXH25&lowbar;KC0" title&equals;"RAGE 2 – Announce Trailer"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;M7eXH25&lowbar;KC0"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;M7eXH25&lowbar;KC0&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"RAGE 2 – Announce Trailer"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Gameplay Trailer<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"fgPRE5pak6k" title&equals;"Rage 2 - Official Gameplay Trailer"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;fgPRE5pak6k"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;fgPRE5pak6k&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Rage 2 - Official Gameplay Trailer"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>The Cold Facts<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Following the release of the announcement trailer&comma; there was speculation that Rage 2 would be Bethesda&&num;8217&semi;s foray into the popular battle royale genre&period; Thankfully&comma; iD and Avalanche seem dedicated to their respective specialties&colon; first-person action and chaotic open worlds&period; The gameplay trailer shows off fast shooting in conjunction with some kind of superpowers&period; There are a hand blast and a super jump&comma; firework grenades&comma; and tons of enemies&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s a lot going on&period; But there&&num;8217&semi;s no whiff of multiplayer&period; Studio director of iD&comma; Tim Willits&comma; has stated that Rage 2 will have &&num;8220&semi;games as a service&&num;8221&semi; elements&comma; but no loot boxes&period; It is highly likely that the GaaS elements include campaign and customization DLC&period; All told&comma; these trailers paint Rage 2 as a fun time&comma; and hopefully&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;ll see more of it at E3&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>My Hot Take<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The overall tone iD and Avalanche are aiming for seems to be Mad Max plus Sunset Overdrive&period; And personally&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s working for me&period; If Ubisoft had put out a trailer like either of these&comma; I would be far more skeptical&period; However&comma; Bethesda has built up a ton of goodwill when it comes to risky and potentially disastrous ideas&period; Between Doom and Wolfenstein II they&&num;8217&semi;ve shown themselves to be masters of managing tone and style&period; Honestly&comma; the riskiest element of Rage 2 right now is Avalanche&&num;8217&semi;s inclusion&period; Their last two games&comma; Just Cause 3 and Mad Max&comma; were both fairly middling&period; Mad Max had fun mechanics and elements but lacked the adrenaline rush you&&num;8217&semi;d expect&period; Hopefully&comma; iD can help Avalanche polish up their work to be as engaging as we know it can be&period; Ideally&comma; Rage 2 will feature the chaos and freeform destruction mechanics of Just Cause but with more structured pacing and tight design from iD&period; The best case scenario is that Rage 2 is an open world Doom&period; The worst case is that we get a game on par with the original Rage&period; We&&num;8217&semi;ll find out more as Rage 2&&num;8217&semi;s 2019 release gets closer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;