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[@WorthABuyreviews]

Never mentioned the in game store in my review so I thought I would share my view here. I fail to see any need for a store selling cosmetic gun skins in a game, especially a single player game. These skins were clearly made at the same time the game was being made so for me they should be available to everyone as part of the game, it's immoral and greedy to withhold game content and then flog it as if it's some kind of extra content the same day the game releases. Stop buying it then they will stop selling it separate from the game!

[@benjaminburns4412]

Thanks for the vids mac

[@anonamoutsxc]

Worth A Buy American here, haven’t finished the vid and know you likely don’t want to answer questions but can you please elaborate on the blond hair-fan guy..? I keep noticing every single trump portrayal outside the 2016-17 snl sketches has just been utter shit and made the Dems look pathetic and I’m curious if this game really shat the bed in a pathetic attempt to win over a handful of critics or not...

[@sirratch5099]

@@anonamoutsxc he doesn't have time for that. Why don't you use fucking Google mate and you answer your own question.

[@Dlahusen1]

While you may disagree with a company selling 'extras' ; its a tad hyperbolic to call that immoral. Morality has nothing to do with voluntary transactions between two free people. It would be immoral to claim that you got these skins with the standard game purchase and then after you purchase you find you have to pay more for what was already promised. However this doesn't seem to be the case you describe. Don't confuse your aesthetic opinion about how a private enterprise should interact with it's client base with morality because morality is a bridge burning proposition.

[@datalink7]

@@Dlahusen1 If it is exploitative, you could deem it immoral. Not saying it is, but if that's the angle it wouldn't be hyperbolic at all.

[@WorthABuyreviews]

A Plague tale is next up guys

[@RustlessPotato]

Please don't overwork yourself again !

[@IslamicRageBoy]

Doing God’s work

[@Starfals]

Thats a game i was wondering if its actually worth a buy. It looks interesting thats for sure.. but is it any good? Only 1 way to find out. :) your review

[@datalink7]

Really interested to hear your take on this one. I'm close to pulling the trigger but was hoping to wait for your review if it was coming up. Glad to hear it is.

[@conceptualmessiah01]

Mac, I can damage you with a mean comment. But I refuse to do that, as a man.

[@joshuathomas5302]

So essentially Avalanche's open world was shit but Id saved it with the good ole rooty tooty point n shooty?

[@Hazztech]

Avalanche has always been pretty shitty. Just cause 2 is the only good thing they've made, but even then I'm not fond of it

[@madalindragan7722]

@@Hazztech mad Max is great!

[@Alexthelion93]

@@Hazztech You have no idea what you are typing there. How many Just Cause games have you played? Have you observed the way their games have evolved since jc 2? Compare it to jc 4. And Mad Max is great. Don't type shit just because you can.

[@Hazztech]

@@Alexthelion93 yeah, they've "evolved" in the same way the blobfish evolved: into something terrible.

[@Denso481]

@@Alexthelion93 I loved JC2 but hated JC3. Will I like JC4?

[@kevinferiu5273]

Mac we need more bell ringing, kinda miss that.

[@AhidoMikaro]

STOP THE BELLS JON THE BELLS

[@jameswayton2340]

No we do not need that, but WE NEED MORE COWBELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! xD

[@AlexanderPews]

"Hi guys *ding!* welcome to another *ding!* and today we'll be looking at *ding!*

[@xboxboy7777]

Love the bells!

[@BirdEgg123]

Last time I heard bells ring, a whole city of a million got burnt down.

[@Stilloffside]

I wouldnt have touched this game had it not been for ID / Doom shooting mechanics. As soon as I finish a session playing Rage 2, within 30 min I want to go back in and shoot more.

[@headsgrowback1]

This game shows the difference between id and avalanche. Id does what they do best: a wonderfully polished and fun FPS. Avalanche half assed it with mediocre open world with busy work. As much as id claims avalanche did most of the work, you can see where the work was.

[@bricktop.]

Avalanche need shutting down, the quality of their work over the last few years is utter RUBBISH. JC has gone to shit, and as for that crap with the copy paste robots/environments they shat out the other month, that was pathetic. Another incredible idea that they had no clue how to implement.

[@hectortroy8671]

Id creates linear shooters on rails. Avalanche creates open world games. I was bored playing Doom within a few hours. Rage 2 was endless fun.

[@velvetinedrapes4359]

@@bricktop. Yeah I recently discovered Macks channel and found out its Avalanche behind some right shit releases. Sad cause they have good IPs but the staff are terrible

[@squareroots6003]

"I have never had this much fun playing a game" is the same thing i said after playing Doom 2016, looks like i am buying this.

[@benzo5213]

Seems like its missing a good soundtrack. That's what pushes 2016 Doom game play to the next level is rocking out while slaying

[@Swolidarity]

Matt Binns I personally enjoyed the combat music. I dunno about ambient music cuz I just watch KZbin while driving around lol

[@tomislavterek5544]

I disagree Matt. As much as Doom 2016 is good looking game, these music sections are only set in certain areas. When i played Doom it felt like this: corridor( no music) , arena ( music), corridor( no music). When i played older games like Blood or Doom, there was some background music and at certain times it would increase the volume, not due to fact in was in "arena", but when getting to a certain "checkpoint" ( some temple enterance, big reveal...etc) New Doom doesnt feel like a world that exists, it doesnt feel as im the doom guy. And more over, chainsaw has fuel - that thing ruined the game for me. Maybe im just too old...

[@Luke-fx9gw]

Mick Gordon is too busy with doom eternal hopefully 🙂

[@Panda0nxtc]

Dat metal bruh

[@Skrenja]

Ya, but DOOM 16's weapon sounds suck.

[@brunskimang2228]

it's clearly not a game for me but it's really fun seeing you be so enthousiastic about this game

[@AnakinsDaycareForPadawans]

Looks like some kinda Mad Max: BorderDoomLands - Far Cry Edition 👍

[@RomanowRomanow1]

yes, just 10x the price

[@idkwhatnameishouldhave7106]

I don't see the far cry In it but with doomlands I Do, nice analysis

[@steffan5304]

@@RomanowRomanow1 lol since when is £40 10x the price of any of those games?

[@igorthelight]

@@idkwhatnameishouldhave7106 It has pink color from the last FarCry :-)

[@idkwhatnameishouldhave7106]

Igor Sandu so doomlands new dawn, pretty much

[@zerotactix5739]

Exactly how I feel about the game. I'm sick of ppl downvoting games for lack of story when gameplay is this good.

[@bunkerbill]

Some games dont need a prominent story.

[@Pand0rasAct0r_]

Eh that's the thing tho.. it's an open world game with a story. And if the story is bad. The characters are bad. The vehicles to get you through the open world are bad. Than you kinda have a pretty bad game. It's not just a game created for shooting like doom was. So just upvoting it based solely on shooting mechanics isnt really justified. Especially for a 60 euro price tag.

[@gabrielmajin5265]

@@Pand0rasAct0r_ ffs dude, it`s a shooter ! story is irelevant in games like this.if it was an rpg or an rts yeah..i would agree with you..but in a shooter ? fuck no !

[@myvideo686]

For the amount of contents this game offer, definitely not worth $60

[@taserrr]

Well the thing is, this was advertised for it's story and open world. Clearly a lot of time ingame is spent with quests and the open world. Take doom for instance, that game has no questing or open world or story or anything, it does exactly what it does best: you shooting demons in gory ways and feeling a badass whilst you're doing it.

[@milesjazz9957]

The last time I Immediately felt a rush of true badass energy in a game, was Shadow Warrior 2 and Doom. This game has allowed me to be a mad man on steroids.

[@S0ci0stan]

Looks so much like Far Cry New Dawn *MAKE EVERYTHING PINK!*

[@zlobaplays]

@Cntrol100 Because it is exactly what you've said.

[@bg8580]

The shift in art style from rage 1 to 2 is pretty weird. Granted civilization has recovered a bit after rage 1 but it's still weird how everything just became pink all of the sudden.

[@elbluntoinstrumento5699]

Actually, the reveal traailer for this game was ahead of New Dawn....I think Ubi got wind of the trend and just went along with it...

[@paft]

@@elbluntoinstrumento5699 Yep. Ubisoft kinda ruined the style. It was interesting until Far Cry got their version out first.

[@Bredaxe]

It just seems to be the same broken record. Game gets hyped by shill media and pre release KZbinrs, game turns out to be AAA shite. I said the same will happen with Cyberpunk 77 and fans of the studio lost it. Watch, it will be shite. Face it, there's only a very small percentage of game creators who are actually good at producing decent games.

[@gameragodzilla]

id’s the only one capable of producing good games these days. And their days are numbered too under Bethesda.

[@sulev111]

why do they even bother tacking on a gringy story? All the story should be, like you said, being the biggest badass in the wasteland. Less is more, in this case. If they want a story, they should make a proper story not half-ass it.

[@alexjones2141]

The only reason I didn't skip on the game is because the combat is one of the best you'll ever experience! It's just a shame that everything else (Mission structure, MPCs, music, vehicles, open world) sucks. It's scary and disappointing when a game only has one saving grace.

[@Starfals]

I LOVE good sounding games, that alone might make me buy it when its 15-20 $ someday. I dont feel the rush to go out and buy it now tho. Thanks for the good review Mack!

[@Alexthelion93]

Don't rush and you won't crash.

[@christopherbarham4402]

Starfals get it on sale. I have it, but I tell people wait for sale. It’s good but I went into thinking it was a doom type game but it wasn’t even close lol

[@sarimshabee2824]

Yeah definitely buying it a year later cuz it takes that much time for stuff in my country to finally reach $30 and new games are $80 when they should be $60 most stores here are just abusing their customers

[@Olzii93]

looks like a great game, also looks like the kind of game that'll be half price within 6 months, £20 seems pretty good value

[@Starfals]

@@christopherbarham4402 It does look like a doom kind of game, funny how you and most people say its not :P Thats very interesting for sure

[@BradleyThomas-oc8nm]

Used a controller, had a blast, smashed it, loved it. Honestly didn't think the driving was that bad though

[@emdea]

0:30 Running "well" on a 2080 at 1080p is nothing to write home about, actually this game runs like shit in part due to the fact its using the same engine as Just Cause 4 rather than IdTech6. 0:48 Other than the lighting system and special effects the game lacks depth and has trouble rendering certain details like SSR. Also lack of detail is obvious especially in the starting zone even tho it is better masked in other parts of the game. 1:00 For a AAA game made by ID Software the amount of graphics settings you can modify is laughable. Also they are hardly worth turning down due to the small impact in performance and high impact to graphics quality. The best thing to do if you want more performance in this game is to turn down video resolution, most other settings are not worth the visual impact in terms of performance gained. 8:16 No surprise here, it has pink (as did another game you recently liked) and allegedly has fun combat without proper motivation (as did the other game) 8:26 You said that about the last pink FPS you played recently that you also thumbed up, and it wasn't jedy academy :) i would have thought it reminded you of Far Cry New Dawn since thats the exact same thing you said about the game. I love Doom, but that has great optimization and graphics, isn't forcing nonsensical characters down your throat and is certainly not fu**ing pink and full of microtransactions. Hope you loved my review of your review :)

[@FluxyBOYS420]

jesus christ you're a mad little nerd aint you

[@gladiatorscoops]

So basically the core gameplay loop is incredibly satisfying enough to warrant buying this game. Thats the thing - so many games dont get that core mechanic nailed but when they do it's so f*****g awesome. Some other good examples of this is Doom original, Doom 2016 and God of War

[@Veloce87]

I haven't heard Mack speak so passionately about a positive aspect of a game for ages - it must be good! Here's hoping that the content "road-map" improves the open world and makes it more interesting. Still, i'm sick of developers (more likely publishers) thinking they can release 25% of a game, and then drip feed the rest over time. urgh.

[@matts2758]

The hitmarkers look ridiculously stupid. Why does every game these days have insanely large hitmarkers? Isn't blood and gore enough feedback to know when you've hit something?

[@bbunters]

I got completely bored of Rage 2 after 3 hours, not sure if I'll start it up again. The 'humor' in this game is just painful.

[@JonDGAF]

Same here, This and Sekiro were the 2 biggest disappointments this year. I have Rage 2 on the One X and it runs like shit as well, it needs a patch ASAP. Days Gone has been amazing, also playing DMC 5 and RE2 both of which are a lot of fun. Rage 2 just can't hold my attention, it's all copy and paste the whole game.

[@warpath375__]

Played an hour and got bored. It's a poor man's Doom. It seems like crappy DLC for Doom.

[@JonDGAF]

@@warpath375__ LOL that's exactly what it is.

[@MMOplayeerr]

@@JonDGAF For you ofc. Sekiro aint a disappointment.

[@jorgeloredo100]

Jon DGAF I’m at the other side of your spectrum cause I fucking hated Days gone, just another soulless, boring, bland zombie game with a mediocre story and awful voice acting, sold it immediately didn’t bothered to go further, while sekiro is one of the best experiences I’ve had recently (being a fan of the souls games helps I guess)

[@AnakinsDaycareForPadawans]

Jmo but Mad Max was the most underrated game of this generation.

[@conceptualmessiah01]

Yeah, maybe. I love it. Only fault is that after you finish it is nothing more to do. Oh, almost forgot that you get stuck there when you are supposed to find a safe haven and the characters resurrected! WTF? I don't know what they intended with that shity ending, but love the game and the characters have hearts. And the amazing sky box!

[@abujasim9539]

Hedwig yeah too bad they didn’t fix the last bugged trophy for the platinum lmao what a joke. All them hours went for nothing oh well lol

[@astonmartin8537]

Need to finish Mad Max

[@slapamother]

Mad max was OK. It wasn't amazing. Really repetitive.

[@taserrr]

wow really? I bought it like a year ago and only played it for a few hours because it was so boring and bland. It looks and feels like a game that came out in 2010, at most.

[@point_man_f34r]

8:16 funny how you say you thumb this up, while showing footage of sitting ducks AI doing absolutely nothing to stop you

[@millerthomas4331]

@@Abhishek-fe3zs theres no such ability that makes you invisible to the enemies the AI is really bad and gives you no challenge whatsoever

[@JoeySav]

Yeah get the game and play on nightmare, you won't be saying that.

[@point_man_f34r]

@@JoeySav then he should have played on nightmare and said "don't play on normal or you'll fall asleep"

[@JoeySav]

@@point_man_f34r Or that's not what was he was focusing on, and different people have different skill levels at gaming. Difficulty is subjective so maybe it was difficult to him.

[@buckiesmalls]

@@point_man_f34r He actually said just that in the review.. jsing

[@fordprefect80]

Played it a bunch today and have to agree on the combat, better than 2016 that's for sure. To hell with the story, man I'm having a blast.

[@Reuquar]

They have the wrong people working on story aspects in these bigger companies. All the talented people decided to go elsewhere. If Indie developers can make something interesting, why can't larger developers who have millions and millions to spend for budgets. Too much of a focus on graphics.

[@taserrr]

Because the biggest audiences will earn the most money. And the biggest audience for videogames are casual players, often not adults. So keeping a game similar to other bigger titles, without much thought process involved to play the game and making it easy as fuck, ensures a casual player will play it 1-5 hours/week and feel like he's good at the game. Not only that, he can pick up and not be lost as to where he was in the story/game and whatnot. And on top of that, they're not taking any risks so they're not making anything original. Open world and vehicles look extremely generic in this game for instance. Look at big developpers these last 5 years and almost all of them follow a same pattern.

[@JustinY.]

When Fallout and Mad Max have a drunken one night stand

[@Denso481]

I appreciate how you list the good and the bad and eventually tell whether at the end of the day the game is fun playing or not. So many reviews just naming positives and negatives but at the end I'm none the wiser whether this is worth my time or not

[@Jartza82]

btw wtf with that color palette ?

[@sunnyjim1355]

I agree, it's awful and gaudy.

[@Xighor]

Guess it's better than the first

[@Jartza82]

If 99.8% of people buy this game are white cis males, why do you Make IT Look like that? Seems like Bad marketing decision

[@eatanotherzio6811]

It looks like a homage to Blood Dragon tbh

[@doorknob9643]

@@Jartza82 lmao cringeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy stop making these petty comments lmao

[@HowBigistheMap]

The map is pretty small. I walked across the entire map in 45 minutes.

[@Hackerspawn]

All i see is Shotgun repitition and no mention of the Ingame Store for items that are allready in the game. Your reviews have been more indepth in the past.

[@jedi196]

Completely different experiences? Every and I mean every piece of gameplay of Rage 2 has all looked exactly the same.

[@XxHordakxX]

yup, floor Punch, rage and shotgun. Sometimes the Push.

[@jrawb6yesno]

There's something about Rage 2 that made me decide that ACG's review was not enough, and that I had to wait for your review. I really like how raw and honest WAB's reviews are.

[@AksamRafiz]

Agreed at times i find wab better than acg for some games while acg is very professional he is sometimes a bit forgiving and that's where wab comes in. Now wab has its issues like some biased reviews he did, dying light is an example just to let u know .

[@st-innocent-eureka]

Just so you know, there was an interview with Tim Willitz from id Software in which he insisted quite firmly the game was not meant to be political and that Rage 2 Orange Man is not Trump, even when the interviewer sort-of tried to pressure him into saying the villain was Trump. Not sure what to make of it but there is that. www.thesixthaxis.com/2019/01/30/interview-tim-willits-on-making-rage-2-what-rage-should-have-been/

[@butcherjsy8]

Maybe we're all getting too sensitive, but that guy was clearly based on Trump, do they think we're idiots? Maybe the guy that created him lied or did it subconsciously, either way its an attack on the first decent president since Reagan and I'm not standing for it.

[@Apocalypsse]

FYI, the Arks don't come down from the sky, they're buried underground and surface, hence the caterpillar tracks on the top. Picked this up in the Rage Retro review too.

[@WorthABuyreviews]

I said in rage 1 :p

[@voxxel]

As most games right now in the gaming industry. Beautiful, fun while fighting but boring without story. Did i mentioned #Anthem?

[@eldenringer6466]

Mack, But who has a 2080! that's like a £1000 card :? On an average 1060 or a pspro or ps4 it runs ...well it doesn't run well and can drop to under 30 fps at times (too much of the time). On the original xbox it sucks..it really does. As you said in your rage 1 review , if you have a toaster the game wasn't great. On consoles and some pc's in 2019 Rage2 is a little like a toaster game with frame rate dropping below 30 during the action and kinds of texture issues. I agree there is no excuse for bad jokes in a game or a bad UI. And Mad Max is amazing and the cars are awesome so just sad to hear rage 2 screwed that. I wanted to love this...damn the reviews are mostly bleak. Also you didn't mention the Ai which was a large part of of your last review. And what about the micro transactions ? And the micro transactions are just awful from what i've seen and day one cosmetics and the ability to buy your items and skip the game. That shit should not be in a single player game :? Can I ask was this a free copy or a paid one? As I enjoyed the RAGE1 review and you said that both were free. With resepct does not paying for the game effect your overall decision ? As we will have to pay over £40 for the game or 70 for the special edition (with all that removed content) and that's before transactions. I like the review but I feel you missed points which the average gamer with average money and average specs will care about.

[@fixo5132]

misinformed ...no microtransaction are in this game , well there are but you can earn anything in game i heard.

[@eldenringer6466]

@@fixo5132 "i heard" lol Please fact check before speaking junk online which might mislead people. I don't say things for clicks, I say them because I care about games and I hate microtransactions as you can see below why. I accept your apology in advance now feel free to downvote me and argue why live service and loot boxes are great. 'The microtransactions in Rage 2 are broken up into four different payment choices for the game's premium currency, called RAGE Coins. The more you're willing to pay for at once, the more RAGE coins you're going to get back with your initial purchase. Here's how they break down: 500 RAGE Coins: $4.99 1,100 RAGE Coins: $9.99 2,500 RAGE Coins: $19.99 4,500 RAGE Coins: $34.99 You can choose from these four different options. After you've purchased your RAGE Coins, you can take them to the premium market place to purchase exclusive skins and items. When you're in the premium menu, you're going to find a wide variety of weapon skins available for you to purchase. These skins go on to your favorite weapons, and they make them stand out during combat. Buying one of them from the premium store will not improve your weapon's statistics or improve your overall gameplay experience. There are items available in the premium store you can purchase. These items are found throughout the game as you play through the game's campaign, but you can choose to buy them earlier if you want to have access to them at an earlier time. You can also use the game's standard currency to pay for these items. There's no way for you to acquire RAGE Coins outside of purchasing them from the game's premium store. You have to use real money if you want to have access to RAGE Coins. This feature could change in the future as the game's developers, id Software and Bethesda, have big plans for the game, post-launch. There's going to be more weapon skins and items in the premium market.'

[@khoid]

9:39 The Sargent must go now, his people need him.

[@popacosmin92]

lol😂😂😂

[@Skychopathic]

I use a controller I love this game. Good review. Turning in a vehicle is a bit shit. You talked about its faults and it's perfections very well. I don't hate the story as much as everyone else but then again I've played a lot of games that didn't have much story at all like survival games as an example. Definitely purchased this gem for gameplay and I am not disappointed

[@JustAllinOneResource]

I really disliked the colours of the game. What is up with the hot pink? Immediately it make me sick to look at the game, and I uninstalled it after about 30 minutes. The gameplay isn't anything new. Same old same old, and very boring. Personally I would give the game a solid 2.5 out of 10, and nothing more. Total garbage.

[@RichardPhillips1066]

About 20 mins for me

[@JustAllinOneResource]

@@RichardPhillips1066 It doesn't take long.

[@JohnSTF72]

I think this game is saved by its enjoyable combat and gunplay. Otherwise, the similarities with Rage 1 would be the post-apocalyptic world and the Rage name only. Also, i have a feeling that if they used the Doom engine, the game would look even better. At least it's fun and i guess that's all that matters for Rage 2.

[@Jon.Ninety]

Thanks Mac - another trusted review. One thing though - is it a problem that you have a 2080? Telling me it runs well on a 2080 doesn't say much. 1) of course it does. 2) I'm still on a 970 and will be for a couple of years, so knowing it's good on a 2080 doesn't mean anything to me. Looking at the most recent steam survey the most common cards are the 1060, 1050Ti, 1050, 1070 and 960. If you had a 1070 say, people would be able to gauge something from your experience. Saying it's fine on a 2080 is only good info for 2080 owners (which steam puts at 0.6% of gamers in Apr 2019). store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/

[@mitcHELLOworld]

upgrade your GPU you fuckin scrub

[@Pand0rasAct0r_]

I dont really think that it should be thumbed up. I mean.. the game as a whole.. a bad story, not great ai. The open world as you said it feels kinda emptyish. Bad characters. Bad humor. Bad vehicle mechanics.. The only thing good about it is the combat? All in all.. that's 1 good thing vs 5+ bad things. How does that justify a thumbs up exactly? I mean I have to pay 60 euro's for this. 60. And all I would get is just good shooting and maybe sound? But everything else is pretty bad? I dont see that as being worth the 60 euro price tag. I mean.. I may as well play more doom or even multiplayer shooters like battlefield 4 orso if only the shooting is good about it. So why is it getting a thumbs up? (I dont mean this as an attack orso just a honest question)

[@satanicdude]

First Far Cry new Yawn, then this ... at least the devs had the decency to warn us about the sjw agenda by colorcoding the ui pink and violet

[@TheNathanMChannel]

Very accurate review Mack, I just got around to playing it (late adoption FTW) and I agree with most of your takes. Fun combat, beautiful environment with disgusting, awful NPCs and a completely dull story. Nearly every NPC is an unfunny, ugly filth-covered creep. Hell, the giant cave troll\crusher mutants are more sympathetic characters than the ally NPCs. The dialogue is so cynical and self-referential. Like there's no attempt to make it sound like it's not a video game. The mutants now have recognizable speech, making them more comedic than like monsters. I love what Avalanche does for environment, design and combat, but tonally this thing was a disaster.

[@mrnobody8475]

Mack : I havent had so much fun in a game since jedi academy Titanfall 2 : Am i a joke to you

[@robdead4550]

They weren't trying to portray the guy as DT, in fact, one of the devs specifically told a rabid jouno that the guy was designed before DT was in the picture.

[@mars188]

So he wont review Days Gone but picks up Rage 2? Days Gone is a 7.0 game

[@biggtnt]

Agreed take away the shotgun mac game would be a thumbs down. Combat is shite on Hard and Nightmare. Bullet sponge handgun only impossible.

[@steven2405]

Love the fact that you were ranting about the AI and still said the AI is not too bad. Great review as always

[@AlwaysLoudAA]

Id Software has the best gameplay mechanics of any recent game : Change My Mind.

[@aboriginalmang]

I can't. Rage 2 proved that they got even better at what they do. I hope they'll work on Starfield's combat too.

[@m8son97]

Mack, have you ever played Max Payne 3? That game is right up your alley and I'm surprised you haven't reviewed it yet, especially considering how much you liked GTA V and RDR 1/2. . It has some pacing problems and way too many cutscenes but I honestly think you'd enjoy it. The gunplay is top notch and the story is quality, especially if you played the first 2. I know you enjoyed RDR1 and 2 a lot, it'd be a travesty if you didn't take the time to play through the Max Payne series.

[@EvilTim1911]

Mack would probably hate it due to all the cutscenes. It's honestly extremely difficult to enjoy that game because you rarely, if ever, get more than 2 minutes of gameplay without cutscenes. It's infuriating because the gameplay itself is great but you get it in such small chunks it's hardly worth the trouble

[@m8son97]

@@EvilTim1911 Yeah the pacing is shit but it's still worth playing, the actual gameplay/gunplay is second to none

[@TheLizardKing752]

I purchased this game last night, played for about 2 hours and generally though the combat was fun but the overall experience was shit. A game like this needs a compelling story to keep me playing and it's just not here. Thanks for convincing me to ask for a refund.

[@bornGmE]

I know its a old review but i did what you said go for the arks and im having a blast!!! Great review

[@jimst3r1]

just goes to show how good ID software is, i loved doom and it's combat (the recent one) I'll wait for Doom Eternal i think, i like the look of the combat in this but everything else just lets it down. It maybe fun but i need a bit of everything to satisfy my thirst for a good game.

[@Grandmastergav86]

You should play the original Doom games, they're fantastic fun with a phenomenal modding scene.

[@jimst3r1]

Grandmastergav86 bro i grew up with them ;) hahaha was playing quake as a young lad and actually funnily enough I met an accountant (one of my grandads friends in Spain) she was working for ID software in the 90’s and her ex husband was a dev, who still actually works for them, they have very interesting stories about the development. I’m a huge fan of all their games.

[@aaadj2744]

Rage is underrated series in my opinion. Rage 2 is still good but still underappreciated just like those two Titanfall game which are underrated as well

[@GalacticAstroparticles]

So this game basically tried to copy: - Mass Effect abilities - Doom theme and gameplay/combat - Mad Max world and driving - Bulletstorm graphics and physics - Borderlands characters And some of those worked, some are absolute shite.

[@RagingRugbyst]

Most of those are redundant as hell. It's just Bulletstorm meets Far Cry and tbh the abilities are just your run of the mill enhanced crowd control/mobility/fury that have been in countless kther titles. Saying it "copies" stuff is really just hating on it for being an open world FPS on 2019.

[@rentblop8070]

I'm currently playing through this game. Excellent review, pretty much on point on almost every aspect. You have said the game is political and the Kleek guy is basically a Trump parody. Yes, but they mock the left as well and way harder actually. The Goons are basically lefties and they are completely unhinged. Obviously they are punks and some of them wear the PRIDE flag badge while talking totally degenerate crap (something along the lines of "I should put a grenade up my arse and blow us all up!" You can see this on the Race track where you can talk to one of them. So it's not one sided at all and you can actually crush lefties all day long in this game.

[@sirrahma1690]

I was waiting for macks point of view of the game.

[@Wolfsheim23]

But Mack is utterly jaded and you can't always trust whether he was just in a shitty mood at the time.

[@sirrahma1690]

@@Wolfsheim23 Might be. I share a lot of opinions with him. He is the only reviewer that isn't afraid to say that witcher 3 and metal gear solid 5 sucks.

[@Wolfsheim23]

@@sirrahma1690 See that's just the thing. It's not everyone's Afraid to say that the Witcher 3 sucks. Because to say such a thing is to Dishonor the work that devs put into games like that and to seem like a privileged hipster. Because you don't like something, doesn't make it Trash. Most people loved those games and with good reason. Same with Horizon: Zero Dawn. That's a real copout and makes you look bad to say that every reviewer is lying about their true feelings but they are all just Shills caving to some payoff. That's bullshit and some places may be like that but it's rare. ACG sure isn't like that or many other independent game reviewers on youtube. Maybe for people that are true Pessimists about gaming and have also grown Jaded about them, Mack is the perfect guy because he's more likely to dislike a game or movie rather than just try to be more objective and put aside his own personal biases.

[@sirrahma1690]

@@Wolfsheim23 I was only half serious with my previous comment. I do believe many people to be such a sheep that they like something just because everybody else does, that is just human nature. My problem with witcher 3 and metal gear solid is that everyone is fanboying the crap out of them and blind to the huge flaws that these games have. People praise these games as if they were absolutely perfect. These games have gotten so much praise all around that I offer my different opinion about them with clean conscience, criticism is good for the community and good for the developer. To be Frank, if these games wouldn't be causing such a mass psychosis among gamers, I would consider them just mediocre games.

[@Wolfsheim23]

@@sirrahma1690 No they don't consider them perfect they consider then better than most any other games in that category. It's not psychosis. Mack goes into what he hates in Witcher totally ruining the experience for him and yet ignores many of those same issues in a game like Kingdom Come: Deliverance which had hugely more issues than the Witcher. But it's OK to like a game like Kingdom Come more but to call the Witcher a terrible game and Kingdom Come a great one takes such a biased skewed perspective that I can't take them seriously even though I like Macks reviews and sometimes he's spot on, I still take it all with a grain of salt because I know his perspective is so biased and skewed one way.

[@desertxpunk]

WHAT?! You mean a studio that hasn't had an interesting idea in almost a decade & ran it's only ip into the ground made a boring open world game that was only saved by id's combat? I'm shocked, just shocked... Through every reveal of this game I had this mental picture of everyone from id shaking there head while todd tells them how avalanche will be "helping".

[@The_SinReaper]

Can't get excited about the game when admittedly just 1-2 aspects of the game (combat and sound) are noteworthy by even Mack's standards.

[@tobyhendricks9951]

But that's like 70% of the game.

[@igorthelight]

It's a great game! ... when it will be on 50% sale :-)

[@EvilTim1911]

you're in combat for the majority of the time. that's like saying "only the shooting is good in this shooter"

[@yoyo21926]

@@EvilTim1911 combat means 10x more when it has a good story attached.

[@The_SinReaper]

@@tobyhendricks9951 Sweet! I'll wait until it's at least 30% off then to make up the difference in content and quality.

[@sparhawk1228]

This is not your typical id studio or even Avalanche game. First of all the story is a cringefest of epic proportions. During the start of the game there's a theme of identity politics on overboard with ugly and comical characters. Your protagonist is also a nonchalant detached character whom you will feel no attachment to that acts like a 12 year old. Along with a bizarre pink theme to the whole game. Ladders, chest lids, GPS, UI etc are all pink for some reason (why the pink?)... it feels like the game is maybe content catered to a fringe group of people on a specific side of the political spectrum. Even Doom 2016 had a better story and that's saying a lot. Onto that, this game has plenty of bugs and some technical issues that for a game co-developed by id studios is very unexpected. However not unusual for Avalanche studios. The PC controls can at times feel very unintuitive and ultrawide resolution only works for actual gameplay as the cutscenes and menus will not display at ultrawide. The open world feels empty and tedious with any kind of random encounters and life few and far between. Unless you have a high end GPU and system like my PC I can see how this game will wreck even slightly decent PCs. The game also looks blurry for some reason even with depth of field and motion blur disabled, and you need to turn the sensitivity all the way up to be able to decently aim with a mouse. 3440x1440p resolution at max settings and anti aliasing enabled and the game looks decent but nowhere near decent enough to justify the hardware needed to run it. Driving using keyboard and mouse feels funky and repairing vehicles and other game mechanics is not well explained or explained at all. There's also a ingame store with microtransactions that you can buy using rage coins of which you can buy with real money. It feels completely out of place and was obviously a shoehorned feature put in there due to Bethesda Softwork's greed. DLC, preorder items and online features is locked behind you having to create a Bethesda.net account and linking it to Steam. And even this process sometimes will not work correctly as Bethesda.netis a mess of a launcher and will fail to successfully link to your Steam account. All in all I do not recommend this game. Hard to build up the motivation to progress through the game when you can't relate to or feel any curiosity towards the story at all. Comedy and pink in a id studio and Avalanche game does not go together well. Definitely not when those elements feel like they are there soley for a political message. If you liked Far Cry New Dawn (pink everywhere in post apocalypse?), Anthem (cringy dialogue) or Mass Effect: Andromeda ("my face is tired") then you may like this game.

[@ZeroHxC07]

I think you are over reaching with the pink, I believe it was to make it more punkish in style but I might be wrong. Who knows.

[@sparhawk1228]

@@ZeroHxC07 Cyberpunk 2077 is going to be punk. I don't see similarities. Nor with older punk games. Sure they had some colour. But nothing as cringy.

[@onehundredpercentboyband]

Open world bollocks. Why are companies so allergic to quality linear experiences? The part when you were collecting those blue crystal resources to appease the faction...made me sigh.

[@EvilTim1911]

Why are contrarians so allergic to open worlds? There's nothing inherently wrong with them

[@onehundredpercentboyband]

@@EvilTim1911 Just feels unnecessary a lot of the time. Does Doom Eternal need an open world? Because Rage 2 certainly didn't.

[@gameragodzilla]

Dave Rogers Actually RAGE 1 lacking an open world was one of that game’s biggest flaws. Fun car combat, but the overworld was too small to really do a lot of that. Open world games work best when the movement and moment to moment gameplay are good, because then you can keep doing the same thing over and over and still have fun. When you don’t have that, that’s when the open world gets monotonous and dull. Think Far Cry 2 and MGSV.

[@dynogix]

Bulletstorm had very nice combat system mi friend...

[@haemorrhage666]

all points exacttly my thoughts. combat is AMAZING Fun! That alone is enough for me to do the rest.

[@parallax8207]

That's what's important in this game. I don't understand the complains about the story in a game that is supposed to have a bad story

[@butcherjsy8]

No way I'd give Bethesda my money after what they are pulling, that plus the game getting political and the vulgar things you showed means I'm passing. The combat does look fun though, I absolutely loved the last Doom, so would likely love this, but I must stick to my convictions!

[@Naderade]

I dont see where it get’s political, but the degenerates they included in this game are pretty bad

[@devoncrouse721]

Sometimes i wish mack didnt have such a high end pc so i would know what to expect...us plebs cant afford 2080s

[@greentray1231]

You don't need gtx 2080s and such calibers to play games like this at 1080p med-high @60fps. Just grab a used rx 580 4gb or 8gb sapphire off eBay for around $100-$130.

[@CDLightt]

yet hes playing on a 1080p 60hz monitor LOL

[@MrBurtbackerack]

Yeh I played this, my brain totally forgot it did it was so bland. It is certainly NOT better than DOOM 2016...

[@dirge7459]

"you feel so awesome, you feel so powerful" >mac running around carefully with only a shotgun I sorta lost it at that part. Sorry Mac, but the clip and the your words at the time just gave me a giggle. Good review regardless.

[@ivanfabric]

it looks more like DOOM 2016 than Rage 1 to me

[@GregSole]

Forty pound game?! Holy shit it's $115 in New Zealand. :(

[@davapod]

Totally agree with you. The driving is pants, the open world is pants, the UI is pants... The combat is a total frenetic blast, absolutely love it..It more than makes up for the above deficiencies. Whilst I'm playing on PC, I have no problem using a controller though.

[@mikaxms]

So pretty much everything but the combat is total banter wank?

[@WCSPriest]

Hey Mack, thanks for taking your time playing these, voicing your opinion. You've saved me heaps of disappointments and saved loads of cash. Hope you have a good day, and remember to go fishing this summer! It's better than any game.

[@jasoncowley4718]

That AI though :\ I retract my comment! Clearly the best way to play this is on hard, looks like classic old school combat.

[@kreyes1126]

I've been playing the Borderlands trilogy for the past two months for the 1st time and I love them. This looks like a similar game. I'm going to start Rage 1 tonight since it's included in my" PS4 Now " subscription service. Thanks .

[@rambo9199]

Yes.... the devs of this game seem to have been in a particularly degenerate phase....

[@GainingDespair]

2:07 I agree with this ever since the trailer it's just struck me as a relatively new spin off under an older franchise name. I really enjoyed the first one but that came out a lot time ago I don't really recall much beyond loving it. This honestly (to at least myself) feels like more of a franchise which was cancelled and sold off where it bounced between multiple companies before one felt like using it. Homefront 2 had the same problem (loved the original as well) but it was thrown between companies forever with the project repeatedly being under development and than cancelled. At the end of it all we where left with a new Homefront game which had nothing but the name in common with the original game. I don't know if this was the case for Rage 2 but it really had that feel going for it.

[@Indeed48]

Sounds like power fantasy done right. Great review!

[@ZephKin]

I wish Mad Max had this exciting level of gunplay(first person fist fights maybe?) but not this random story. Pass. It'd be GREAT if the devs made a serious/intense story like Gears of War1,2 /Stalker/BioShock/Borderlands1 E3 Trailer Alpha, which had no comedy(initially for BL1e3 alpha) but rather emphasized gore, loss, and 'underworld descent' themes. Sigh...

[@gameragodzilla]

Story get in the way of the gameplay. If the story is the focus, I might as well watch it on KZbin for free.

[@jacksonweakley8690]

Love the reviews. Big fan and thanks for being the only honest reviewer.

[@badboje6040]

ACG is great too

[@EvilTim1911]

Gmanlives is also a pretty good and very honest reviewer

[@ljiljankocurcic8893]

Anyone remembers when first Crysis came out? I just wonder when will be next time I will feel that excited for a game.

[@ljiljankocurcic8893]

@@adrogrossz yeah, good gameplay, and was inovative for a time. Now if I take a look at Rage2 without HUD, I would say its Apex, or Doom, or COD, or any other shooter I would have 2 hrs of fun and then start yawning, log out, uninstal, and never touch again.

[@xnoreq]

Best combat? None of the enemies attacked you LOL. You're confusing best with easiest.

[@aldoblack5982]

I think he was playing it on easy.

[@MrAnnoyingFreak]

Same thing happens with Borderlands 3. Just turn up the difficulty.

[@sunnyjim1355]

Absolutely trash AI on enemies..smh

[@MFKR696]

A neat little trick for making games look as good as they possibly can is to use render-scaling of at least 150% and then turn AA off altogether. With multi-sampling/resolution scaling, you don't need AA, and everything looks sharper and more focused as a result. I've done this with games like Dead Space and Arma 3, and it makes those games look 100% better, with performance increases in some cases. You'd be surprised how much of a performance-hog certain types of Anti-Aliasing are in certain games. As for KZbin vids, when you use higher render-scaling settings, the game is still technically running in whatever resolution you set it at, with all the rendering done at whatever level you set it to and then down-scaled to your set resolution, so doing this won't hurt your vids at all, and considering that you're running a 2080, I doubt it will lower your frame rate that much, if at all. With some games it'll make them perform worse though. Depends on how the game was optimized, and whether it's CPU or GPU-intensive, or both. As for Arma 3, Farming Sim, ETS and ATS, they all perform better with AA turned off and sampling at at least 150%, but with Dead Space, it did tend to slow the game down compared to using conventional settings, but it looks so much better rendered at 200% that I'll gladly take that performance hit. The same performance issue there applies to pretty much any EA game, for some reason, including the rest of the Dead Space trilogy.

[@johncollins8471]

Mediocre reviewer with a bell. inconstancy in all of his reviews. he hates mechanic A and B in one game, he loves the same mechanic in game C. talking about good old games and how bad the new ones are but shilling for every other Ubisoft/EA game that was release in past two years.

[@pusher8]

If i were to see the guy crawling around on all fours with a squirrel tail up his arse i would litteraly fall of my chair

[@AoyagiAichou]

This just makes me want to replay Rage 1 again.

[@realhamonwry8620]

For what? Rage is awful.

[@AoyagiAichou]

@@realhamonwry8620 It was great, actually. if you didn't compare it to irrelevant games.

[@realhamonwry8620]

@@AoyagiAichou - You must have the palate of an amoeba. Rage is pure garbage by any metric of analysis.

[@AoyagiAichou]

@@realhamonwry8620 OK.

[@harrison6082]

When I played Rage 1, I wanted to be an ordinary person who decides to start their own colony/town. And having to survive, build your town, and repair stuff. Or you could be a bad guy and build a a bad guy camp and etc.

[@qweteryFTW]

Am I the only one sick of open world games?

[@baki4028]

No, you're not😪

[@darkeco]

Nope

[@nemezzyyzz]

well, I´m sick of bad open world games

[@FirstName69]

The problem is they're all so fucking bad. There's one company that makes good Open World games and that's Rockstar. Everything else feels like a lifeless piece of shit.

[@DukeWooze]

Thing is, it isn't open world games that are bad they are just bad open world games. When you make an open world game you don't make it where you just conquer the map, you make the world alive and immersive and shit. Also Avalanche studios makes the worst open world games out there. They are still technically very linear its just now you have a big ass map to complete.

[@papabear2396]

I love you're videos straight to the point but just wondering why run it at 1080p with a 2080 did you run at 1440p just curious tks mate

[@WorthABuyreviews]

It simply because I edit in 1080p so that is how I record it.

[@papabear2396]

@@WorthABuyreviews 👌

[@Renegado140]

Since Jedi Academy? Then you haven't been playing that many videogames then or just biased

[@CrisisC0re]

Wow as good as Jedi Academy? That is quite a comparison.

[@TheOrangeRoad]

Yeah I'm going to call bullshit on that. I know he said it, but I think he may have been drunk.

[@matsbacklund6471]

"The best combat i've had in years" The ai barely move and/or shoot judging by this footage.

[@8BitPinkiePie]

Well the game does have difficulty settings, and honestly I just recommend playing on hard. The AI is aggressive on hard.

[@matsbacklund6471]

@@8BitPinkiePie ok. good to know

[@velinguard4767]

How does this compare to Bulletstorm (in regards to combat)? To this day I still always tell people the most fun I have had in a game is Bulletstorm, it is so stupid but so insane it is great; slinging men towards you then kicking them into a cactus, or kicking them off a cliff, still makes me so happy (should I be worried by that?). Watching the trailers, and this, it seems very similar, thoughts? Keep up the great work Mac, cutting straight through the BS like a hot knife through butter.

[@Andrew87454]

Honestly Mac I'd rather just wait for Doom Eternal

[@honkingclown]

I'd say it's worth it now on sale since Doom Eternal is delayed.

[@tdub8719]

Lets not forget the most important factor Mack. The belly laugh provided by the Rage 2 live band at E3 (Bethesda) last year. Great review of the game.

[@chris5942]

Rage 2 looks like what I was wishing Doom Eternal would have been.

[@m1garand164]

This game is amazing. I played it first on xbox gamepass on xbox one years ago, and am replaying now on Series X, and Mack was right about the controllers. Even if you are a veteran controller guy you need to spend awhile tuning the sensitivity/deadzone settings because it's all out of whack. It's a detail a lot of devs don't tune at release. But once you find that sweet spot omg this game is like crack. You just can't seem to get your fill. Shooting ppl, jumping and dashing across rooftops only to come down and slam a group of guys, force push, dash melee, grenade, double jump, another slam into a force push. Enemies flipping, some whole, some cartwheeling without an arm or a leg. Some cut in half, everyone flying everywhere, explosions everywhere. When a fight is over you see the carnage. Bodies, body parts strewn about everywhere. Pieces of debris and exploded vehicles littering the battleground. It's so good. It's like a murderous carnival of awesoneness.

[@AlexanderPews]

hmm avalanche studios.. so its basicly Just Rage: Cause insecure editon

[@TheMistyBlueLounge]

It looks like the kind of game that I might actually enjoy if it weren't open world. I get the feeling the map does nothing other than slow everything down and offer up a lot of boring "exploration" and collecting. I'm just sick of open-world action games, they're too drawn out and boring, I can only really stay interested in an open world game if it's an RPG and has that level of story interaction and character development to keep me engaged. Even RDR 2 would have been a slog without the amazing story pulling me along... and Rage 2 looks lacking in that department.