10 High-Profile 2019 Video Games You've Already Forgotten About

There is nothing wrong with taking a tried and tested formula as the foundation of your game, as long as you offer something new and exciting outside of what players would typically expect. Unfortunately for Bethesda, Rage 2 was about as bland as bland can be.

It was somewhat of a swerve when Bethesda announced Rage 2 in May 2018, but the original Rage from 2011 was remembered fondly and received favourable reviews. What was going to set Rage 2 apart from the menagerie of open-world dystopian games on the market was its blend of snappy gunplay, much like 2016's DOOM with a big open sandbox to explore in. It should have been a match made in heaven.

Though the gunplay as a whole felt like playing DOOM, the time spent outside of combat was drab. The characters were non-descript and annoying, the world itself couldn't be differentiated from any other sandy, apocalyptic wasteland, the game shipped with the characteristic Bethesda bugs and somehow had a microtransactions store. On a single-player experience.

In the end, Rage 2 didn't set present itself as anything new or worth investing protracted-time into and fell into the void of identical open-world dystopian.