Rage 2 is primarily being developed by Avalanche Studios, and given that they're the same folks who brought everyone Just Cause and 2015's underrated Mad Max, to say that Rage is a good match for the team would be putting things lightly.
The original Rage wasn't anything spectacular, being overshadowed by Gearbox's Borderlands to a certain degree, but it did show promise. Everything that we've seen so far regarding the sequel, however, makes it look as though Avalanche will deliver upon the first game's untapped potential, doubling down on all the high-octane silliness this time around and injecting the game with a purple-y green colour pallet too.
Releasing May 14, Rage 2 is set over three decades since the events of the first, and will feature gunplay and vehicular combat. With id Software returning to collaborate on development too, all signs point towards this sequel succeeding where its predecessor did not.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
