{"id":20582,"date":"2019-05-24T08:50:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T08:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.prod.gmgfarm.net\/?p=20582"},"modified":"2019-05-24T08:50:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T08:50:04","slug":"10-reasons-rage-2-is-a-proper-id-software-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vpce-0921aaf1c67156043-4t1vg0wq.vpce-svc-0cf8d5d00172470c2.us-east-1.vpce.amazonaws.com\/10-reasons-rage-2-is-a-proper-id-software-game\/","title":{"rendered":"10 reasons Rage 2 is a proper id Software game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With Rage 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenmangaming.com\/newsroom\/2019\/05\/13\/rage-2-launch-trailer-offers-up-nostalgic-chaos-giant-worms\/\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenmangaming.com\/games\/rage-2-deluxe-edition-pc\/\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenmangaming.com\/newsroom\/2019\/05\/13\/rage-2-launch-trailer-offers-up-nostalgic-chaos-giant-worms\/\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenmangaming.com\/newsroom\/2019\/05\/13\/rage-2-launch-trailer-offers-up-nostalgic-chaos-giant-worms\/\">out<\/a> there doing the business, it\u2019s worth shining a light on the fact that there is more to the game than it just being Shooter Man (or woman, actually) Mc Shooty Face Part Deux. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, roughly half of Rage 2\u2019s design DNA (the shooty bits, obviously) come from The House That Doom Built &#8211; id Software. So with that in mind, here are ten ways that Rage 2 actually feels like a proper id Software effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. The Music<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you close your eyes when Rage 2 starts up for the first time and allow its rhythmic industrial metal beats to violently invade your earholes, you\u2019d not be mistaken for thinking that you were hearing the soundtrack for a new Doom title. I mean honestly, it\u2019s like they went to Doom Music School and just copied the homework of other students. This is a good thing (although copying the work of others generally, is a bum move) because even though traditional id Software and Bethesda composer Mick Gordon doesn\u2019t have the reins here, Andreas Kinger and his team do a grand job all the same. I mean, the sincerest form of flattery is imitation, right?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenmangaming.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/FaintEarnestAmazontreeboa-max-1mb.gif\" alt=\"Rage 2 Gif\" class=\"wp-image-20594\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Movement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Arguably one of the things that made Doom in 2016 feel so great to play was the liquid smooth framerate that in turn underpinned a level of freeing, ultra-responsive movement that the player was afforded. Much like 2016\u2019s greatest FPS (don\u2019t @ me), Rage 2 effectively mimics Doom in this regard, allowing players to dash, slide and jump around the place as they unleash a ballet of violence upon their foes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenmangaming.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/giphy-2.gif\" alt=\"Rage 2 is great with its movement\" class=\"wp-image-20598\" width=\"308\" height=\"173\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Overdrive Mode<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are fewer, more pure thrills in Doom than when you obtain the fabled Quad Damage power-up and begin laying waste to folk as if they were made of paper and you were made of scissors, or something. Anyway, dealing bucketloads damage feels great and Rage 2 replicates this sensation with aplomb via its Overdrive Mode which when filled, allows you to deal tons of extra damage and regen your health at the same time. Isn\u2019t progress great?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenmangaming.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/tumblr_p8qpezkzOo1s05hv8o1_500.gif\" alt=\"Overdrive mode is typical id software influence for Rage 2\" class=\"wp-image-20602\" width=\"318\" height=\"179\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. The Shotgun<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s not beat about the bush here, an FPS is only really as strong as its shotgun<strong> &#8211; <\/strong>a bombastic lesson that id Software taught us as early as 1993 with the release of the original Doom. Well, guess what, Rage 2 has a shotgun &#8211; the Combat Shotgun, and it\u2019s quite literally a banger. Like all the best boomsticks it produces absolute murder at close range, has a ton of palpable recoil and a super neat reloading animation. Shotguns are the lifeblood of the genre and don\u2019t you let anybody else tell you differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenmangaming.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/tumblr_p8qpezkzOo1s05hv8o8_500.gif\" alt=\"Rage 2 is out now\" class=\"wp-image-20599\" width=\"318\" height=\"179\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. No Shortage of ways to murder folk<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Every shooter that id Software has released has provided players with a good dollop of creative latitude when it comes to shuffling enemies off of their mortal coil, and yep, you guessed it, Rage 2 is no different. Though we\u2019ve already looked at Rage 2\u2019s shotgun, there are so many more possibilities than that available &#8211; from razor-tipped boomerangs that behead your foes to the Nanotrite powered Shatter ability which slams enemies with such force against surfaces that they basically turn into a red mist. There is no shortage of ways to destroy the evil folk in Rage 2. Huzzah! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenmangaming.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GrayAdeptBull-max-1mb.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20592\" width=\"304\" height=\"170\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6. Familiar Bad guys<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The main conclave of bad dudes in Rage 2, the mechanically augmented Authority certainly owe a debt to the equally cybernetically enhanced Strogg from Quake 2. A varied mixture of twisted flesh and embedded machinery, the foes Walker scraps with across Rage 2\u2019s duration are as much a thing of a nightmare as anything else id Software has dreamt up previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenmangaming.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20596\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">7. The ultraviolence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Look, an id Software title without a seemingly inexhaustible supply of spontaneous blood and guts is like AC\/DC without Brian Johnson, or the WWE without Brock Lesnar &#8211; it would be a terrible business. Luckily, Rage 2 keeps id Software\u2019s penchant for spraying globs of the crimson stuff everywhere very much at the forefront of everything and effectively seals the deal as one of the most downright shooters&#8217; money can buy. Nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenmangaming.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ba0448639d80db10c93ed33cf33794a1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20595\" width=\"306\" height=\"172\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">8. A story that serves the action<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In spite of its open-world macrostructure, numerous characters and plot threads, Rage 2 never feels like narrative quicksand &#8211; instead, the story feels more like a vehicle for the furious gun-to-face action, rather than anything more overbearing than that. Like the Doom and Wolfenstein games that came before it, Rage 2 straddles this divide perfectly, fashioning a story that services the action rather than the other way around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenmangaming.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/rage-2-openworld-two-column-01-ps4-en-26apr19_1556284424867.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20600\" width=\"312\" height=\"175\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">9. All the Secrets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A wonderfully long-standing id Software tradition, secrets have been a part of every shooter that the Texan developer has released since Wolfenstein 3D lit up MS-DOS screens everywhere back in 1992. Refusing to buck the trend, Rage 2 not only has more secrets than an MI5 dossier, but it has some truly neat, Easter Egg shaped ones too &#8211; such as id head honcho Tim Willits being rendered as an NPC that is seemingly glued to his toilet seat. Absolute scenes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenmangaming.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/HeavenlyDirtyBluebreastedkookaburra-size_restricted.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20601\" width=\"319\" height=\"180\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">10. The Power Fantasy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Like every other id Software game that has come before it, Rage 2 thrusts the player face first into an irresistible power fantasy. With 2016\u2019s Doom, it was you breaking your restraints and shattering the skulls of the demonic hordes that were flooding the Mars installation before embarking on a journey of infinite, unstoppable violence. Rage 2 does the same thing &#8211; thrusting the super powerful Ranger armor into your hands at the very beginning of the game and ensuring that you only get much more, catastrophically powerful as the game goes on. Just what you need after a teeth-clenching day in the office really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenmangaming.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/giphy-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20597\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">11. Honorable mention<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I know we said &#8220;10 Reasons&#8230;&#8221; but this is just too good to leave out &#8211; Rage 2 takes id&#8217;s approach, of not taking themselves too seriously, to the next level. The one and only Danny Dyer lends his voice to the game in the form of the Diamond Geezer cheat code. Now imagine it, imagine Mr. Dyer lending his dulcet tones to the next Doom, or the next Wolfenstein? It would be brilliant, I mean, after all, this is the same lad that offered such gleaming pearls of wisdom as \u201cif we didn\u2019t have thumbs we could never eat a sandwich.\u201d Top drawer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more details check out the official <a href=\"https:\/\/bethesda.net\/en\/game\/rage2\">website<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenmangaming.com\/games\/rage-2-deluxe-edition-pc\/\">GMG store<\/a> for great prices on the latest games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Rage 2 out there doing the business, it\u2019s worth shining a light on the fact that there is more to the game than it just being Shooter Man (or woman, actually) Mc Shooty Face Part Deux. Indeed, roughly half of Rage 2\u2019s design DNA (the shooty bits, obviously) come from The House That Doom &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/vpce-0921aaf1c67156043-4t1vg0wq.vpce-svc-0cf8d5d00172470c2.us-east-1.vpce.amazonaws.com\/10-reasons-rage-2-is-a-proper-id-software-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;10 reasons Rage 2 is a proper id Software game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":20604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[155,208,844,1012,1331],"class_list":["post-20582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-avalanche-studios","tag-bethesda","tag-id-software","tag-main","tag-rage-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>10 reasons Rage 2 is a proper id Software game - 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