Rage 2

Rage ain’t nothin’ but a number. Two, in fact.

- Chris Burke

These days, everything seems to be about the apocalypse. Maybe it’s the melting of the ice caps. Maybe it’s Brexit, or Trump, or the kind of existential despair you get when you can’t find a single matching pair of socks, and it’s Monday, and all you’ve got is two socks, one of which says ‘Thursday’ and the other ‘Saturday’. Whatever, doom is big in videogames – Fallout 76, Far Cry: New Dawn, Metro Exodus and a million others whose premise is the aftermath of a big atomic or environmental catastrophe. Still, if something must one day put an end to our comfortable existences, we certainly prefer the idea of picking up some bloody big guns and having a little fun with it.

Thankfully, Rage 2, Avalanche and id’s post-apocalyptic shooter, looks like being the most joy you can possibly have following the breakdown of society’s morality and the total collapse of the rule of law. It’s Mad Max in all but name – though more Beyond Thunderdome than