The New ‘Rage 2’ Trailer Goes Full “I Bet You’re Wondering How I Got Into This Situation”
Featuring blood, guts and a lot of vomit.
The first Rage game refused to do anything by halves.
An orgy of viscera, guns and onery antagonists, it was a refreshingly flip take on the first person shooter genre, less interested in realism and much more interested in splitting open heads.
Well, if the new trailer for Rage 2 is anything to go off, the franchise’s sense of anarchic glee hasn’t been tempered one iota.
Opening with a literal record scratch moment, featuring a wizened old man with a rather nasty looking blade emerging from his right hand, the trailer then goes on to throw the audience into the very deep end, saturating the screen in blood, guts and a healthy splash of vomit.
The Rage 2 trailer is scant on plot, but that’s okay, because the Rage games are pretty scant on plot too. The joy is not in the journey, it’s in all of the carcasses you split in twain on the way.
And looks like there’ll be a lot of those. The trailer shows off all the jumping, enemy exploding, drag racing mayhem that you can get up to, culminating in the emerging of an honest-to-God, Frank Herbert-ass sandworm thing.
That’s not all in Rage news either. To celebrate the forthcoming release of the game, Bethesda is giving fans of the franchise the opportunity to get their very own post-apocalyptic tattoo. Yep, on May 11 you can schlep your way over to Hunter And Fox Tattoo in NSW and get yourself a free, Rage inspired permanent marking. The only catch is that you don’t get to choose from the range of designs — you’ve gotta put all of your faith in the capable tattoo artists, and uh, God, I guess. If you’re brave, more information can be found here.
If you’re not brave, don’t worry; Rage 2 drops on May 14, so you can relax and bust heads from the comfort of your own home instead then.