![]() ![]() The first scene shown to us during the demo session at the Avalanche offices sees Walker make his way through a dense bamboo grove. There is a voiced main character this time around, Walker, and through him the player will learn more about the world and what has happened. So there's a lot of conflict between different groups who struggle for power and all of a sudden The Authority comes back unannounced and invades part of the world again and that sets off this game." But then as often in human society power-hungry people start to try and control the world. A lot different bandit groups had to band together and have a peace treaty amongst each other, but then just before our game everything is calm. "The Authority was defeated in a big war, then there was a mutant uprising because the mutants got abandoned by their masters, The Authority, so they roamed free, there was a big fight. ![]() "We've made up a whole story of what happens in those 25 years", explains game director Magnus Nedfors. One that has begun to recover, with eco-pods working their science to create biomes and environmental variation, while society has begun to rebuild, or well, it started to rebuild until the conflict flared up again in time for this second game. This time around id Software has partnered with open-world action specialists Avalanche Studios (Just Cause, Mad Max), and instead of a postapocalyptic setting that "uses up all the browns" (Tim Willits' words, not ours), we're treated to a post-post-apocalyptic world. In many ways, Rage 2 looks set to deliver fully on the original promise of Rage, but a lot is different, very different. It offered an evolution of id's hallmark gunplay, adding vehicles and some semi-open world elements to the mix. Much of the early chatter was about the new id tech engine and the mega textures that would revolutionise visuals in video games. In fact, the game was originally meant to be published by EA (though that was to change after Bethesda bought the studio), and it was first announced in August, 2007. It's been just under seven years since id Software released Rage, their first title under new owners Bethesda.
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