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RAGE 2

“WINNING COMES FROM BEING ON THE FRONT FOOT, CHARGING AT ENEMIES.”

Show me what to kill and where.” These seven words, uttered by our on-screen gun, Walker the last Ranger, sum up everything that’s good and bad about Rage’s return. There are plenty of things to turn your gun-gaze on, but finding a  reason to do it, and to stick to doing it for any length of time, is tough going.

There’s a story of course, trying to give purpose to your killing, but Rage 2’s plot is a comic-book-thin trawl through banal dialogue, a so-so Trump parody, and mindless situations in which a one-dimensional villain wants to destroy

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