Rage Within The Machine

Mad Max meets Doom in Rage 2, and the open-world shooter with added vehicular carnage is due in ’19.

Bethesda has revealed what we’d already guessed—that Rage 2 is coming our way next year. A new gameplay trailer reveals frenetic FPS action involving big-ass guns mixed with souped-up, heavily armored vehicle chases, and fashion tips straight out of Mad Max’s universe.

The Rage 2 trailer and announcement followed days of speculation, Twitter-teasing, and the unlikeliest of leaks. Less than a month before E3, Walmart Canada’s website appeared to list as-yet unannounced games as available for pre-order, including the sequel to iD’s apocalyptic wasteland FPS, originally released in 2011. Bethesda responded to the leak with a knowingly cheeky Tweet correcting Walmart’s holding-image box art, suggesting that Rage 2 was indeed about to be announced.