ColeKatsilas

Prey is one of the of the best games I've played in the past 5 years, unfortunately kneecapped by unacceptable load times and a sudden lack of player direction. If a patch were released today that cut load times in half, I would be downloading it for another 40 hours on top of my existing 100 hours+. This game is just fantastic in so many ways. A thinking man's game to be certain.

Main Objective: Listen I was pretty frustrated with the reviews of this game when it first launched. They seemed very out of touch to the experience I was having. Then it started to creep up on me, this impending feeling that they were all valid and 100% true. About 20 hours into the game I realized it was a content treadmill packed with a few of the less stellar seasons of The Walking Dead and Sons of Anarchy. Ammo and supplies are very plentiful, hordes and encampments quickly become manageable, and zombie killing becomes repetitive and tedious. The only real danger ever presented to the player in the game is running out of gas, both in your bike and your will to continue because you are mildly interested in the story. I didn't finish the game, and i don't think I ever will. I'll probably look up a story summary on youtube though because I'm invested in Deacon St. John and some of the other mildly interesting characters scattered through the game. It's just not worth doing the same 4 activities over and over and over to find out what happens. More of a 6.5 than a 6.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

RAGE 2 suffers from a few major faults, like a story that is as if it was deliberately designed to be a generic parody of itself, a relatively lifeless open world, unmemorable characters, and a handful of bugs that forced me to restart my game BUT, this game has the most tactile, responsive, exciting, and re-playable first person gunplay and combat of many years, competing with the likes of Doom (2016) and Titanfall. It is so fantastic that the overwhelming "meh" of the rest of the game is completely overshadowed and often forgotten, as Rage 2 will keep you coming back for many, many hours.