Pete Hines, Bethesda‘s marketing vice president, says that yesterday’s (and last week’s…) leak did not change the official announcement of RAGE 2.

First, this game (which is co-developed by Avalanche Software (Just Cause, Mad Max) and id Software (Doom, Quake, RAGE…)) showed up on Walmart Canada’s site. Even though the E3 reveal seemed to be the most logical, Bethesda decided not to do that and drop the bomb on us a month before the event.

Pete Hines wrote on Twitter a response tweet about the leaks (as there was also an advertisement that leaked yesterday morning): „Plan was originally to start teasing on Friday [May 11 – the editor], teaser trailer today [May 14], gameplay tomorrow [May 15]. We just improvised and adapted because my team is awesome and we thought it’d be fun (it was).”

They did have fun – the Twitter teaser images seemed to have some references to the premature Walmart listing. However, we’re not focusing on that anymore – it’s time to look at the gameplay video, which came out at 7 AM Pacific today, on May 15. RAGE 2 was already touted to be a „true open-world FPS experience,” but it doesn’t seem to come through the gameplay video. An open-world game can become boring in no time – it’s a double-edged sword!

We’re still in doubt – the announcement trailer was far from what the first game had in its tone (in fact, it felt more like Sunset Overdrive), but technically, it feels more like an id Tech 6 game, which was used by DOOM and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. The video talks about the tribes and the alliances between them, too. „Where there are no rules, sanity rules,” the trailer says.

Indeed, but the change feels risky. RAGE 2, which still has no release date, felt a bit like Borderlands and Mad Max in this video, and the lack of seriousness might not pay off in the case of this Avalanche-id Software game…

Source: Twitter