Ignore my playtime, I have another 30 hours on GamePass

The exact midpoint between Doom (2016) and Borderlands. The entire time you're playing, you'll be asking yourself: "Why am I not playing Doom or Borderlands?"

Lacking the focused encounter design of Doom, or the bombastic loot grind of Borderlands, Rage 2 fails to make a compelling case for its own existence. It takes inspirations from two great games, but carves out much of what made those experiences work.

It's buggy - save your games often, especially before you conclude the last of the 3 main quests. But, it's really REALLY fun.

Well that was an experience I suppose.
Starting off on nightmare difficulty the start of the game was miserable being one shot by everything and doing little to no damage and having no healing.

Then once you get a few guns and level up you very quickly become so powerful you practically become invincible and the game kinda becomes a bit fun but a little boring by how few guns actually are that effective or helpful, you pretty much main the shotgun 80% of the game and use nothing else.

Then once you go to Ultra Nightmare the enemies become such bullet sponges that one shot you yet again that you have to optimize all the fun out of the game by only using the highest like 3 DPS weapons since using anything else would lead to you dying long before you killed anything.

The world of RAGE 2 is also nothing like RAGE 1 and you might aswell pretend it isn't since apart from a few shared characters and themes there are no real similarities.

1 being this cold and harsh desert/urban post apocalyptic world where people fight against bandits and the regime of the authority and mutants to survive.

While in 2 although similar in enemy structure there is no harshness to the world and everyone is super nonchalant, joking constantly, using hashtags in normal conversation and generally not really acting like real people but rather just one off joke machines for the player character to riff on.

The quality of the main missions is a big step below even the side missions in RAGE 1.
It is actually pretty impressive how low quality this game is from a cinematic point of view.

In a vacuum the combat is really fun even if it is much too simplistic and forces such an aggressive playstyle that you have no real use for much of your equipment.
But when the difficulty selection is between
"Everything is so easy you could easily melee everyone and win"
and
"Everyone insta-kills you so quickly you realistically have 2 guns to choose from to win"

It makes the game a very hard sell unless you really are just looking for a quick and simple 5-7 hour long main campaign (yeah it really is that short, 7 short missions total) to play through once on easy and never look back.

Tons of glitches, bugs and softlocks also really dampen the experience and I really recommend you look up a guide just so you know where the infamous softlocks that makes the game unbeatable are so you can avoid them.
The dlc's are also very meh and I can't really recommend them or for you to 100% the game like I did.

Overall I did have fun with the combat for a few hours but I didn't really enjoy much else about the game.
It is not worth it in the slightest.