With super-satisfying combat and an ever-growing arsenal of weapons, superpowers and abilities, Rage 2 is one of the best-feeling singleplayer shooters around. Its inconsistent tone, ho-hum story and uninspired open world missions keep if from achieving true greatness, but it never stops being a whole lot of fun in the moment.

Rage 2 is a collaboration between id Software and Avalanche, and that's exactly what it feels like. The quick movement, impactful gunplay and oppressive soundtrack remind of id's 2016 Doom reboot, while the vehicles, open world and physics-heavy explosions occasionally feel ripped straight out of Avalanche's Just Cause series.

Set on a barren Earth post asteroid-induced apocalypse, the game begins as gross techno-nazis launch an all-out assault on the remaining human population. Players take on the role of Walker, a generic (male or female) badass with nanotechnology superpowers who needs to recover old world gear from "arks" scattered around the world and take down a host of mutants, robots and bandits along the way.

If you think it all sounds like a bad action movie pastiche, you're not wrong, but it's also very entertaining in a dumb way. Rage 2 does suffer from something of an identity crisis though, with much of the story and characterisation delivered in a tediously serious manner while the open world allows for crazy, hilariously unplanned chaos.