YMMV / Rage 2

• Awesome Music: Andrew W.K.'s Ready to Die. Already a popular song, its manic and upbeat composition fits the anarchy of the trailers perfectly.
• Complete Monster: General Martin Cross is the bloodthirsty leader of the Authority. An Ark survivor who wanted to restore order to the wasteland, Cross would kidnap various people to have them genetically mutated to serve as his mutant soldiers. Defeated and forced to hide underground for 30+ years, Cross announces his plan to wipe out the weak so that only the strong will populate the Wasteland. Invading Vineland and murdering every Ranger there—including Walker's Aunt Erwina—Cross has the citizens captured to be used as test subjects for his cloning project, which would be used by Cross as a way to extend his mortality. Planning to expand his control over the Wasteland, he supplies Klegg Clayton with Goons for him to assassinate Loosum Hagar so that he may become mayor and be controlled by Cross, murdering him after losing patience. Later encountered by Walker for a final battle, Cross infects Walker with the nanotrite virus in an attempt to take Walker with him to the afterlife.
• Friendly Fandoms: With Doom (2016), given that id Software (and by extension, Bethesda) play a big role in the game's development. It helps that Rage 2's gameplay has drawn favorable comparisons to DOOM's, both being faster and more manic shooters on the heels of slower, more grounded stuff (the first Rage and Doom 3, to an extent).
  • Similarly, with Mad Max (2015) and Just Cause, due to Avalanche Studios' involvement.
• So Okay, It's Average: Critical reception to the game was decidedly mixed, with many critics saying that, despite having a great combat system, the game does little to make its large world feel alive or interesting. Player reception was a little more positive (many didn't mind the very familiar open world because the combat is just that enjoyable), but not by much.
• Win Back the Crowd: Rage 2 was originally set to release only on Bethesda's PC launcher instead of Steam (at the time, Bethesda was planning on making all their PC games exclusive to the platform), to much dismay. However, after Fallout 76 flopped, both games (along with Doom Eternal and Wolfenstein: Youngblood) were announced to have Steam releases. There was much rejoicing, especially since this came at a time when many developers and publishers were signing exclusivity deals with Epic Games' controversial store.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: Gaming website TheSixthAxis's interview with id Software's Tim Willits spawned a minor meme when the interviewer noted some similarities between Klegg Clayton and Donald Trump, and then insisted several times that those similarities must have been intentional no matter how much Willits tried to say otherwise.