Rage 2

Why recommended

• Features a vast open world filled with diverse environments, enemy factions, and side activities, providing a similar sense of exploration and emergent gameplay as Rage 2.
• Criteria — Offers both robust Singleplayer content and extensive Multiplayer co-op, allowing players to experience the chaotic action alone or with friends.
• The core gameplay loop revolves around fast-paced, visceral gunplay with a wide array of unique weapons and abilities, satisfying the 'Action' criteria with its intense combat encounters.

Why recommended

• Presents a sprawling, dangerous open world that encourages exploration and scavenging, strongly aligning with Rage 2's post-apocalyptic exploration and survival themes.
• Criteria — Primarily a Singleplayer experience, focusing on a lone warrior's journey through the wasteland, while delivering constant, impactful Action through both car and hand-to-hand combat.
• Features a deep vehicle customization system where players can upgrade their car with armor, weapons, and performance parts, reminiscent of Rage 2's emphasis on vehicular combat and progression.

Why recommended

• Delivers intense, third-person (but with first-person aim) cooperative shooting action against hordes of alien enemies, fulfilling the 'Action' criteria with its dynamic combat.
• Criteria — Designed as a Multiplayer co-op experience where teamwork is crucial, while also allowing for Singleplayer play, aligning with both criteria.
• Features a distinct science fiction setting with a satirical tone and emphasis on powerful weaponry and strategic use of stratagems, providing a similar high-energy, explosive combat feel.

Why recommended

• Features a large, diverse open world to explore, filled with resources to gather and creatures to encounter, offering a similar sense of freedom and discovery as Rage 2.
• Criteria — Supports both Singleplayer and Multiplayer experiences, allowing players to build, explore, and fight alone or with friends, and incorporates constant Action through combat and survival mechanics.
• Combines third-person shooting with survival and crafting elements, requiring players to engage in combat, manage resources, and build bases, echoing the survival and action aspects of Rage 2.