Rage (The Game)

[Andy of Comix Inc]

I enjoyed it well enough, the shooting is decent and the story is serviceable, but it doesn't really play like an id game, unfortunately. It's more like Fallout 3 with tighter gunplay - its definitely not as good as even Doom 3, and doesn't hold a candle to Wolfenstein or DOOM.

Also, SPRITES:

Sooo maaany sprriiites. They got the game's textures looking fantastic but all the vegetation in the game is like completely flat, camera-facing 2D spritework straight out of the PS2 era. Its kind of embarrassing. The rest of the game is a fairly competent technical achievement, to stumble across that kind of blatant misstep is just sad.

 

[Popadoo]

Possibly one of the worst endings of any game I've played.
It comes out of fucking no where, I barely know anything about the people I'm fighting and it's just... bad.
The bulk of the game was enjoyable though.

 

[jollybarracuda]

It's too bad to hear about the game, as along with the OP, i too saw this on sale and considered getting it. But now i think i'll pass, maybe pick up Doom 3 for $6 instead, off steam.

 

[AJax_21]

It probably has one of the best FPS combat I've played in a very long time. The gunplay, the hilarious number of ways you can dispatch your enemies and the animations. All top notch. Heartily recommended it if you want an enjoyable shooter to play through the weekend.

The story's pretty hot garbage though so don't expect anything worthwhile from the writing.

Edit: Oh yeah, the car combat sucks too.

 

[Snotnarok]

Don't bother unless it's extremely cheap. The shooting is fun and amusing enough but considering it has no final boss, the worst ending in a shooter I've experienced in ages which is par for the course but honestly it's no doom, quake, or wolfenstein. It's extremely pretty in spots but you'll see some ugly pixelation in other spots, racing is fun and amusing (more so with a controller) but overall I feel sorry for anyone who spent more than 5 bucks.

 

[JEBWrench]

Exceptionally average. Nothing particularly remarkable about it (except for the animations). The shooting mechanics are clunky, the guns lack weight, the car driving bits are blasé.

It's like Borderlands 2 without the variety and aesthetic.

It's good to kill time with for a few bucks, I suppose.

 

[Doclector]

It was pretty good, but I have trouble trying to recall why it was so hyped. The only thing that's remarkable or unique about it is the animations, and even then, you'll be wowed the first couple of times you hit a bandit near his feet and see him stumble realistically, but after a while, you realise this is more or less a bog standard shooter with some moderately fun driving. There is some value in that, especially as the style of shooting is far closer to the old days of quake and doom than the current trend for realism and cover, but it still doesn't quite nail the pace of those classics. Some of the gadgets are pretty fun, especially the wingsticks, but really, it's nothing you haven't seen before, it's just fairly well done.

All in all, though, it's definitely worth a look at the sort of price (under ten british pounds) that you'll find it for today, just don't expect much of it.

 

[FalloutJack]

Its crappy and nothing at all like IDs' classic franchises. I played it for about ten minutes then boredom set in.

For just coming on here, I think you could've said a BIT more in detail.

For just joining the forums, I think you could've cut the guy some fricken slack.

I did, actually. You just don't know what I WANTED to say.

 

[Zhukov]

It's a phenomenally average shooter.

Decent weapons, serviceable shooting mechanics and fantastic animations. It's quite pretty too. Sadly the aesthetics are as forgettable as... a forgettable thing.

Also, there's a nasty bug on PC that was never fully fixed that caused ridiculous texture pop-in every time you so mach as turn around.

Story is just plain old video game drivel. "It's the apocalypse, Mad Max flavour. Go shoot something." That's it. Barely even manages to string the shootouts together.

The game forces you into boring vehicle sections by making you bloody well commute between each mission.

I just stopped playing partway through. I didn't rage-quit or anything (hurr hurr). I forgot that I was playing one day and never remembered to pick it up again.

If you have some money that's about to expire and nothing better to use it on than I suppose you could do worse than Rage.

 

[FalloutJack]

Its crappy and nothing at all like IDs' classic franchises. I played it for about ten minutes then boredom set in.

For just coming on here, I think you could've said a BIT more in detail.

For just joining the forums, I think you could've cut the guy some fricken slack.

I did, actually. You just don't know what I WANTED to say.

If criticizing a person who's only just joined is your idea of "cutting some slack" then I feel sorry for you. For to be so critical of people you cannot be particularly happy.

Take it from another angle: He practically just joined here to make criticisms. He literally JUST walked in to say "Rage was shit". If you're going to bother to go to the trouble, say why.

 

[SpAc3man]

Gameplay wise it's average. In terms of pushing graphics forward it was well done. The whole massive textures thing is the way games are heading and ID have seen that and are leading the way.

 

[SadisticFire]

It was alright, though I don't remember much of it other then having to tweak the settings so it doesn't look like everything is made out of clay, and it being unnecessarily big.(21gigs) Was hoping it feels kinda like a linear Fallout 3 kinda.

 

[FalloutJack]

SNIP

Nonsense, the mods actually WANT reasons and such in posts. Asked 'em. S'true.

Now, if you don't mind, Mr. Pot, I've got some tea to get to.

 

[FalloutJack]

SNIP

Sorry, but if nobody can call HIM [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/view/canadamus_prime] out for it, then you can't call me either. Them's the breaks, chum.

 

[Dark Prophet]

I was really looking forward to this game it looked like a mix between Fallout 3 and Borderlands and it was by id, but then everything started to fall apart first the problems with some graphics cards and the rumors that the gameplay is kinda boring and repetitive. Still, I was so hyped I bought it anyways and yeah it's fucking rubbish, enemy ai and animations won't save it if the rest of the game is just not good. Racing is shit and you need to do it to advance in story, missions are dull, and the graphics suck, you know how in Borderlands textures take time to load and if you move too fast it goes all blury, well it is about ten times worse in Rage and somtimes the textures won't load at all, some of the plants and other random stuff in the world are flat not 3d.
One more thing when I bought it I also bought Singularity which I found in a bin, and I had tons more fun with it than with Rage.