Rage (The Game)

[Rednog]

Rage lived up to its name, it caused me to rage because the PC version was absolute garbage. Oh god how fun it was to watch that unskippable intro because even if you saved right after the intro, unless you got to the first town it would force you do everything all over again. Yea have fun trouble shooting the problem with that shit. Rage to me is pretty much the quintessential example of how little some developers care about the PC market.

 

[SonOfMethuselah]

Animations are top-notch, some of the weapon/ammo combos you get are pretty cool, nice variety of ways to kill you some bandits, pretty graphics (minus the horrendous pop-in. Seriously: what's up with that). Honestly, mechanically, it's one of the best shooters to hit the market in a long time. But the story is dreadful, the characters are totally forgettable, the second-half of the game takes the plot that you're only just getting into and rushes it to conclusion...

If this game had've had a story that was even slightly well-crafted, it would have been one of the best shooters to hit the market last year. As it is, it's just a pretty (again, ignoring the texture pop-in), well-animated time-sink. If it's cheap enough, buy it just to enjoy the visceral feel of the shooting, but it's not going to be a game you remember. Probably one of the biggest disappointments I've had with a game: there was so much potential there, but the story (or lack thereof) ruined it all.

Like I said, though, from a mechanical standpoint, totally worth it.

Oh, yeah, afterthought: the driving works pretty well, too. Nothing mind-blowing, but passable.

 

[Sangreal Gothcraft]

For a game that takes big chunk of gigabytes, it is rather bland and your run of the mill shooter, pretty forgettable Plot(Not much of a plot) ....Animations look god and Shotgun is very gratifying, but it is nothing special...also the game on the PC version has TERRIBLE texture pop in. VERY VERY terrible...it's pathetic. I picked it up for 5$.

 

[daveman247]

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Bulletstorm was most enjoyable, colourful for a change too ^_^

 

[rob_simple]

It looks amazing, and a lot of the guns have some real heft behind them and feel individual; more than I can say for most modern shooters.

On the downside the story is abysmal, quests get repetitive and, if you are a fan of trophy-hoarding there are some obnoxiously difficult ones (such as the knife mini-game and the fact that you only get one chance to get certain collectables.)

I got it for a fiver when GAME were on the brink of administration, though, and I'd say it's worth at least fifteen quid.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

(snip snip snop)...and the texture pop-in, OH GOD, the pop-in.

The animations were pretty good, but that's about the only nice thing I have to say about it.

Aye. At times, it felt like the textures were enjoying a coffee in the id kitchen, shooting up smack instead of taking part in the game or as if they were actually on strike, boycotting the game.

The first time it happens, it's a pretty shitty experience, and it's just not something to get used to. Skyrim had its fair share of technical issues, I vividly remember some of the characters or pieces of scenery (pillars, trees) just sitting there in their naked white/pink glory, but that happened maybe half a dozen times in a +200h run. In RAGE, the texture pop-in is not a bug, it's a feature to keep the performance high and the framerate (which is awesome in shootouts) up. It's so fluid it actually made me dizzy and sick a couple of times, all without 3D or a caffeine overdose.

And yes, while the whole package is quite forgettable, I really enjoyed the Mad Max / Fallout / Borderlands craziness of it all. Enemy types are limited, but need decidedly different approaches in order to outwit them or whittle them down. AI was at times impressive with teamwork against the player. Oh, and while I really hated the driving, it was much, much better than the, uh, bumping into things in Borderlands 2. I still can't parallel park in Borderlands 2, and while I get the more videogame RC approach to commandeering a vehicle, when things get rough and tough, I am bound to want to do things like in real life, which is a bad idea in Borderlands 2. The driving in RAGE is mostly boring, but at least it's more like one would expect proper driving to be handled. The driving of Borderlands 2 felt best when it's not a car, but a floaty desert boat a la Star Wars.

 

[Iwata]

Alrighty then, the majority opinion seems to be an overwhelming "meh".

Thank you all for taking the time to give me your input. I usually manage to have fun with underrated shooters (someone mentioned Singularity, which I loved!), so I'm expecting some fun out of this. I ended up getting both it and Binary Domain.

 

[epidemia]

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.

Yeah, I mainly joined to talk about Xcom. From what Ive seen here, many posters try to be Yahtzee-lite and post scathing comments about games they didnt like but honestly Rage doesnt reek of squandered potential like say Red Dead Redemption nor is it offensively awful. How many adjectives is there for "dull"? One specific thing I can point out is the cartoonishly exaggerated animations when NPCs are talking to you. its like watching one of those people dressed up in mascot costumes.

 

[kommando367]

Pretty good game, but a little too short. I liked the way the bandits would dodge your attacks and a shotty w/ explosive slugs was fucking awesome to use against everything but the final enemies. It's also damn near impossible to die in combat once you get the second defibrillator upgrade and that screws with the challenge. Overall, 7.5/10

 

[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.

Yeah, I mainly joined to talk about Xcom. From what Ive seen here, many posters try to be Yahtzee-lite and post scathing comments about games they didnt like but honestly Rage doesnt reek of squandered potential like say Red Dead Redemption nor is it offensively awful. How many adjectives is there for "dull"? One specific thing I can point out is the cartoonishly exaggerated animations when NPCs are talking to you. its like watching one of those people dressed up in mascot costumes.

I didn't mean to imply it was bad, just wasn't was I was expected. It had several good moments after I got everything fixed, but it wasn't spectacular or amazing. And I noticed I mis-constructed a sentence, and shoulda just typed "It feels kinda like a linear Fallout 3", my bad.

 

[Sight Unseen]

It was a very fun game while it lasted, had really great graphics, AI, and facial animations.

The story was kind of shit, ending without the conflict even being resolved or the main villain being beaten, just... ending...

And I hated how they constantly re-used the same dungeons twice for a main mission and then a side mission, but didn't re-fill the level with any drops or items... Made it feel pretty pointless to do them since you got almost nothing out of it.

Overall it was a game I enjoyed quite a bit while I was playing it but it didn't achieve anything remarkable or really cement itself as a memorable game to me.

Rage lived up to its name, it caused me to rage because the PC version was absolute garbage. Oh god how fun it was to watch that unskippable intro because even if you saved right after the intro, unless you got to the first town it would force you do everything all over again. Yea have fun trouble shooting the problem with that shit. Rage to me is pretty much the quintessential example of how little some developers care about the PC market.

I played Rage on the PC and I had ZERO technical issues with it other than the horrendous texture popin that everyone else is mentioning. I played it well after launch though so maybe they fixed the issues since then?

 

[lancar]

RAGE was bland and wholly average in most respects. A competent shooter with a fairly bad and uninspiring ending.

I was lucky to get the game working on my computer, but i think that's because i never let the last patch install (which i had heard broke Vsync again).

 

[LtFerret]

It's got the same problem Wolfenstein and Quake 4 had ,(Yes i know Raven made them, not Id) the shooty bits are perfectly competent but nothing really enthralls you.

Also going by some comments in the thread, it just had bad tech problems across the board. I played the 360 version and there was texture pop in galore and it chugged like a ************ at some points.

 

[Girl With One Eye]

It gets very boring very quickly. If you can pick it up cheap then it's worth a play but it won't keep you entertained for long.

 

[Gunjester]

Good game but way too short.

That is all.

 

[Mr.Squishy]

I...liked the flavour text? Other than that it was a remarkably unremarkable borderlands/fallout mash-up with some seriously questionable logic at play.

 

[TK421]

I thought it was pretty unremarkable. It's a good time, but after it's over you'll go to bed and forget all about it.

Very average shooter with top notch animations

Yeah.
These pretty much sum up my entire opinion of the game. It's fun, but I'm so definitely glad that I got it for free during a buy 2, get one free deal.

 

[Zenn3k]

A straight forward question: what are your thoughts on "Rage"?

I'm a nostalgic fan of id games, from the days of Doom and Wolfenstein, and I've been meaning to pick this up, as it's quite cheap and looks interesting. But I'd like to hear my fellow gamers' thoughts on it.

Its bad.

Think Borderlands meets Fallout...meets Quake...without anything that made any of those games good.

Boring weapons, repetitive combat, slow and confusing story. Its just really bad. Its more like a tech demo IMO. It shows some neat combat mechanics a few times...but you're left wondering why you should even bother to play it again.

 

[doomspore98]

The graphics are some of the best I've ever seen and the gun and ammo types are great. The driving/racing is good if a bit shallow. The places you go all feel different and you have some pretty good bosses. Now onto the bad stuff, the loading times are horrendous and the texture pop-in can be pretty bad. But the worst thing is the story, id made it a goal to add a new weapon pretty much each level. You get a huge gatling gun that makes enemies swiss cheese, and then the game ends. You never expect it to end, the people you work for never said anything about an ending but it ends, with the push of a button, literally you push a button and the game ends.

 

[Iwata]

It's got the same problem Wolfenstein and Quake 4 had ,(Yes i know Raven made them, not Id) the shooty bits are perfectly competent but nothing really enthralls you.

That is actually good news. I really do love Raven games, they always seem to me to be underrated gems. Singularity, Wolfenstein, Quake 4, even the Wolverine game... they're good games!