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So What Did You Think About Rage?

by Matt Waitt [ Monday, 10th of October 2011 - 11:23 AM ]

Now that Id Software's new IP is out, what do you guys think about it?

I was thoroughly impressed with the demo Id showed off earlier this year at PAX East and eagerly waited for its release in August, but sadly it was pushed back to October. I was perfectly ok with that since I knew the finished product was going to blow my mind into oblivion, but I guess it is safe to say that I'm slightly disappointed. Now don't get me wrong, Rage is still a fun game for me to play, but I was expecting a lot more. I guess the hype got my head in the clouds.

The graphics in Rage are simply stunning, the facial animations and the body language of the NPC's really sold the game for me. Walking up to a person from the side and seeing their eyes look over in an "Hm? Who's that?" and then turning their head to acknowledge my existence. It's the little subtle things in Rage that make it all the more believable.

But the overall experience was a bit of a letdown, a very linear game in a nonlinear industry. I have a bad feeling that id may be still stuck in the past, but on the flip side, is a linear game really a bad thing? I guess I'm on the fence. I was extremely impressed with the driving mechanics in Rage I was expecting them to be crappy to be honest, even the race tracks were a lot of fun for me. I will admit it took me awhile to get used to mainly because I had been playing Borderlands for a long time before hand.

Speaking of Borderlands, a lot of people make an unfair comparison between Rage and Borderlands. "They're both set in a Wasteland." Well yes, they are but it's truly unfair and stupid to compare the two. It would be like comparing Call Of Duty to Battlefield, yeah they're both military shooters but my god could they ever be so far apart? Borderlands has a lot of RPG elements while Rage is simply FPS no leveling up, or talent trees. Just straight run and gun good times with some "missions" which are basically "Hey, go in to some bandit's hideout, kill them and if there is something we need get it."

I guess I went into Rage expecting a truly magnificent story but I should have gone in expecting a great journey. But I'm going to keep it real; the journey is more important than the beginning or the ending. Overall I think Rage is great, a bit too easy for me, even on Nightmare. But I feel it was worth the money.

Rage 2 can only go up.

What did you guys think? Should there have been more of "this" less of "that" more to do? Leave a comment and let me know.

3 comments

Ruen [ Wednesday, 12th of October 2011 - 04:54 PM ]

Yes...you can travel back to Wellspring after you get to disc 2 and do all that you need to do such as finding the secret Doom and Quake levels. I think i'd give it a 7-ish as well. It felt like Id focused more on the details rather than the big picture >.

Anon Commenter [ Wednesday, 12th of October 2011 - 12:59 PM ]

Can you still collect items on disc 2 that you missed in disc one

Anon Commenter [ Wednesday, 12th of October 2011 - 11:15 AM ]

i was dissapointed too. i guess for the same reason as you. i got so stoked up from the whole hype and i thought about playing it for a long time before it came out. i played fallout3 for my first rpg ever and it greatly impressed me. now i couldn't help compairing the two in my head. i finished rage allready and i couldn't help feeling a bit sad for i wanted to see more of the whole thing. it looks real pretty though i expected more because of all the jibjab bout the graphics. my rating is 7.5 for the whole thing.

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