Rage combines fantastic shooting with a barebones RPG and a sub-par racer, making for a very disjointed game, writes Ashton Raze.
Formats: Xbox 360 (tested), PS3, PC
Developer: id Software
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Age rating: BBFC 15
Released: Friday 7 October
Developers love ending the world. Rage, id software's first new IP in fifteen years, is set during the aftermath of an asteroid impact which wiped out the majority of human life. Survivors reformed, fashioning ramshackle cities or joining bandit gangs who roam the wasteland killing or maiming anyone who gets close. Combat racing became the norm. Food,water and supplies became scarce. Fairly typical stuff for the apocalypse.
There's a sense of familiarity about Rage that extends beyond the setting, at least at first. The game opens with you emerging from your Ark, a kind of apocalypse get-out-of-jail-free card, and instantly having to team up with the leader of a local settlement. From here, you're sent out into the wasteland with quests, travelling between a couple of mission areas and towns on a series of fetch- or kill-quests.
Full review: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/video-game-reviews/8804398/Rage-review.html
Question: Are any of you planning on buying this game?
Formats: Xbox 360 (tested), PS3, PC
Developer: id Software
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Age rating: BBFC 15
Released: Friday 7 October
Developers love ending the world. Rage, id software's first new IP in fifteen years, is set during the aftermath of an asteroid impact which wiped out the majority of human life. Survivors reformed, fashioning ramshackle cities or joining bandit gangs who roam the wasteland killing or maiming anyone who gets close. Combat racing became the norm. Food,water and supplies became scarce. Fairly typical stuff for the apocalypse.
There's a sense of familiarity about Rage that extends beyond the setting, at least at first. The game opens with you emerging from your Ark, a kind of apocalypse get-out-of-jail-free card, and instantly having to team up with the leader of a local settlement. From here, you're sent out into the wasteland with quests, travelling between a couple of mission areas and towns on a series of fetch- or kill-quests.
Full review: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/video-game-reviews/8804398/Rage-review.html
Question: Are any of you planning on buying this game?
