RAGE
Difficulty played: Normal (very easy)
Platform: Xbox, PS3, PC (played on Xbox)
Time : 20 hours to do just about everything.
Note: Xbox uses 3 disks (sorry Boos this is a big deal)
RAGE! RAAAGE! FUCKIN’ RAAAAAAAGGGGGEEEE! Ha ha ha. I’ve been looking forward to this game for quite a while. A beautiful post apocalyptic FPS? Sign me up! And I’ll tell you what, they sure did deliver, the game is beautiful. But just like a woman, they lure you in with all of their beauty, but then they turn on the crazy.
My first impressions of Rage were well met (I swear I spent 5-10 minuets just looking at the amazing clouds) looking over the the world it would look like a picture at times and I would stop sometimes and just look around. Yes a nice big open desolate world, filled with crazy Bandits, creepy mutants, creatures and an over powerful space suit wearing authority….wait a minuet this sounds very familiar…..
It was uncanny how similar the games were, separate loadable areas for missions, towns small side quests and where you get all of your information, main source of travel is a Mad Maxx style buggy with guns, ammo types act like element types, Should I continue? I bet if the sentry turret could talk it would say “HI THERE I am cLAptr4p!” But enough about Borderlands this is a review on Rage right….right?
Again obviously the biggest draw to Rage was the visuals the world is very pretty and the details really make it feel like a living breathing world. All the NPCs you meet are gorgeously rendered and easily steal the show, I wish they would have made some more “out there” characters rather then just the average human wearing something odd or metal arm. However with all of this graphical power (and the huge install) the game looks disgusting the second you get close to anything. “But Jason, why waste time looking at the small things, the game is purdy” …It sure is, however, its not just “oh I used a scope on this can and now it looks like shit”, no its like “Everything in this world has a layer of Vaseline on it”. I know its nit-picky but its shit like this that pulls you out of the game. Also the constant popup in the game (after installing it did get better) but everywhere I looked it would pop in more detail as I waited, felt like I was playing Halo 2 all over again…but prettier.
As far as a FPS goes I had a lot of fun, the weapons are satisfying and fun to use, Crossbow+Mind control darts = easy mode. Also for the first time in a long time I found myself rarely using the Iron Sights to aim, there didn’t appear to be any benefit and it was way easier to aim from the hip, especially at the quick jumpy mutants, this made me have some “oh shit” moments when an enemy got close. The biggest add on to Rage was being able to build components/ tools to use. It gave you incentive to explore every area to find that last needed piece to build your next sentry turret (sentry turrets being the best thing ever used in a FPS). However I found my self not really using anything else I made except the turrets. I never used a Bandage, as it was impossible to die, I never used any damage augments/grenades, as the wingstick KILLS EVERYTHING and out side of the one mission where you have to use the RC car bombs they were normally a waste of time. So it was nice to have the option but all that was really needed was firepower and the game wasn’t shy of giving you that with all the different Ammo choices.
The biggest gripe I have with the game is the story line…or lack there of… its an interesting world that they made here for Rage but nobody bothered to give us any information on it or you for that matter. It constantly felt like “Welcome to the new world, now MURDER EVERYONE!”. One of the characters even said they are glad they found me and that I joined them, as most other Ark survivors join up with the Authority….WHY? And where are these “others” now? And while we are at it Why am I killing all of these people for you? There is no benefit for me here, and I just obey because you found me first? Stupid! While I’m bitching, there was only one actual boss battle and it was at like the half way point in the game, id had so much time and resources to make this game epic as fuck but I cant help but feel like they really dropped the ball, especially with that piss poor ending.
Ok, ok, well despite my gripes on Rage I did have a fun time while playing it and that is what is really important. However, If you haven’t played Borderlands yet, save yourself some money and get Borderlands first you can get Rage once its in the bargain bin, Sorry, but it was a far superior (and bigger/longer) game. Now if you didn’t like Borderlands then Rage may be what you are looking for as its a nice easy fun time and you don’t have to worry about any RPG elements or story slowing down the action.
I BEAT IT FIRST!
*note to game developers* Stop making Five Finger Fillet mini-games, they are a pain in the ass.
I completely agree with you on this one, although I am thoroughly dissappointed with you for playing on Normal 🙁
I am too, but I was thinking I would play it again on nightmare so I would make it easy for now. Now Im doubting if I will do that :/ maybe unless I trade it in.
Oh god shut up matt! Nice review! Get over the three disk thing! I need to finish this slut! I did laugh at the five finger challange! Red dead was it in boarder or fall out?
no borderlands and fallout did not have this shitty minigame.
Well sorry for being a little disappointed all my friends pussed out and went with easy street on a wasteland survival game
no I went on Normal street, my 1337 gamer skills made it easy
Also all the minigames were gay, I played the five finger one once and the card game twice (by the way the computer cheats on the card game, they get -1 dam taken its stupid)
I beat all the minigames, and thats where most of my RAGE came from, I found the card game easy as well but I was looking for good cards throughout the game. 5finger…RAGE!!!
I don’t remember Borderlands that fondly, and playing the PC version, I didn’t really have issue with graphics (Thanks to the BF3 Beta telling me to get a beta driver, I also didn’t have the issues others had with the PC version, and really, why would you buy Rage for PC if you weren’t playing BF3 Beta on PC?). That being said I agree with you on the rest of the article. This game does a lot right, but it also does a lot wrong.
In regards to the story, if we take Oblivion as an example, I know why I am fighting, I am fighting to avenge the king and save the world, in Rage I feel like I am fighting because somebody told me he would give me his sniper rifle or a few bucks. Another example of good story would be Gothic 3, where the Orcs had occupied the land and used the humans as slaves, with a select few being mercenaries. The game started with you liberating a town, pointing you down the direction of fighting for the resistance, but you could easily become a mercenary and work for the orcs against the resistance should you so choose. I fought for the resistance, but for a good chuck of the game the orcs didn’t know this, and to successfully liberate a town, I had to work as a double agent. There did become a certain point when the orcs knew it was me doing all this, but at that point I could easily slaughter them.
exactly, and that is why those are known as good games. Even without the muddy textures the game was still good looking and fun, just id really dropped the ball, shit even Doom had better boss battles then Rage lol.
I dont even know if you could call that a boss battle, that shit was easier than fighting regular mutants lol
Way harder! A wingstick didnt kill it lol But it was the only “Epic” battle then.
Ill give you way LONGER but definitely not harder since the only way you would die is if you just sat there in front of his laser eye
I was joking, and 3 hits isn’t way longer. The flame thrower Gearheads took more to kill lol.
NORMALS NOT EASY!
When you compare to hard it is lol
[…] game. It’s story and driving however fell very short. Jason gets in to how that game failed here. The game though did sell well though, well enough at least to get a sequel. A long time has also […]