Yet another Rage preview, more minds blown

This is running in real-time? On a 360? Right now? What? That’s not typical over-eager preview hyperbole – those were my actual thoughts while id’s Tim Willits and Matt Hooper walked me and a gaggle of press through some earl💞y moments in Rage.

I knew it was going to look spectacular. It’s id. It’s the developer that, as they put it, “invented first-person shooters,” and Rage is their Next Big Thing. It is very big - id Tech 5 renders environments and animations like you’ve never seen in a game, with unparalleled flu🐻idity and expressiveness.


Above: The environmental details are beautiful, and the characters even more so

Our US press demo was much the same as the one recounted in澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the last UK preview we posted, so I’ll mostly focus on my personal reactꦡions to the game.

The first encounter we witnessed was with Crazy Joe, a friendly, but… crazy NPC whose wide-eyes, gesticulating arms, and captivatingly-detailed shack charmed my brains out. This guy was a part of the world, believable and so𓆉lid a♈nd worth interacting with just to experience. Things only got better, because when id walked us out of the shack, a couple of equally-believably-but-not-nearly-as-friendly mutants were checking out our dune buggy, and not because they wanted to place a reasonable monetary offer on it.


Above: Kill it with fire!

The mutants were dispatched in a manner fitting of both id and scary-ass mutants – bullets, aimed and fired from pistols and sub-machine gun♈s, and a very unfriendly spinning blade which sliced through necks like they were air. While id is going in a new direction and “changing the expectations of what an id game can be,” they’re still id, and Rage is still about the same kind of heart-hammering close-quarters combat as Doom.

When they hopped into the dune buggy and opened up on the desert terrain, my immediate reaction wasꦿ, “Oh hi, Borderlands” (in a, of course). There&rsq🌠uo;ll be a lot of comparisons to Borderlands, but despite the similar (but much better-looking) environment, Rage is not Borderlands. It’s an “action movie” and isn’t “procedural” like Borderlands, says id, and they didn’t have much trouble convincing me of that.


Above: Who doesn’t like armed dune buggies?