RAGE

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5.4

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  1. mike2411
    Oct 23, 2011
    3
    ****Do Not Even Think about Buying This Game**** The technical issues with this game are not it's biggest problems. I can deal with downloading beta drivers. The game itself is just horrible. This is a $15 game at best. Since id stole $60 from me I will never buy another game from them. The fair thing to do would be issue a 50% refund for all PC users who bought the game through****Do Not Even Think about Buying This Game**** The technical issues with this game are not it's biggest problems. I can deal with downloading beta drivers. The game itself is just horrible. This is a $15 game at best. Since id stole $60 from me I will never buy another game from them. The fair thing to do would be issue a 50% refund for all PC users who bought the game through an online DRM source. This way they know we can't take the money and keep playing it. I bought this game expecting something like borderlands and it is nothing close. I would have then been ok if it was an alright FPS, but its not that either. I am about 45 minutes in and I have uninstalled it. I would compare this to Duke Nukem Forever. Here are some of it's problems:
    - Unlimited amount of bad guys pour out of doors at times unless you progress forward. This took away from any kind of strategy and felt like a Nintendo game from the 80's. -The game is extremely linear. -Confusing UI.
    -Horrible story so far. There is zero character development. -Missions are confusing as you have to collect items and you don't know how many items you have collected so far.    … Expand
  2. Stealth3
    Oct 27, 2011
    1
    My rating is based on the quality of the game and keeping in mind that its a 60$ game. This game is nothing but hype, and the bad kind too. Its not that it fails to deliver, some of the components that its suppose to deliver are just not present altogether.

    -Trash story, even for an id game. -LINEAR, EXTREMELY LINEAR. Corridor shooter at its best, this is what this is. Corridor    My rating is based on the quality of the game and keeping in mind that its a 60$ game. This game is nothing but hype, and the bad kind too. Its not that it fails to deliver, some of the components that its suppose to deliver are just not present altogether.

    -Trash story, even for an id game. -LINEAR, EXTREMELY LINEAR. Corridor shooter at its best, this is what this is. Corridor shooter with a skybox.
    -Texture bugs which are part of the design which will never get solved. The only game in 2011 that has textures from 1999.
    -Horrible gameplay mechanics.
    -The true definition of a console port. This is a "console port" benchmark for future games to come.
    -Anything gameplay related to this game, just terrible.

    The only reason it doesn't get a 0 is because it has nice animations, so that bumps it to a 1. Do not buy, you were warned!    … Expand
  3. DigitalVeil
    Nov 3, 2011
    3
    A boring, repetitive, mindless corridor shooter from id. Run or drive from point A to B, shooting waves of enemies as you go and nothing else. That's it. Awful, almost non-existent story and a joke of an ending. The game is also riddled with bugs and glitches, and they're just starting to be fixed, almost a month after launch. The only saving grace is the graphics (texture pop in aside),A boring, repetitive, mindless corridor shooter from id. Run or drive from point A to B, shooting waves of enemies as you go and nothing else. That's it. Awful, almost non-existent story and a joke of an ending. The game is also riddled with bugs and glitches, and they're just starting to be fixed, almost a month after launch. The only saving grace is the graphics (texture pop in aside), and the behaviour and animation of the AI. Wait till a major steam sale before buying this game, but only if it's under $5. Will never purchase or play anything released by id ever again.… Expand
  4. Flash_Over
    Nov 9, 2011
    2
    Looks like a corridor shooter rip-off version of Borderlands. I guess some pioneer genius at "id" thought of making their own version of Borderlands. But, unlike Borderlands... this game is terrible.
  5. BigCheesey
    Jun 2, 2012
    4
    This is a mediocre game that could've been great. The large scale, panoramic graphics are gorgeous, but small items are often pixellated and barely recognizable. The mix of FPS, item crafting and upgrading, racing, and vehicle combat is compelling, but it's overshadowed by a lack of content. The plot could easily have been developed into a solid new post-apocalyptic franchise, but there'sThis is a mediocre game that could've been great. The large scale, panoramic graphics are gorgeous, but small items are often pixellated and barely recognizable. The mix of FPS, item crafting and upgrading, racing, and vehicle combat is compelling, but it's overshadowed by a lack of content. The plot could easily have been developed into a solid new post-apocalyptic franchise, but there's no development of the characters beyond a few intro quests. Even the main story line feels clipped, like they stopped at chapter 15 of book with 30 or more chapters. I really loved this game until it became clear that nothing about it would be fully developed, and the restriction of multi-player content to a small number of co-op levels and vehicle races prevents it from having any replay value. It feels almost like I was duped into paying for a tech demo. And the lack of response from the developer and publisher is maddening. The promised level editor never showed up. The 64-bit exe and high res texture pack for PC never showed. And even though they promised DLC 'soon' after release, they're still refusing to confirm if it even exists nearly eight months later.… Expand
  6. WildWolfay
    Oct 7, 2011
    2
    After 15 hours of gameplay, most of it spent paroosing the desert for little crannies or possibly more sewer grates, I finished Rage on Hard on my first playthrough, and I won't be doing it again. Although the game mechanics and AI was fun to play against, that's all there was to this game. The story made little connectivity, the ending was a joke, the megatexture issues, and 100's ofAfter 15 hours of gameplay, most of it spent paroosing the desert for little crannies or possibly more sewer grates, I finished Rage on Hard on my first playthrough, and I won't be doing it again. Although the game mechanics and AI was fun to play against, that's all there was to this game. The story made little connectivity, the ending was a joke, the megatexture issues, and 100's of doors that can't be opened. This is 2011, and after how many years? 5? in the making, this game contains an absolutely non-interactive environment. You can search the ground and pick up hundreds of little items just for them to become "Small Objects" that you don't need to sell if you don't want to, since you have unlimited cash by mid game anyways. Seems as though more man power was focused into the racing portion of the game, especially since the mechanics were so well tuned. Although it was distracting to try and race with textures resmoothing constantly, the vehicles worked really well. This game is for you if the last good racing game you played was "Death Race Rally," but other than that, this is not worth $60. This is not worht $50. This is not worth $40. $30 dollar cap, and it's too bad Bethesda has their name on this product, even as a producer, its embarrasing. People wanna holler about how far id Softworks has come, but they should've hung their hats with Quake.

    I will say though that this game has AMAZING POTENTIAL!!! It seems like the game can be something in the future, with a HUGE DLC, possibly unlock 1 of the 300 unaccessible doors in the game? Or maybe push out some of the invisible walls? The game feels like I'm on a roller coaster track with the invisible walls.    … Expand
  7. LordOFlibertY
    Oct 11, 2011
    1
    Dear lord in heaven and earth, bethesda softworks has utterly rushed the port to PC and more the half the time you'll be facing with constant texture pop-ins, frame drops and crashes. My friend let me borrow this game because he wanted me to feel the torture of playing this game.
    In all honestly I rented this game for my xbox and trust me, BUT THIS GAME FOR THE CONSOLE NEVER FOR THE PC.
  8. incugus
    Oct 8, 2011
    1
    As an OPEN WORLD game it fails, because its not OPEN. dont let the critics fool you. There are no dialogs, texture glitches everywhere, bad graphical config (no options), and a **** of graphical bugs. (screen tearing , no vsync enabling, etc)

    This game is bad, its a bad port and a bad game. Nice graphics (bad texture bugs) , nice music , nice ambient, but hideous gameplay.
  9. zer0_c0ol
    Oct 10, 2011
    0
    hmm i truly don t know where to start, from a buggy beginning to the missing entire world textures to npc that have no life in them i just cant explain how much this game is bad i just don t know i apologize


    all i can say is HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN the pc pioneers are now a bunch of old glory self loving money grabbing console sucking ****
  10. QuakerOfDoom
    Oct 13, 2011
    0
    Pretty much what everyone else said already. It runs horribly, there's no way to change the settings, the second you turn the camera, the engine goes "oh **** I haven't rendered that area yet! Hold on, wait a few seconds...". This would be tolerable if the game play held up, but it so does not; the AI is dumb as bricks, and easy to kill, and in between you have some dull, tired drivingPretty much what everyone else said already. It runs horribly, there's no way to change the settings, the second you turn the camera, the engine goes "oh **** I haven't rendered that area yet! Hold on, wait a few seconds...". This would be tolerable if the game play held up, but it so does not; the AI is dumb as bricks, and easy to kill, and in between you have some dull, tired driving sections with clunky controls, and physics from some alternate universe. Even Doom 3 is better than this. Don't waste 60 bucks, or 6 bucks for that matter on this piece of crap. If you must get it, pirate it and wait for some god mods to come out.… Expand
  11. leondaniel21
    Oct 14, 2011
    0
    most disappointing game ever played, port-ass, low quality textures and poorly optimized, ultimately disappointing not buy it, you lose money on this game .. and is an insult to PC gamers.
  12. Nautilus
    Oct 22, 2011
    0
    This game is a good example what pursuit of money does to a developer. Welcome to the buggiest wasteland experience of all times! Your gaming experience will be cut short due to CrashToDesktops happening every once in a while. Textures are so low-res that they look like turd and "Megatexture" is just a buzzword. Nothing is so special about idTech5 engine. Graphics are so aged and gameplayThis game is a good example what pursuit of money does to a developer. Welcome to the buggiest wasteland experience of all times! Your gaming experience will be cut short due to CrashToDesktops happening every once in a while. Textures are so low-res that they look like turd and "Megatexture" is just a buzzword. Nothing is so special about idTech5 engine. Graphics are so aged and gameplay is dull. Avoid this crap on PC at all costs and save your money for better games. Once legend Carmack has lost his soul. I bet he preordered MW3 for his Xbox360 as well. Good for him, none of his titles will be on my PC anymore.… Expand
  13. colin_jack
    Dec 15, 2011
    0
    The graphics are great but the plot is dull, the driving bit of the game isn't fun, the ending is awful, the shooter part of the game is unimaginitive, its very linear, the multiplayer is apalling, there's little replay value...I could go on but you get the idea and the game does really feel like a bit of a tech demo.
  14. Longtime
    Jul 31, 2012
    3
    Not pretty, not engaging, combat is ho-hum, just really nothing to say is "good" in this game. Borderlands minus the fun. Happy I bought it on a deep discount or I would have been more RAGING at this wasted game.
  15. theFunkyMan
    Oct 18, 2011
    2
    We, PC gamers did nothing wrong! We didn't deserve this disgrace! And We are not genetically vile people, who can be feed with these kind of products!
    This product could have been a mediocre game IF the programming were at least average. Now it's one of the biggest disappointments in the last 10 years.
  16. Axolen
    Oct 18, 2011
    4
    I have to ask myself while i play this game, does ID remember it made Doom? Because at the end after you go through a pretty decent shooting fest, theres no boss. NO smiggin boss at the end of an ID game!
  17. ckurowic
    Oct 20, 2011
    0
    Gee, I'd love to actually review the game, but it doesn't even start. The screen goes black when I launch the game, then it crashes to the desktop. I bought/installed the game yesterday (19 Oct 2011), I figured they would have released some kind of patch by now. I'm running Windows 7 x64 with a quad Xeon 2.66GHz (Nehalem architecture), Radeon 5870 with 1GB vRAM, and 16GB of RAM.
  18. Gladio77
    Oct 23, 2011
    0
    DONT WASTE your money

    Game is full of bugs and well I have trying to get it fixed for quit some time. If company sells you a 50 euro product you may expect that it works. This does not and after spending hours of fixes I have given up. ALL THE RAVE REVIEWS are nice for the user for who the game works. For me and a lot of other people it does not. A zero is the only number which this    DONT WASTE your money

    Game is full of bugs and well I have trying to get it fixed for quit some time. If company sells you a 50 euro product you may expect that it works. This does not and after spending hours of fixes I have given up. ALL THE RAVE REVIEWS are nice for the user for who the game works. For me and a lot of other people it does not. A zero is the only number which this fawlty product deserves. Dont believe me? read what the lead designer says

    On Saturday a massive patch landed for Rage, eagerly awaited by players struggling with blurry, popping textures, low framerates, psychedelic artefacts and more. The mess of a PC launch has been so severe that John Carmack referred to it as â    … Expand
  19. Takeda
    Oct 25, 2011
    0
    I read about the problems with this game at launch and decided to wait a couple of weeks for them to sort all the bugs and kinks out. I wasn't really worried to begin with as my BRAND NEW GAME CRUSHING PC THAT FAR SURPASSED THE RECOMMENDED REQUIREMENTS would probably be able to deal with it anyway.
    I installed and got a horribly broken and unplayable game.
    I tried every version of drivers    I read about the problems with this game at launch and decided to wait a couple of weeks for them to sort all the bugs and kinks out. I wasn't really worried to begin with as my BRAND NEW GAME CRUSHING PC THAT FAR SURPASSED THE RECOMMENDED REQUIREMENTS would probably be able to deal with it anyway.
    I installed and got a horribly broken and unplayable game.
    I tried every version of drivers known to man.....nadda.
    I tried every combination of custom config files and.... nothing
    I tried getting help from the developers.....no response.
    Then I read that Carmack says "not developing for PC was a mistake"
    and that he called the whole PC release a "cluster-fuck"
    and now a month after the fact and nothing has been fixed, and iD is stone silent.

    WOW iD **** the bed on this one and i'll never buy one of there games ever again.    … Expand
  20. Legatus72
    Oct 25, 2011
    0
    This isn't the first game to come out that has serious code issues as I had serious game crashing issues with Dues Ex: Human Revolution. However, Eidos Montreal issued patches within the first two weeks that fixed the majority of issues with the PC version of the game. There was no screen tearing in Dues Ex: Human Revolution that has made this Rage horrible from the start. Id has issuedThis isn't the first game to come out that has serious code issues as I had serious game crashing issues with Dues Ex: Human Revolution. However, Eidos Montreal issued patches within the first two weeks that fixed the majority of issues with the PC version of the game. There was no screen tearing in Dues Ex: Human Revolution that has made this Rage horrible from the start. Id has issued a single patch for the last three weeks and then blamed the video card manufacturers for driver issues. Here is why that makes no sense, if the game was given the most effort for consoles which were having graphics issues as well. Then you would have used older drivers on video cards that are not of the line, as consoles are no where near the speeds of a top of the line PC.… Expand
  21. PCGAMEGUY
    Oct 25, 2011
    0
    DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!!1
    What can I say......
    my computer far exceeded what the devs called for. I pre purchased this game based only on the legacy of iD games, and that was a 60$ mistake. Game is broken beyond repair, (as constant config file tweaks, 3 new sets of drivers and a massive patch have failed to fix anything) This trend of release it now and worry about it later has been taken    DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!!1
    What can I say......
    my computer far exceeded what the devs called for.
    I pre purchased this game based only on the legacy of iD games, and that was a 60$ mistake.
    Game is broken beyond repair, (as constant config file tweaks, 3 new sets of drivers and a massive patch have failed to fix anything)
    This trend of release it now and worry about it later has been taken to a new extreme by iD and Bethesda.
    This was the game that finally drove me to go buy an x-box after 20 years of PC gaming (which ironically started with Doom)
    Shame on you iD .
    People like me work hard for there money , expect a game (whether the game is good or bad) to at least be able to load up a month after launch.    … Expand
  22. Deitri
    Oct 7, 2011
    3
    Rage is almost a copy of Borderlands in many aspects, the wasteland look is equal (Fallout is set in wasteland theme and it's way different from these 2 titles), the HUD is similiar and even the font is the same. The plot is just "ok", and by the way, even the NPC style remember some of the Borderlands NPCs...
    Summarizing, the game doesn't bring any new or cool aspect, maybe the forging    Rage is almost a copy of Borderlands in many aspects, the wasteland look is equal (Fallout is set in wasteland theme and it's way different from these 2 titles), the HUD is similiar and even the font is the same. The plot is just "ok", and by the way, even the NPC style remember some of the Borderlands NPCs...
    Summarizing, the game doesn't bring any new or cool aspect, maybe the forging system, but it is just nice, not something we never seen before.

    Also, I never said a word about the graphical problems.
    Then the devs don't know why we don't buy PC games anymore, they take us for fools, we don't need to pay to be considered fools, seriously.    … Expand
  23. City17
    Oct 8, 2011
    0
    Never seen such a high profile game get so little support, the amount of effort and tweaks and hacks to get it running are pathetic. And to top it all of it still crashes when ever I pause the game. Great work id.

    Even for the little time I did get it to play the texture pop in is really bad to say that is one of the selling points of the game.
  24. MrCrowT
    Oct 6, 2011
    1
    I signed up to Metacritic just to write this... This is how badly this game was ported to the PC. Sure it works okay for some, but heaven forbid you have an AMD/ATI video card. From Tuesday to today, (Thurs 10/06) I have spent over two hours reading forums, creating cache folders, writing config files, and changing steam launch options just so I could tolerate looking at this game.I signed up to Metacritic just to write this... This is how badly this game was ported to the PC. Sure it works okay for some, but heaven forbid you have an AMD/ATI video card. From Tuesday to today, (Thurs 10/06) I have spent over two hours reading forums, creating cache folders, writing config files, and changing steam launch options just so I could tolerate looking at this game. Finally, finally after all that toil I was able to play it and the texture pop-in was tolerable, still there but TOLERABLE. I still had issues with spastic, flickering npcs but I was able to work with it, but then something else started to happen. I was going about my merry way furthering the "story" along when I tried to zone or load into a new area. After 2 minutes of staring at a loading screen I alt-tabbed to find the came had crashed on me. I tried again and it was fine. Later the same thing happened, except it took 3 tries to load in an area I had actually been to before. Then came the horribleness of the BashTV segment. You see, before when the game crashed, it at least had the decency to save my game before crashing and burning, so that when I reloaded I was right where I left off. Not with BashTV, I had to redo the whole segment five flippin' times (5 - 10 minutes each time) before I successfully loaded out of that nightmare. Now I'm at another point in the game were I've tried to enter an area atleast a dozen times and as of this posting are still not able to enter, despite numerous attempted fixes (dropping resolution, windowed mode, no AA). This product has got to be the worse PC port I've ever played; New Vegas didn't give me this much trouble. It also doesn't help that all I hear from the developers is to make sure I have my drivers updated. I did it and it doesn't help. I think the worst part about this whole situation is that I kind of like the game that is underneath all of this manure; that's why I gave this a one instead of zero.

    There's this one point early in the game where you're on the way to some radio tower, and you can go into this cave underneath a shack. The only thing in this cave is a hole in the ceiling and a bucket full of fecal matter. That is what I think of when I think of this port.    … Expand
  25. Geovas77
    Oct 11, 2011
    3
    Unfortunately another dissapointment from a higlhy expected game, ID has put out a bug ridden game with terrible graphics which is the one thing ID games used to stand out for. The game has been patched to fix some of its early bugs but the game engine is super lame with the most obvious thing missing being dynamic lighting. It really feels like a 2004 game and although the gunplay isUnfortunately another dissapointment from a higlhy expected game, ID has put out a bug ridden game with terrible graphics which is the one thing ID games used to stand out for. The game has been patched to fix some of its early bugs but the game engine is super lame with the most obvious thing missing being dynamic lighting. It really feels like a 2004 game and although the gunplay is okish, this game is just too linear and too "being there done that", that it fails to stand out. There are indie games out there with far too more value for your money and this game is a no-buy for 60 dollars. It might be worth picking up for a tenner during a steam sale but that is all. Another old-school PC developer going down the console path for easy money and letting its fans down big time.… Expand
  26. Entrope
    Oct 27, 2011
    0
    Well, Carmack himself did say "We do not see the PC as the leading platform for games," - should have seen the end result of Rage from miles away without even playing this excuse of a game. I did wait quite some time before giving Rage a shot - and even then after all the bad user reviews present I had to find a friend who purchased Rage first and give it a spin at his home before I wouldWell, Carmack himself did say "We do not see the PC as the leading platform for games," - should have seen the end result of Rage from miles away without even playing this excuse of a game. I did wait quite some time before giving Rage a shot - and even then after all the bad user reviews present I had to find a friend who purchased Rage first and give it a spin at his home before I would give id my hard earned bucks. Glad I did, because id with Carmack's current mentality isn't getting anymore of my dough. I have been a die hard id Software fan since the days of Classic Doom and I still actually play Classic Doom on a frequent basis (jDoom/Doomsday Engine) so I have (or rather, had) no negative bias towards id and Quake 2 still remains my favorite DM proving grounds despite it being a rather painful experience trying to pull together a group of friends to relive some of Quake 2's glory days. I mean if one is going to take gameplay over graphics then may as well go all the way, right? If you want to play a properly good FPS and don't mind the dated graphics - simply look at id's past portfolio. If you want to play a properly good FPS with a properly modern graphics engine - buy Hard Reset. And until Carmack fixes his botched mentality, all I can say about id Software and any future games they have in stall for us is; Avoid.… Expand
  27. entreprenr
    Oct 10, 2011
    1
    OMG what an unbelievably dull game. Lifeless characters, repetitive, boring quests, and a stupid, unfinished story. The writers probably fell asleep somewhere in the middle of the story. But I guess I should've known that id is not capable of that. And guess what, even the weapons and the fighting are kinda dull. Very dissapointing...
  28. Rulez82
    Oct 14, 2011
    3
    So many bugs,missed and horrible textures everywhere,not open world to explore just some linear dungeon and a really boring storyline,.....for a "ground-breaking game" this is not acceptable in my opinion.I've been waiting a long time the game, but now I'm very disappointed
  29. ket
    Oct 7, 2011
    0
    I signed up just to say 2 things; 1: I played this game and couldn't believe how horrendous it is, piss-poor graphics, bugged to hell, you name it. Ignore anyone coming from console versions, you are here because you want to know what the PC VERSION is like, and simply, its atrocious. On a final note if you live in the UK and have been unfortunate enough to buy the PC version of Rage, youI signed up just to say 2 things; 1: I played this game and couldn't believe how horrendous it is, piss-poor graphics, bugged to hell, you name it. Ignore anyone coming from console versions, you are here because you want to know what the PC VERSION is like, and simply, its atrocious. On a final note if you live in the UK and have been unfortunate enough to buy the PC version of Rage, you are COMPLETELY entitled to take the game back for a full refund. Under the sale of goods act it extends to any product being of merchantable quality (in the case of PC games, that means no horrid bugs like the PC vrsion of Rage has), which the PC version of Rage is not.… Expand
  30. kleyba
    Oct 7, 2011
    0
    Advice: DO NOT BUY! Wait until this sorry game hits the Bargin Bin! save your $60 and spend it on something else! Look, this game is frustrating: 1. the whole game is full of software bugs; 2. no SLI support; and 3. it's a Darn quest game......I HATE QUEST GAMES!!! the prob w/ this game is you have to do A in order to do B; however in order to do A and B, you have to do C, D, E,Advice: DO NOT BUY! Wait until this sorry game hits the Bargin Bin! save your $60 and spend it on something else! Look, this game is frustrating: 1. the whole game is full of software bugs; 2. no SLI support; and 3. it's a Darn quest game......I HATE QUEST GAMES!!! the prob w/ this game is you have to do A in order to do B; however in order to do A and B, you have to do C, D, E, F,G, H, I......ETC!!!… Expand
  31. wardialer
    Oct 21, 2011
    3
    i had high hopes for this game. i didn't really have any technical issues except for texture popping. the framerate was decent. i played the first 2 hours and realized that id should be paying ME for playing this linear, uninspired garbage. john carmack is not greater than the sum of id's parts, and having dispensed w/ many key contributors to the brand this becomes increasingly clear.i had high hopes for this game. i didn't really have any technical issues except for texture popping. the framerate was decent. i played the first 2 hours and realized that id should be paying ME for playing this linear, uninspired garbage. john carmack is not greater than the sum of id's parts, and having dispensed w/ many key contributors to the brand this becomes increasingly clear. instead of paying marketing teams huge sums of money to create "buzz" for the game and "convince" morally bankrupt reviewers to give it a good score to boost sales, they should invest in someone who cares, not only about the products they put their name on, but the customers that will be playing them.
    anyways. the weapons i saw so far seemed crappy and unimaginative. same goes for the few characters and bad guys who now seem more stiff (maybe bethesda's influence)... seriously, a shambler had way more SOUL and fluidity than all of the characters combined. the ATV i drove to my first mission was lame and pointless as was killing the bad guys for no apparent reason.

    id has been on a downward slide w/ their last few titles, and if i had my name on this product i'd be quite embarrassed.    … Expand
  32. steffon
    Oct 16, 2011
    1
    I though Duke was worst game of this year, but no... worst game of the year is Rage!. So buggy... crashing when I want to change resolution, texture popping and more annoying: meshes popping! Why the hell on first frame for example doors are not drawn and I can see what is behind? Gameplay is boring as hell, no dynamic lighting, no physics, no AI (everything is scripted) and worst ofI though Duke was worst game of this year, but no... worst game of the year is Rage!. So buggy... crashing when I want to change resolution, texture popping and more annoying: meshes popping! Why the hell on first frame for example doors are not drawn and I can see what is behind? Gameplay is boring as hell, no dynamic lighting, no physics, no AI (everything is scripted) and worst of all... this game has the one of the worst sound design I've heard this year so far... maybe Carmack was limiting resources and memory for sound, I don't know... Explosions sound like somebody kicking cardboard box, almost no ambient sounds, vehicle sounds are same quality as on Atari ST... 20 years ago, gunshots sounds are cut in the middle and even in cutscenes sound distorted by clipping... Turd of the year!… Expand
  33. turtlenuggets
    Nov 11, 2011
    1
    Rage is kind of like 2 games in 1. There is the FPS campaign bit & the online multiplayer vehicle bit. The campaign is really really bad. it is so restrictive & linear that it doesnt really even qualify as a fps but should be classified as a rail shooter. The enemies are super repeditive & the NPCs just taaaakkke sooooo loooonnng to do anything that it gets super frustrating. As far asRage is kind of like 2 games in 1. There is the FPS campaign bit & the online multiplayer vehicle bit. The campaign is really really bad. it is so restrictive & linear that it doesnt really even qualify as a fps but should be classified as a rail shooter. The enemies are super repeditive & the NPCs just taaaakkke sooooo loooonnng to do anything that it gets super frustrating. As far as the story goes I didnt even realise i was at the end of the game when the credits came. Chalk that up to a plot fail. Worse than this though was me sitting there for ages installing the game onto my xbox HD & then being told to change my discs over halfway through the campaign??? That is retarded. But worse of all was the box saying it was multiplayer & then having a SINGLE PLAYER campaign. A friend & I bought the game so we could play it together & then had a very severe case of wtf when it turned out to be **** I guess I should read the fineprint closer. The multiplayer vehicle component is really fun though so I dont feel like I have totally blown my money, but I would have hoped the core game would be much much better thatn it was.… Expand
  34. SAMF2000
    Oct 6, 2011
    0
    Seeing the various magazine and critics giving this an 8 makes me honestly believe they are either blind or bribed to lie for a good review. This game is incapable of running on pc without texture errors and pop ins all over . How this pile of mess got out to retail makes me also believe ID only cares about money and hoping people will spend $60 for crap. Thank goodness I did not lay forSeeing the various magazine and critics giving this an 8 makes me honestly believe they are either blind or bribed to lie for a good review. This game is incapable of running on pc without texture errors and pop ins all over . How this pile of mess got out to retail makes me also believe ID only cares about money and hoping people will spend $60 for crap. Thank goodness I did not lay for this pile of crap… Expand
  35. Infi888
    Oct 6, 2011
    0
    Unplayable with so much bugs. 6 years for spitting in the face of PC players. What a wonderfull idea... Thanks id Software. Last game i buy from you...
  36. GikaH
    Oct 7, 2011
    0
    wrong rate in last post (should be 0) and i cant edit it.
    Hmm 2x radeon 4890 (crossfire not supported yet), c2d maxed for 4ghz, 6gb of fast ram, win7 64bit, ati drivers 11.10 (rage version) every driver in newest version... conclusion? fkng Rage freezing every 3-5seconds for 2-3 seconds... how they could sell that crap? they have no QA or what?! 7 years of working and still crappy engine    wrong rate in last post (should be 0) and i cant edit it.
    Hmm 2x radeon 4890 (crossfire not supported yet), c2d maxed for 4ghz, 6gb of fast ram, win7 64bit, ati drivers 11.10 (rage version) every driver in newest version... conclusion? fkng Rage freezing every 3-5seconds for 2-3 seconds... how they could sell that crap? they have no QA or what?! 7 years of working and still crappy engine ok game looks awesome but after 60fps for 5 seconds i have nice wallpaper for next 3.. ps. i was big fan of quake and id software... tomorow im going to shop to get my money back and throw that crap game "rage" phiew!    … Expand
  37. nopistons420
    Oct 8, 2011
    2
    easily one of the worst games of all time.

    rage is terrible man; the enemys just run right at you mindlessly you can one shot every single thing in the game with a shotgun + pop rockets (on nightmare) the ai is moronic; the maps are incredibly linear, the storyline is so bad the game would have been better without one, the vehicle controls are terrible, the textures are horrific. the    easily one of the worst games of all time.

    rage is terrible man; the enemys just run right at you mindlessly you can one shot every single thing in the game with a shotgun + pop rockets
    (on nightmare)

    the ai is moronic; the maps are incredibly linear, the storyline is so bad the game would have been better without one, the vehicle controls are terrible, the textures are horrific. the guns have no recoil, the bullet physics are non-exsistant; all the guns sound cartoony when you shoot them; bullet spread is non-exsistant; makes no difference on ragdolls where you shoot, unless you snipe and get a headshot. there are NO physics of any kind in the game; no destructible anything; the "boss" fights are terrible. the in game menus do not work properly with a mouse and keyboard, the whole game was designed around xbox360's
    seriously i can not think of a single redeeming feature of rage....    … Expand
  38. Vaporware
    Oct 8, 2011
    0
    This game plays like a bad console port, I have been trying to get it working since launch and when it finally works the texture pop-ins are horrendous and the game crashes every 20 seconds.
    I've seen some bad launches but this is inexcusable. Stay away from this game.
  39. SupremeSkill
    Oct 11, 2011
    2
    This game is boring and generig B-class shooter with bad controls which you can expect from a console port. This game is also in EXTREMELY bad condition technically, it performs bad and looks like sh*t. Don't even hesitate to buy.
  40. djnz00
    Oct 10, 2011
    3
    There's too much traveling around and time wasting to get power-ups. A central plot actor - the authority - is never explained, and never resolved. The campaign is too short. The racing controls are terrible (no wheel, no mouse). Never had to use the BFG ammo once to complete - overall too easy (on Normal). Game mechanics intrude on plot, and the final elevator sequence is just ridiculous.There's too much traveling around and time wasting to get power-ups. A central plot actor - the authority - is never explained, and never resolved. The campaign is too short. The racing controls are terrible (no wheel, no mouse). Never had to use the BFG ammo once to complete - overall too easy (on Normal). Game mechanics intrude on plot, and the final elevator sequence is just ridiculous. Beautiful scenery, great level design, fantastic characterization, but these efforts wasted since is too brief, superficial and "sound and fury signifying nothing".… Expand
  41. Nile3
    Oct 12, 2011
    2
    Boring Fallout 3 wannabe. Poor story, no character dept, washed up lines. Graphics are both fantastic and horrible. Close-up, they are Snes looking, and from far out the landscapes looks photorealistic. The game play is repetitive. The controls are not made for PC. Forget Quake 1-2-3, Doom 1-2, Heretic and Hexen. The ID era is gone forever.
  42. dishwasherwong
    Oct 10, 2011
    4
    After eventually getting this to work using a combination of patches, launch options, drivers and a bit of good luck I was treated to some impressive visuals. Unfortunately the story has not motivated me so far because from what I can see there isn't one. There is no driving force behind the player's motivations. You're kicked out of of this pod you were cryogenically suspended in andAfter eventually getting this to work using a combination of patches, launch options, drivers and a bit of good luck I was treated to some impressive visuals. Unfortunately the story has not motivated me so far because from what I can see there isn't one. There is no driving force behind the player's motivations. You're kicked out of of this pod you were cryogenically suspended in and you're not told a damn thing about why you were there or what happened and this is a theme that runs throughout the game.

    I get the feeling that Rage is nothing more than John Carmack needing more money to fund his Rocket ships and he doesn't personally give a damn about this game except to churn out the engine and critical success is a bonus.    … Expand
  43. brand_eins
    Oct 14, 2011
    0
    Totally crap game. Buggy as hell. You have to start the game 10 times, then it will probably run for the next 15 minutes. Even on a very decent system the game looks aweful. The game is always "streaming" new textures, slowing down the game. Just **** **** **** For God's sake!! AVOID THIS TURD!!!
  44. BiOs
    Oct 10, 2011
    0
    0 its the note and the price for the very bad game of the year 2011 with freeze lag bug with a developpement for console and 0 adaptation for pc this is juste a useless game.

    Return on start and stop launch games if they are not finish and tested a 100% for all supports because this is just lol
  45. artion33
    Oct 14, 2011
    0
    This is the worst game that i have played in years...i have an Ati hd 5850 card but still this bloody game stutters every 5 seconds even with the update and beta 11.10 driver..how can they do this to the Pc gamers..Damn you id software and your crap game..i cant understand what their quality management team was thinking...What is more seen the graphics of this game in 360 and there isThis is the worst game that i have played in years...i have an Ati hd 5850 card but still this bloody game stutters every 5 seconds even with the update and beta 11.10 driver..how can they do this to the Pc gamers..Damn you id software and your crap game..i cant understand what their quality management team was thinking...What is more seen the graphics of this game in 360 and there is nothing special about it..… Expand
  46. Templar1
    Oct 14, 2011
    2
    I have the PC version and yes I had issues on launch day but, I was able to get the game running reasonably well and could play it. Last weekend's patch improved graphical rendering slightly. Currently, the game plays well on my computer but, not great like I would have expected considering my system is well within specs.

    However, my comments here don't concern graphical issues. I'm    I have the PC version and yes I had issues on launch day but, I was able to get the game running reasonably well and could play it. Last weekend's patch improved graphical rendering slightly. Currently, the game plays well on my computer but, not great like I would have expected considering my system is well within specs.

    However, my comments here don't concern graphical issues. I'm rating this game very low for an Id title mainly for two reasons: lack of content and lack of quality workmanship one might expect from an iconic company in PC-gaming. Rage is a game of diversion and slight of hand, mostly the game-maker's hand. I found Rage's storyline embarrassingly weak for an Id/Bethesda collaboration. There are perhaps a half-dozen quests which actually promote the story, the rest are a bunch of poorly laid out shopping trips for quest-giver's to earn their favor or your personal improvement via weapons or armor.

    This lack of decent story-telling is then, not-so-cleverly masked with unremarkable side-missions, passable dune-buggy racing and uninteresting mini-games. Having completed the game twice now, once for the sake of seeing and doing as much as possible and once for some of the achievements I can honestly say that - I didn't rush through the game - and have seen all that I care to. Given my long and generally happy experiences with both Id and Bethesda's games, I can tell you that this is not a game to have high expectations for.

    I won't spoil the ending for you except to say it's equally - unremarkable. The abrupt ending is, no doubt, a precursor to DLC invasion of our pocket-books. I'll be passing on that. I gave the game 2 out of 10 on the basis of the artwork alone. I would like to thank Id and Bethesda for their past PC games and wish them much success with their new development focus... on consoles... "where the numbers are"...

    Buy Rage at your own peril.    … Expand
  47. TMAN
    Oct 18, 2011
    0
    Had many issues as many other folks here. Gameplay is linear, repetitive with lazy game design eg like DA2. For a 3 DVD install the game is way too short and has only 2 parts. The ending is terrible and abrupt. Carmack is joining Romero in Daikatana hell!
  48. deb0
    Oct 24, 2011
    2
    ID software used to be associated with top quality FPS game production. This is no longer the case. Video issues, such as tearing and lack pc appropriate configuration options, leaves this game feeling like a unfinished console port. The story is lame and seemingly artificially drawn out to "fill" the game. AI is ridiculously boring, and characters add nothing to the story. If theID software used to be associated with top quality FPS game production. This is no longer the case. Video issues, such as tearing and lack pc appropriate configuration options, leaves this game feeling like a unfinished console port. The story is lame and seemingly artificially drawn out to "fill" the game. AI is ridiculously boring, and characters add nothing to the story. If the game actually gets a real patch, it's eyecandy should prove very pleasing. From start to finish, the gameplay and storyline disappoints.

    One thing is for sure, Carmack and ID software have clearly decided that PC gaming is no longer a viable platform; and it shows. Terribly disappointed, Don't waste your cash.    … Expand
  49. winter
    Nov 1, 2011
    3
    The biggest problem with Rage is not the textures, the performance or the issues on launch. The biggest problem with Rage is that it is simply a boring game. Despite claims to the contrary there are no choices to make in this game (unless you count the choice of skipping side missions to get it over and done with faster), there is no emergent game play, there is no exploration. There isThe biggest problem with Rage is not the textures, the performance or the issues on launch. The biggest problem with Rage is that it is simply a boring game. Despite claims to the contrary there are no choices to make in this game (unless you count the choice of skipping side missions to get it over and done with faster), there is no emergent game play, there is no exploration. There is only an extremely boring rail shooter that feels extremely rushed. The rails are so extreme that it is like playing a horrible 90's shooter. Invisible walls abound and you have no need for the jump button as you can't get anywhere with it. The enemies are uninspired as are the weapons and the driving sections are needless. Overall this is an extremely boring 15 hours or so. Thankfully the final few missions feel so rushed that you can get it over and done with quickly. Avoid.… Expand
  50. Rashef
    Oct 7, 2011
    0
    You should know something is wrong with your game when the best parts of it are secret Retro-graphic looking areas alluding to your old... good games. Unfortunately ID didn't and we got this masterpiece of turd that makes gamers.... RAGE.
  51. BobbyGuns
    Oct 8, 2011
    0
    Worst game ever released on PC I just dont know where to start with this garbage screw you ID !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  52. okbasta
    Oct 10, 2011
    0
    Avoid at all cost: This mess is not even playable. Pre-alpha. Latest patch, drivers, hardware. The game itself? Who knows. Im to old for this nonsense.
  53. Daematune
    Oct 15, 2011
    2
    One thing is for certain, they picked a very fitting title for this game due to it being endlessly frustrating to play let alone trying to get the game itself working. The game itself is nothing new or amazing. The gun mechanics are extremely generic and your weapon arsenal is your everyday shotgun and assault rife with a couple of ammo types that for the most part are useless. The racingOne thing is for certain, they picked a very fitting title for this game due to it being endlessly frustrating to play let alone trying to get the game itself working. The game itself is nothing new or amazing. The gun mechanics are extremely generic and your weapon arsenal is your everyday shotgun and assault rife with a couple of ammo types that for the most part are useless. The racing concept is fun, but very repetitive and not elaborated enough on to fully enjoy. What seriously hits this game hard though is the story, it's a complete joke. The story pacing rate is non-existent, there are no likable characters and the theme is just so bland and boring at best. Technically speaking this game is a nightmare-- horrible looking graphics, texture drawing issues, no graphical settings to be adjusted and a FOV that gives you a headache from just looking at the screen, releasing a game like this is just wrong and is criminal in my book and is false advertising at it's finest. If your going to even bother playing this game just torrent it, it's not worth a cent.… Expand
  54. srupp
    Oct 10, 2011
    4
    Upgraded in preparation for what i thought was going to be one of the best games of 2011.
    Gameplay starts fun but when the boredom sets in you get to wishing that Rage at least had good graphics going for it ... and unfortunately this doesn't seem to be the case.
    I'm giving Doom 4 a skip as i don't trust ID Software to produce quality.
  55. badjim
    Oct 10, 2011
    0
    Yeah! We're number One! Yes, I used to think that only European game studios released the kind of poorly built crap that we have seen pop up from time to time over the last several years. Games that took five minutes to load, games that crashed frequently on save, games with storylines that were so confusing as to defy all logic - but now we have a new champion: John Carmack and hisYeah! We're number One! Yes, I used to think that only European game studios released the kind of poorly built crap that we have seen pop up from time to time over the last several years. Games that took five minutes to load, games that crashed frequently on save, games with storylines that were so confusing as to defy all logic - but now we have a new champion: John Carmack and his apparently brain-dead development team. Way to go John, for personally vaulting U.S. game design to the very sub-basement of crap-tastic achievement: a $60 game that more than half of your PC customers can't actually play. It's quite plain that you really do think of the PC as a dead gaming platform given the lack of thought you put into your release. Thanks so much for all the time you spent on making sure that your POS game will play on a six-year-old gaming console with pre-historic hardware while ignoring the audience that actually drives development of new technology: pc gamers. Thanks for exemplifying the current standard of corporate greed and effing over your customers and then claiming that it was AMD and Nvidia's fault that the game YOU released didn't meet even the most basic standards of software quality control. You jackass.… Expand
  56. Orbies
    Oct 10, 2011
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This gets a zero because it's the perfect storm. The game comes out broken. No apologies, just Carmack saying update your drivers and blaming ATI and Nvidia (I for one have had no problems with nVidia or ATI, although I know some people do). An apology for this disaster would have went a long ways for me. But all we got was a lot of double talk. The game itself is a lot of smoke and mirrors...it's just a corridor shooter in masked (and not so masked) corridors. The story ends without so much as a boss fight, just ends. Everything they put in there to make it a "deeper" experience actually just makes it that much more apparent as to how shallow it is. No longer a fan of iD, and I am ok with that. I can play Stalker, Witcher 2, Batman AA, Portal 2, Crysis 2, Hard Reset, any Half Life, Amnesia, Capsized...just anything really, besides iD's buggy, rushed, shallow products. I mean, Half Life 2 had solid shooting, superb atmosphere, interesting enemies, no rpg elements, no upgrading etc, but awesome characters you care about, and a story that's not too overbearing but done just right. They should go to the school of Valve

    Orbies Out    … Expand
  57. scott_wa
    Oct 7, 2011
    1
    ID and Bethesda just spit in the face of PC enthusiasts by releasing Rage in it's initial state. Even after the more seemingly able community created various "workarounds" and "fixes" Rage is still riddled with a limited console based menu, lagging input, low frame rates (even on higher end PCs), texture popping, and various other visual bugs.

    Shame on ID.
  58. cynic
    Oct 6, 2011
    3
    I have played this game on 2 computers. The 1st suffered badly from texture pop-in. I almost gave up then but I know that graphics do not make a game. I have persevered on a 2nd computer with no pop-in. Some of the level art is just phenomenal but the game play is boring, dated and of lazy design. It would seem id only knows how to make one sort of game. It's like id was of the mentalityI have played this game on 2 computers. The 1st suffered badly from texture pop-in. I almost gave up then but I know that graphics do not make a game. I have persevered on a 2nd computer with no pop-in. Some of the level art is just phenomenal but the game play is boring, dated and of lazy design. It would seem id only knows how to make one sort of game. It's like id was of the mentality "we will build it and they will come". Apart from the incredible art design there is nothing in this game that is new or creative. You don't want to see the word "tedious" in a review but that's what I think of this game.… Expand
  59. Forestsavage
    Oct 8, 2011
    0
    Unable to even start the game on my high-end PC no matter the settings or driver versions. I would never have expected this kind of failure from Id-software but i guess they are just as bad as the rest of the video game industry.
  60. DoomLegion
    Oct 9, 2011
    0
    Bad ugly and full of bugs console port. Optimization: 0, and no visual options.

    A piece of worthless junk, for sure. It would be an insult to spend money on buying this.

    Thanks Carmack for this nightmare.
  61. gordon84
    Oct 6, 2011
    0
    This game is a complete mess. The worst part is that ID decided to remove the ability to adjust graphics. Why they would do this is a complete mystery. It wouldnt be so bad if the game wasnt so buggy and broken. They had way more than enough time to put out a finished product and yet they failed oh so hard. This is by far away the worst release I have ever seen. Fallout new vegas and theThis game is a complete mess. The worst part is that ID decided to remove the ability to adjust graphics. Why they would do this is a complete mystery. It wouldnt be so bad if the game wasnt so buggy and broken. They had way more than enough time to put out a finished product and yet they failed oh so hard. This is by far away the worst release I have ever seen. Fallout new vegas and the Stalker series didnt have a quarter of the bugs this stinker has. Total waste of money. To think these are the people who made my beloved Quake and doom. R.I.P ID software, R.I.P… Expand
  62. Markus_monty
    Oct 7, 2011
    0
    I just wanted the people who gave an honest low rating to know that I wont be purchasing this game following the many poor user reviews. Clearly there is a massive skew with the magazinesite reviews and the experience users are seeing. So thanks to those who saved me some money. And to ID, these reviews matter.
  63. zooterboy
    Oct 7, 2011
    0
    This has to be one of THE worst games I have played in at least 10 years. The graphics would have been an embarrassment on the original Playstation, the gameplay is flatout stolen (Borderlands, Fallout series), and it should never have been released on PC. I played 5.5 hours and had to quit because I was so disgusted with the entire experience. To make matters worse, the game is clearlyThis has to be one of THE worst games I have played in at least 10 years. The graphics would have been an embarrassment on the original Playstation, the gameplay is flatout stolen (Borderlands, Fallout series), and it should never have been released on PC. I played 5.5 hours and had to quit because I was so disgusted with the entire experience. To make matters worse, the game is clearly not finished, as many people couldn't even get it to run when it was released. Stay AWAY from this game at all costs; I wouldn't take it if it was free...and it wasn't.… Expand
  64. Supr585
    Oct 7, 2011
    0
    Completely unplayable on release. Even with the various forum fixes and the new drivers. A huge let down by ID, one of the developers I still respected. My specs are far from minimum, oh well back to DX:HR at least they somewhat tested the game on PC before shipping.....

    DO NOT BUY THIS UNTIL IT IS PATCHED AT LEAST
  65. mrpickles
    Oct 7, 2011
    0
    I regestered to say this game is bad. Really bad. I am one of the fortunate ones that has little to NO issues with the graphic problems people have been happing. This game was a huge let down. I was expecting top of the line breakthrough effects and a awesome graphics engine. Instead I played a game that compared to a old playstation 2 game. I watched all the trailers and the making of theI regestered to say this game is bad. Really bad. I am one of the fortunate ones that has little to NO issues with the graphic problems people have been happing. This game was a huge let down. I was expecting top of the line breakthrough effects and a awesome graphics engine. Instead I played a game that compared to a old playstation 2 game. I watched all the trailers and the making of the game. What a let down. Graphics are nothing like they advertised. the trees and charactors in the game are piss poor ps2 graphics. This game constantly reminds me of some old jurassic park game for the pc from 1999. The charactor interaction pretends like you have options. you dont. I was expecting fallout style interactions. no there is no choices its all bs.

    expect to go back to certain levels over again for a different mission. they use every "level" 2 times to make the already short game longer. nothing like beating a area and going right back to it for a nother mission. I game this game a fair chance. since it has no replay value it will never be played again.    … Expand
  66. HerrJoebob
    Oct 8, 2011
    3
    When it doesn't crash (1 out of 3 attempts for me - I really tried), the fights are dull and the outcome seems to have little relation to what you did during that fight. The weapons have a very weak feel, which for me is a dealbreaker for this type of game.
  67. opexokol
    Oct 16, 2011
    3
    I apologize for my English. For the first time I write a review here. In the first place I expected the game to be a revolution in graphics, in the second place to get a good shooter, third, a good story. None of this I have not received. Besides all three components of my expectations were made as if id Software intentionally wanted to make everything as bad as it's possible (textures areI apologize for my English. For the first time I write a review here. In the first place I expected the game to be a revolution in graphics, in the second place to get a good shooter, third, a good story. None of this I have not received. Besides all three components of my expectations were made as if id Software intentionally wanted to make everything as bad as it's possible (textures are constantly loading before your eyes, dull and boring shooter, the story just simply copies all of the other games). A little more about graphics. id Software is obsessed with the idea of â… Expand
  68. 420Hitman
    Oct 19, 2011
    0
    The engine sucks majorly. Whenever you shoot someone, they all do almost the same animation before falling down dead. OPEN GAME?!? YEAH RIGHT!!! This game is a STRAIGHT FORWARD PATH all the way to the end which take only a few hours to finish the ENTIRE GAME. Wow id, you really suckered all us PC users didn't you? Heck we couldn't even play the game right for the first few days until weThe engine sucks majorly. Whenever you shoot someone, they all do almost the same animation before falling down dead. OPEN GAME?!? YEAH RIGHT!!! This game is a STRAIGHT FORWARD PATH all the way to the end which take only a few hours to finish the ENTIRE GAME. Wow id, you really suckered all us PC users didn't you? Heck we couldn't even play the game right for the first few days until we download patches and screwed with our video cards, which work fine on any other game OUT TO DATE. I will never buy a game from Id again because of this rip off and I hope Id's main director goes bankrupt and loses his job, because saying the PC version wasn't even their main target shows he shouldn't be putting out games trying to sucker people into money with fancy preview videos.
    This game is the worst waste of time. You will never want to play it again EVER. Multi player sucks. The storyline is over as soon as it begins and that's the end of the game. Please don't buy this game. Id doesn't deserve the money.    … Expand
  69. mortuus
    Nov 10, 2011
    0
    This is probably the worst FPS game i have ever played. Seriously its bugged to max the texture popping is one of its kind you can really tell overall all the textures looks worse then Doom3 and that game is almost 7 years old unbelievable. And this is Carmacks big comeback after Doom3 ? The game is just boring to max there is no exploration in this game the game is flat and boring andThis is probably the worst FPS game i have ever played. Seriously its bugged to max the texture popping is one of its kind you can really tell overall all the textures looks worse then Doom3 and that game is almost 7 years old unbelievable. And this is Carmacks big comeback after Doom3 ? The game is just boring to max there is no exploration in this game the game is flat and boring and the worst part is they re-use some levels you go on a level in the city then later you have to travel all the way back this time exactly same path almost.. wopidooooO!!!!!!!!!!! And how the game ends is a joke u just get a random sequence for 20 seconds then boom.. CREDITS...… Expand
  70. greyghost7414
    Feb 28, 2012
    0
    I am just glad i finally finished, this game is absolutely awful, stuttering video redundant, go here go there game play total letdown I so wanted to love this game tried multiple fixes to no avail DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY, free is still too much to pay for this CRAP!!!!!
  71. bilwit
    Oct 8, 2011
    0
    Completely unplayable garbage. There is no reason why an ugly, outdated graphical game like this with zero physics should run so horribly on machines that eat Crysis, Witcher 2, Red Orchestra 2, Metro 2033, etc for breakfast -- all of which have twice as good of graphics as Rage. Carmack failed. ID Tech 5 is trash and is laughable at best.
  72. Pedalbear
    Oct 8, 2011
    0
    Deer id
    What the hell do you think you are you doing!?
    Such a bug ridden poorly though out game. Would love to say oh at least it looks amazing but it looks like SH17!

    Get your act together or better yet get steam to give me a refund...
  73. SaulTarvitz
    Oct 8, 2011
    0
    ID failed his project on PC.
    They blame drivers that caused such problems as run-time reloading textures, crashes. But i think they should blame themselves.
    few words about the game. boring and I've seen already this features in another games. I don't even realise WHY it is 21+ GB?
  74. Ceridith
    Oct 8, 2011
    0
    This game is a huge let down. It's an obvious console port, and an extremely poorly done one at that. If you can manage to get past the severe and widespread technical issues that plague this game for a huge portion of PC users, it's nothing more than a short, linear, plain shooter than lacks the substance of FPS games from the past five years. Do yourself a favor and save your money, thisThis game is a huge let down. It's an obvious console port, and an extremely poorly done one at that. If you can manage to get past the severe and widespread technical issues that plague this game for a huge portion of PC users, it's nothing more than a short, linear, plain shooter than lacks the substance of FPS games from the past five years. Do yourself a favor and save your money, this game is just a tech demo for Id's new console engine.… Expand
  75. kilo7echo
    Oct 8, 2011
    0
    Terrible Game such a waste of money so sorry i bought this horrible textures terrible graphics texture popping, developers blaming 3rd party drivers instead of themselves. Very linear not open world at all invisible walls no stray paths never would buy id again
  76. Zarunil
    Oct 7, 2011
    0
    Another shameful console port from a major developer, unworthy of PC release. Stay clear of this one. Blurry textures from the 90s, no graphics options to speak of, Press ENTER to start, consolified user interface, and so fort. All the major red flags are here, this is a game for consoles and not for PC.
  77. CLUTCH
    Oct 13, 2011
    0
    I was really looking forward to this game. My girlfriend pre-ordered it for me for my birthday. I think she is more disappointed about it being a broken mess than I am because it was her present to me.
    At present, the game is just taking up 21GB of space on my HD...Which brings me to a point about the graphics..For the size of the game, they really aren't very good. A lot of the texture    I was really looking forward to this game. My girlfriend pre-ordered it for me for my birthday. I think she is more disappointed about it being a broken mess than I am because it was her present to me.
    At present, the game is just taking up 21GB of space on my HD...Which brings me to a point about the graphics..For the size of the game, they really aren't very good. A lot of the texture resolutions are like something from the year 2000 and 'megatextures' were supposed to be 'the big thing' about this game. I reckon it will be the last iD game I will buy, considering how they have handled the PC launch. I can't rate the game for anything other than being broken...I'd love to, but I can't.    … Expand
  78. pixpaz
    Oct 14, 2011
    0
    6 hours of fixes and still broke - E8500, 8gb, 5870 2gb, win7 64, 256SSD

    I am sick of trying to get this game to run. I have wasted a day on it and that is enough.

    $90 Australian Dollars down the drain.
  79. Shevarash
    Oct 14, 2011
    0
    Piece of crap, graphics were **** at the beginning even with using the tips from forums, and with the last patch i can't play it without dying from epilepsy as the graphics are glowing and cubic.
    Never buy this.
  80. Adeav
    Oct 14, 2011
    0
    Rage of PC has been a complete joke. I purchased this game Oct 4th release launch and I have managed to get past the first door your able to walk through and thats it! It lags, freezes and texture pops to this day! (Oct 14th!!!) I have patched I have upgraded my drivers to the Rage performance drivers... I have a Core 2 Duo E8600, Radeon 6870, and 4GB Ram. Apparently my hardware combo isRage of PC has been a complete joke. I purchased this game Oct 4th release launch and I have managed to get past the first door your able to walk through and thats it! It lags, freezes and texture pops to this day! (Oct 14th!!!) I have patched I have upgraded my drivers to the Rage performance drivers... I have a Core 2 Duo E8600, Radeon 6870, and 4GB Ram. Apparently my hardware combo is the extact setup to NOT run on. At all costs do not buy this game. Its JUNK. Growing up I played id games and have great memories but now hate the company. Rage is junk, id is a poor company in my eyes now. I want my money back! Mehhh /rant off.… Expand
  81. ProjectFain
    Oct 15, 2011
    0
    Total waste of $60. This game looks and plays like a cheap knock off of Borderlands and Fallout. Graphics look great-as long as you're STANDING STILL. Draw times/distances are crap and the driving mechanics are lame to say the least. Not to mention the limited multiplayer options. I bought this game in hopes of doing the full campaign with my fiacee. Instead we're stuck with just playingTotal waste of $60. This game looks and plays like a cheap knock off of Borderlands and Fallout. Graphics look great-as long as you're STANDING STILL. Draw times/distances are crap and the driving mechanics are lame to say the least. Not to mention the limited multiplayer options. I bought this game in hopes of doing the full campaign with my fiacee. Instead we're stuck with just playing some BS side missions. Thanks Bethesda, I haven't felt this screwed since prom night.… Expand
  82. starsh3ro
    Nov 2, 2011
    3
    its an average game, i expected much more when i first played it. the character models and the animations look very good and detailed, also the environment in most cases.
    BUT,
    during the more and more boring missions the look of the game gets less amazing many things look numb and like they are missing some textures. the voice acting of the characters is good, the sounds of the guns okay.    its an average game, i expected much more when i first played it. the character models and the animations look very good and detailed, also the environment in most cases.
    BUT,
    during the more and more boring missions the look of the game gets less amazing
    many things look numb and like they are missing some textures.

    the voice acting of the characters is good, the sounds of the guns okay. the music matching to the moment but not award-worthy.

    while playing you feel like the programmers lost fun on their job after the first 30%
    its too short, too simple.

    in some situations it reminds me on borderlands, but borderlands is a game that i could play again, i dont feel like playing rage again after i once completed it.

    the multiplayer mode is not to mention, just plain dull racing.

    wait until its on sale for 20â    … Expand
  83. spmxvc
    Oct 9, 2011
    1
    Is RAGE good? Well... it's good in the sense that the game runs okay on my state of the art PC with only minor hiccups. It's certainly not good when it comes to actual gameplay sadly. RAGE is your standard issue FPS game with slight RPG elements to it. And in RAGE, slight means practically non-existent. Your choices don't impact on anything, they're if anything just flavour choices andIs RAGE good? Well... it's good in the sense that the game runs okay on my state of the art PC with only minor hiccups. It's certainly not good when it comes to actual gameplay sadly. RAGE is your standard issue FPS game with slight RPG elements to it. And in RAGE, slight means practically non-existent. Your choices don't impact on anything, they're if anything just flavour choices and barely alter the game and its story in any way at all. It's not immersive, it's not compelling, it just has elements that force you to spend time doing menial things like racing, yes racing. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but the title of this game is RAGE not RACE. Admittedly the racing plays only a small part in the game, but on the keyboard and mouse the controls are just horrible so I'd rather not even compete at all, but I'm forced to on several occasions. The whole game suffers from a horrible case of Consolitis, and it shows in almost every possible way. After playing for several hours, it became blatantly apparent that I had to ramp up the difficulty setting. Not a lot changed, enemies still got gibbed after one headshot (which isn't hard because they almost certainly stand completely still). Fights almost always only happen in a frontal cone, allowing for barely any movement and just to run and gun. Five hours in and I've never had to turn more than 30 degrees left or right during a mission to shoot enemies. They made the game like this so that the console players wouldn't stress having to flick around left and right. The Z-axis almost doesn't exist either, there are hardly any variations in vertical combat so it means that everything is either directly in front of you or slightly to your left or right. The AI is, for lack of a better word, stupid. They sit behind cover, only to expose their entire upper torso and skull to be easily shot. Technically this game falls short on so many areas, the FoV feels wrong if you modify it at all. From my understanding 80 is the default, so I guess it gets a bit of praise for that considering most console shooters lock you under 65. I play most FPS games on 110, but RAGE... I can't take it above 90 without getting huge graphical issues. The textures load at the edge of screen extremely slowly when spinning around quickly, you can see them rendering as you flick left to right. Again, I'm forced to modify game files outside of the game in order to increase/tweak the graphical settings. Did you simply forget to put these options in the game, ID and Bethesda? Or could you not be bothered? Rage is another example of what gaming has become. We're accepting our games as they are, poor console ports with no features. The only reason I give this game a single point is the fact that ID and Bethesda opted to leave the Developer Console in the game.… Expand
  84. CalUKGR
    Oct 7, 2011
    1
    A huge disappointment and a public embarrassment for John Carmack and id. RAGE is plagued with technical issues on my 'well-over-the required-specifications' rig, the texture work is appalling in places and overall this game - visually at least - emerges as a very poor example of what PC gaming has to offer in 2011.

    How could it all be so wrong? It's baffling that a game that has been in    A huge disappointment and a public embarrassment for John Carmack and id. RAGE is plagued with technical issues on my 'well-over-the required-specifications' rig, the texture work is appalling in places and overall this game - visually at least - emerges as a very poor example of what PC gaming has to offer in 2011.

    How could it all be so wrong? It's baffling that a game that has been in development under the aegis of one of PC gaming's most respected developers could be quite so awful to look at, remain quite so unoptimised for modern PC rigs. Forums are full of disappointed gamers spewing nerd-rage - and quite rightly so, in my opinion. We had a right to expect far, far better from id than what RAGE has actually delivered.

    The biggest disappointment of the year, without a doubt. Godspeed the patches.    … Expand
  85. 8ung
    Oct 9, 2011
    3
    First patch, update 1 is available, but it is useless and does not more than the community fixes already do. If you read the changelog, id software is whining about how the hardware variety and driver bug (!) do not allow their great engine and game to work properly. So they admit willingly shipping "banana software" to people, which will hopefully ripe over month and patches by them. IFirst patch, update 1 is available, but it is useless and does not more than the community fixes already do. If you read the changelog, id software is whining about how the hardware variety and driver bug (!) do not allow their great engine and game to work properly. So they admit willingly shipping "banana software" to people, which will hopefully ripe over month and patches by them. I mean what did the tester and QA do? Say: "There are many bugs, bad performance and graphic on basically any typical hardware configuration, but thats all the fault of hardware variety and driver bugs and not of the game or the engine, so it fine, lets ship it!"

    So no reason for a better User Score, yet.    … Expand
  86. yeahright1
    Oct 9, 2011
    0
    Pathetic PC implementation and disastrous launch. My PC is 10x's more powerful than XBOX, but it won't run this game, lol. Spent $50...3DVD set, but the install goes to Steam which downloads for a couple hours--nice. Then it doesn't run and you start jumping through hoops. Get the latest video driver and enjoy the circa-1995 movie intro with gaping ltierary holes (moronic andPathetic PC implementation and disastrous launch. My PC is 10x's more powerful than XBOX, but it won't run this game, lol. Spent $50...3DVD set, but the install goes to Steam which downloads for a couple hours--nice. Then it doesn't run and you start jumping through hoops. Get the latest video driver and enjoy the circa-1995 movie intro with gaping ltierary holes (moronic and cliched...ok the asteroid was cool). Then you get to John Goodman's voice as the first NPC you meet. Ok, fine...start your first mission...and even at the lowest setting, it stutters and locks up. From what I see--it's nowhere near as good as Fallout New Vegas (also from Bethesda) which runs incredibly well on my PC at high settings. They should've used the same engine (stubborn iD). Anyway, if you want enjoyable post-apocalyptic fun, go with Fallout. Will iD give me my money back (or Target) now that the product is registered??… Expand
  87. BULLBOYKENNELS
    Oct 6, 2011
    2
    For a game with so much hype it's lucky I gave it a 2 after all. I know many games come out now these days with bugs or issues but this one takes the cake & eat it too. Be it the game engine or drivers this must be one of the worst ever experiences with any game. To think I purchased it for PC cause I was expecting so much out of it just for it to play or should I say attempt to playFor a game with so much hype it's lucky I gave it a 2 after all. I know many games come out now these days with bugs or issues but this one takes the cake & eat it too. Be it the game engine or drivers this must be one of the worst ever experiences with any game. To think I purchased it for PC cause I was expecting so much out of it just for it to play or should I say attempt to play the game. Wish I would have knew better I would have gotten in on the consoles. Why pre-order when you can just wait till its in the bargain ben for next to nothing maybe then the headaches will be worth that price tag.

    Textures are horrid, screen tearing is unbelievable, but heck if you don't move the game actually looks good too bad you have to move around to play the game, if you can play it at all.

    As for specs I'm well off,.
    4GHz AMD 1100T
    2 XFX 6970
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
    8GB High Performance Ram

    Surely i should be able to run & play this game.    … Expand
  88. Loucetios
    Oct 8, 2011
    0
    The ending killed it for me. It was clearly supposed to be a 20-25 hour game but it got cut short.

    Incredibly anti-climactic. Invisible walls everywhere to the point that it's almost like they don't want you to explore what I thought was supposed to be an open world. The shooting is fantastic, so are the enemies. It's the one thing they did right in the game and did very very well.    The ending killed it for me. It was clearly supposed to be a 20-25 hour game but it got cut short.

    Incredibly anti-climactic.

    Invisible walls everywhere to the point that it's almost like they don't want you to explore what I thought was supposed to be an open world.

    The shooting is fantastic, so are the enemies. It's the one thing they did right in the game and did very very well.

    What can I say about the graphics.. it's an amazing engine with a terrible auto detect feature that we can't correct ourselves.

    This game definitely was not supposed to come out for another year.
    What happened to "when it's done"?    … Expand
  89. Oxymore
    Oct 9, 2011
    1
    Technically awesome (if you know how to tweak some config file) but that's all. Weapons are boring, driving is boring, mission are boring. The game is boring, and short.
  90. ookami
    Oct 12, 2011
    3
    I don't know what game the critics were playing but it wasn't this one. I played the PC version and I won't comment on the bugginess factor that is already well documented. I tend to judge a game not just on how much I enjoy a play through, but on the dollar value. In my opinion $1 = 1 hour of play time. If I play more hours than I paid than I consider it a success, if I play less hours,I don't know what game the critics were playing but it wasn't this one. I played the PC version and I won't comment on the bugginess factor that is already well documented. I tend to judge a game not just on how much I enjoy a play through, but on the dollar value. In my opinion $1 = 1 hour of play time. If I play more hours than I paid than I consider it a success, if I play less hours, than it wasn't worth my money. This is one of those things. The game itself was mediocre fun, I didn't touch multiplayer just single player. The quests were pretty much the same thing different area and you always ended the level where you started so you could hop right into your vehicle and speed off. No memorable moments just a lot of running around with your favorite gun tried to avoid mutants. No real engaging characters/relationships... which is really an expectation these days. I did not enjoy the racing aspect of the game, and being left handed, I had issues mapping some keys which killed some of the joy... I do admit that I had to play the game sporadically because the texture popping gave me headaches. I finished the $60 game after 25 hours... you can do the math.… Expand
  91. KatOne
    Oct 11, 2011
    0
    Rage has to be the worst game of 2011, hands down. Possibly even the worst somewhat major game release in 5 years or more - and that's with the latest patch installed! The graphics, even when tweaked to their absolute highest, are completely horrid. Yes, the game has an interesting art direction. No, the game doesn't look like any of the trailers whatsoever. The textures are so incrediblyRage has to be the worst game of 2011, hands down. Possibly even the worst somewhat major game release in 5 years or more - and that's with the latest patch installed! The graphics, even when tweaked to their absolute highest, are completely horrid. Yes, the game has an interesting art direction. No, the game doesn't look like any of the trailers whatsoever. The textures are so incredibly blurry, and I mean incredibly blurry, that they look like they belong in literally half life 1. The textures also have great big seams everywhere, including on characters - so besides being able to see perfectly well how everything is made out of polygon edges, you can also see perfectly well how badly glued together the blurry textures are on everything, even the faces of characters. The gameplay is highly linear (like everything else), the AI is stupid, the inventory and the items are meaningless, the story is non-existent... this is not even a tech demo. The entire game, tweaked to the max with patches and all is still not enough to entice anybody anywhere to play beyond the first two missions. This game deserves a 0 because of the above.… Expand
  92. ufoot
    Oct 10, 2011
    0
    Didn't work when I purchased it. Did work after installing AMD drivers update. Now doesn't work anymore following automated update by Steam I guess. BTW, Internet access required to install the game, to play the game in solo mode, those who thought (like me...) they would play while on vacation or in the train can just forget the idea. I just wasted some nice bucks I could have spent onDidn't work when I purchased it. Did work after installing AMD drivers update. Now doesn't work anymore following automated update by Steam I guess. BTW, Internet access required to install the game, to play the game in solo mode, those who thought (like me...) they would play while on vacation or in the train can just forget the idea. I just wasted some nice bucks I could have spent on something else, the game is probably great, I know it looks nice (at least I was able to play an hour...) but globally, it's a piece of crap.… Expand
  93. glom
    Oct 6, 2011
    0
    After Paying for the game and then not being able to get past the opening vid, i have tried all the fixes recommended and still cant even play the game, CTD as soon as opening vid ends if you try to change any setting you get a immediate CTD once you hit accept.
    When will Developers learn if it doesn't ship in a working condition people wont buy anything else from them ever.
  94. Mopreme
    Oct 6, 2011
    0
    Be warned before purchasing this for the PC. Very buggy, screen tearing, textures not loading, CTD, freezing, stuttering, ect.
    I pre ordered this game thinking that big names like iD and Bethesda would for sure release a working product, maybe a few bugs expected but not so many making the game unplayable. I have requested a refund. DO NOT BUY!!!
  95. MB_
    Oct 14, 2011
    0
    I'd love to review the PC version of this game but it's not been developed. Instead we get a version of the PS3 game with an emulator. That's what it feels like. With all the video glitches it feels like I'm playing an emulated console game. When it starts it immediately kicks you in the face with 'press enter to continue' what else am I going to do?! I clicked the link to play the gameI'd love to review the PC version of this game but it's not been developed. Instead we get a version of the PS3 game with an emulator. That's what it feels like. With all the video glitches it feels like I'm playing an emulated console game. When it starts it immediately kicks you in the face with 'press enter to continue' what else am I going to do?! I clicked the link to play the game duh. On release there were no video settings to change but they fixed that now. They haven't fixed the graphics but the menu has actual options now cool. Oh except that I can't bind my usual keys, I'm a weirdo who likes to use they Keypad. When you get down to it its another missions and killing game. Dull as ditch water, which is what it looks like, the over compressed brown textures literally look like ditch water. I'd rather go to a ditch and drown myself than play this game any more. I'll write off the £30 and get back to playing some good games Deus Ex and Dead Island for example. On a side note what's with the reviews, us humans are rating it crap, the paid reviewers are praising it to the heavens. Is the review copy different or are they being bribed? Something ain't right there.… Expand
  96. camoe
    Oct 13, 2011
    2
    Another company sold out to the console as for the game it is the most horrible looking game i have seen in a long time even with the patch you still have to wait for some textures to load.There is basically no story to the game what so ever do not waste your money on this linear low par shooter you will regret it and don't pay attention to these numpty professional reviewers they lie.
  97. majorwitty
    Oct 10, 2011
    1
    If you want to pay $59.99 for a 6 to 7 hour FPS with okay graphics when they work without glitches & barely acceptable storyline with zero replay value then buy Rage. If you want an a deep FPS / RPG in a post apocalyptic world that takes 20 to 40 hours & have excellent replay value go with Fallout 3. Id software is spending more time on consoles & mobile phones than pumping out genreIf you want to pay $59.99 for a 6 to 7 hour FPS with okay graphics when they work without glitches & barely acceptable storyline with zero replay value then buy Rage. If you want an a deep FPS / RPG in a post apocalyptic world that takes 20 to 40 hours & have excellent replay value go with Fallout 3. Id software is spending more time on consoles & mobile phones than pumping out genre changing or even a good fun game. If you must have this then I'd suggest waiting for $10 discount price in 6 to 12 months.… Expand
  98. Firecomb
    Oct 9, 2011
    3
    latest nvidia drivers don't help, screen tearing and now game freezes so bad i have to reboot to close application. Sad to say but Dark Souls is calling me Rage is a bust do not buy unless they decide to support PC again. My last ID PC purchase GG.
  99. petalpusher06
    Oct 7, 2011
    0
    All technical issues aside, this is a very bad game, poor and outdated level design, a fake sand box which is in fact more linear than any "scripted game". Mega-texture is a joke, it replaces most modern geometry by low resolution and terribly compressed hand drawn textures. Everything looks fake from the gamedesign itself to the way it looks. Carmack can't hide it no more, he is an has been.
  100. mir3k
    Oct 7, 2011
    0
    simply unplayable doesn't matter what kind of comp you have. the technical problems are destroying whole pleasure from the game. Until it will be patch it is not wort any money.
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79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 32 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 32
  3. Negative: 1 out of 32
  1. PC Games (Russia)
    Nov 23, 2011
    80
    A pretty, fast and aggressive shooter, striving in vain to be something more. [December 2011, p.62]
  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Nov 15, 2011
    80
    Far from perfect Rage somehow is has fun post-apocalyptic action where the principles are set –fortunately – bit different than in other games of FPS genre. [Nov 2011]
  3. CD-Action
    Nov 9, 2011
    75
    It seems id Software is still living in its golden days and failed to notice that times have changed since Doom and Quake. Rage is just a decent, linear, old school shooter combined awkwardly with an arcade racing game. The world is only 'kinda openish' and the story must have been written by the coders while they were compiling the alpha version. The game looks great though – if you're lucky enough to have the it run smoothly and without technical issues that haunt the PC version. [November 2011, p.46]
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