RAGE

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  1. Kobold
    Mar 20, 2013
    3
    Rage is just not a very interesting or engaging game. A summary of the plot is a giant meteor strikes the Earth and you are a chosen person who goes into suspended animation. Naturally when you wake up everyone else is dead and it is the post-apocalyptic future. The best summary of this game is it's like a poor man's Fallout except a First Person Shooter hijacked it and took it's garb. ItRage is just not a very interesting or engaging game. A summary of the plot is a giant meteor strikes the Earth and you are a chosen person who goes into suspended animation. Naturally when you wake up everyone else is dead and it is the post-apocalyptic future. The best summary of this game is it's like a poor man's Fallout except a First Person Shooter hijacked it and took it's garb. It is nowhere half as good or as fun. Your weapons suck, they lack a killer punch, the car driving sucks and car battles are just tedious. The first person action is not very engaging and it becomes annoying very fast if you can't even jump on top of a box and invisible walls block you, sometimes in really stupid places for example you could slide down a slope early on then crawl back up it but despite being big and solid enough to hold you, the curse of the invisible force wall strikes, The graphic engine is not going to win any prizes any time soon. I am glad I picked this up in a sale and not full price. It frankly is just boring. Can I endorse this as a purchase to you? nope sorry, not even in the sales bucket. There are other titles out there in the sales bucket that are a lot more fun to play.… Expand
  2. PHS69
    Jan 13, 2013
    1
    OK guys, the demo is reasonable, now when are you going to release the game for real?

    I was extremely disappointed with a game I waited for months (years!) to play and the result was silly, short and at times monotonous. I had no technical problem with the game and put almost all graphics options at the maximum, except for texture detail which I left off, but being on you can play,    OK guys, the demo is reasonable, now when are you going to release the game for real?

    I was extremely disappointed with a game I waited for months (years!) to play and the result was silly, short and at times monotonous.

    I had no technical problem with the game and put almost all graphics options at the maximum, except for texture detail which I left off, but being on you can play, although there is a slight delay in some fast motions.

    The graphic quality is only fair. A critic of GamingXP speaks of "an unmatched graphics experience"! Maybe if this engine had been used in 2004 to make Doom 3 that description applies, but in 2011! I wonder how much was invested in work hours and money to make this new engine, which is not     … Expand
  3. UnderTheRain
    Feb 16, 2013
    4
    What we were all waiting for was a pure hard core fps in the finest tradition of the genre from its creators what we actually got was a buggy not very open ended world the enviroments are not that big action rpg with teadious questing and not enough shooting. id at one time were the undisputed masters of this genre but ever since quake 1 they have been moving further and further away fromWhat we were all waiting for was a pure hard core fps in the finest tradition of the genre from its creators what we actually got was a buggy not very open ended world the enviroments are not that big action rpg with teadious questing and not enough shooting. id at one time were the undisputed masters of this genre but ever since quake 1 they have been moving further and further away from what we loved them for. Fast pasced full on adrenaline pumping action. Rage is a buggy dreary game best forgotten. My real fear is that now id are working with Bethesda that Doom 4 will follow rage down the rabbit hole and come out with myxomatosis. GOD I HOPE THEY GO BACK AND DO WHAT THEYRE GREAT AT!!!!… Expand
  4. xxdiyxx2
    Jul 7, 2013
    0
    low quality graphics and gameplay, the lack of optimization for video cards Radeon graphics card. Low quality textures and terrible gameplay. My assessment 0 points out of 10. Hard to believe that Id could fall so low
  5. Cotroneo
    Apr 26, 2014
    1
    For PC, this game lives up to its name, as it brings unreal amounts of frustration and hatred towards the dev's at iD.

    I'm giving it a 1 because it's a fun game, but a only a 1 because it's a game that you can barely play (If you're able to play it at all). I've never, ever, EVER played a port so excruciatingly bad in my entire life The adventure begins at the menu as you struggle    For PC, this game lives up to its name, as it brings unreal amounts of frustration and hatred towards the dev's at iD.

    I'm giving it a 1 because it's a fun game, but a only a 1 because it's a game that you can barely play (If you're able to play it at all).

    I've never, ever, EVER played a port so excruciatingly bad in my entire life
    The adventure begins at the menu as you struggle to have your cursor move smoothly, as it likes stopping in place, more than it does moving.

    I truly believe that the dev's had one person test this game for 15 minutes, and left the buyers to continue testing the game, only for there to be no final, working version.    … Expand
  6. KiRa900
    Aug 2, 2013
    1
    Texture worst than PSOne, A lot of graphic bugs/glitches and "stutter", only and always stutter.
    No way to solve: this game is really really bad, a wast of money!
    Stay away from it, it doesn't deserve not even 1$.
  7. eelegendo
    Dec 28, 2014
    1
    It was a console port, but it looked good and I enjoyed up to the point where a racing game was forced on me. A racing game I hate by default (I've bargained for an fps...) and even it that field it is a joke. Stupid controls that are not working, dumb physics and again: it is forced on you. If you put sh.t in your game, please let me skip it. Like in LA Noire.
    I left the game at the 1st    It was a console port, but it looked good and I enjoyed up to the point where a racing game was forced on me. A racing game I hate by default (I've bargained for an fps...) and even it that field it is a joke. Stupid controls that are not working, dumb physics and again: it is forced on you. If you put sh.t in your game, please let me skip it. Like in LA Noire.
    I left the game at the 1st race I could not win after 3-4 tries. That made me hate the whole thing. If I die in an fps, I do it over and over again, but not with racing (that is uncontrollable).
    If you sell a game for the pc, please port it to the pc. I would not call this a port, it's a console game that uses keyboard.    … Expand
  8. Arphiax
    Jan 3, 2014
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I'm giving this game 1 point for living up to its name. By the time I was done I felt a bit of rage.
    Story/dialogue: Really weak. The mayor of "Subway Town" is supposed to be this big bad ass you have to impress to be able to stay around, then a couple missions later "The Authority" shows up and he is gone. No explanation, no resolution, he is just gone. I would assume he is dead, but the writers couldn't be bothered to actually write the story. Then the ending... wow such fail. Even though throughout the game you see the Arks as broken down and mostly full of dead people, the end of the game is when you make the rest of the Arks around the world surface. End scene. Really, look it up, it sucks. Even if we assume that the other Arks worked, why would they join the resistance against the stupid authority? Why does the game end without actually winning the war?
    Gameplay: Mostly boring. This is an area with so much missed potential. All of the different ammo types and little killing machines you can craft should have been awesome, but they just didn't work out. RC bombs always get shot before they reach their target, and the armor "effective" ammo is anything but. Also, why does it take precisely 2 perfectly aimed sniper headshots to kill a guy, when you clearly see a good liter of blood fly out of his head on the first one? Why does it take more than one point blank shotgun blast to the face to kill an un-armored human? This is what I call artificially inflating the difficulty and killing any possible fun. The lack of a map in towns is just ridiculous. I had a story mission to turn in to "Carlson" after taking a break from the game for a couple months, and with no map, no nav points, and no hints on where in town he would be I had to google it. Lame. Then later had to google where to find someone else. If the game wants me to literally make friends with the characters and remember their names, then they should at least have some personality or something.
    There is also a big chunk of racing mini games, but I was bored of them immediately and skipped it. Maybe that was the good part of the game.
    Graphics: Decent, as long as you don't turn your head. Textures pop in and out as you pan the view around. I don't play games for the graphics, but this was kind of annoying. I would rather just have lower res textures.

    Also, the comparisons to Borderlands should not be happening. This game is nothing like Borderlands. At all. If anything it was trying to be a Fallout clone, but it failed at that.    … Expand
  9. Kovasz
    Jan 31, 2015
    3
    It's just like Borderlands, but with a buggy engine, which draws up the scenery in front of your eyes no matter how good your rig is. Very irritating. Other than that, the graphics would look good (nothing special, though, but at least I had a solid FPS). Some more cons include: xbox controller buttons shown everywhere, even if you play using keyboard+mouse and you don't even have aIt's just like Borderlands, but with a buggy engine, which draws up the scenery in front of your eyes no matter how good your rig is. Very irritating. Other than that, the graphics would look good (nothing special, though, but at least I had a solid FPS). Some more cons include: xbox controller buttons shown everywhere, even if you play using keyboard+mouse and you don't even have a controller, no healthbar, a basic story set-up which looks interesting at first, but than you just got some random missions (maybe there is some story later, but I've given up after the first few missions).

    SUM: It's just a random consol-port fps set up in a mad max-like world.    … Expand
  10. Darius_84
    Mar 10, 2016
    0
    This game sucks. Period.
    First of all the graphic looks like a 15 years old game, even if the game was released in 2011. Secondary the controls are crappy it makes yoo so hard to move and, most important, aim to your target.
    Last, but not in the list: it's bugghy as hell, I tried every fix of the game and I couldn't manage to pass over ~15 minutes of playing before this crappy game    This game sucks. Period.
    First of all the graphic looks like a 15 years old game, even if the game was released in 2011. Secondary the controls are crappy it makes yoo so hard to move and, most important, aim to your target.
    Last, but not in the list: it's bugghy as hell, I tried every fix of the game and I couldn't manage to pass over ~15 minutes of playing before this crappy game crashed.
    Stay away from this ****    … Expand
  11. Halt
    Sep 14, 2016
    0
    The worst FPS from id which I ever seen before. All in game are bad, especially shooter gameplay, where I don't feel my weapon, I didn't see any difference between pistol and assaul rifle, only numbers of bullets and damage.
  12. DJ_Kaas
    Dec 30, 2013
    4
    ID Software, For all we've been through, DooM, DooM 2, Doom 3... The graphics is beautiful and flourish, best performance I ever have seen compared with graphics. But the game is pretty easy And since it's the creators of doom, I had expected some more bosses, You have big guns, but you can actually complete the game with only pistol and the machine gun.
  13. R3VEIWR
    Aug 10, 2013
    0
    I am glad I only paid $5 for this game. Considering the studio and the people behind this title, it should have been better. I won't repeat all the same complaints you heard a million times.

    I will add one positive, the mini games were at least amusing for a short time.
  14. Speed4Runs
    Aug 21, 2013
    0
    The game is full of bugs and it's poorly optimized for PC. Very bad game and disappointing. There aren't many weapons and the gameplay is very boring...
  15. Abelli
    May 18, 2013
    0
    You'll find no spoilers here because to spoil the game it would have to be playable... which it isn't and is also why you shouldn't buy the game. At the very least the title is appropriately named so I'll give it half a point for that but I'm still going to round down and give it a 0.
  16. uxya
    Jul 9, 2013
    1
    This game is not worth a dime.

    It would have been better placed as something that someone developed by themselves in their basement or something, because that's what it feels like. Let's go from good to bad here. Good: decent car play, okay gun variations, somewhat cool race mechanics. Bad: everything else. Stupid and unbalanced gunplay, weird and buggy graphics, weak to    This game is not worth a dime.

    It would have been better placed as something that someone developed by themselves in their basement or something, because that's what it feels like.

    Let's go from good to bad here.

    Good: decent car play, okay gun variations, somewhat cool race mechanics.

    Bad: everything else. Stupid and unbalanced gunplay, weird and buggy graphics, weak to terrible voice acting, disgustingly stupid story, short play time, fetch side quests, no variations in enemies, and the sparsest overworld since the original Halo. (and that game came out 13 years ago... so that's pretty bad.)

    Let's be real here. The real reason everyone hates this game is the absolutely stupid gunplay. The game would have been vastly better served in making all of the guns significantly stronger, and instead making the ammo so rare. (Where do the shops get the thousands of rounds of ammo you need to kill all your enemies?) Solid gunplay could have made this game satisfying enough...

    But it wouldn't have saved the idiotic story. There is no way the devs couldn't know that this was one of the worst plots in a AAA shooter in a long time. You have no personal motivation to do any of the things other characters to do, and the ending was absolutely stupid.

    Which is sad, because the ending level is pretty cool. You can tell that the game's engine better serves the futuristic areas versus the sparse, empty, and dead wasteland.

    Finally, the enemies absolutely ruin this game. The mutants are the closest thing to a challenge and engaging gameplay, but the rest aren't worth the buckets of bullets you have to pump into them.

    Overall, this game was a sorely disappointing waste of a few hours of my life that I can't get back, and the fact that the critical reviews aren't more scathing brings up certain... ethical... questions...    … Expand
  17. Roflcopter990
    Sep 6, 2013
    0
    This game is not a game it is torture. After 79 minutes i am not motivated to play this stupid game. The gameplay is bad, the worst thing of it is the defibrilator, because it takes the challenge from it. The races are boring as and the story is boring and not well told. I bought this game in a steam sale for 2,50€ and i tell you i should rather have spend the money for something diffrent.
  18. william-james88
    Jan 20, 2014
    4
    As a PC port, this game fails on a technical level due to ugly textures. It will make anyone sad to see how little the distributor cared for giving us a PC version as this really looks like a rushed job. What’s even sadder is that even if the graphics were on par with the console versions, the game would still fall flat. Regardless of what version you are playing, you will be given a veryAs a PC port, this game fails on a technical level due to ugly textures. It will make anyone sad to see how little the distributor cared for giving us a PC version as this really looks like a rushed job. What’s even sadder is that even if the graphics were on par with the console versions, the game would still fall flat. Regardless of what version you are playing, you will be given a very lackluster game which tried to be so much more than the sum of its parts, but falls flat. This is a mission based shooter where you are given a quest, and must ride your vehicle to the right base and shoot everyone in your way to complete it. You slowly upgrade your load out to be better at completing these quests. It is the same thing all the time though and because there is very little overarching story, you never feel compelled to do as you are told and carry out whatever you must do. It is not much of an open world either, so it’s not like you can ignore the quests you don’t like and play as you wish at your own rhythm. The fact that there is little freedom and yet asks that you travel from every mission back to a base kills any momentum and pacing the story may have. This would have worked much better as a linear corridor shooter (like Bulletstorm) or a truly open world shooter/RPG (like Borderlands) but instead we have something attempting to be a bit of both yet lacks the strengths of either. Imagine a less open Borderlands 2 with much less class, character and load out customization with no world map and devoid of humour or personality and you get Rage. And if you are playing on PC then add horrid texture pop in issues to that.
    I will give it one thing though, this is the best AI I ever faced this side of Binary Domain. I was very impressed with how aware the enemy AI was of my tactics and their reactions to my actions (like dodging or ducking when they see me aim or raise my weapon). I would have loved to face this AI in a better game.    … Expand
  19. diggy671
    Dec 21, 2013
    3
    The game doesn't adapt to the PC that it is running on. Even with low graphic settings it still had issues running on a computer that runs every other game perfectly fine. The game play is substandard. Bad physics, bad driving (even though the game is heavily based in driving), and the story line isn't grasping like other games of the genre.
  20. Ramiro1992
    Mar 30, 2020
    4
    I would give this a 5 but it keeps giving me **** and repetitive missions! The game quality is mediocre and it was probably made with the xbox 360 hardware in mind. I hate how the game crashes for no reason at all. The weapons are great but the enemies are somewhat repetitive. The level design is top notch and I like the simplicity and the semi linear missions. Doom meets Borderlands & MadI would give this a 5 but it keeps giving me **** and repetitive missions! The game quality is mediocre and it was probably made with the xbox 360 hardware in mind. I hate how the game crashes for no reason at all. The weapons are great but the enemies are somewhat repetitive. The level design is top notch and I like the simplicity and the semi linear missions. Doom meets Borderlands & Mad Max. Most of the time, the combat is a broken mess, Buttons won't always react when you press them, and the whole combat mechanics are just awful. The enemies take way too much bullets to die and they have near perfect aim, they will rarely miss. The difficulty is insane but in a bad way, in an artificial way, which feels very boring. No health bar, so the health probably regenerates by itself. The pc port is a complete joke, it feels untested, and there are many invisible walls that will prevent you for exploring the world. The combat shotgun feels very weak as well as the pistol. The enemies voice acting is atrocious, enemies won't shut the **** up while in combat, and gets boring and repetitive very quickly. The quests are mediocre at best. Just go to a place, get something and come back, there are not even different paths or different results, just point A to point B, which on paper is not bad but here is poorly implemented. While the game has some good things, the majority of things are pretty bad, one of the worst ID games ever made
    Try to get the x360 version
    Overall: 4,4 (not recommended, maybe rent it if you like FPS)    … Expand
  21. LifeHistory
    Jun 16, 2018
    2
    A very buggy game which is almost unplayable. Too many FPS drops and shutters makes the fast action shooting gameplay unbearable to play. After so many years they have not fixed it yet too shame.
  22. GoodMorningAss
    Jan 29, 2020
    2
    The game of 2011, which is discussed here. Not enough strength to go through to the end .
  23. r03vg
    Apr 17, 2020
    2
    Абсолютно невзрачный и пустой открытый мир. В нем совершенно нечего делать.
  24. FifthWheel
    Apr 14, 2020
    3
    Rage is one of the few truly bad titles put out by id Software. It was John Carmack's last hurrah as a game "designer" (no sleight against him, his games pushed the industry forward, but not this one) and it's more of a hackneyed tech demo with a boring story and awfully handling vehicles shoehorned into a dull brown/gray sci-fi environment that is totally uninviting. They basically tookRage is one of the few truly bad titles put out by id Software. It was John Carmack's last hurrah as a game "designer" (no sleight against him, his games pushed the industry forward, but not this one) and it's more of a hackneyed tech demo with a boring story and awfully handling vehicles shoehorned into a dull brown/gray sci-fi environment that is totally uninviting. They basically took the worst parts of games like Unreal Tournament 2004 and Borderlands and stuck it in here and made a game out of it. Recently they released Rage 2, I don't know how they justified this when the original game was so appallingly bad in both sales and reception, but that game's terrible too.… Expand
  25. Gorbunov2004
    Aug 6, 2021
    4
    Сюжет полная фигня ходить и убивать всех не интересно, есть пара видов оружия для пост-апокалипсиса. 2 вида транспорта, стрельба еле еле тянет на среднее!
  26. kndr
    May 23, 2021
    3
    Characters are boring. You don't attach to any of them.

    Missions are repetitive. It is always the same and not fun to do. Go to building, kill enemies there and get some stuff. It feels like busywork. There are many invisible walls blocking you. Roads feel like corridor and too narrow. Weapons and weapon sounds are bland. It is not fun to use most of them. Except that saw blade or    Characters are boring. You don't attach to any of them.

    Missions are repetitive. It is always the same and not fun to do. Go to building, kill enemies there and get some stuff. It feels like busywork.

    There are many invisible walls blocking you. Roads feel like corridor and too narrow.

    Weapons and weapon sounds are bland. It is not fun to use most of them. Except that saw blade or whatever it is called.

    World looks good from outside but it is empty inside and there is not much interactivity.

    Vehicle handling is weird.

    Bland and unenjoyable.    … Expand
  27. The_D4RknesS
    Aug 16, 2022
    0
    this game has a cool violence and a more or less physics, it's not fun because it has many parts that you just keep talking to other people and just like FALLOUT apart from the broken graphics and the garbage history
  28. Taken_Hades
    May 19, 2023
    4
    -3/10 story
    -5/10 gameplay
    -5/10 environments
    -4/10 characters
    -5/10 music
  29. FulSector
    Feb 17, 2023
    0
    In the 4th mission the game leads you on a golden breadcrumb trail right into auto-death by missle turrets without a single word of warning that the game is about to insta-jib you. The unavoidable death resets you to a checkpoint 15 minutes ago. This game was not play-tested. Amateur volunteers would easily make a better game than this. The game is as linear as a corridor and isIn the 4th mission the game leads you on a golden breadcrumb trail right into auto-death by missle turrets without a single word of warning that the game is about to insta-jib you. The unavoidable death resets you to a checkpoint 15 minutes ago. This game was not play-tested. Amateur volunteers would easily make a better game than this. The game is as linear as a corridor and is intentionally designed to lead you into certain death just as a matter of course, by following the crumb trail this game is designed around and not giving one single word of advance warning before you drive headlong into missles. Unimaginably stupid people made this game.… Expand
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#56 Best PC Game of 2011
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#12 Most Shared PC Game of 2011

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Metascore
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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