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Powered by id’s revolutionary id Tech® 5 technology, RAGE is an intense first-person shooter with breakneck vehicle combat, an expansive world to explore, and jaw-dropping graphics!
RAGE is a fps, post-apocalyptic and action game
developed by id Software
and published by Bethesda Softworks.
Released on October 03rd 2011 is available only on Windows
in 9 languages: English, Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian and Spanish - Spain.
It has received 17,561 reviews of which 13,646 were positive and 3,915 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 2.67€ on Gamivo.
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Windows
- OS *: Win XP SP3, Vista, Win 7
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo or Equivalent AMD
- Memory: 2GB
- Hard Disk Space: 25GB
- Video Card: GeForce 8800, Radeon HD 4200
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It's like the casual-gamer's FPS. There's no character building and only a few upgrades allowed for each vehicle. So you're not really working toward anything, except beating the game. This is target practice for playing character-driven FPS shooters. That said, it's still fun. Decent action and solid gun-handling. Just don't expect more than that. I bought it on sale, so no regrets.
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I originally played Rage back in 2011 when it first launched. Despite the numerous visual bugs, particularly the notorious texture-loading issues, it was still an enjoyable experience. The game clearly felt a little unfinished, but even so, I had a lot of fun with it. I really liked the core idea and the world id Software created, and at the time it felt like a promising foundation rather than a fully realised vision. At its core, Rage is a first-person shooter, with vehicle combat used primarily to connect mission areas. The structure revolves around hub locations such as Hagar’s settlement, Wellspring, and Subway Town, each populated with vendors, mechanics, and mission givers. Missions themselves are always completed on foot. What kept me playing, both then and now, was the atmosphere. I have a deep affection for post-apocalyptic fiction, including Mad Max, Waterworld, and Rage 2, and Rage fits neatly into that space. The art style is outstanding, gritty, stylised, and reminiscent of a graphic novel brought to life. Despite its age, the game still looks fantastic as a whole. Individual textures can be soft or low resolution, but taken in context, the overall world design is impressive. Revisiting the game on Xbox Series S largely eliminated the texture pop-in issues I experienced on older hardware. Load times are also drastically reduced thanks to SSD technology, which keeps the pacing brisk and makes the experience far smoother than it was at launch. Combat is where Rage really shines. Enemy AI and animations were excellent for the era. Foes flank, take cover, fire blindly, and behave differently depending on enemy type. The gunplay feels weighty and satisfying, supported by a strong and varied weapon roster. Weapons are limited to four at a time and are selected via a fast and intuitive weapon wheel. Each gun also features multiple ammo types, chosen through a secondary radial menu. This system encourages tactical thinking and works brilliantly in the heat of combat. However, the developers may have loved their guns a little too much. Reload animations, while beautifully detailed, are slow, and later in the game this can become frustrating as enemies continue to press their attack while you are locked into an animation. Vehicle combat and racing help vary the gameplay. Racing events in Wellspring and Subway Town reward upgrade certificates, allowing you to improve your car. While fun initially, once fully upgraded there is little incentive to engage enemies on the road. It is a nice diversion, but not essential. Each hub also features a gambling card game and side activities such as delivery missions. I largely ignored these. Selling scavenged junk provided more than enough money to stay well stocked, and I never fully grasped the card game’s mechanics. The story itself is serviceable rather than memorable. It exists mainly to push you forward, culminating in an assault on The Authority. Boss encounters are scarce and generally underwhelming, including the finale, which, much like Rage 2, feels surprisingly easy due to the powerful weaponry handed to you at the end. Overall, Rage was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. I loved its world, aesthetic, and gunplay, and spent just under 12 hours immersed in its wasteland. While the driving sections could easily have been removed without much loss, they do help break up the shooting. The DLC is still available, but I felt satisfied with the base game. Despite its flaws, Rage is well worth revisiting, especially on modern hardware that finally allows its strengths to shine.
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Rage is a game that was not badly received, but also not particularly loved, when originally released in 2011. Gamers overall had some fatigue with the post-apocalyptic genre by then, thanks to games in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, Borderlands, and Fallout 3; the latter is a stablemate thanks to Bethesda buying Id Software, meaning some Fallout Easter eggs were added in later updates. Rage introduced a new version of the "Id Tech" engine with Id Tech 5. infamously optimized for the opposite effect of Id Tech 4 used in Doom 3. Quake 4, Prey. and Wolfenstein (2009). Whereas that previous engine introduced most of us to real-mapped and "bump mapped" textures, dynamic source lighting and stencil shadows, Rage's engine reverts to traditional "pre-baked" lighting and mixes "bump" and traditional texture work. The reason for this, is Rage seeks to be a massive-scale adventure with huge open environments, something the previous engine did very poorly, even with all the modifications that had crept in by the end of the 2000's. The knee-jerk away from all the cool dynamic lighting and shadows might have been a downgrade if not for the massive draw distance and detail at a distance it is capable of, with the "megatexture" system that allows it to decompress texture data on the go and use large non-repeating texture information across multi-surface areas, All of this serves the purpose of visualizing a world centuries after an asteroid basically wiped out nearly all life on Earth and all of Human civilization with it. As an "Ark" survivor, you wake up from cryo-sleep to navigate and fight your way across this same world. The megatexure system combined with the older pre-rendered lighting gives Rage an oddly painterly air style, and the only thing that really dates the game so many years on visually is how pixelated all the textures look up close even on max settings, which is just a consequence of the engine's texture systems. The gameplay is a mixture of conventional first-person shooter tropes. with shouldered weapon aiming like Call of Duty and vehicular combat when the player traverses the overworld. While not a full-on RPG like Fallout or Borderlands, Rage has areas interconnected by the hub-like overworld you drive across, taking on missions in FPS mode that play out like dungeons in Skyrim, where you eventually loop back around to the beginning and exit once you've done them. There are also races you compete in with your vehicle, and combat arenas (like "Bash TV") you can also play through on foot for money and supplies. As you play through the main campaign, do side missions from job boards, and generally backtrack through the game world, you upgrade your vehicle, your guns, and yourself with a combination of shop purchases and mission rewards. Rage is closer to an immersive sim FPS like Bioshock or Metroid Prime, but has enough stuff to do and enough freedom within the world to feel bigger than them, yet not the full sandbox of something like the aforementioned Fallout 3. At the time, this compromise in scale, combined with the direct mash-up of vehicular combat and first-person shooter, and yet another post-apocalyptic game in a crowded market, made Rage receive lukewarm praise. Looking back on it now, the game as aged like fine wine aside from the slightly grungy texture work, with a beautiful art direction and a uniquely fun gameplay loop.
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This is now a game that serves as an example of how far gaming has fallen. Regardless of what one thinks of the game, it at least represented a time when studios would invest in their own craft and engines. 1997 is 14 years prior to Rage and 2025 is 14 years post rage. If I never saw Rage and it was being previewed in 2025, I may not know it was a game from 2011. If I was shown a preview of a graphical marvel in 2011 that was really from 1997, I would think it is a preview for a indie PSP game. The mid or poorly received games of the 2010s are looking better and better in the post 2020 gaming industry. An industry that has devastated the art and hobby of video games for reckless profiteering. With the continued lack of oversight and accountability on the industry as a whole, customer happiness is still a long forgotten period of time. Now the customer is the problem for any and all issues. 2011 really was barely passed the gaming apex, as a Rollercoaster on it's way down. I wouldnt have thought I would take the games of the 2010s over the slop curated today. Curated by data and data scientists who somehow lost the ability to tell who the research participants are and what ethics their credentials are meant to uphold.
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Rage is best remembered as a technical showpiece rather than a classic game. It showcased id Software’s incredible gunplay and graphics technology but failed to deliver a memorable story or deep open-world experience. Today, it’s mostly valued by game historians and fans of id Software’s evolution—a stepping stone between the old-school shooters of the 2000s and the modern, refined design of DOOM (2016).
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RAGE is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.
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RAGE received 13,646 positive votes out of a total of 17,561 achieving a rating of 7.62.
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RAGE was developed by id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks.
RAGE is playable and fully supported on Windows.
RAGE is not playable on MacOS.
RAGE is not playable on Linux.
RAGE offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
RAGE includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
There are 2 DLCs available for RAGE. Explore additional content available for RAGE on Steam.
RAGE does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
RAGE does not support Steam Remote Play.
RAGE is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
id Software
Publisher
Bethesda Softworks
Release
03 Oct 2011
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