Rage takes a lot of the worst ideas from other shooters and fails to deliver as a result; actually, maybe it'd be more accurate to say it takes ideas that could be good and have definitely worked in other games, but doesn't put in the effort to refine them further or add something interesting to the mix. With so little of what makes nearly every other id game so fun to play, the final product is a game that's rather unsatisfying and unfocused with what it's trying to do.

Had this been the last game from id Software, it truly would've been a pity, as I definitely believe this was their lowest point. Not a game I really want to return to.

Rage é como se fosse um Fallout mais linear, com influências óbvias de Mad Max em todo canto.

A jogabilidade é rápida e fluída, o que traz pros combates uma ação quase no estilo Doom (talvez tenha sido daqui que se aprimorou a ideia do reboot e do Eternal em termos de jogabilidade)

Os combates com veículos também são muito divertidos somados com a variedade de sub-armas, me lembra muito Vigilante 8 nesses momentos.

A inteligência artificial dos inimigos é 8 ou 80: ou eles são muito suicidas e vão pra cima de você de peixeira na mão mesmo você segurando um canhão nuclear ou eles são muito estratégicos, são imprevisíveis. O modo como eles reagem aos tiros tomados também é legal (se leva na perna, fica manco, se leva no braço, fica com ele inútil, etc)

Os gráficos são ótimos pra um game de 2011, correspondem bem ao período que foi lançado. E a ambientação é o que se espera minimamente de um jogo com tema pós-apocaliptico: cinzento e empoeirado.

Os pontos negativos ficam pra sua história que assim como muitos games, caem na sensação de ser um enredo "qualquer coisa", sem aprofundamento de nada, e com a sensação de ser algo corrido.

As missões de corrida como algo obrigatório pra prosseguir na história também foram um ponto negativo. Pra quem nunca foi fã do gênero de corrida, pode achar esses momentos cansativos.

Rage é plenamente satisfatório em seus combates, tanto a pé quanto de carro, mas não esperem que seja um Fallout com desenvolvimento de relações entre pessoas e facções. A cremosidade do game tá nos combates.

A fairly solid action game! The story is entirely uninspired, at best uninteresting and at worst, tedious. But everything else about it was fairly good! It was generally fun to play. The combat isn't necessarily fast-paced as most modern shooters now of days, but a very fun lass frantic version of the classic id software FPS's. The vehicle combat was not as fun but it doesn't dominate the game, could've done without it though. Some impressive enemy AI in this. Enemies being downed but not killed, will literally crawl into cover and still try to kill you, enemies with shields providing cover for allies, some cool stuff! I also have to praise the art direction. There really was some very memorable sights in this game, like the hospital in the Dead City with blood streaming down the walls.

There were some cool level designs too, they way that some of the dungeons and missions were laid out were cool, and using main mission levels for sidequests but making you do it backwards or changed a little bit was a cool way to go about in when you're clearly like on a deadline and don't have the time to make new dungeons. I was kind of into it at the start but I got tired of it closer to the game's end, which, speaking of, was kind of underwhelming. Like obviously you didn't care about the Arks or whatever, so take it with a grain of salt, but it ends with you going into this place and then you set off the Arks and then the game ends. No confrontation with the chief bad guy or any final comeuppance. The last level in general was kinda lame. It was cool mowing down guys with the minigun they give you, but it was just reskinned mutants at the end, no like special boss or anything lol. Feels like they ran out of money at the end. Still, pretty fun!

tim willits is a fuckin loser bro. man made some good doom maps (with theresa chasar, his often uncredited sister) and did great work on quake pre-champions, but he never should've been elevated into the position he was by the end of his tenure at id

american mcgee calls him a "serial credit thief" and sandy petersen attributes the collapse of id to his meddling and refers to him only as "snake"; this guy's slime. man was making claims so erroneous that he managed to get both johns to team up on his ass which is saying something. saying he invented DM-only maps for quake when anyone can go check when idmap01 or cross.wad came out for doom, or better yet just think about how goofy it is for five seconds

so what happens when this rat fraud bitch teams up with soulless automaton john carmack? awooga. the most dead eyed fps ever made. together these two men really brought the heat and redefined what it means to be vacant and empty inside. one driven only by a love of machines, the other by cynical careerism. the result would be a tech demo that has virtually no redeeming qualities; even john goodman sounds like he'd rather be anywhere else, and how can you blame him

forget passion or heart or whatever fever drives the average person to create. forget anything that resembles human input. this is referential slop; echoes of better media, better games, better products — cos that's all this thing is at the end of the day — as interpreted and executed by pulseless weirdos. subpar linear shooter, even worse pseudo open world shooter; artless aesthetic sensibilities; internally and externally ugly borderlands gopher bullshit; fallout 3 brown and bloom mad max mcnugget slime created to advance tim willits' career

if I ever write another review this mean it means tim willits just put out another game

Hmm what to say...Well at first I saw this game as a Fallout 3/Borderlands rip off. Because of the fact we're in a dystopian future, there are vaults and people want to get to the vaults. Game also seems kinda sexist as every woman (apart from elderly woman) I dressed with no tops besides a thin bikini or one-strap bra and either wear shorts or jeans in the rare cases.

So...good things about the game:

Your weapons have a varied types of ammo such as armour piercing rounds or explosive on some weapons.
The opening of the story is very engaging and interesting, thought your character being a silent protagonist doesn't add to it.
You end up straight into the action, but not in too much of a jarring way.
There are many side-missions and minigames to earn cash such as bulletin board, gambling and others.
You have a crafting system
it's a lot of fun.
You are not stuck to one vehicle and get to change to more advanced ones as you go.

However there are many bad parts.

The characters are all quite forgettable
There aren't nearly enough side-missions as Borderlands, which does in a way make it more enjoyable.
The rendering is HIDEOUS. I bought this game late in the date. It's been out for 2 years and they haven't fixed the horrible rendering? If you move around a corner too fast all the textures become blobs and enemies, in a few cases, disappear until the texture loads up.
There is a lag at times, which means you can miss a good shot or, most frustratingly, you can mess up at five-fingered fillet.
The story, whilst started strong, has a very lack-lustre ending.
Numerous bugs, including a loss of sound leading to watching the end movie on youtube because it cut out and was silent.
Despite your character never been seen in 3rd dimensions apart from end of mutant bash, you cannot customise your character nor does he appear to have a name.
*SOME weapons are upgradable, but not many.

Over-all it's a fun game and I found myself addicted to playing it, having fun decapitating people with the wingsticks and so on. Despite it's many errors, I would recommend it, if you were just after a fun fps to burn off steam. However if you're looking for something better in storyline then I suggest something more along the lines of Half-life or Portal or even System Shock. It's sad to see Id Software shit this out with Bethesda. At times there seemed to be good ideas, but at other times they either aren't expanded upon enough or fall flat. Almost like Id Software had a suggestion, Bethesda tried it, then failed miserably and didn't even put any effort into it.

One final thing, this game was obviously made for a controller. You cannot scroll through all your weapons, only 4 pre-sets which, based on the shape, probably are accessible with the D-pad. If anything get this game on a sale and only if you have no other FPSs to play. However there are many funny Id software Easter eggs in there :)