Is ID software truly back after all these years ?
Rage is their latest game and it runs with their latest engine.
Maybe i will start with explaining the storyline of the game?
You are a member of the ark, humanity's last resource after extinction.
You wake up in a wasteland after a meteor smashed into the earth.
What happenned, and what was that thing that just attacked me?
I won't give any spoilers so that will be for you to figure out xD
The game is actually quite linear but really fun to play.
You will get jobs that you can go to with your buggy, you can tune the buggy with rocket launchers, missile rifles, wheels with spikes, extra armor.
And youll need it
You have a nice variety of weapens and you can upgrade them a little
for example you can add mini monucular on your pistol and you have a mini sniper. You also have a boomerang that you can throw at mutants
(and nice gore if the bullets hit the right place)
There are also races that can be done, time trials, delivery missions.
The level design is very nice and the npc's look awesome. The lip sinc is good too, wich not many games have these days
The game will feature a vehicle arena mode and a series of co-op missions, but won't have any of the deathmatch of capture the flag components that id games are famous for.
The graphics are very good, and i don't know why gamespot gave this game a low score (7 is ok but the game is really worth playing)
I fixed the texture issue myself by
Downloading the beta drivers from Nvidia (for the bf3 beta)
for ati users im not sure, maybe there is beta for bf3 aswell and that might fix it.
aslo i disabled the anti alialising in the game and left gou transcode on.
The game runs at a constant 60fps on my machine (wich is already 3 years old) and 1920x1080 resolution.
Though its to bad that they didn't make the game more role play, like with a leveling system, more customising, area's to explore, a bit more variety of enemies.
I think that the multiplayer was not needed aswell, this game is really played for the campaign.
I can say that ID did a great job for this game, it looks awesome and is fun to play. Though the engine could need a few updates for the textures and the multiplayer was not really needed.
I would really like to see Doom 4 on this engine
graphics 8.5/10
sound 8/10
gameplay 8.5/10
replay value and multiplayer 7/10