These videos contain almost the same gameplay that I posted earlier but skip that video and watch these. The interviewers are much much better and so is the guy playing the game. Amazing how un-interested the 1Up interviewer was, just look at these G4 guys being genuinely excited at what they are seeing.
I have to start by saying the interviewer on this video is a moron. He is getting a GOOD look at an incredible game and he look like he couldn’t care less and asks such basic questions its embarassing. Rage looks absolutely beautiful. You think so what, so did a lot of other games showed at E3. Well the difference is Rage runs at 60fps meaning double as much as most games on the consoles. That makes a huge difference in playability and overrall smoothness. I don’t understand why more games don’t do this even if it cost them a little on the graphics side. Also the tech behind this is quite something and for example compared to Fallout 3 the wasteland looks a lot better. No repeating textures everywhere. Fallout 3 was great but it really showed that they had to use same textures all over the place and I don’t blaim them as it would have been way too much work otherwise. Id’s tech changes that. Rage is a good time away from release but I haven’t seen too much hype over it yet. Good thing the folks over at IGN were paying attention (even if 1up wasn’t!). They have chosen Rage as the best overall game and best shooter at this years E3. That is saying a lot considering there were a lot of other big budget shooters there this year.
2 new Rage screenshots on Shacknews. New Rage screenshots show that even in a post-apocalyptic future, there’s no escaping British sports hooligans. Given that id Software’s shooter features combat-filled racing and an ultra-violent game show named Mutant Bash TV, I suppose the presence of a shaven-headed man daubed with the Union Jack is inevitable. Here’s [...]
CD-Action interviews id Software’s John Carmack. Great long interview. He mostly talks about technical things and a little about the upcoming first-person shooter/racing game Rage.
3-part video. The other 2 parts inside the newspost.
Some details from Rage.
• An engineering system to craft devices including sentry turrets and RC car bombs, if you have the blueprints and parts.
• Your health regenerates–a gift connected to your history.
• Races and missions are available from hub towns.
• Vehicular combat is a big part of racing, with power-ups and ammo placed around the courses.
• Weapon upgrades, such as a scope and aiming stabilisers for a crossbow.
• Alternate ammo types, including a crossbow bolt which allows you to briefly control victims before they explode.
• Stealth is an option in combat too.
• A gladiatorial game show named Mutant Bash TV offers big prize money.
• A car parts system allows boosts to areas such as acceleration, traction and suspension.
• Other car upgrades include bombs, a magnet to draw power-ups, tire shredders and EMP shields.
• Multiplayer modes are currently not finalised.
• One weapon is a three-tipped boomerang called the ‘wingstick,’ which will return.
• The PC version will offer higher resolutions, more anti-aliasing and faster texture page-in times, but the three versions are essentially the same.
See Shacknews for the whole story.
