id's post-apocalyptic game: Rage

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id Software has announced that they are developing a new post-apocalyptic game, Rage, utilizing the id Tech 5 engine unveiled by Carmack a few months ago.
<blockquote>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The creator of classic computer game "Doom," id Software, unveiled on Friday its eagerly anticipated next game, "Rage," in which players fight an oppressive government in a post-apocalyptic world.
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"It's a bit of a classic story and you are the outsider who comes in and tries to turn the tide in favor of good," id Chief Executive Todd Hollenshead said in an interview.

"Rage" is being built with all-new graphics technology designed by id co-founder John Carmack, who showed off the game at id's annual "QuakeCon" event in Dallas, Texas.
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"Rage" will represent somewhat of a stylistic break by letting players roam expansive outdoor areas.

"In addition to the shooting elements and killing bad guys with cool guns -- everyone knows we can do that well -- we wanted to show off some stuff that would surprise people," Hollenshead said.</blockquote>In addition, Joystiq hosts a short trailer, and mentions that the game "will feature a strong driving element through expansive outdoor environments." Don't expect NMA to report on Rage very often, if at all, as there is no indication of even minimal RPG elements.

Links:
"Doom" creator unveils its new video game, "Rage" at Reuters.
id Software dubs new game 'Rage' at Joystiq, includes a short trailer.
John Carmack demonstrates ID Tech 5 at WWDC 2007 on YouTube.

Thanks to Stag.
 
a lot of post apoc hitting the markets these days. And this one might be worth playing!
 
I love me some post apocalypse, even if it isn't Fallout or an RPG.


Heres a Tech 5 engine video


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhArACnKYys[/youtube]
 
After Doom3, I'm pleased to hear it will be set outdoors - just hope the suns up.

Could be interesting, but they really need to go back and look at the gameplay side of things. D3 was rubbish, it neither captured the run and gun satisfaction of their earlier games, nor did it provide more refined combat found in most other shooters, it just felt horribly clunky and repetitive.

I had heard a rumour (ages back) they were interested in pursuing an RPG at some point, doesn't sound like this will be it though.
 
The Doom RPG was pretty fun, as far as cell phone games go.

Quake 4 was a good shooter, but I don't believe that was developed in house.

I'm excited about this, though.
 
Post-apocalyptic race game.If it was from Mad Max universe it might be much better.
 
I saw the trailer on Joystiq a second ago, and the feeling I got was "wow, Quake/Doom in a PA setting."

I'm sort of bummed out, I thought this might be something different.

The races do look sorta neat, though. Recalls SW: Ep1 in a good way, if that's possible.
 
pexxx said:
Post-apocalyptic race game.If it was from Mad Max universe it might be much better.
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Where you fight for gas in a 2d, turn based, isometric environment.
 
This'll be an FPS, right? I suppose it'll be funny if it's released around the same time as Fallout 3, and steals F3's thunder by being a post-apocalyptic proper FPS instead of some half-assed hybrid.
 
well if nothing else id has been consistent in its evolution regarding gameplay elements ... it never had big jumps forward in this regard and considering they are such a compact team i hardly can see that happening...

however i do feel like the technology has always been spot on with id games ...

i expect a classic ID scenario ... guy pops into an foreign/alien enviroment and starts turning stuff upside down. i think they'll be introducing a fair ammount of rpg elements in support of the story while sticking to pure FPS mechanics for the rest.

+1 for consistency

P.S. did i mention it looks awesome .. both techwise and artwise ? :)
 
Somehow, I don't think this'll be a free-roaming game since the whole point of their new engine are huge maps. While huge (especially compared to their other games) they are not the streaming kind like used in Oblivious.
 
This looks extremely cool and unlike bethseda, ID doesnt call this game a RPG. Good PA FPS.
 
Just saw the trailer, doesn't look bad at all. With such technical capabilities they'll need just a drop of story essence and it'll be sold as cookies.

The years of the unexploited PA genre are yet to come, I feel.
 
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