QuakeCon attendees will actually have the opportunity to play Rage, but the rest of us can savor the apocalyptic Wild West-ish setting and buggy combat (as in, dune buggies, not software issues) in the trailer above.
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QuakeCon 2009: You'll be angry if you miss this Rage trailer
by JC Fletcher 
on Aug 13th 2009 6:00PM
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QuakeCon attendees will actually have the opportunity to play Rage, but the rest of us can savor the apocalyptic Wild West-ish setting and buggy combat (as in, dune buggies, not software issues) in the trailer above.
Reader Comments (82)
Posted: Aug 13th 2009 6:43PM (Unverified) said
Fallout 3 + Bioshock + Doom 3 + Full Auto 2 = Rage.
Posted: Aug 13th 2009 6:45PM petepete said
Looks awesome, but something about the way peoples skin and flesh move/appear just screams doom 3 to me, ESPECIALLY the eyes (when will they ever get them right?)
everything else just looks beautiful. like everyone else said, its fallout 3 with really really really good looking environments with some vehicles thrown in.
everything else just looks beautiful. like everyone else said, its fallout 3 with really really really good looking environments with some vehicles thrown in.
Posted: Aug 13th 2009 7:06PM piopio said
is there a stream/video of the carmack keynote?
Posted: Aug 13th 2009 7:15PM alteridiom said
Bioshock 3 with playable Dirt demo.
Posted: Aug 13th 2009 7:25PM Ironhammer said
This is just Oblivion with guns.
Posted: Aug 13th 2009 7:31PM Courtney said
Crap that looks like fun, way more interesting than I had expected.
Posted: Aug 13th 2009 7:32PM (Unverified) said
While the graphics were mind-blowing, I didn't think the animation was that great. Apparently nobody else cares, because reviews never mention animation, but I've been a pretty serious gamer for a long time now, and at this point I've just grown a little tired of graphics engines. I'd really prefer worse graphics with more fluid, believable motion.
Nobody stands as stock-still as that guard at the gate. You don't just move your head when you're talking to someone: your entire body has to get into it. Shoulders, hips; everything needs a little motion to make it feel believable. And even as a non-smoker, I've never seen someone stretch their fingers out like that when they're holding a cigarette; that would get tiring fast. The rest of the animations were okay, but too sharp; like they just straight mo-capped it without going back to add weight and follow-through.
I'm sure I'll still get the game - can't pass up a Carmack engine - but it's such a shame that the focus is on graphics, when truly fluid motion would do so much more to draw a player into the world.
Nobody stands as stock-still as that guard at the gate. You don't just move your head when you're talking to someone: your entire body has to get into it. Shoulders, hips; everything needs a little motion to make it feel believable. And even as a non-smoker, I've never seen someone stretch their fingers out like that when they're holding a cigarette; that would get tiring fast. The rest of the animations were okay, but too sharp; like they just straight mo-capped it without going back to add weight and follow-through.
I'm sure I'll still get the game - can't pass up a Carmack engine - but it's such a shame that the focus is on graphics, when truly fluid motion would do so much more to draw a player into the world.
Posted: Aug 13th 2009 9:45PM DeepFriedSushi said
the animations are better than fallout 3 which had a small set of stock animations which were poorly done. but i do know what youre talking about. mgs4 had amazing animations like characters had proper weight but then games like wet, bioshock they have somewhat cartoony animations (maybe unproper speeds or something)
what i've noticed tho is that japanese games generally have much better animations compared to american games.
dmc4/ff13/mgs4/re5 = amazing animations proper motion even as the models performing uncommon actions. (basically the animations look more realistic in these games as characters are doing floating backflips than american games doing simple things like walking or picking up an item)
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what i've noticed tho is that japanese games generally have much better animations compared to american games.
dmc4/ff13/mgs4/re5 = amazing animations proper motion even as the models performing uncommon actions. (basically the animations look more realistic in these games as characters are doing floating backflips than american games doing simple things like walking or picking up an item)
Posted: Aug 13th 2009 7:50PM Edawan said
The facial animations look really good.
Posted: Aug 13th 2009 7:53PM Cafecito said
So this is basically... Fallout 2. Just after the bombs went off, not 100 years later.
Posted: Aug 16th 2009 9:48AM original fred said
I think they meant that fallout 3 seemed like people hadn't quite made it past the "struggling to survive" point whereas in Fallout 2 they had whole towns and economies.
Also
*SPOILER*
The main character wasn't born in the vault which is why the mutated FEV affects you as well
*SPOILER*
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Also
*SPOILER*
The main character wasn't born in the vault which is why the mutated FEV affects you as well
*SPOILER*
Posted: Aug 13th 2009 8:22PM Shadowbender said
Pretty awesome trailer, but a rip-off of Fallout 3. I doubt they copied each other though, being that probably both Fallout 3 and this were in development around the same time.
Posted: Aug 13th 2009 8:27PM seemoneh said
I take back what I said about the graphics. Looks amazing in motion.
Posted: Aug 13th 2009 8:32PM (Unverified) said
+1 for a sweet, sweet Return to Zork reference!
Posted: Aug 14th 2009 1:45AM (Unverified) said
Yes, excellent reference and I'm 'glad' I'm not the only one that got it...
=D
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=D
Posted: Aug 13th 2009 8:53PM omf said
Hey - looks like they're sticking the Toxic Avenger in Fallout 4...
Posted: Aug 13th 2009 9:04PM JDBar said
Looks like Red Faction Guerrilla combined with Fallout 3 and a dash of Resistance 2.
Posted: Aug 13th 2009 10:36PM Premature ejaculation man said
This is now on my wanted list. When's it out?
Posted: Aug 13th 2009 11:33PM ChomskyKnows said
did they solve the 360 space issue yet? there was a lot of hubbub from Carmack complaining that they couldn't do 3 discs without having to sacrifice cash and MS wouldn't budge on the 3 disc thing. they said it would look worst on 360 if they had to go to 2 discs, which is bullshit. I won't put up with that.
Posted: Aug 13th 2009 11:49PM CitizenErased115 said
All ignorant dumb fucks saying it's a Fallout 3 Rip Off are fucking morons.
RAGE and FO3 share a common theme: POST-APOCALYPSE
Lot's of older games,films, novels, comics, music, art have portrayed this theme. I don't see how RAGE would even be a rip off of Fallout 3.
Like Fallout 3, Rage takes inspiration from the novel The Penultimate Truth by Phillip K. Dick.
If Rage had a Pipboy like mascot and those cinematic slow mow effects where you can target body parts then you could say its a Fallout 3 rip off. This I can assure you is not a rip off.
Someone needs to gather up these ignorant sheep and put em near a cliff. It's sad that a large percentage of gamers are meatheads that can't fucking think.
RAGE and FO3 share a common theme: POST-APOCALYPSE
Lot's of older games,films, novels, comics, music, art have portrayed this theme. I don't see how RAGE would even be a rip off of Fallout 3.
Like Fallout 3, Rage takes inspiration from the novel The Penultimate Truth by Phillip K. Dick.
If Rage had a Pipboy like mascot and those cinematic slow mow effects where you can target body parts then you could say its a Fallout 3 rip off. This I can assure you is not a rip off.
Someone needs to gather up these ignorant sheep and put em near a cliff. It's sad that a large percentage of gamers are meatheads that can't fucking think.
Posted: Aug 13th 2009 11:54PM CaramelZappa said
People also need to realize that aside from the themes the type of game is completely different. Fallout 3 was at heart an RPG, with a slapped on fps combat system that used vats to limp along. Rage is a first person shooter, and it is designed to be an FPS from the ground up. You can't really compare the two, any more than you can compare pokemon to half-life.
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Posted: Aug 13th 2009 11:50PM CaramelZappa said
I can't help it, it looks like fallout 3, but fun.
Posted: Aug 13th 2009 11:53PM Gaddes said
Classy Zork reference there JC.
Posted: Aug 14th 2009 5:00AM Rob Liv said
Fallout sez hai
Posted: Aug 15th 2009 6:16AM dasefx said
BaddAss iD Software coming to change everything we knew again!, hail Carmack! :P
Posted: Aug 15th 2009 2:02PM (Unverified) said
It looks good but screams been there done that...
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