Gamers driven to “Rage”
As seminal computer games go, Doom is probably one of the grand daddies of the gaming industry. It’s right up there with Pong, Pacman and the first Command and Conquer as seminal games that defined gaming. Of course, the success and popularity of Doom meant that iD Software, the creators of the game, became an overnight icon. There is now a certain level of prestige attached to any game made by iD and the expectations for any game coming from the company is just insane.
It was, therefore, quite understandable for both fanboys and gamers to go crazy over iD Software’s recent unveiling of its newest game, Rage. The game revolves around the premise of fighting a corrupt government in a post apocalyptic setting. Rage is expected to be a multi platform release, with Windows, Mac, Xbox 360 and PS3 versions. The game will be using an all new graphics engine and this alone will set excitement levels to stratospheric levels because iD games are best known for the high quality of its graphics.
There are still no announced release dates for Rage, which also highlighted another of iD’s well established characteristics, the reputation for long development cycles and a penchant to break scheduled release dates. I hope that this would be the one game where they will not announce any delays.
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Comments / What do you think?
August 6th, 2007
I spent plenty of hours playing on the old network at my old job ( after hours ofcourse!!!). I’m not to sure that this type of scenario announced for the Rage game will catch on with all those kids clocking up the hours on thos networks at those internet cafes.
August 7th, 2007
The level of immersion to the game will really depend on two things — how frenetic and engaging the whole first person experience is going to be, and the coolness factor of the level design, especially for multiplayer gaming. In fact, for most first person shooters nowadays, the single player experience is more or less just plastered on to the game. The real meat is in the multiplayer game.
November 11th, 2007
You tried the new Command and Conquer for xbox360, its just an amazing game, but there are sometines framerate problems.