“RAGE” is the latest game created by the granddaddy of FPS developers, id Software. Id was largely responsible for the basic underpinnings of the entire FPS genre with their groundbreaking (and utterly deplorable) work on “DOOM,” “Quake,” and “Wolfenstein 3D,” and the franchises those primordial FPSes spawned. I never intended to play an id game again after “Heretic” and “Hexen” soured me on the company’s gameplay design and “Quake II” (which came free with my 1997 college PC) showed me that the entire FPS genre was incapable of improving for the better. Yet, after playing “Borderlands” with my friends, I was primed to give the post-apocalyptic-without-zombies-or-space-marines setting another try, and it just so happened that id Software decided to create... |
Rating of 4/5 |