If you think this is going to be Fallout 3 with cars, you are mistaken.

User Rating: 4 | RAGE PC
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Wow. Who would have thought a game like this, with cars, guns, new graphics engine, and made by id would be boring.

I feel as I am alone in this view however, as I have never been a fan of driving games, although I love GTA. Going from town to town to complete missions feels like World Of Warcraft on a new engine and first person. Minus the XP of course. It's just boring.

The combat fails also, with pistols taking many bullets to take down an enemy and even with 2/3 headshots an enemy can still get up.

If you think this is going to be Fallout 3 with cars, you are mistaken. The cars are just arcade trash. Feels like your indestructible and again, its boring. I would have preferred a more realistic wasteland car and you had to look after it. Scavenge for parts, repair it yourself, refuel it. But no. Your even told that if its destroyed or damaged, you can make a call and a guy will pick it up and repair it for FREE. So there isn't even a penalty for failure.

You can't even really die, with death being met by a resuscitation screen. The game will not allow you to die, and will always find ways to keep you alive, but with this comes the complete lack of impact. Who cares if I "die" I won't loose any of my items or money.

My heart sank at the racing parts. I just don't like it and wanted more exploration, which there isn't since the paths and missions are so linear its almost bordering on the outrageous. You will never come across an abandoned shop or house to explore for items.

One part you are asked if you want to become a delivery driver. Taking items to parts of the map. As I was ready to accept the character then said "oh, there will be a time limit" or something to that effect. No thanks. When I saw previews and screenshots of this game a long time ago, I didn't jump for joy at the thought of doing fucking time trials. There isn't a single person in the wastelands except enemies. So who are these mysterious people who need packages dropped off into boxes in the middle of the wasteland at a specific time. And the guy says "if you run out of time, don't bother delivering the package, you won't get paid". So this person asks for a parcel and your 10 seconds late and you get to keep his parcel? Wow, in a world where every resource is now precious, its amazing how quick they are to throw things away. Or more likely, its bad writing mixed with a bad idea and no thought. Its just another time trial. People love driving buggies against the clock right?

It's stunning that Bethesda took their fallout heritage and dumbed it down by 90%. Everything is made easy for you, and I mean everything. From picking items up to making items to use in game.

Finally, the graphics. Not impressed. id's complete lack of respect for the PC really shows. Even though that's where they came from and originally developed for, you wouldn't know it. Instead of a vast array of graphical options you have barely 3. Resolution, brightness and that's about it. To even play the game I had to force V-sync on in my control panel.

Textures constantly have to load, so turning your character around 180 degrees will cause texture load. You will see just lo-res textures for a few seconds. It's stunning how bad it is, and to be honest, even when they pop in, I'm not impressed at all with this engine. If id want to license this engine, and make peoples mouths water, they have failed. Who is going to use this engine now after seeing the disaster of this launch? Even the "legend" John Carmack has stated he will add only a few options to the pc version. So that's basically a big fat FU to the PC userbase and big love to the consoles.

To be honest, no big deal, id gave me doom and nothing else. Good bye John, I've got plenty of great PC developers that actually give a damn to look forward to.

Review sites giving this a 95% or 9.5? What planet are these people from?! It's very doubtful, but all I can hope for is Id realise what a complete **** up they made of it and think long and hard about developer 101. Don't alienate your hardcore fans, because simply, they won't stand for it.