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Grainy, strangely filtered video is up at the Teaser Site. Enter "general cross" at the prompt to view it.
RAGE is the next game from id Software, and their first major new IP since 1996. It is an open world first person shooter with racing and driving elements taking place in a post apocalyptic setting 80 years after a giant meteor crashed into the planet killed most of the population. You play as a character who was part of Project Eden, a program that buried pods known as arks holding a small group of people in cryosleep. These people would, upon emergence, help rebuild society. When an earth quake causes your ark to malfunction, releasing you too early, you find yourself in a world filled with mutants and disease.
In typical fashion you play a character who is both nameless and silent.
RAGE has no set release date.
Other details from the latest Game Informer
-Open World FPS using Id's new Tech 5 engine.
-Takes place 80 years after a devastating asteroid collides with earth and kills most of civilization.
-The player controls a character that was part of Project Eden, a program that buried hundreds of pods or "arks" containing 12 people in cryosleep that would aid in rebuilding society once they emerge from cryosleep. The players ark opens sooner than it was supposed to due to an earthquake.
-The asteroid caused mutations to some people so there will be mutants and stuff.
-You get a vehicle that you get to keep throughout the whole game (it appears that way anyways), that you can upgrade and personalize. "Unlike in other games where vehicles are disposable, in Rage, we want your vehicle to be an extension of you first-person avatar".
-The hero will be a nameless silent protagonist.
-There appears to be quest like structure to the game, you get quests from people and complete them.
-No good/evil mechanic in the game.
-You can build stuff like weapons and sentry bots with an engineering mechanic, or you can purchase them.
-Regeneration health system so no med packs.
-There are races that you can compete in to get certificates used to purchase exclusive upgrades and parts. There will also be race leaderboards. You can do vehicle combat during the races as well and get bonuses for destroying opponents.
-There will be the ability to play stealthy if that's what you prefer over guns blazing. The article describes a mission that involves guiding a remote control car with a bomb on it to infiltrate an enemy hideout.
-There is a show called Mutant Bash TV that you can participate in, it's like a battle arena that is televised.
Images
Ultra High Res Images
http://ve3d.ign.com/images/fullsize/34453/PC/Rage/Screenshots/First-Shots
http://ve3d.ign.com/images/fullsize/34452/PC/Rage/Screenshots/First-Shots
Direct Feed Images
Off Screen pictures
Technology
RAGE is the first game to use the new id Tech 5 engine. In addition to very high quality lighting and high geometry counts, the engine is using a new Mega Texture technique across all surfaces which allows for nearly unlimited texture detail and variety. The largest limiting factor is the storage on the disk. For example, the face of the old main in the above shots is 2kx2k resolution, which is several times larger than the textures that other games use. Each of the two large wasteland areas of the game use a 128kx128k texture over the entire surface. Doing things in this way allows for every pixel of a texture to be completely unique. Because such a large canvas is very time consuming to paint, the tools (which ship with the game) allow the artist to modify textures very quickly.
Carmack explains tech5 pt.1
Pt.2
Pt.3
RAGE will run at 60 frames per second on 360 and PS3. Your PC will probably handle it just fine.
For more about mega texturing and id Tech 5 see the following videos.
Videos
Tech 5 Walkthrough(HD)
Tech 5 Walkthrough (not hd, but longer)
Quakecon 2007 Cam footage
Quakecon 2008 trailer HD
Quakecon 2008 trailer SD
Important upcoming dates
August 13-16th Quakecon 2009. RAGEs real emergence, supposedly.
