RAGE

I have to admit I hadn't heard of this game until only a couple of weeks before it came out. We are getting a lot of top drawer titles out now and over the coming 3-4 months and I quess this one flew under the rader for a while. Pretty straight forward FPS, set in a furture where the world and humanity have taken a turn for the worst (asteroid strike for anyone who didn't bother reading the marketing junk above)
First impressions very positive, this is an 'id' games release, for those that don't know id games pretty much invented the modern FPS - what they don't know about first person shooters is not worth knowing. This reflects in the gameplay - very smooth, the guns just look and feel fantastic, AI is okay - not outstanding but enough to keep you on your toes.
As for the campaign - well if I say to you futuristic Sci-Fi set on a damaged Earth - 1 or 2 games will leap into your mind, Borderlands and Fallout - and this game sits between both of them, in look and feel it is closer to borderlands, in scale and missions closer to fallout, it doesn't have borderlands colour palatte or some of the more 'zany' type things,(while it isn't colourful like borderlands the actual graphics are really great) and its doesn't have fallouts RPG angle and shear varied enemies/mission types etc
What it has is an pretty large open world sandbox with you following stuctured missions,(+ side missions etc) as you go though the game you gain experience, this experience then allows you to identify more and more useful objects littered around the game and how to use these items to upgrade your weapons, cars, armour etc. (in practice this means your find stuff in piles of scrap etc and if your expereince is high enough, your be able to use the item to add to something)

I've not encountered anything too negative about this game as yet, perhaps some of the side missions can get slightly samey (not unusual in larger games) the recoil on some of the guns is tricky - when compared to what we are used to - though it simply requires the gamer to compensate - some may find it a bit frustrating - the experience type system they have is a bit annoying after a while, as you get higher in the game your having to go back to locations looking for stuff you discovered previously but were unable to pick up and use as you hadn't worked out what they for - overall niggles rather than issues

So if you enjoy excellent FPS games in general, if you like Borderlands/Fallout then your like this game, if you like games with beautiful artwork and intresting NPG's then your like this game.

This is a very good game, of course there are a lot of (hopefully) great FPS coming out in the next few months so this may be one you may need to put on your 'to get' list for after Xmas when the Xbox start releasing it's usual spring/summer rubbish - by then your be ready for a bit of a change after spending months smashing it on GOW or COG or battlefield etc.

Rage is a FPS (First Person Shooter) from ID Software (Doom, Quake) and Bethsada (Fallout) that is set in the post-apocalyptic wastelands.

Rage has aspects of the RPG (similar style to Fallout series) but is a true FPS at heart. Shooting aside, you can upgrade weapons, build your own weapons, own, upgrade and race a series of vehicles, etc

The game has low/nil load times which is excellent, as these tend to really hamper gameplay (think Fallout New Vegas). The graphics are fantastic, voice acting and plot is good and the vehicle aspect of the game really help to break up the FPS play somewhat, which is refreshing.

Don't buy this is you want a true RPG because it isn't. If you want a FPS with aspects of RPG then this is the best there is.

An amazing game for you fps gamers out there, and my favourite, the graphics and art style of the game. guns sound amazing, maps look gawjuss, enemy a.i. is so realistic, weapon damage is also super realistic. overall an amazing game for everyone i highly recommend it 10/10