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New Rage trailer, “Uprising,” gives up some of the story
The new trailer for Id’s Rage is pretty amazing. To answer your first question – yes, that is John Goodman. Once you get past that amazing realization, the rest of the awesomeness just kind of washes over you – especially the shotgun blasts and the decapitating boomerangs. I’m a little concerned about the whole “Ark survivor to heroic freedom fighter in the Wasteland’s fight against the oppressive Authority” – it reminds me a lot of Brink when they put it that way.
At least the plot seems a little more interesting, though: “Set in the not-too-distant future after an asteroid impacts Earth, you emerge into a vast wasteland to discover humanity working to rebuild itself against such forces as bandit gangs, mutants, and more.”
Rage will be out on October 4 on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.
Rage enters anger management until October 4
Gamers will have to wait a few extra weeks to lash out at post-apocalyptic mutants in Rage, id Software’s PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 shooter. According to the game’s website, Rage will now be released in stores on October 4, almost a month after its original September 13 release date.
No reason was given for the delay, but John Carmack and company probably realized they couldn’t finish by the September ship date, which was announced more than a year ahead of time.
Rage gameplay trailer shows off The Shrouded
An awesome new Rage gameplay trailer shows off an assault on bunker belonging to The Shrouded, one of the many clans in the game. Check out the wide variety of weapons and the bombing run by a remote control car. Take that you mutants!
Rage is in development at id Software for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. It’ll be available in stores on September 13.
Bethesda bringing Rage to bookstores in novel tie-in
Bethesda Softworks and Del Rey have announced they’ll be teaming up to produce a tie-in novel based on id Software’s Rage.
The novel, which will also be called Rage, will be written by Matt Costello. Costello has some experience working with id Software. Not only did he write the game, but he also previously adapted two novels based on Doom 3 (Worlds on Fire and Maelstrom).
The novel will feature a similar story to the game in that a lone human emerges from an Ark and finds the Mad Max-like world on the outside:
When Lt. Nick Raine emerges from his Ark, he finds the human race has not been wiped out. And people, as resilient as they are, are scraping together a new world from the rubble of the old. This was not what anyone in the Arks expected–a new society where might is right, mutants plague the Earth, and “friend” is a term for the person who hasn’t stabbed you in the back.
The novel is scheduled for release on August 30 and will appear alongside a Dark Horse-published prequel comic book series. So there’s plenty of Rage tie-in stories to go around.
Dark Horse publishing Rage prequel comic
Bethesda Softworks and Dark Horse Comics have announced that they’re teaming up to create a three-issue comic miniseries based on id Software’s upcoming Rage.
The series will be written by Arvid Nelsion (Rex Mundi) and penciled by Andrea Mutti (DMZ). The cover art (which you can see to your left) is being created by Glenn Fabry, best known for his work on Hellblazer and Preacher. The first issue will be available June 22 and will serve as a prequel to the game’s story:
This comic series, developed with the direct participation of Rage’s creative director, Tim Willits, presents a new twist on the post-apocalyptic near future as one woman discovers that the survival of humankind doesn’t necessarily mean the survival of humanity. The Earth has been devastated by a collision with an asteroid, with a tiny fraction of the population surviving in life-sustaining Arks buried deep below its surface. Those who survive emerge to find a wasteland controlled by a global military dictatorship called the Authority. But a rescued scientist learns that the Authority has lied to her and the other survivors about how this new world came to be.
Rage will be released for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on September 13.
Latest Rage trailer heads out to the Wasteland
Cory Barlog may never get his proposed Mad Max game off the ground, but it looks like we’ll get a reasonable facsimile when id Software releases Rage for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on September 13.
The new trailer above showcases The Wasteland, a desolate place populated by mutants, bandits, monsters and roving gangs of dune buggy riders. Yup, sure sounds like Mad Max to me. The game even appears to bhave its own version of Thunderdome, a place where two (or maybe more) men enter, but only one man leaves.
Bethesda outlines and dates 2011 lineup: Brink, Hunted, Rage, Skyrim
Today Bethesda announced its biggest games for 2011, and it’s looking like a pretty solid lineup. Brink, the highly smooth First Person Shooter from Splash Damage blending single player, co-op, and multiplayer will be coming May 17th in the U.S. and May 20th in Europe; the fantasy action game Hunted will release June 1st in the U.S. and June 3rd in Europe; id Software’s highly anticipated Rage will finally land September 13th in the U.S. and September 16th in Europe; and finally, Bethesda Game Studios’ very own The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will be launching worldwide on the convenient 11/11/11. All of these titles will be releasing for PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3, with RAGE still coming to the Mac as well.
I’ve never been a fan of the publisher, but this is definitely a strong year for them. I’ve been following Rage for a long time, and Doom-meets-MotorStorm is something I simply can’t pass up.
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