thegameveda PC RAGE review :playing the game at 5120 by 1600 and taking a few snapshots

Having actually played RAGE , patched and running on AMD GPU hardware at 5120 by 1600 , thegameveda has to consider was all this iD rage just some weird Carmack reverse psychology ? Perhaps a cathartic release of years of frustration  ,  watching from the sidelines as the (once) young Unreal usurper Cliffy B and the Digital Extremes crew carved up the console generation with a Gears of War chainsawgun thingie... and even reached out to the iOS generation with their ubiquitous Unreal Engines?

Did iD feel ignored by fans , and thus hide the gem that is iD Tech 5 , that is ,I can say having played RAGE verily a PC focused  engine.... claiming not to lead on PC when the PC version simply rocks . 

Having fallen for all the negative hype thegameveda  with trepidation (and fear) and much patching and driver upgrading waited for the 1 hour plus 20gb game to install off 3 dvds ... the score so far for RAGE was 0/10 ... but that was part one of my review . PC fans are used to waiting months before a PC game is ready to play , every great Battlefield game launched broken .. but once they get them fixed ...like iD have over the weekend with RAGE ..well then you can feel happy that you are PC gamer  .

For RAGE does not simply run at 5120 by 1600 , it flies , the engine is designed to scale , and contrary to what you may have heard someone sat down and optimised the game for higher resolutions and I mean 2560 by 1600 and above . And these stills just show the game with a low texture cache ! 

Crytek only recently managed to optimise Crysis 2 for 2560 by 1600 , above that and the engine creeks and loses power faster than your nano suit... but that will come in time ... 

So PC fan , if you are at all serious about games and have hardware that seems underused , rest assured that RAGE does indeed take advantage of some of your over expensive e-penis.. And grin as you consider RAGE looks so much more impressive on PC that maybe iD did not want to make console fans feel inadequate ....

I have found no feasible way of recording gameplay at 5120 by 1600 , so here are some stills  , was I expecting to play RAGE at this resolution , not at all , was I expecting to play at speed at this resolution absolutely not . But some cool iD/Carmack reverse psych and a gpu update and game patch just made my day . 

And as for the game , I can feel Quake 2 , I can feel Borderlands , Fallout  , I can feel the MYST series ( check out the stills) ,Mad Max ,  and even a little Molly Ringwald in Spacehunter:Adventures in the Forbidden Zone ... and if any of that matters to you then you should get into RAGE rather nicely...

So welcome back iD , and PC fans really , are you really complaining about having to patch a game or download a driver ? Play the game and you will see the hassle is worth it , just like it was 20 years ago when you were sneaking in floppy disks loaded with a 3 level doom demo into your school/college computer room...

 iD is back baby , and the Tech 5 engine is 2 for 2 , Brink is awesome , and RAGE is too! 

Now if we could a have a sequel to Anachronax and maybe Mr Spector could give us a proper Deus Ex sequel.... and without the yellow !

Right now my work is done time to play ....

 Get Rage and Brink ( ridiculously cheap) from Game and Zavvi now .. 

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