RAGE RAGE Wiki FANDOM powered by Wikia. RAGEDevelopers. Software. Publishers. Bethesda Softworks. Engine. id Tech 5. Rage Patch Ps3 PesRage stylized as RAGE. PlayStation 3. Macintosh Media DVD. patch for the Windows version was released which added various graphical options to the game and. For Rage on the PlayStation 3, a GameFAQs message board topic titled Installed 1. 01 patch, what does it do. First RAGE patch enables VSync, Texture Cache and Anisotropic Filter settings, and includes various tweaks that should improve performance. Released. NA October 4, 2. AUS October 6, 2. EU October 7, 2. 01. Action, Adventure, First Person Shooter, Racing. Single player, Multiplayer. CERO ZESRB Mature. PEGI 1. 8USK 1. BBFC 1. 5. Microsoft Windows. Xbox 3. 60. Play. Station 3. Macintosh. Media. DVD, Blu ray disc. System requirements. Keyboard and mouse, gamepad. Rage stylized as RAGE is a first person shooter and racing game developed by id Software, and published by Bethesda Softworks. It uses the companys new id Tech 5 engine. The game was first shown as a tech demo on June 1. Apples Worldwide Developers Conference, and was officially announced on August 2, 2. Quake. Con. On the same day, a trailer for the game was released by Gametrailers. The game takes place in a post apocalyptic world similar to that of other popular video games such as Fallout and Borderlands. In an interview with Game. Spot, designer Tim Willits revealed that the game is set in the near future following the impact of 9. Apophis. Matthew Costello, who worked on the plot of Doom 3, also worked on the RAGE plot. Influences on the driving and racing gameplay include games such as Motor. Storm and Burnout, according to another Willits interview by Shacknews. Players are able to upgrade their cars with money won from races. On October 2. 7, 2. Rage was made backwards compatible with Xbox One. Gameplay. Rage features some role playing game elements an inventory system and the capabilities of weapons that are based around types of ammo. Players also have the option to customize their weapons and select one of three four with the Anarchy Edition or Campaign Edition outfits after completing several story quests. There are also side missions. Creative director Tim Willits stated that at the games core is a first person shooter with Vehicle Combat added without the racing being the central focal point. Players have the ability to augment their vehicles with various items and upgrades they can gain by completing races. Rage has two multiplayer modes Road Rage and Wasteland Legends. In Road Rage, up to four players compete in a free for all match that takes place in an arena designed to make use of the vehicles. The objective is to collect rally points that appear around the arena while killing your opponents and stealing their points. Wasteland Legends is a series of two player co op missions based on stories that the players hear about as they play the single player campaign. Story. The game is set in a post apocalyptic version of a wasteland created by an asteroid impact, based on the real life asteroid 9. Apophis, which will pass by Earth in 2. In Rages story, the asteroid strikes in December 2. The world is populated by human survivors of the impact, who have come together to form settlements around oases and other practical or habitable locations. These fragile homes are diligently defended by the inhabitants against bandits and mutants, which are divided into various gangs and organizations of their own. Bandits and mutants serve as the players main enemies for much of the game, with later addition of more organized and dangerous forces. The protagonist emerges into this setting after being preserved inside an underground cryogenic pod. The Arks are the direct result of the Eden Project, a massive international undertaking in which hundreds of Arks were sealed under the surface of the Earth with twelve people inside each. Each passenger possessed a special ability or trait that, combined with those of the other members, would help them rebuild society. The Eden project, however, was far less successful than hoped. The protagonists Ark in particular is in bad shape at the start of the game. All of the other residents of the Ark are dead, and its equipment is destroyed as well, so the protagonist wakes up alone and uninformed. With no information on his location or objectives, he is forced to head for the surface to find sustenance and allies. Enemies. The foes found in Rage consist of mutants and various bandit clans. The clans include. In the later stages of the Campaign, there is also a group called the Authority. They are a highly organized and weaponized military force that controls the land. Timeline. 20. 04 Scientists detect an asteroid the size of Manhattan spiraling in deep space. Excitement turns to concern as predictions have it passing dangerously close to Earths lunar orbit sometime in 2. The asteroid is dubbed 9. Apophis after the Egyptian god of chaos. Apophis is privately assigned a Torino rating of 7, the highest ever on the scale to measure the likelihood of an object impacting Earth. Publicly, the US and other collaborating governments announce a rating of 4. NASA and the European Space Agency believe the rating will be increased to 1. The Eden project begins. Capsules are buried deep underground and designed to burrow out at preset dates several years after the disaster. The goal of the project is to preserve knowledge, genetic samples and other items essential for human life. Thousands of Arks contain groups of inhabitants who are injected with nanotrites, a new untested super science of the day, allowing them to survive cold sleep. Governments stockpile massive arsenals of weapons and supplies within hardened fortifications deep inside the Earth. August 2. 02. 9 News reaches the general population as smaller meteorites impact the Earth ahead of Apophis. The Ark project is initiated. December 2. 02. 9 Apophis strikes the Moon and slams into the Earth carrying the force of 1. Gigatonnes of TNT. Entire countries are devastated, cities are erased, and lakes and rivers evaporate. The Earth is cast into a multi year impact winter as the Sun is blocked by dust and debris in the stratosphere. Within one year, 8. Earth. 2. 03. 5 The dust starts to settle as survivors crawl out of caves and shelters to a world that is nothing like before. Civilization is gone, and little hope remains. People group together in loosely formed clans. Small settlements and camps are constructed as many try to find shelter from the unknown dangers lurking in the wasteland that has become Earth. Development. Reports indicated that id was developing Rage with a Teen rating in mind, and that the Windows, Mac and Xbox 3. DVD discs. John Carmack has revealed that an uncompressed software build of Rage was one terabyte in size. On July 1. 4, 2. 00. Electronic Arts for publication of Rage. On March 9, 2. 00. CEO Todd Hollenshead told Gametrailers TV, No, it wont be out this year, when asked about a possible release date. A trailer and several screenshots were released on August 1. Quake. Con where it showcased various locations, racing and first person gameplay, and a brief insight into the storyline of the game. During Games. Com in Cologne, Germany, Electronic Arts released four new screenshots for Rage. On November 5, 2. John Carmack stated id Software is not planning to support dedicated servers for the PC version, and instead will use a matchmaking system not unlike console games. On December 1. 5, 2. Zeni. Max Media, who had acquired developer id Software in June 2. Rage, and that EA will not be involved in the sales or marketing of the title. The announcement also notes development of Rage has not been affected by this new deal. On May 3, 2. 01. 0, creative director Tim Willits confirmed to video games blog VG2. On June 1. 7, at the 2.