RAGE

This is now a game that serves as an example of how far gaming has fallen. Regardless of what one thinks of the game, it at least represented a time when studios would invest in their own craft and engines. 1997 is 14 years prior to Rage and 2025 is 14 years post rage. If I never saw Rage and it was being previewed in 2025, I may not know it was a game from 2011. If I was shown a preview of a graphical marvel in...

52 found this helpful, 2025-11-19

From a dev perspective this game was literally revolutionary!! Why? tech 5 was the last engine Carmack worked on. For Rage he invented megatextures. Instead of texture tiles being reused ad infinitum in Rage it's one giant unique texture for the entire environment. It is one giant canvas artist could paint on directly. It is a pre-baked texture map hundreds of thousands of pixels wide. Only the tiles you can see are...

25 found this helpful, 2026-06-24

Rage is a game that was not badly received, but also not particularly loved, when originally released in 2011. Gamers overall had some fatigue with the post-apocalyptic genre by then, thanks to games in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, Borderlands, and Fallout 3; the latter is a stablemate thanks to Bethesda buying Id Software, meaning some Fallout Easter eggs were added in later updates. Rage introduced a new version of...

29 found this helpful, 2026-01-11