written by owen on 2025-Jan-23.

I did play the game for 2 hours until my xbox 360E turned itself off (I think I have a bad power supply) but I did enjoy the gameplay. I played on easy following my pre-established play strategy. The shooting felt good but the aim speed was very quick which luckily is adjustable in the settings. The mega textures are definitely stylized-impressive though they are probably suited for rocks more than anything else. As I went further into the game they do mix up the environments and the game does come into its own.

The game is a classic fetch quest looter shooter. The enemies are not bullet sponges at least while I played it on easy. They react when shot and hop around the level effortlessly. I installed disc one and will play it some more to see if the environment changes at all (which it does). The story seems very thin so I don't expect this to be a long game. It's one of those games where you can save anywhere and you should because you never know when an enemy will run up on you and hack you to death.

I enjoyed the game even more when I got the dune buggy allowing me to drive around and blow up other cars in classic Mad Max style. It turns into a mini racing game of sorts, really loose and chaotic but fun nonetheless. It is around this time I realized that the Xbox360 does not save the current time in its bios. if you unplug it time resets to 2005 - tsk tsk tsk.

Hardware aside and the fact that the save games are stored in newest first order causing the wrong save to load from the continue screen (based on how long to played in the last sitting) when I click continue. I do enjoy the game and its world. Five hours into the game I am wondering if I should put it down or continue to the estimated 11 hour end point.

Playing the game on easy was definitely a good move as I approached the harder enemies towards the end of the game. They get really tough as the game progresses. I am still on disc one, it will be interesting to see how the disc 2 "cut over" happens. Every time I pick up the game I make progress and I see something new - which is how games should be.

I am itching to go back to Hitman:AB but don't want to lose the muscle memory I built up for the controls in this game.

Conclusion

Finally finished Rage after 17 hours. The game ended a bit abruptly but its was good fun, simple clean shooter without adding too much on the tail end to pad out the length. 8 out of 10. Lovely graphics, simple game. AB shooter, play it on easy but you can change the difficulty at any time. I did not complete everything or use every gun but the game does not really force you to do everything which is good. Sound scape is nice as well. Would recommend to shooter fans. Better than halo 4.

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