PLOT
Plot? Pfft, don’t tell my slippers, it’s Carmack, he doesn’t care about the plot. But it exists, and it’s not as pleasant as Doom 3 or Quake 4.
The premise is that our hero is waking up from who knows how many years of sleep in a post-apocalyptic Earth, but not in the kind we are used to seeing in Fallouts and other similar games. There is some kind of “government” here that runs everything and watches everyone (not “Big Brother” but something similar). And they are not like the Enclave from the same Fallout, here the government is the government, they have influence and so on. And our hero is one of the people who got into the Ark program. The essence of which is that people from this “Ark” in the future will be able to create a new, better world. They don’t tell us who did it, they don’t tell us who our hero is either. There is not just one “Ark” (as there was with Noah), there are a bunch of them. And this very government finds and gets rid of the “Arks” and those who are inside. And our hero, after he wakes up and leaves the “Ark,” looks at what happened to the world, and ends up in the typical “Hello! IT’S TIME TO DIE!». But he is saved by a certain comrade with a sniper rifle and after a short ride through the wasteland to the city from which this character came. Well, he says, “Because of you, we are at great risk, help us and I’ll give you a reservation that’s better than what you’re wearing, etc.”.d. And.T.n. and from there it went.
During the course of the plot, nothing special is revealed, we don’t find out who our hero is, we fulfill all the whims of the characters we come across, and ride around the wasteland in a car, nothing more. And the ending… IT CAUSED THE WORST RAGE IN ME. You know what? I will save you from this horror, if you want to know what is there, see the spoiler.
THERE IS NO FINAL BOSS HERE. AT ALL. NO AND THAT’S ALL! And this was done by the one who created Macron and the Cyber Demon (Shub-Niggurath does not count, he was invented by Lovecraft in the story “The Last Test”) . I HARD TO BELIEVE. And some semblance of BFG (you will read about it below). IT IS GIVEN TO US ONLY AT THE END. We can’t even have fun with him. And there is ammo for it only in the final location. But how does it all end?? YOU just turned on all the “Arks” and they crawled out of the ground. And that’s it… I’m not kidding, before that, instead of a boss, they give us a bunch of government monsters and we’re just waiting for the final button to be pressed! It’s hard to believe. At least for me
Gameplay
There will be nothing special here either, at the beginning everything seems quite interesting, you like shootouts, you get more weapons, upgrade your car, take part in races, look for different blueprints for all sorts of things (such as bandages or turrets), etc.d. And all this happens over and over again. Rides in the style of “Mad Max” very soon get boring for many (although I liked them and didn’t get bored), additionally. quests consist mainly of the fact that we must return to old locations and do something there along the way, destroying the enemies that appeared there again.
In general, it’s so boring that I even abandoned it for about a week (I decided to play through Doom 3), and I finished it just recently. But there are also cool perks, such as mini-games. I especially liked the knife game, where you have to press the space bar at the right time to avoid getting stabbed on your fingers. At first it seems to you that it’s easy, until the 4th round, at least you’ll definitely think so.
There is also a card https://todoslotscasino.co.uk/bonus/ game (unfortunately not blackjack with whores). Cards for this very game need to be looked for as the game progresses, and the more you find, the better it will be. This game requires a good strategy and luck, a strategy for choosing the right cards, and luck so that at the right moment you get a card that will save your skin. There is also something like a board game, in which a holographic sheriff is trying to survive from 4 monsters. And to kill them you must roll 4 dice, one icon will appear and you will kill the monster, but if the other one will not. And all this happens in pure randomness. And finally, memorizing notes! Here one dumb guy plays notes for you and you have to repeat them (well, how to repeat, press the same keys), but the game is also not easy, each time there are more and more notes. Unfortunately, that’s all for mini-games, there are no more.
The wingstick is a very cool weapon, roughly speaking “medium action”. If you are reloading and an enemy is running at you, just launch a wingstick at him and give him an “axe-head”
Well, now about the rest of the things you will do. There are races (where would we be without them) where you win special. tickets to buy yourself “body kits” for a car, rocket launchers, machine guns, armor, etc.d. In addition to the “body kits”, according to the plot, you must win a new car twice (the last one is very chic, I admired it for about 10 minutes).
You receive weapons in 3 cases: 1st you are given it after a task, 2nd you buy it, and 3rd you find it. In particular, I’ll tell you about the “plasma machine gun”, this is the local BFG (yes, Carmack didn’t forget about it!). But this is not just a BFG, this is a BIG FUCKING GUN crossed with a PLASMA MINIGUN! We’ve never seen anything like this before. The BFG itself has absorbed a little from both the BFG-9000 and the BFG-10K, but I’ll tell you, it’s still a BFG, there’s not that much ammunition (although there weren’t a lot of cartridges for the original ones either), but it works on the same principle, you hold down the shot key and as soon as it reaches the big ball, you release it and admire what’s left of the enemy (mostly fried meat)
GG also has such a thing as an internal defibrillator, that is, as soon as you get a critical supply of lead and scratches and think that you are already a corpse, then a mini-game comes out where you must press the action key in time to do the “SHOCK”!“, but not only for yourself, but also for the opponents surrounding you at 2 meters.
And now a little about multiplayer. Now you probably think that I will tell you that he is just awesome? After all, in previous games from ID, the multiplayer was always excellent! But no, instead of explosive action in which we will use all the guns that we have? Racing… I’m not kidding, racing… This, in my opinion, is a real low blow from Carmack. I won’t even talk about him, because there’s nothing special about him.
Co-op, now it’s more fun, but not enough to grab most of the time. Essentially, this is just a set of maps of those places where we take quests and clear them of enemies, and of course there is a backstory to the original and so on, but this is not entirely interesting. But in order to play one evening with a friend, you can spend a little time.
Opponents
Opponents are dumb as hell. No, of course there have been worse, but these are still stupid. They may not differ in intelligence, but they are a little smart, they can run from cover to cover, shoot cars with explosives that you roll towards them, and mutants are generally local tracers, they jump from wall to wall, but they rush towards you and that’s it.
There are also government soldiers, but against them a shotgun with energy cartridges directly to the head is enough, often “blowing your brain” the first time, and those who carry shields knock down these same shields.
Sound and graphics
I repeat for the umpteenth time, they are not terrible, there have been worse ones. But Carmack promoted his engine so much, which itself selects the necessary settings for your PC, that you will not have any problems. And what did we get? Fucking loading of textures as soon as we turn the mouse from one side to the other and we see something that can make our eyes burst. Carmack said that it was the video card manufacturers’ fault, etc.d. But as usual, normally we won’t find out anything. Yes, now a patch has been released that fixed everything, and it’s already better, but in some places even in DOOM 3 some textures look much better than in Rage, and if you install a super graphics mod on Doom 3, it’s even superior. It saves in this case, the environment here they did their best. Here you feel that this is a post-apocalypse; when you come to a dead city or library, you can’t help but admire how beautiful and at the same time sad it all is, when there were people here, they read books, lived their lives, etc.d.
The sound is not so bad, especially the sounds of shots are very good, the environment… But I don’t remember the sounds of the environment, it’s incorrect because of the roar of the engine.
Verdict:
If it wasn’t Carmack and co. who did this, then it would be forgivable, but since that’s the case… This game is for a couple of evenings, and you won’t get much entertainment, but unless you’re like me, that is, you don’t require much from the game, then you can play.
Plot – 5/10
Gameplay -7.5/10
Opponents 7/10
Sound and graphics 6/10
Result – 6.5
