If you weren't already planning to pre-order Rage, developer id Software came up with a few incentives as extra encouragement. Currently confirmed only for North America, everyone who pre-orders Rage from participating retailers Gamestop, Amazon.com, Steam, and Direct-to-Drive will be automatically upgraded to the "Anarchy" edition.

This special version includes four in-game items that won't be available elsewhere:

    * Double Barrel Shotgun: The classic id weapon, this time in a one-handed version

    * Crimson Elite Armor: On exiting the Arc, players must don new armor for the wasteland. This special version combines all three attribute boosts of the individual armors otherwise available

    * Fists of RAGE: a powerful melee weapon good for laying a wallop on mutants who get too close

    * Rat Rod Buggy: a custom ride that replaces the standard issue buggy in the game

The Anarchy edition also includes the Wasteland sewer missions, an extra set of adventures that take place in a series of tunnels and old abandoned structures underground.

While September is still a ways off, id also released a five minute trailer featuring gameplay from a mission into the dead city to retrieve defibrillator parts from an old hospital. It one of the levels I got to play during Bethesda's demo event and will have impressions of coming shortly in a full Rage preview. Until then, check out the video and see how Rage looks in action for yourself.

Looks like Borderlands with awesome graphics.. Gonna be rig-killer

awesome graphics and animation but i want immersion.

i.e when i look down i can see my tits, penis and feet etc.

awesome graphics and animation but i want immersion.

i.e when i look down i can see my tits, penis and feet etc.

go for Duke Nukem then 

I recently spoke with Jason Kim, senior producer at id Software, currently working on Rage. In relating some of the higher level thinking behind the decision to do a new IP as the big game out of the gate for id tech 5, Kim talked about how the studio has evolved.

    Our studio has grown a lot, not just in size but also in design and art process, and even a technology standpoint. John has admitted he can't do everything on his own. There are a lot of smart guys that are required to be able to make a game these days. He can't just lock himself up in a room, come out with an engine, and say okay, make a game with this.

With that change in philosophy and a larger studio, projects that previously went to outside studios could return to id.

    We have Quake; we have Wolfenstein. If people want that, we have the IPs to deliver it. And we have a different approach now; we're forging a new path. I think we can freshen those things up...we don't have anything in the works right now but I think when we start talking about different things we can do with the other properties that we have I hope people are receptive to what we want to do and what we think would be fun for players to experience coming out of id Software.

With Rage coming out later this year, it wouldn't be out of the question that id could announce a new project at QuakeCon later this year.

Look for the full version of my conversation with Kim tomorrow here on Shack.

PC Gamer reports that the PC version of id Software's upcoming FPS will include a full range of mod tools, including the level editor, out of the box. As creative director Tim Willits puts it, "Pull down the console, type ‘id studio’, then press enter. Then, bam, there’s all the tools we use."

In other RAGE news, they've released another 5-minute gameplay video. The key-prompts make it seem like this video is from the PC version of the game, but the aiming is pretty sluggish, so I'm not sure. Anyhow, you get to see a lot of the various gadgets in this one, like a spider-bot, sentry turret, and explosive R/C car:

RAGE PC will ship w/ mod tools, new gameplay video


Source: Firingsquad