RAGE 2
RAGE 2
Game
Game2011
RAGE
Developer id Software
Rage is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks, released in October 2011 for Microsoft Windows, the PlayStation 3, and the Xbox 360, and in February 2012 for OS X. It was first shown as a tech demo at the 2007 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference and was announced at the QuakeCon. Rage uses id Software's id Tech 5 game engine and is the final game released by… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
396 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
77
LovedLoved
171 positive · 52 negative
95% range 71–82%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 171 | 52 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 14 | 7 | 145 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
7,298 of 9,731 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
77% recommend · 158 yes, 48 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 206 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (14,284 of 18,343 positive).
Players praise Rage's gunplay and atmosphere, calling it a fun shooter. [1][2][3] Many note the game feels unfinished with a rushed story and short campaign. [4][5][6] Some reviewers criticize the dated graphics and repetitive gameplay. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [16]
Bland. The gunplay is fine. The driving is fine. The story is as tropey as it can get. You wake up, Evil GovernmentTM is chasing after you, you beat them after teaming up with The ResistanceTM, the end. There is no final boss fight. You don't even see the main bad guy. It doesn't really do anything wrong but it absolutely does nothing good either.
- [1]
It's like the casual-gamer's FPS. There's no character building and only a few upgrades allowed for each vehicle. So you're not really working toward anything, except beating the game. This is target practice for playing character-driven FPS shooters. That said, it's still fun. Decent action and solid gun-handling. Just don't expect more than that. I bought it on sale, so no regrets.
- [4]
If there was ever a game that needed a remaster, this would be it. Rage is a fun shooter that suffered from a rushed development of both the game and engine. You could tell there was supposed to be more to the game but it's main story just ends. If Rage is ID's worst shooter, as Civvie says, then it's still an above average shooter.
- [5]
I originally played Rage back in 2011 when it first launched. Despite the numerous visual bugs, particularly the notorious texture-loading issues, it was still an enjoyable experience. The game clearly felt a little unfinished, but even so, I had a lot of fun with it. I really liked the core idea and the world id Software created, and at the time it felt like a promising foundation rather than a fully realised …
- [2]
I've played this game a lot more than the 20 hrs I show on Steam. It is a classic, I have played it on and off since maybe the year after it came out and it is a classic I keep coming back to. Ahead of its time for 2011, Good combat, interesting world, fun driving around in various vehicles, built-in mini games, and not too difficult. I know some people like super difficult games but if I die 20 times a row in the …
Summarised from 34 of the 259 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 10, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
77% of the 206 Steam reviewers we collected recommend RAGE. The complaint that keeps coming up: short campaign and rushed story. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The game received much recognition before its release. It won the Game Critics Awards of E3 2010 for "Best Console Game", and "Best Action Game", along with the "Special Commendation for Graphics". IGN awarded its "Best Overall Game" and "Best Shooter" in its E3 2010 awards. It also won many of GameTrailers's E3 2010 awards, including "Best New IP", "Best First Person Shooter", "Best PS3 Game", "Best Xbox 360 Game", "Best PC Game", and "Game of the Show". Rage received generally positive reviews on all platforms according to the aggregate review site Metacritic. The game received praise for its graphics, gameplay and combat mechanics, and criticism mostly aimed towards the game's story and…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 396 · most liked first𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗢𝗡, 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 🦖💥☄️ Primal Rage fanart from 2019 [ #art #fanart #dinosaur #videogames ]
neutral · AI labelView post →Ever wanted to blast something off the internet? PAGE RAGE is a fun little browser extension game that allows you to destroy any web page! It's available for free here! page-rage.com by indie dev Alex Reardon #gaming
neutral · AI labelView post →SEGA has officially cancelled "Super Game" Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, Jet Set Radio, Streets of Rage revivals are still in development www.segasammy.co.jp/cms/wp-conte...
neutral · AI labelView post →Rage Against the Machine reunion tour and they just cancel the game for a three hour set
neutral · AI labelView post →"Everyone in this city obeys... me!" Blaze gets a Game Over! (Streets of Rage 4)
neutral · AI labelView post →hot take: Rage-quitting games may have a negative connotation to it, but I think it's good, actually. Not, of course, if you quit a game to then go rage and break things, but if a game is genuinely upsetting you, you should really take a break. It's a good thing to do.
neutral · AI labelView post →Play Lost Records: Bloom & Rage.
neutral · AI labelView post →Game: Streets of Rage 3 (1994, Genesis) TAS Author: atro_city Source: tasvideos.org/2404M
neutral · AI labelView post →Female Rage Lacra fanart from The Blood of Dawnwalker (This game has me in it's grip strong 😔🖤) [ #art #fanart ]
neutral · AI labelView post →big fan of videos that are like "this OBSCURE old game can't POSSIBLY have music THIS GOOD????" and it's like Streets of Rage 2
neutral · AI labelView post →The Rage Game: Election Edition Let's get into Marty O'Donnell, shall we?
neutral · AI labelView post →(Leans in, whispers) I’m working on a big box strategy game for kickstarter 2025-26 That isn’t Blood Rage (I’m also working on Blood Rage)
neutral · AI labelView post →'Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!' officially launched 26 years ago today, November 2, 1999. Whats your favorite Spyro game?
neutral · AI labelView post →Since I’ve been enjoying Streets of Rage so much, figured I’d pick up the latest game👌 Can’t wait!
neutral · AI labelView post →Art for CPU8 of my character Rhoda Rage from my game Snackdown
neutral · AI labelView post →I'M ALIVE THANK GOD playing Lost Records: Bloom & Rage today!! (game provided by Don't Nod!) twitch.tv/littlesiha
neutral · AI labelView post →STREETS OF RAGE 2 ANCIENT/SHOUT!/MNM 1993 SEGA GAME GEAR
neutral · AI labelView post →LOST RECORDS: BLOOM & RAGE, TAPE 2 RELEASES TOMORROW! 🥳🎙️ will you be playing?!
neutral · AI labelView post →Also, why is Marty running in Nevada? Didn't he used to live in Washington? Why would he *leave* Washington state, the state where he reportedly owes at least $100K in legal fees? The Rage Game: Video Games and the Politics of Reaction is out next summer.
neutral · AI labelView post →The world needs a new Streets of Rage game 🙏😌
neutral · AI labelView post →Primal Rage is known as “the dinosaur fighting game” but there’s an ape on the cover. Makes u think
neutral · AI labelView post →Streets of Rage (Mega Drive, Sega, 1991) Classic mistake that makes you restart the game
neutral · AI labelView post →Also, I detail this aggrieved entitlement and how it led to Gamergate harassment in a chapter of my book, The Rage Game: Video Game and the Politics of Reaction, out next August.
neutral · AI labelView post →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 2011 that was really from 1997, I would think it is a preview for a indie PSP…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rage was always ahead of the game
neutral · AI labelView post →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 the "Id Tech" engine with Id Tech 5. infamously optimized for the opposite…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →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 streamed into memory and as the player moves the engine predicts and fills in…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's like the casual-gamer's FPS. There's no character building and only a few upgrades allowed for each vehicle. So you're not really working toward anything, except beating the game. This is target practice for playing character-driven FPS shooters. That said, it's still fun. Decent action and solid gun-handling. Just don't expect more than that. I bought it on sale, so no regrets.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Beat Sundered. Shit combat but a great game overall. Cleaning up Streets of Rage 4. I didnt much care for it at release. Still don't. Bit too sweaty for me. Also your mum is a sad/10
neutral · AI labelView post →Something a little bit different than my usual today. This is an early birthday gift from @ospreygames.bsky.social , Crab Rage! A board game I did art for. It was a blast to illustrate, I love the colorful and wacky result.
positive · AI labelView post →Road Pong? Pong Rage? Artist: HappyToast https://b3ta.com/board/11432617 From the 'Game Mashups' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/gamemashups/popular/ #GameMashups
neutral · AI labelView post →announcement of it in 2007 blew people's minds. four years later, we had Borderlands and Fallout 3/New Vegas, and Rage looked very small and outdated next to them. it faced an unfair mixed reception fourteen more years later, it’s just a nice game and a great shooter. wish there was more of it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →*LOUD PTERADACTYL SCREECHING IN RAGE AND SORROW* this looks SO COOL!! I know a trailer does not make a game BUT THE VIBES??? IMMACULATE!! it looks and sounds so fun ugh. what could’ve been 😭 im so sorry to the devs who clearly put so much thought and work into this game already for years.
positive · AI labelView post →Rage has potential. At its core, it’s a good, entertaining post-apocalyptic first-person shooter. And the world has a lot to offer: bandit clans, mutants, shootouts with various weapons and types of ammo, Sentry Turrets, Sentry Bots, RC Bomb Cars etc., races with different cars, upgrades and weapons, side quests, and mini-games. In particular, the game’s own card game, “Rage Frenzy,” really stands out. I enjoyed collecting all the cards as I played through the game. It also has good…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If there was ever a game that needed a remaster, this would be it. Rage is a fun shooter that suffered from a rushed development of both the game and engine. You could tell there was supposed to be more to the game but it's main story just ends. If Rage is ID's worst shooter, as Civvie says, then it's still an above average shooter.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →now that i have finished SH2 i just want to say I WAS RIGHT I CALLED IT AND I HATE JAMES I AM FILLED WITH RAGE - v good game tho
positive · AI labelView post →We are 🔴LIVE🔴 with more BALAN WONDERWORLD! Come hang out with me and this cool frog!!! And this game REALLY IS NOT THAT BAD I DO NOT GET WHAT ALL THE RAGE IS ABOUT!!! twitch.tv/CellyCharmsVT
positive · AI labelView post →Great game that always got a bad rap for some reason. It used to have an issue with texture pop in, but on modern hardware I'm not getting any at now. buy the DLC and use the rebar ammo in the Nailgun for so much fun, it should be illegal.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Never played this on release but really enjoying it. Good shooting, the driving aspects are quite fun and the world is pretty interesting. Well worth playing. (Steam defaulted to the 32bit version for me which caused endless crashes, make sure you change the boot option to 64 bit, not crashed since)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've played this game a lot more than the 20 hrs I show on Steam. It is a classic, I have played it on and off since maybe the year after it came out and it is a classic I keep coming back to. Ahead of its time for 2011, Good combat, interesting world, fun driving around in various vehicles, built-in mini games, and not too difficult. I know some people like super difficult games but if I die 20 times a row in the same scene I just quit playing. You won't have that problem in this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh, this one’s going to be a pain 😂 New Archetype for TECTON! Rage quit might be imminent 💀 What should we call it? If this looks like your kind of game, wishlist TECTON on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3061870/... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #fps #wishlistwednesday
neutral · AI labelView post →Rage quit my game earlier but now I've calmed down. I didn't throw my pc out the window this time either
neutral · AI labelView post →Challenge: Making an impossible game in 30 days [06/30] Surprise, I shifted the whole game from 2D to 3D because it makes more sense for the level design to have natural borders (the mountain shape). #gamedev #rage #game #indiegame #ragegame
neutral · AI labelView post →Rage (@bblm2.bsky.social) is spread across a couple accounts, but she scans game boxes, eroge and anime/manga magazines, and plenty of anime paraphernalia linktr.ee/rage_beat06
neutral · AI labelView post →I originally played Rage back in 2011 when it first launched. Despite the numerous visual bugs, particularly the notorious texture-loading issues, it was still an enjoyable experience. The game clearly felt a little unfinished, but even so, I had a lot of fun with it. I really liked the core idea and the world id Software created, and at the time it felt like a promising foundation rather than a fully realised vision. At its core, Rage is a first-person shooter, with vehicle combat used…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →RAGE RESCINDED, THE GREATEST GAME OF THIS CENTURY (I AM NOT A SHILL)
positive · AI labelView post →Today marks the 27th anniversary of #Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!, the second game in the #SpyroTheDragon franchise.
neutral · AI labelView post →Game Developer plays Streets of Rage 4 Playthrough Mania Plus (co-op), with The Bunny Tavern as we rediscover our Streets of Rage. Bare-knuckles time! Please watch, like, and subscribe to see more here: tinyurl.com/3u7hdhff #gamedev #gamer #indiedev #StreetsofRage
neutral · AI labelView post →I DID IT! Every N64 game completed. Here's the definitive tier list: S: Perfection A: Incredible game, maybe a singular flaw B: Great N64 game, there could be improvements C: Didn't hate it, didn't love it Q: Elmo D: Did not enjoy, boring, repetitive F: Flawed up and down in every way F-: RAGE GAME
neutral · AI labelView post →It's honestly nothing spectacular for the most part. The 2010-2015 were full of uninspired singleplayer first person shooters and this one, unfortunately, doesn't really stand out. So if I were to be more objective, I'd probably suggest against buying it. But since it's extremely nostalgic to me, as you can see from the surprisingly high playtime, I still think it's worth it on a sale. Like I said, in terms of gameplay, it's nothing spectacular. Simple shooter with a ton of weapons for you to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game. Better than most of what comes out today and I'm just getting started. There is so much character and atmosphere in this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Developer plays - Streets of Rage 4 Part 2 MANIA ++(co-op featuring T... youtu.be/MPz4vkcr6wk?... via @YouTube #game #indiedev #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →10 years ago I launched a little review blog called The Cardboard Herald with a review of the then-new game Blood Rage. Today, I’m covering @ericlang.bsky.social’s new Blood Rage: Valhalla. Time is a wild thing. 🎉 Blood Rage: Valhalla & Road to Helheim - TCbH Review youtu.be/ENgIG1dYy74
neutral · AI labelView post →Primal Rage has this too. Any time an infinite would be possible the game flashes a symbol of cheese on the screen. PR is very unique to the fighting genre as the dev thought of every possibility. It is possible to do up to 98% , but infinites are impossible even now. The combos have unique names!
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is awesome. So much flavor and ambition. So much better than the second game. If only this game got the love it deserved. It could have been so much more....
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A great linear shooter trapped inside an open-world game. Once you get past the empty roads, there are detailed levels with clear layouts that intentionally loop around to avoid backtracking. The hub cities are filled with great performances from voiced characters who react to your progress throughout the game. The gunplay is fun too, especially once later enemies push you to experiment with different weapons and ammo types. Unfortunately, the side quests, errands, and races keep interrupting…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is alright, the graphics are really dated but have a nice artstyle. The overall story is a bit convoluted and it feels rushed. It's a short game so you should only buy it on sale. The DLC adds a bit of content as well. The 64bit version doesn't support multiplayer nor achievements but I found that out too late. I really don't want to play the game again to get them so this really sucks. 32bit is just so bad when the game has a memory leak issue. For the price it's fine but you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rage was a great game and it was so much fun back then, the Post-Apocalyptic setting combined with the Weapons was overwhelmingly enjoyable. I remember the Boomerang was my Favourite Head Slicer hah. The Graphics were also super crisp, no fkn TAA on the ship. Only Cons is its short playtime of roughly 10-15hrs Rage 2 on the other side is pure garbage, not comparable to his predecessor Rage 1 is 100%worth to play tho and 10 bucks is nothing for a game that is actually fun, on sale it drops…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it still amuses me that, despite being called "Rage Racer", it's the game with some of the chillest vibes in the Ridge Racer series lol
positive · AI labelView post →I've added the ability to not only design your own courses but you can actually change out the game's graphics and totally make your own custom Kart racer game, here's a quick one I did with Elon, naming it Road Rage, with Wankpanzers racing! Anyone can make their own dream game!
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