****** RAGE , already 6 out of 6 stars *******

Ok,

I just played a bit of solo multiplayer, which means I played all alone
against the bandits !

The first map is kinda interesting and the rest is more or less the same as
the rest of the game, except more difficult and just straight up your ass,
no driving, just running and gunning !

Now that the initial kick has gone by and some days have gone by my thoughts
on the game are as follows, first the most important feedback:

1. I wish there was a way to cycle forward and backward through the special
things like bomb cars, nades, bandages, wing sticks, the F1 to F4 is not
really working for me... because the weapons are always on a different
key... it depends on how you pick up stuff, so this is highly confusing and
takes too much time to get it right.
Better could be to just use the entire range from F1 to F12

2. I also wish there was just one key to cycle between ammo's that would be
enough, currently there are two keys which can do that... however double
pressing for example 2 also switches ammo, this is a bit strange and
confusing.

3. I would recommend reload to be bound to the middle mouse button. But I
guess that's a personel thing

4. I would also recommend pistol on 1, shotgun on 2, riffle on 3. pistol for
close/weak combat, shotgun for near emergencies, and riffle to run and
gun... 1,2,3 seems a bit more logical, oh well... now I also got used to 4
for shotgun a little bit, but I am gonna stick with 1,2,3 or so... also
gaps between 4,5,6 kinda annoying if they not used and such... hmm...

The weapons themselfes could have been a bit better, faster loading, more
ammo, all weapons seem to have some low ammo, that's a bit frustrating and
takes away from the action... little bit more ammo for some guns would have
been nice.

5. I am also kinda confused/frustrated with the pop rockets, when enemies
behind cover, they don't explode as much... that kinda sux and feels like
wasting ammo.

Solo/multiplayer mode offers some replay value...

6. It also kinda annoys me when special key Q first throws nades, and then
suddenly switches to bomb cars ?!?! that's a bit strange... Maybe better to
keep nade on G key... to prevent sudden switch of functionality... I just
wanna throw nades until they run out... I don't wanna auto-switch to bomb
cars

I think the bomb cars are a bit stupid they usually die, they add little to
the game, if must be then remove them but for now they can stay - a
bit silly those cars

Well all-in-all not to bad...

But when I started playing rage I was kinda hoping to finally get a mix of
all enemies in major hordes... unfortunately the game doesn't have that... I
guess the graphics cards can't handle it or so... otherwise that could have
been cool... or maybe a bit too whacky but still There are some mixes
here and there so not to bad !

I also played a little bit of BF3... if I had to choose between BF3 AI or
Rage AI I'll take Rage AI 100x times over BF3AI, since BF3AI is pretty dumb
it seems, though I played little yet.

I did very much enjoy the fly level in BF3 though ! and graphics of
BF3 are also not to bad ! =D but a bit slowish...

I do believe Rage should have had some more weapons in general... and also
more weapons to choose from during the playing... it's a bit limited !

Oh well, better next time !

(I also wanna see some more special effects, lasers, plasma's, electrical
rain, whatever, bring back the old stuff, and make some new graphics for it
! =D)

Bye,
Skybuck =D