Rage Finally Has A Date

id Software's next big shooter, Rage, built on its next big engine, id Tech 5, now has a ship date. Get ready to wait a little longer for Rage, for it won't be out until September 2011.

The PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game will ship in U.S. on September 13, 2011. Europe will get it just two days later on September 15, 2011.

[N4GAddict]

That's more than a year away.

[frankymv]

Too long for this game.

New consoles will be right around the corner when this game hits. Not sure if I will be interested then....

[Coffin87]

New consoles will be right around the corner?!?!
Yeah, maybe a new rushed XBox, but for sure no new PlayStation that will be as revolutionary as the PS2 was and as the PS3 currently is.
That will take at THE VERY LEAST 2-3 more years.

[rdgneoz3]

@Coffin7 Yep, it'll be at least 2 more years for a new PS console. Hell, they just started getting into 3D for PS3 games coming out and they're releasing Move. They're not gonna have Move out for only a year before pushing a new console out. Hell, with the graphics they're getting and the capacity of blue ray disks, they got a while to go before the PS3 reaches its limits. For xbox, they'll probably try to get it out before Sony or Nintendo, and push it out in a year and a half at the least.

As for the game, sad that it'll be over a year till it releases seeing as they've been saying it'll run at 60 fps on all 3 systems and that it'll look beautiful on them as well.

[Coffin87]

thx lol. a lot of people here don't seem to get my point.
ps2's games and graphics kept evolving for 8 years (basically the same with ps1). ps2's first games looked like directx6 stuff, just look how mgs3 looked like.
the same will be with ps3. it will keep evolving graphically and gameplay-wise for the next, at least, 3 years.

everyone thinking differently must be kind of ignorant / too young to have witnessed ps2's or ps1's history.

[Solidus187-SCMilk]

I was thinking it would come out early next year. I wonder if we will have to wait longer to see doom 4 now.

[JsonHenry]

I will buy this game when it ships for PC. But I gotta say by the time it gets here it might not look so top of the line anymore because of other games coming out between now and then.

[Marquis_de_Sade]

People actually disagreed with this comment?

[SeanRL]

lol, they just disagreed with a fact....

[pixelsword]

for the US:

Month: September

Year: '11

Day: 13th

For Germany/Europe:

Month: September

Year: '11

Day: 15th

Commission & Drug Companies Discuss Strategies to Counter Biological Threats in Europe 11/15/2001 in Europe in a meeting pre-arranged (before 9/11 happened)

Hmmm...

Just a little weird, not saying it's some conspiracy; but if you do think it's something funny about that, look up history and dates around September: you'd be just a little interested after a while.

[pixelsword]

http://www.september11news....

[gtamike]

Can't beat fallout

[dkgshiz]

Oh well. I'm sure its going to be amazing. Quality takes time.

[TheSoviet]

more like they went form EA to Bethesda

[Big City]

Starcraft 2 took 12 years.

[kaos_fish II]

Yeah but Blizzard wrote and published Diablo 2 and an expansion, WarCraft 3 and expansion and World of WarCraft and all of it's expansions in that time frame.. exactly what has Id released since Doom 3?

[MrLife]

You're a smart man

[number47]

Enemy Territory?

Not sure if that was iD...

I don't know, I feel like iD is going to pull a fast one. Won't even consider buying if theres no demo.

[lastdual]

Enemy Territory was made by Splash Damage - same folks who are now making Brink.

[raztad]

Quake 4, Enemy territory: Quake Wars or something like that. Working in ET:QW Carmack started the development of MEGATEXTURES tech, which is being used in RAGE nowadays.

RAGE itself has a long time in development, was announced in 2007. Besides Rage, ID has been working in little iphone projects and Quake Live. Sounds a lot like Carmack is just having fun with the tech, and doesnt care about making money.

Anyways, that MEGATEXTURE tech is incredible. Just look how well it looks/runs on the xbox. Carmack has spent all this time optimizing it. It seems to be paying off.

[CrzyFooL]

Yeah yeah great great . . . How bout some DooM 4!?!?

[kaos_fish II]

It's ridiculous IMO - more than year away and yet the mags and websites are hyping this NOW.. who's to say what'll come along in a year from now and push Rage to the background.

[Cold 2000]

Yeah and they got a year to delay it again..

[danielle007]

Everything good is coming out so far away... Except Fallout New Vegas :D <3 & Hopefully LA Noire.. <3 <3 <3

[dkgshiz]

New Vegas...

[Aquarius]

something to look forward too

[TheBand1t]

Fallout: New Vegas

GT5

LBP2

Vanquish

That's what I want that is coming out this year, pretty much.

[Cheeseknight28]

Buying Vegas and Bigplanet... might buy Vanquish, I doubt it though. I've given Platinum tons of release day support (Okami Wii, Madworld, Bayonetta) so I can let this easier sell pass until price drop..

[Convas]

Garr, I gotta wait a year? Well, I'm sure it'll be absolutely pristine when it launches. Kind of glad though, there are just too many games, and this kind of spread will help folk in the long run.

[Microshock]

13 months. I really really hate how companies hype all this stuff YEARS before we'll even get to see or play it.

Bioshock Infinite is another example. 2012 and you want to announce it NOW? Really? Thanks!

[HeroXIV]

Yeah that's a kick in the bollocks for sure. Levine really made me drool over what he was saying (watch the Joystiq interview) but then I find out it comes out in 2012... -_-

Same with RAGE, all these "Best of E3" awards and it's not even out Q1/2 of next year... GRRR.

[Microshock]

Ha ha it'll probably end up winning two years worth of Best of E3 awards

[Legionaire2005]

along with a Nike commerical for 2012, just like they did for the Y2k if you guys remember that one lol!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Spawnofgods333]

Rage has a date?....well i hope its a nice girl/boy

[telekineticmantis]

it'll b here in no time

[Blaine]

That's more than a year... Oh well, lots of things to play until then.

And I think it'll be a good launch window, I don't think there are any other major games I'm looking forward to coming out at the same time.

[redDevil87]

Was not expecting that :(

[CrzyFooL]

But John Carmack never had a date . . . for the prom.

[UnSelf]

XD

[jay2]

Oh BEEEP. This, the new Bio, Batman A C, Devils third, and who knows what else late 2011 early 2012, maybe 2013 for Devils! I think people should save up now for 2012! Oh yeah and the 3DS from winter-Spring 2010-2011.

[peeps]

So long away :( surprised tbh cus i mean we first heard about it a while back and then we saw some more info and videos at this years E3. Was expecting more early-mid 2011

[PS360PCROCKS]

september 2011?????? Geez this is the gen of massive delays. Seems every big game has undergone at least a 6 month delay at some point.

[HeroXIV]

Everything except CoD. Activision whip the reigns extra hard in those last months.

[redking315]

you know, I kind of find it nice though the way that Call of Duty games are announced. They don't announce them way out from release, they tell use a few months in advance and then we get a steady stream of info to keep us interested until release. look at black ops, it comes out in 3 months and we still know almost nothing about its multiplayer.

[redking315]

devs that announce and hype games way out only serve to hurt themselves. the hype reaches such amazing lvls that almost no dev can match it. Plenty of perfectly good games have been hurt because of the hype surrounding them, FFXIII i'm looking at you.

[BullCrap]

Well that will give them some time to put some life into the game. Right now its all empty and void of life. If the game comes out in the same state it is now, why would i want to roam around in a empty world where theres no wind, daytime all the time, and nothing in the enviroment, except one or two cave dwelers.

[frankymv]

tech demos of this game where shown back in 2006.

So a half decade of development for this puppy.

[SaberEdge]

Wow, that is later than I was expecting. I was expecting the early or middle part of next year, not late next year.

Oh well, the graphics look incredible and hopefully with all that extra time they can create some great gameplay to go along with the amazing visuals.

[Memo-Xen x3100]

at least it's coming next year! ID been teasing this game for far to long now.

[Pandamobile]

Well, as long as it doesn't turn into TF2 and get released 9 years after it was announced, I'll be fine.

[RockmanII7]

I can wait. Man, 2011 is looking to surpass 2010 in game quality.

[Man_Among_Mice]

Yeeeessssssss!!!!!!!!! My birthday just got a whole lot better next year if this sticks...BIG IF though.

[ATi_Elite]

September 2011! Why the hell are they even talking about it then.

Hyping a game up like this with such a far off release date is....... outRAGEous!

[Legionaire2005]

outRAGEous! thats what Rage is all about lol

[suckerpunch]

must........hang in there.........RIP

[Droid Control]

September 2011?
M$ will have announced the 720 at E3 by then...
May be one of the last 360 games i play.

[xtib]

September 2011 ?? Seriously. Originally, the game was expected to release on 2010 Q4. And now we still have to wait another year, a shame..