Beautiful game engines for less than beautiful beasts roaming beautifully grimy corridors. From their birth in 1992, this has been the id way. Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake: grim, grimmer, grimmest. However, if up until now their artistic direction was based solely on Event Horizon, then Rage marks an influx of new DVDs onto the id film shelf. The rocky canyons of the post-apocalyptic world and mutant brigades that patrol them are straight from The Hills Have Eyes (although the main fellow from the screens could easily be Sloth from The Goonies).
The ramshackle outposts – full of traders, grizzly prospectors and showboating race organizers – have a distinct Firefly tone to them. Flowing across the land are the dirt tracks, and the dusty veins through which the Mad Max lifeblood flows.
