New id Tech 5 Rage Screenshots

Wow! Great screen shots! I really hope Rage will be another Doom3 or Crysis style release where the game is barely playable with current hardware; this kind of pressure to upgrade is needed to force PC Gaming ahead of the console curve!

Wow, they look good.

What game is that?

whoops didn't read the article... XD

aaaaaaannnd there goes my tax refund.

those look amazing.....

Nice Visuals!
I really like the skies.









but on the other side:
Upgrade again Y__Y

I'm going to assume you're not bein' sarcastic and respond to this as a straight comment: Carmack has already said the game is bein' designed around Consoles (he even went so far as to say the preferable control scheme will be a gamepad, not mouse/keyboard)... He's also stated id has the game runnin' at 60FPS on the 360 and on the PC, presumably using current PC tech... so... as far as Rage bein' a PC-centric killer app level title that will push boundaries, expand frontiers, and forge a bold new era in computer gaming...

Not bloody likely...

Looks a lot like Fallout to me . . .

Does look pretty though... The skies are spectacular... but...is it me, or does the overall geography seem a little... LOW-POLY?

It looks great. However, the first screenshot shows a very obvious lack of illumination on the landscape. It should be much brighter with that sky.

Eh.. I know I'm picky.

OMFG!!! The realistic shadows are particularly impressive. Can't wait to see this game in action.

This won't put a dent in my PC. Not because I have a super awesome PC, but because this is console compatible and it has very little vegitation. That's why Crysis is so tough is the ridiculous amount of trees and such. You can take a fully pimped out Core i7 rig with two 295's and slow it down to a crawl with Oblivion if you hack the ini file and set the grass and tree settings to max.

looks Fallout 3ish, which is not entirely bad. I am kind of getting tired of the whole post apocalyptic scene and am ready for a more "green" natural looking world.

Very nice looking, but I'm tired of seeing canyons to keep FPS low.

Low, high whatever, I'm tired of the same desert canyons.

Wow, idk abou tyou guys, but the work they did on the sky/clouds is breathtaking. I think it will really add a nice touch to the gameplay, while I usually don't notice the sky in most games I play, they never really looked so impressive or stood out as much. I'm pretty impressed by that right now, but we'll see when the game actually drops and we get to see how it moves/changes.

The skies are the easiest thing to make look better, since it doesn't hurt performance no matter what they look like. Skies mostly look great because they are realistic, and the rest of the background still looks like its in a game. Ya, its not as obvious in game, than in a screenshot.

comparing tech 5 to the one on crysis [cryengine 2], which is superior?

to me, i find that cryengine is superior.

but we'll see based on the final development of id's new game.

I'm going to buy a 63" plasma and use those images to replace my backyard. Alleluia!!!

It doesn't look like something that'll need a monster of a PC to run but I still hope the gameplay is really fun and hope it is a Halo killer. We need something on PC that really shines above all other FPS.

is it me... or are the cloud formations in pic 1 and 4 exactly the same even tho the pix look to be in different areas on the ground?

Thing is, Cryengine2 still runs like crap unless in DX9 or running liquid cooled GX295's in SLI and it's been out for years (I'm a 1920x1200 gamer). It's a great engine for sure and I would never deny that, but 2 years later while running faster hardware and two vid card generations later (i7, 9GB, 4850 1GB) I still cannot crank it at DX10 (barely 1280x1024 with some AA).

Carmack is very good about creating amazing graphics on less than stellar hardware that scales very well. If he pulls this off at 60fps on an Xbox 360 my computer will make it look phenomenal.

Cryengine "may" be top dog technically, but if I can't make it look like the top dog then the point is moot. STALKER CS also makes a great screenshot maker when cranked to the max, too bad I can only run 1280x1024....

I know my 4850 is not the bees knees but my other games play 1920x1200 no problem, I make enough money where I would buy a new card if it handled these games like it should but; minus a quad SLI/CF setup I am still waiting for that card.

I hope by barely playable you mean the actual gameplay is so incredibly boring and reused that they'll be forced to release an update with a real storyline. Oh wait this is iD, Yay for another generic shooter!!!

Seriously? I won't say D3 didn't have it downside but Rage is a whole new beast from the sound of it. Fallout with racing and vehicular combat would be my best guess. That to me = Mad Max which in turn = Cool.

From Tech Report
"Reportedly, Rage will feature regenerating health, racing, vehicular combat, and stealth elements.
Rage will also borrow ideas from older PC role-playing games: weapon upgrades, vehicle upgrades, blueprints for bombs and turrets (which players can then build), and alternate ammo types will all be on the menu."

I'd prefer games with efficient engines. Like Source. It looks great but runs on nearly everything now.

Sending time to make a game look awesome but neglecting how it will run leads to games like Oblivion.

Eh, as others have mentioned the sky looks very nice, but who knows how much of that isn't just a hi-res texture. Everything else looks rather low-poly as someone else mentioned. The greenery is mostly just a blur, and the rocky parts have little detail.

The previews for the Doom 3 engine made it look like it was going to be a lot better than it really was. When the game was actually released, even on the highest settings there was a significant lack of detail. id seems to be following the same pattern with it's new engine, except the shortcomings are quite obvious in the screenshots this time around.

Looks very nice... too nice. I hope my Core i7 920, GeForce GTX 285, 6 GB DDR3 rig will be good enough to play it smoothly.

knowing ID software and their ability to build game engines, this game won't be as resource intensive as it could be. They know what they're doing and know how to utilize hardware. Take a look at the pdf attached to the article and you'll note the implications, that latency on existing hardware is the "challenge". And i have confidence they will, or already have, overcome these issues. They do it with every other game engine they build. :-p
This won't probably won't be a graphics card killer. Well, that is if you're not still on the first release of nvidia's 8xxx series or ati's hd 2xxx series.

So you run DX10 on very high settings at 1680x1050 with AA/AF and it is smooth on a 9800GTX? Now I must call BS, every one of the cards in this review are better than yours and they are unable to achieve smooth gameplay at that resolution when using Very High DX10 settings with AA/AF.

On page 7 it states the test system with an i7 965 extreme and plenty of nice parts, you must have a super system or not know the difference between running DX9 vs. DX10.

The Sky looks on the money everything else pretty much looks the usual.