id's Rage free to play, cheap to buy this weekend on Steam

[Dohc-WP]

id Software's latest, Rage, is the focus of a free-to-play event this weekend on Steam.

Starting today and running through Sunday at 1pm PT, all Steam users can download Rage and play as much as they want. Should they choose to purchase the game for play past Sunday, its price has been knocked down to $5 for the weekend.

Rage largely failed to gain real traction with critics and consumers when it launched in October of 2011. Despite selling 550,000 copies in the US during its debut month, it has been absent from NPD charts every month since. Still, id has publicly stated it's not done with the series: Co-founder Tom Willits told Joystiq earlier this year "the franchise is not dead" and that id is "proud of what we did" and "proud of the universe that we built."


Sources: Joystiq and Steam

 

[MetalSoup]

Silly, you could probably finish the game during the weekend, then there is no point in buying it. It's not particularly good anyway, in my opinion.

 

[AlienTaker]

Silly, you could probably finish the game during the weekend, then there is no point in buying it. It's not particularly good anyway, in my opinion.

Yeah this is prolly one of the worst titles out of the ID stable i was bored with the game after 2 hours

 

[Glordit]

Silly, you could probably finish the game during the weekend, then there is no point in buying it. It's not particularly good anyway, in my opinion.

Yarrr... RAGE tried to be like Borderlands but couldn't get there. Almost, but not quite.

 

[MissileToe]

Haven't played the game. I'm tempted, but it's a big download and by the time I managed to download it, the free weekend would be over.

 

[Glordit]

Haven't played the game. I'm tempted, but it's a big download and by the time I managed to download it, the free weekend would be over.

It's worth the $5 you'll pay for it in the end, I wouldn't pay any more for it anyway.

 

[Tsar]

Yeah I played a bit of it and I really didn't like it all that much. I don't know why they didn't stick just to doom 4. I mean when doom 3 came out I really enjoyed it. I feel you can get away with being a corridor shooter if you fighting demons. Fighting loonitic bandits was just plain boring.

 

[MissileToe]

Sounds like I'd have a better time just installing Fallout: New Vegas... again.

 

[Tank]

at 5 dollars i'll get it

 

[Snare]

Agreed that RAGE had an idea; but fell woefully short on execution.

 

[Tank]

the day the 19 and some change gigs finishes downloading I will give it a go.

even with most things these days I still have a very unjaded view of things, so chances are I might just enjoy it

 

[moondoggie86]

Am I the only one that enjoyed the game? Was short-lived but fun none the less.

 

[Snare]

Am I the only one that enjoyed the game? Was short-lived but fun none the less.

Had some fun with it however I had faaar more fun with borderlands which I believe perfected what Rage was trying to accomplish