Bethesda Softworks and Del Rey, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group, has announced that Del Rey Books will publish a novel based on the upcoming Rage video game which is being developed by id Software. The novel, also entitled ‘Rage’, will be written by author and game writer Matt Costello and will release on 30 August 2011.
Rage is the latest game from id Software, the acclaimed designers of such classics as Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, and the QUAKE series. Rage will also mark the debut of id Software’s latest 3D engine – id Tech 5.
Set in the not-too-distant future after an asteroid impacts Earth, players emerge into a vast wasteland to discover humanity working to rebuild itself against such forces as bandit gangs, mutants, and more.
The novel delves even deeper into this world and its characters. The world was doomed and only some of the population could be saved. That was what the scientists were saying, at least. So the best and brightest were gathered and put into stasis deep beneath the surface of the Earth – buried so that man could live.
When Lt. Nick Raine emerges from his Ark, he finds the human race has not been wiped out. People, as resilient as they are, are scraping together a new world from the rubble of the old. This was not what anyone in the Arks expected – a new society where might is right, mutants plague the Earth, and “friend” is a term for the person who hasn’t (yet) stabbed you in the back.
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