History VideoGame / Rage2011

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The Gearhead Boss is equipped with a grenade launcher and can take more damage than even a GiantMook, requiring more than 160 basic assault rifle rounds to put down. A handful of advanced wingsticks to the face will do him in pretty quickly, though. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Pop rockets]] get the job done fast, as well.

* DaylightHorror: The hospital in the "Dead City" level. Entire rooms covered in blood and organic matter. Its like Franchise/DeadSpace meets VideoGame/{{Fallout}} with that eerie light shining through all the broken windows.

* HeartContainer: Apophis Infusion, a craftable item that boosts your character health by 10/11 points.

* ObviousBeta: The PC version of ''Rage'' is filled with so many graphical and engine glitches, seen on a wide variety of hardware, that it seems it wasn't even play-tested for anything other than the consoles. The fact that it apparently wasn't designed to work ''at all'' with ATI video cards (which are half the cards in existence) doesn't exactly help matters, either.

* RegeneratingHealth: One of the thing that makes Ark survivors special is the [[InsistentTerminology Nanotrites]] in their blood that rebuild their body from almost any damage. This is why so many people are keen on sending you out into dungeons full of hostiles, and also why the Authority wants to capture you.

* {{BFG}}: Plenty around (this is the developer that invented the [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} BFG]], after all), but the name of the [[EleventhHourSuperpower Authority Pulse Cannon's]] alternate ammo ''is'' BFG.

%%* BodyHorror: The mutants.

* CoolCar: Your buggy, which can be outfitted with all manners of parts and weapons, both for racing and cruising around the wasteland.

* HandCannon: The normally puny pistol becomes this when loaded with the right ammo.

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: ''RAGE's'' shotgun is as effective as you'd expect from an Creator/IdSoftware game, able to deal with most threats and with plentiful ammo available. It also makes a pretty good melee weapon.

** The gun is less practical then the crossbow. The crossbow has multiple ammo types, faster firing speed and more ammo around the maps. A player with a good aim can use the crossbow in any situation that calls for long range fire power. Also, it brings up the question why there is a stand-one scope for the pistol, but not for the crossbow, as it can pull [[SwissArmyWeapon double duty]].

%%* WeaponizedCar: Of course.

* AxeCrazy: There's a lot of this going around amongst the various bandit clans, particularly the Wasted, Ghosts, and Jackals. The Scorchers in the DLC take this UpToEleven.

* HarderThanHard: Nightmare difficulty, in the id Software tradition. The Scorchers DLC also adds an [[UpToEleven Ultra-Nightmare]] difficulty level.

* NailEm: The Nail Gun added with the Scorcher's DLC is basically a submachine gun with the biggest ammo clip in the game. It even has two alternate ammo types available as soon as the player gets it: [[UpToEleven rebar spikes (that can pin enemies to walls) and railgun bolts (that can pin enemies THROUGH walls).]]

* NiceHat: Many different wastelanders have one of these. Jani, one of the vendors at Subway Town, has a particularly nice one with a red skull on it.

* HyperspaceArsenal: By the end of the game, the player has acquired and is carrying a pistol, a shotgun ([[SawedOffShotgun two]] if you have the Anarchy Edition DLC), an assault rifle, a sniper rifle, a crossbow, a sub-machine gun, a rocket launcher, and a minigun. And that's just the weapons. You're also likely be carrying a load of quick use items, ItemCrafting components, and a bunch of VendorTrash.

* SequelHook: The game ends [[spoiler:with the Resistance triggering the emergence of countless Arks, filled with even more numerous people who would be invaluable against the Authority. In essence, they are both an army and the people needed to rebuild after the army is finished. And then... cut to credits. The BigBad is never fought, and the Authority is far from destroyed.]]

* VendorTrash: The wasteland is littered with old bottles, tools, books, and so forth that exist for no other reason than to be sold for cash. Even Feltrite, which is supposedly the most valuable substance around, falls into this category (you can trade 20 for a defib upgrade, but that's it).
* WeaponizedCar: Of course.

* ArmorIsUseless: Armor essentially counts as a secondary health layer. Each piece has to be broken off to cause actual damage to the limb beneath it, unless you have armor piercing rounds or explosives to get around it. There's a version of the club mutant clad in bony armor, which can take much more punishment than its unarmored cousin.

* RevolversAreJustBetter: The Settler pistol, your starting weapon, is a hefty revolver that holds a whopping twelve rounds. Additional ammo types include the heftier Fat Boys (which are limited to six-round cylinders), [[MoreDakka all-in-one]] Killbursts, and Fat Mammas (which act like Fat Boys with the added benefit of [[OneHitPolyKill penetration]]). In comparison, everyone else in the game who carries a pistol is limited to a Colt .45.

* RealityEnsues: Killing an enemy with an explosive weapon will [[ChunkySalsaRule vaporize them]], along with whatever ammo or money they had on them. If you want to play around with those neat "Pop Rocket" rounds for your shotgun, you'd better be willing to give up whatever items the poor schmuck you just blasted was carrying.

* DeadlyRemoteControlToy: The RC Bomb Car, also referred to as RC-XD (Remote Controlled EXplosive Device), is a quick-use item. It is a small radio-controlled car loaded with explosives. Nicholas Raine, as well as other people using them, can drive a bomb car through ventilation shafts or behind cover and then detonate the car.

Early gameplay videos focused on the vehicular combat aspect of the game, leading to speculation that id was PlayingAgainstType by releasing a non-FPS game. More recent information clarified that the game is primarily an FPS with significant racing, free-driving, and RPG elements. And yes, comparisons to ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' are inevitable.

* DiscOneNuke: Starting a new game with the Scorchers DLC installed gives you access to the Nailgun very early on. When loaded with sharpened rebar it can OneHitKill virtually every standard enemy in the game, brings down [[GiantMook heavies]] with two headshots ''and'' lets you reuse spikes by taking them from the bodies.

* ExcusePlot: Big rock hits earth. You survive. You get lots of cool weapons, blow some shit up, and try to save the world.

** The asteroid also passes through the rings of Saturn on its way to Earth. Any asteroid getting that close to Saturn would almost certainly be caught in the gas giant's gravity and hit Saturn, not continue on to Earth.

** Finally, while an impact from 99942 Apophis would be nothing to sneeze at (the blast would be far larger than TheTunguskaEvent or any nuclear weapon ever detonated), it ''probably'' wouldn't cause a mass extinction event as depicted in the game (the Chixculub meteorite is estimated to have been a minimum of thirty times bigger).

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The opening cinematic has some serious scale issues. The curvature of the moon is visible when the asteroid passes it close enough to knock off material. That should have made the asteroid big enough that A) it would be spherical, and B) Earth would probably have shattered, never mind any form of life surviving, arks or no. Also, the moon and Earth are ''way'' too close together.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Your vehicle's [[HomingProjectile homing rockets]] trail enemies loosely, and are easy to miss with if your opponent's swerving at all. Meanwhile enemy homing rockets can trail you indefinitely, follow sharper turns than your own do, and can only be thrown off by a lucky turn or a wide turn around a wall / object in the way. Opposing racers ''will'' abuse the hell out of this in Rocket Races and Rocket Rallies, since otherwise they're at a sharp disadvantage against a competent player. [[{{InvertedTrope}} On the flip side]], however, you take less damage from rockets than enemies, and if both of your rockets hit a target, it's nearly an assured OneHitKill.

* CoOpMultiplayer: The only on-foot multiplayer mode is Co-Op. Given id's long history of competitive deathmatch modes, this took many fans by surprise. There is competitive death racing, however.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Your vehicle's [[HomingProjectile homing rockets]] trail enemies loosely, and are easy to miss with if your opponent's swerving at all. Meanwhile enemy homing rockets can trail you indefinitely, follow sharper turns than your own do, and can only be thrown off by a lucky turn or a wide turn around a wall / object in the way. Opposing racers ''will'' abuse the hell out of this in Rocket Races and Rocket Rallies, since otherwise they're at a sharp disadvantage against a competent player. [[{{InvertedTrope}} On the flip side]], however, you take less damage from rockets than enemies, and if both of your rockets hit a target, it's nearly an assured OneHitKill.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Your vehicle's [[HomingProjectile homing rockets]] trail enemies loosely, and are easy to miss with if your opponent's swerving at all. Meanwhile enemy homing rockets can trail you indefinitely, follow sharper turns than your own do, and can only be thrown off by a lucky turn or a wide turn around a wall / object in the way. Opposing racers ''will'' abuse the hell out of this in Rocket Races and Rocket Rallies, since otherwise they're at a sharp disadvantage against a component player. [[{{InvertedTrope}} On the flip side]], however, you take less damage from rockets than enemies, and if both of your rockets hit a target, it's nearly an assured OneHitKill.

* CyberCyclops: The Authority's helmets give them this appearance, complete with RedEyesTakeWarning. They aren't actually cycloptic, of course.

* AutomaticCrossbow: Averted, it's a weapon from the future but the Desert Striker crossbow's technology is for sniping and having a variety of bolts to use - not rapid-fire.