RAGE Single-Player Campaign To Last “About 15hrs” – id Software

Most shooters these days, especially FPS titles, tend to give you 4-6hrs of single-player action. But when it comes to id Software’s RAGE, the developer’s going above and beyond to satisfy gamers, revealing the shooter’s story campaign is “about 15hrs” in length.

I love the sound of that!

That’s what RAGE design director Matt Hooper confirmed to Gamespot, adding there’s lots of things to do when you go off the main story’s path.

“Our goal is to create a lengthy campaign, probably about 15 hours,” said Hooper. “But for a shooter, that time count is significant because most shooters are eight hours or less. If you do the game’s side quests, that adds up to 20 to 25 hours. We put a lot of focus for this significant amount of game alongside the co-op and vehicles.

Online components like Combat Rally and Legends of the Wasteland would be a good match for the Rage world. We still care a lot about deathmatch and on-foot combat as a studio, but that kind of sticks to Doom, Quake, and those franchises.

We’re really happy with how multiplayer turned out, but it was more on concentrating on single-player and thinking: ‘That works pretty well. Wouldn’t that be fun to do that with a buddy?’ We added split-screen mode and online co-op campaigns as a result.

The vehicles were there because there weren’t any parallels to draw from. We tried the vehicles, physics and all, and we liked it. Those are just bonuses for the players.”

He added: “The vehicles were there because there weren’t any parallels to draw from. We tried the vehicles, physics and all, and we liked it. Those are just bonuses for the players.

We have the visuals that then matches the gameplay, and we have a big toolbox consisting of the gadgets, the weapons, and the ammo types,” he said. “We’re not aiming for a typical one-look one-feel shooter.”

RAGE gets out early October.