I've spent countless hours learning every move and bashing goons and achievement hunting. This is great. The challenges are a lot of fun too, and add tensity to a game already very heart racing. When I heard about Streets of Rage 4, things got a lot better. These games are masterpieces.

id Software owes us nothing. That's what they're saying to us with the release of their newest, Rage . They may have invented the first-person shooter video game as we know it, but it seems that recently, they're averse to going above and beyond the core functions of the genre aside from eye-melting...

The Dead City section is a varied high point in the campaign

The end of the final mission is a turpid joke

Join Axel, Blaze, and company as they battle the evil Mr. X across all three Streets of Rage games. The classic brawler series has been updated for Xbox Live Arcade, with achievements, challenging game trials, leaderboards, and two-player local and online co-op.

id Software's long and storied history in the first person shooter genre is one that goes all the way back to the company roots. The development house

RAGE delivers a take on the wasteland concept and does so in its own brilliant way. Despite not being full of original ideas and borrowing concepts...

World looks beautiful; NPC models are excellent; Brilliant attention to detail

Repetitive mission structure; Story doesn't last long; Enemies too tough to kill

Rage combines fantastic shooting with a barebones RPG and a sub-par racer, making for a very disjointed game, writes Ashton Raze

Coming from iD Software – the creators of the FPS genre as we know it – comes their latest release – RAGE – a game with 20 years of shooting pedigree and some of the most well known figures in the industry working away on it's innards. No pressure then.

The wasteland just got a little prettier as RAGE debuts for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. Surrounded by a tremendous amount of hype we are taking on the clans of the wasteland to see if RAGE can follow in the footsteps laid by ID Software's previous endeavours.

One of the most detailed "open worlds" ever created; Beautiful graphics all around; matched with excellent audio; Vehicles and their customization add another layer of depth to the gameplay; Rock solid framerate; Super solid shooting mechanics with lots of death dealing toys; Lots to do; you'll be...

Fallout spoiled – the world isn't fully interactive, Narrative isn't overly strong..; someone wake me up, Weapons disappear- No looted guns for you, Vehicle aspects are not as solid as the gunplay, Large installation, 22GB (3 Discs on Xbox 360, Locations are frequently reused

After spending just a few hours in Rage's world, we were overcome with a feeling not just rare in videogames but in any work of fiction...

One of the most beautiful games ever; Awesome FPS gameplay; Nifty driving as well

Racing minigames are superfluous; Some noticeable pop-in of textures; Disappointing last section

Superficially speaking, Rage is a hybrid of Fallout and Borderlands , delivering an adventure in which you awaken after a lengthy cryogenic sleep to discover that the world has transformed into a futuristic western wasteland populated by mutants whose bodies you must loot for cash and ammo during an...