RAGE

Rockstar Advanced Game Engine is a game engine developed almost entirely by Rockstar Games. It was used in the production of Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto: The Lost & Damned, Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony, and Grand Theft Auto V, and many others dating back to 2006.

## Contents

* 1 Predecessor
* 2 Aspects
* 3 Games
* 4 References

## Predecessor[edit]

It's predecessor was RenderWare, a more primitive rendering engine used to develop games for the previous generation of consoles. It has since become obsolete and has been abandoned.

## Aspects[edit]

* High definition polygon and texture rendering.
* Real life physics; being run over by a car and being tossed like a ragdoll, being ejected from a vehicle from a front end collision, bailing out of a moving vehicle and rolling around like a ragdoll, suffering injuries of all kinds.
* Real lifelike vehicle physics. The player has the feeling of actually controlling a vehicle of a certain weight, unlike the train track like physics felt in previous GTA games.
* Pushing down a pedestrian and watching him or her fall to the ground, sometimes dropping various objects and shouting obscene insults.
* Life like skin and body textures in characters.
* More realistic fire and explosion effects.

## Games[edit]

Title  |  Release
year  |  Platform

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Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis[1] | 2006  | Xbox 360, Wii
Grand Theft Auto IV[1][2] | 2008  | PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Midnight Club: Los Angeles[3] | 2008  | PS3, Xbox 360
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City | 2009  | PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Red Dead Redemption[4] | 2010  | PS3, Xbox 360
Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare | 2010  | PS3, Xbox 360
Max Payne 3[5] | 2012  | PC, PS3, Xbox 360

## References[edit]

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Totilo, Stephen (2006-05-04). The First Rule Of Ping-Pong Club: Talk About Rockstar's Table Tennis Game. MTV News. Viacom. Retrieved on 2007-04-10. “The Rockstar reps explained that the game [Table Tennis] was running on RAGE, the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine. This is the graphics technology gamers are to expect from future Rockstar games, including the next "GTA."” GTA IV Release Date: December 11th
2. ↑ Thorsen, Tor (2006-06-15). Grand Theft Auto IV powered by Table Tennis engine?. GameSpot. CNET. Retrieved on 2007-04-10.
3. ↑ Midnight Club: Los Angeles Preview. IGN.
4. ↑ Bramwell, Tom (February 4, 2009). Rockstar unveils Red Dead Redemption. Eurogamer. Retrieved on 2009-02-04.
5. ↑ Bramwell, Tom (June 10, 2009). Balding Max Payne 3 sighted. Eurogamer. Retrieved on 2009-06-10.