10 Incredible Open-Worlds WASTED On Disappointing Video Games

6. Post-Apocalyptic Earth - Rage

The gaming world is not in need of any more post-apocalyptic open world games. By now the setting is about as overdone as zombies are as enemies (which does not bode well for the upcoming Days Gone, which boasts both of these are core features), but back in 2011, it was a rarity.

Sure, you had Fallout 3 opting for a semi-realistic version of a bombed-out Washington DC, but there was little else in the AAA space. In came Id Software's Rage, a first-person shooter set in a post-apocalyptic vision of Earth that had been destroyed after colliding with an asteroid. The design itself was more alien than realistic, focused on scorched deserts and shantytown outposts. To say it was very Mad Max influenced would be an understatement.

But Rage did a great job of making this sandbox feel like a place where humanity was actually trying to rebuild. Sure, it looked a little bit like Mad Max by way of a non-cell-shaded Borderlands, but that didn't matter because the developers made you believe this place could actually exist. It's just a shame the shooting itself was completely lifeless.