RAGE

By Matthew Costello

An action-packed event in response to the award-winning videogame from identity software program, the creators of DOOM® and QUAKE®, Rage follows one man’s struggle to avoid wasting the way forward for humanity in a ravaged, post-apocalyptic world.

The asteroid Apophis has annihilated Earth, and just a small percent of humanity’s most sensible and brightest were kept. Buried deep under the floor in life-sustaining Arks, those selected few are tasked with one very important mission—to fix civilization to a devastated planet countless numbers of years after the impact.

When Lieutenant Nick Raine emerges from his Ark, he unearths a destiny indistinguishable from nightmare. Humankind has no longer been completely destroyed at the floor global, and a primitive new society has emerged during which lifestyles is nasty, brutish, and brief. Mutants and bandits prey upon the susceptible, and a mysterious army crew referred to as the Authority preys upon each person. Worst of all, a would-be tyrant seeks to impose his will upon the shattered planet. Armed with not anything greater than his strive against education and survival instincts, Raine needs to upward thrust to satisfy the demanding situations of the desolate tract.

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Not anything yet transparent open house among the following and the Outriggers’ cost. He started to sit back. Which, should you had requested him, used to be consistently while issues appeared to go … wrong. •  •  • It used to be the slightest of sounds. Competing with the wind—that regular whistle close to his ears—the capturing spray of rock and rubble, and the still-loud engine. one other noise. He grew to become his head left and correct as though he may well objective his ears. The sound … he slowly, ultimately, pointed out it. one other engine. Then, extra transparent, engines. at the back of him. He checked out his compass. The open house forward. And in simple terms then did he threat a glance again. to determine the 2 autos racing towards him. that they had taken flanking positions in the back of him, one on both sides. nonetheless too far-off for an outstanding shot. From his look back—and the speed they have been gaining on him—Raine guessed that their cars have been speedier than his. One had a vintage jeep entrance. He couldn’t ensure, however it seemed like a computer gun fastened at the hood. So, probably bandits in there. after which, at the different aspect, a Camaro from hell. The engine uncovered, tinkered with so it couldn’t even healthy lower than any common vehicle hood, and a rear finish raised up that gave the whole lot the glance of a projectile. Least it didn’t have a gun fastened on its entrance. And either have been gaining on him. what percentage seconds until eventually they opened hearth? Raine appeared forward. Wide-open area to move. their virtue, now not his. A crack. the 1st sound of gunfire. No chance for an extended debate. He hit the brakes of the buggy tough. The car approximately went finish over finish with the strength of the unexpected cease. Raine didn’t waste any time. He picked up his rifle. one other crack, and the ping of a shot that hit the roll bar ran over the buggy’s seats. He observed the bandits at the left—the ones within the jeep—edging toward him. certainly one of them used to be status, aiming the fixed gun … Raine watched a line of bullets commence racing around the sand, strafing its means towards his car. Shit. yet they have been going so quick, and with their objective not relocating, the bandit on the fixed gun used to be turning the gun quick to boot to aim to compensate, his target far and wide. no longer so for Raine. He was once stopped. And he’d had sniper education. perhaps the main valuable factor he’d ever learned—at least in the interim. He fired and the bandit on the fastened gun kicked backward, correct out of the automobile. Raine grew to become demanding to the opposite automobile, the steel torpedo approximately to cross him. No front-mounted computing device gun, yet he nonetheless observed a passenger bandit taking target with a rifle. Raine spotted that his wound from the day before today didn’t scream out in ache along with his unexpected flip. yes, it were wiped clean out, yet this used to be anything different … almost love it used to be thoroughly healed. just like he had by no means taken a bullet there in any respect. Nanotrites. unsure he knew how they labored or maybe what they even have been. yet he was once effective completely satisfied to have them coursing via his procedure. A shot from the killer Camaro introduced him out of his reverie, and he ducked because the car at the correct flew previous. He slid back off, figuring out that either cars might now flip, exhibiting him their broadsides.

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