Rage Demo looks incredible on the iPhone

QuakeCon, like it’s larger and more popular counterpart E3, is a gaming convention held every year in Dallas Texas and this year it brought a special treat. That came from John Carmack, the co-founder of id Software and the lead programmer to familar gaming titles Quake and Wolfenstein. So what did he have to announce? Probably the most awesome game demo on the iOS platform.

 

The screenshot above. Where does that look it came from? Something resembling the original Xbox or PS2? Well that’s where you’d be wrong. This screenshot was actually taken off the demo device that John Carmack demonstrated at QuakeCon this year. I’m sure you’ll agree, it’s quite a stunning achievement on such a small device. Below is a full demo

 

 

 

An awesome demonstration of the capabilities this technology can hold. I’ll let John Carmack have the last word of the post:

 

As you look towards the industry in future years, there's the idea that you could pull the machine out of your pocket that could kill anything on a previous generation console, like an Xbox or PlayStation 2, on the hardware.

It's not as powerful as the current generation, but it's not all that far off.