[Mr McC]

Originally Posted by Benetanegia

id started work on Rage right after Doom 3 was released: 2004. Tho the concept was probably thought earlier than that.

Gearbox released Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 in 2005 and a few months later their second team released the sequel Earned in Blood. It's after this release that Gearbox licensed UE 3.0 and started working on Borderlands.

But honestly I don't know why people keep saying that Rage is a copy of Borderlands. It's stupid (aside from the above), since Borderlands is not original in any posible way. Both (but specially Rage) are clearly based on Mad Max movies. And even saying that is stupid, because probably Mad Max was not original anyway and was based on something esle, it certainly has a lot in common to many novels I have read. Anyone who reads just a little knows that every story has already been told and every fantasy world has already been described and it's been like that since at least the '40s or '50s, the Golden Age of both science fiction and comics.

Shelley's The Last Man, Welles' The War of the Worlds and Matheson's I am Legend, to name but a few.