Rage 3 is a side-scrolling action game by Stickpage.com with a unique stick-figure scribbly art style with a techno soundtrack. I've never played Rage 1 or Rage 2 so I can't say how they compare, but it stands well on its own.

If there's a story, I'm unaware of it. In this creation of StickPage you are a stick figure plopped into a series of areas set upon by other, more colorful stick figures, all wielding assorted melee and ranged weapons such as pistols, laser guns, scythes, hammers, clubs and your own two stick-fists. You can carry and swap between multiple weapons but there's no inventory otherwise - if you come across a key, for example, you don't carry the key around but instead automatically unlock whatever was locked.

For every enemy you kill or crate you destroy, there's a chance to spill out neon-colored blobs that grant health, ammo and experience points (to level up). Areas are meant to be replayed, because it's fairly difficult to beat the first final boss in a single run, and impossible to pass certain obstacles unless you've reached a minimum level (which you can't achieve with the amount of experience you'll get without multiple runs). That and respawning enemies and ammo crates provide further incentive to grind the same area repeatedly.

The other feature of the game is your "anger" meter, which builds the more things you hit or shoot. At 100 rage your stick figure bursts into flames and unlocks various special abilities to boost his attack, such as causing an explosion whenever you finish out a combo of moves (via using the same weapon repeatedly).

Rage 3 is a fun and challenging game (with adjustable difficulty to make it even harder if you want) that is more than an idle time-waster. There are multiple areas with multiple stages, secret passages to be unlocked as you climb in power and more, so it's the sort of game to sit down and commit to or save and come back to later.