Before you ask, that isn’t a typo. According to Id’s John Carmack, players who opt to install RAGE onto their Xbox 360 hard drives will find themselves waiting a long time to install the 3 disc game.

“On the 360 we don’t have a partial install option; it’s all or nothing, which is kind of unfortunate,” he said. “It means you have to install 21/22GB of stuff which takes a long time but if you’ve got it and you play it on the 360 that’s the way to go.”

So if you’re still clinging onto your launch 360 with that 20Gb hard drive, you won’t even have enough space to install RAGE. It really puts things in perspective. Only time will tell if the install is worth it. At this point, I’m just tempted to pick up the PC version where my hard drive space isn’t as scarce.

RAGE hits store shelves October 4 for PS3, PC, and Xbox 360

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Good news PS3 owners.  Your Hard-drive won’t be accosted by Darth Vader.  Soul Calibur IV’s install is not a massive 6.7GB and it may not be mandatory either…

At the beginning of the month a keen Neogaffer spotted that the PS3 version of Soul Calibur IV was to sport a mandatory 6.7GB install and 2GB save files.  This was especially surprising, since it was my impression that Sony’s imposed install limit was 5GB’s.  Moreover, I remain under the opinion that game’s needn’t use an install over 2GB, if at all.

There was another amusing discovery that brought credence to Soul Calibur IV having an install fetish.  Xbox.com listed the game as requiring a HDD. This has since been corrected, unlike Alone in the Dark’s web-page.

Thankfully, the PS3 install size has been confirmed to have shrunk to 2.85GB’s, with save files at a more believable 2MB (though this will increase when you create your own characters).  It was still presumed that the install was mandatory, but Videogaming247 is reporting that at least the UK version’s install is  optional.  Phew.

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