User blog comment:JackFrost23/RAGE? More Like: MEH./@comment-3455248-20111026065551/@comment-1265875-20111026155505

I've played quite a bit off id's catalog, but this game has made me lose all respect for them. Doom 3 was a letdown as well, but I didn't feel quite as, I dunno, "cheated" for lack of a better word...

Because I did eventually finish RAGE, and, yes, the ending is as quick and disappointing as everyone had said. And the end of the game has less troublesome enemies than the mid-point of the game - it also turns out there is no final Boss, which was an id staple. The game just sort of stops...

The guy who gives you the final mission is all like: "This is a game-changer, we take the assault to The Authority!" (the vaguely defined tyrannical faction that runs what's left of the planet, apparently). So you get the feeling that the game is going to scale up a level or two.

But it's just more corridor shooting in an uninspired, symmetrical installation. And once you manage to press all the right control pads, the rest of the ARKs rise to the surface and begin to crack open....

Aaaaaaand, credits.

So the end is either a blatant set-up for a sequel or the point at which they ran out of funds to continue the game - neither prospect is very promising. Frankly, if there is a sequel, I'm not sure I'd play it - even for free.