Rage
Just beat Rage. The ending was unfinished and awful. Before I start, one thing I must note is this game is an engine showcase game. They probably put much more time just in the engine than in the game.
The game was like standing in line, and having an incredible time while doing so. They made standing in line so fun, that you want to go and do it again once you actually ride the ride, which has got to just be AWESOME if this line was this fun. You get on the ride. It gets going and you are having a blast, and you’re like “wow, yep, this is one amazing ride”. Then you see it, this HUGE loop, and your adrenaline starts pumping, and you’re getting excited, and… the ride goes around it, and then ends. Just ends.
Come on, id, if you would’ve just spent another month on the ending, you would’ve blown us away. No boss fight, nothing. 15 minutes at a slightly harder ending area and a button pressing sequence. Granted, that ending area was very cool and introduced a couple new things that were also very cool, but, I was expecting something grand, with that crazy build-up.
All in all though, Rage is worth playing just for the engine. Animations, textures, physics are all amazing. The racing was satisfying and fun. Can’t wait to see what they do with Doom 4, when they can stop focusing 90% on the engine 10% on the game.
