I didn't think Rage was complete shit, but I'll definitely agree that it was disappointing.

This is true. It's too bad a genre which helped up computer hardware requirements yearly has come to this. I have fond memories of Doom,Quake and Unreal for being able to scare the living shit out of me around every corner. Doom was the first game I stayed up all night playing and Unreal is the first game I had to get a whole new computer just to play it. Now it seems that all shooters are short, on rails and rather predictable. Mostly about war. I have lost interest in most of them as I have with all sports simulations.