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It begins suddenly: a flash, and they’re gone. Leaving behind just wisps of smoke and personal effects, the righteous are transported to heaven. The rest of us stay trapped on Earth, confused about our missing colleagues, friends, spouses and children, without whom we will enter a period of biblically foretold carnage called the Tribulation.

Utter and complete crap. Not the game. It's probably as crappy as most games. Just the idea of a two stage rapture. For that there is ZERO scriptural support. And the little that others offer as support is either irrelevant (I Corinthians, I Thessalonians) or a direct contradiction of the text (the "two working in a field and one will be left") or a misrepresentation (the Ephraim the Syrian sermon on the coming of the anti-Christ). Other scriptures that directly contradict such a notion are completely ignored (cf relationship of trumpet to the end of the age in I Corinthians 15; I Thessalonians 4; Matthew 24; the timeline of the gathering of the wicked versus the gathering of the just in Matthew; the relationship of the appearing of the Lord to the end of the age, Matthew 24, II Peter 3, II Thessalonians 1).

...the idea of a two stage rapture...

A two-stage rapture, sorta like flying United with a stopover at Chicago/O'Hare? You get raptured half-way into Heaven, and then you have to change concourses through a long, echoing tunnel to catch your connecting rapture...