One of the games ever made. Buy on sale, ~5/10

The Good
- Solid weapon design. The weapon roster is your stock FPS fare (Pistol, Shotgun, Machine Gun, Rocket Launcher, etc etc) with not much special going on, but it's enhanced by the game's variety of alternate ammo types, for example the pop rockets that turn a pump action shotgun into a grenade launcher, mind control bolts for the crossbow or burst rounds for the pistol, the modular nature of the weapons goes some way to keeping them interesting.
- Incredible detail. The levels have a level of detail unmatched even by modern games today, 13 years later.

The Bad

- Awful level design. Nearly every quest level in RAGE is exactly the same, a linear (usually very narrow) corridor, that corridor might be disguised as a canyon or a power planet or a city, but it's still just a corridor, there's only a single path to take and any alternative quickly leads either to a dead end or a loop back to where you were before, the only real difference between these corridors is the enemies you encounter, which will be either a gang, mutants or the Authority, in nearly every level there will only be one of these groups, with no mixing or infighting between them.

The quest maps are broken up by 2 other types of level, the Wasteland hubs (of which there are two, the Wasteland and Eastern Wasteland) and the settlements (of which there are several, such as Hagar Settlement, Wellspring and Subway Town), both of these are more open having several paths to take, but they're also extremely small, the hubs have nothing in them except occasional raider enemies driving around, serving no purpose but breaking up the settlements. The hubs actually have some substance, with some different stores, NPCs to talk to and places to walk around in, but they're peaceful areas with no missions taking place in them, once again only serving as a stop gap between the quest levels.

This means that the least interesting level type is the one the gameplay actually takes place in, and it becomes extremely repetitive and dull very quickly.
- Poor optimisation. Under the default configurations the game is terribly optimised, with stuttering and constant texture pop in problems, as well as a low FOV, to make matters worse the game doesn't allow you to change these settings in the in-game options menu, forcing you to dive into the config files manually if you want the game to run properly.
- Lacking autosaves. The game has an autosave function but you will usually only get an autosave at the beginning of a quest level, even when these levels are over half an hour long, meaning that they're essentially worthless, reliance on manual saving is a must.

Sadly there's not too much to say about RAGE because it's sorely lacking in substance, every level it has is a fairly basic shooting gallery spread across several straight corridors disguised as actual places, beyond the fun you can have toying around with modding the weapons there's very little to do in the game and I found its extreme level of linearity infuriating, iD took the worst problem of their last mainline title (DOOM 3) and multiplied it several times over, the result is a game that's just not fun to play and feels like it ends before anything very noteworthy has really happened, it tries to make you feel like you've gone on a big journey but the smoke and mirrors fall apart very easily. My advice, save your money for a game with some meat on its bones.

Audio is broken. Sad, I really love look of this game.