After playing and beating Rage, i discovered that
meaning you can't explore/do side quests etc etc, but i decided to just load a save i had from disc 1, sense i had already beat it i was free to do as i want, i could do side quests, i could explore a bit, basically sense i was no longer focused on the main quest it became a slightly open world RPG where you can do what you want,

so in a way, they haven't wanted to admit it yet but they basically made Rage a FPS/RPG hybrid, which isn't all that bad,

with that said, why did they insist on saying its not an RPG? and/or a FPS/RPG hybrid? and are you glad rage has these RPG elements?

Wait what? They did nothing BUT say it was an fps with rpg elements. Where were you?

in the interviews they where hesitant on saying that, more to the point, it has more RPG elements then what they made it seem like.

I dunno, maybe. I didnt read your spoilers cause I havent beaten the game yet. Im savoring the flavor.