Turok: Rage Wars is a multiplayer centric first-person shooter released for the Nintendo 64. The game features a large number of weapons, a large number of playable characters, with alternate skins, and a large number of arenas to play in. Besides several multiplayer modes, the game offers a single-player game which consists of several bouts linked together versus bots.

The game is set apart by other arena based first-person shooters by focusing on tactical-based combat with four players in small levels. The game is also unique in the way that you choose your weapons before the match, all you need is to collect ammo in order to use your chosen weapons. You are allowed two bullet weapons, two energy weapons, and one explosive weapon. The player is also given a warhammer that does not consume ammunition.

All of the games playable characters are humanoid except for two, the raptor, and the mites. The raptor and mites do not use weapons, instead they use their claws for melee attacks. The mites also have a poison spitting ability.

The game has a few picksup available for the player, deployable auto-turrets, mines, the Cerebral Bore, and bear traps. A powercore can also be picked up at a designated location which gives the player one of many randomly picked abilities, invulnerability, slow-time, life leech, weapon resistances, regeneration, and teleport, among others.

Rage Wars has 50 medals that are earned through playing multiplayer matches, except for 4 of them awarded for defeating bosses in single player. Medals exist for killing sprees, large numbers of kills, deaths, suicides, strict usage of certain weapons, and so forth.

Unique weapons in the game include the Boomerang, the Emaciator and Inflator, the Chest Burster, which has the ability to spawn an alien from a player's chest causing instant death, the Flare Gun, and the Napalm Gel launcher. All weapons in Turok: Rages Wars have primary and secondary functions.