

The game gives the player limited continues and very few lives. Stages are filled with many enemies, mostly gunmen, enemy characters and the player character can take a number of hits before dying power ups can be found around the stages that increase the characters health or ammunition. Some stages are platform game type in side view, and include jumping and climbing, while other stages take an overhead Top-down shooter view in all stages the player character can fire in eight directions.


Two different views are used within the game. Demolition Man is a multiplatform, run and gun action game based on the film of the same name, that takes the main character, John Spartan as he attempts to find and defeat his arch-nemesis, Simon Phoenix, who is the final boss of the game.
