The player assumes the role of such a person attempting to earn that rank who must go through training and combat situations to prove their abilities.

The player has to destroy every possible enemy robot in the Platformer sections and make it to the end in order to fight the boss awaiting them.

Mega said that "badly animated robots, appalling music and terribly unresponsive controls as much fun as colouring in each square on a piece of graph paper with a different pen... with a headache... listening to Max Bygraves."

Classic Game Room's Mark Bussler praised its intro cutscene, but called it "possibly the worst video game I've ever played", criticizing the clumsy controls, uninspired level design, and flawed collision detection that turns the boss fights into a matter of "simply mashing buttons and hoping for the best".

[3] Entertainment Weekly gave the game a D+ and wrote that "Heavy Nova's high-stepping, stainless-steel robot hero may have a certain wacky appeal — if Michael Jackson were the Terminator, this is what his skeleton would look like — but it also has the most ponderous, difficult-to-master moves this side of a tai chi tournament.

Identically languid opponents and shamelessly minimal action sequences make this game the perfect corrective to acute caffeine poisoning.