Mega Hawk is a 3D shooter where you look behind Mega Hawk flying into the screen with your enemies flying from the back of the screen towards you. Your mission is to search for a new Universe and this consists of flying and blasting over various levels which include flying down a tunnel, flying in deep space and flying over the surface of a planet. There are various creatures and enemies flying around and you can avoid or blast them and if you are hit then you lose one of three lives. Each level has a timer bar decreasing and a level is completed if you manage to survive a level when the timer bar is empty.