The control system is a little weird - as you'd expect, left and right make you run in each direction, down is duck, and there are buttons for fire and jump. But pressing up, instead of making the character leap into the air, makes him hurl himself forwards. Great for unexpectedly falling into chasms every time you press 'up' by mistake. Add to this the fact that the game seems to randomly set off moves, and you've got a recipe for rapid loss of lives. There's quite a few bugs as well.
Enemies even seem to get stuck for no reason.
I spent ages waking for the first big boss to come around, only to find he was stuck at the very end of the level. Well, it was looking good at first, what with the nice 3D graphics, and the odd but quite original energy system, but the bugs and iffy control system don't do much for the game. If you can put up with the bugs, and the horribly frustrating sucidal tendencies of the hero, this game might be for you. Rebel Runner is above average, but there are far better games of this type about. Games Domain uses HyperSnap-DX to capture screenshots.