It's a typical RPG type game, good graphics and not bad animation, within a realtime 3D environment, viewed in first person perspective. You are tasked with trying to survive not only the hostile environment but the local wildlife and other members of AWE who are also abandoned and who are not as friendly as they might be due to the virus.

You must do the usual things (find water, weapons, food, medicine, etc.) but you also have the ability to manipulate and combine items to produce new items. For example, if you have some cord and you add it to a branch, you can make a bow. Adding your needle and thread to some
animal skins will produce a new garment.

The landscape varies from mountains, crevasses, canyons, waterfalls, bridges, desert, all inhabited by lifeforms of one type or another.

One major part of survival is your health which you are able to monitor by use of your bio-computer. Items such as body temperature, stress, fatigue, pain, poisoning, malaria, even gangrene (if you don't attend to wounds) and hallucinations. You can even amputate your own limbs, if you need to! According to the manual, these all add up to over 100 variables to be managed in real time, although you can choose not to have that high a level of reality.