The Operation Death Wing is set in a futuristic time where humanity use the space ships to travel and puts the player in control of a pilot of a space ship that have to complete different missions through a lot of levels (volcan worlds, electric storms, etc.). The game have different routes to be completed since it let the player choose the next level after completing one mission.

The game features 3D polygon graphics, a difficult gameplay, different camera angles (first and third person ones) and 12 audio tracks that can be listened in any cd player.