Superman: The New Superman Adventures

Superman is a three-dimensional action-adventure platform game in which the player takes on the role of the titular hero, saving the citizens of Metropolis , including Lois Lane , Jimmy Olsen , and Professor Hamilton , from a virtual reality version of the city created by Lex Luthor . This virtual Metropolis is filled with " Kryptonite fog", an apparent attempt by Luthor to diminish Superman 's abilities. However, this is actually distance fog, a technique used to mask the game's draw distance . In the main single-player mode, the player assumes the role of Superman, who is challenged by Luthor to complete various tasks and puzzles.

Superman can fly, punch enemies, and use his super-strength to lift and carry large objects. Other superpowers, including heat vision, freeze breath, X-ray vision, super speed, and reprogramming (where Superman reprograms an enemy to help fight off other enemies), are accessible only through the collection of power-ups found in certain levels and have limited reserves. If Superman is attacked by enemies, hazards, or comes too close to Kryptonite, his health will decrease. The game ends if Superman loses all his health, requiring the player to restart the current mission.

The player also faces game over if a civilian character is attacked or if the time limits imposed on various missions expire before completion. Superman consists of fourteen levels, alternating between outdoor and indoor environments. The indoor levels involve combat, exploring environments to find access codes to locked areas, activating computers, solving puzzles to achieve objectives, and battling villains such as Mala , Metallo , Darkseid , and Brainiac , who is responsible for programming the computers that trap them in Luthor's virtual reality. The outdoor stages consist of traveling to the next indoor mission while flying through rings and rescuing civilians from enemies and hazards.

Several missions must be completed within time limits. Superman: The New Superman Aventures features three difficulty modes: Easy, Normal, and Superman. In Easy mode, the player does not need to fly through rings during the ride stages. The penultimate ride stage and penultimate regular stage are playable only in Normal and Superman modes, while the final ride stage and regular stage are accessible only in Superman mode.

Despite this, it is possible to complete the game without encountering a single ring if the player starts in Easy mode, as there is an option to switch from Easy to Normal mode that skips the penultimate ride stage, and an option to switch from Normal mode to Superman mode that skips the final ride stage. The time available to complete missions also decreases as the difficulty increases. The game features two multiplayer modes—a racing mode and a battle mode—allowing play with up to four people. In battle mode, players must defeat their opponents by throwing various weapons and items at them.

In racing mode, players control a spaceship while rings are shot from the backside of one opponent.