The foes you face range from guard dogs and measly pistol packing Nazis to more fearsome opponents like three-armed mutants and buffed-out chaingun toting bosses. Just as in the original Wolfenstein, you see what your character sees as you move down hallways, open doors, etc. You have a single mission, to recover the mystical spear, and to do so you have to get through 20 levels of the heavily defended Nazi stronghold. The game is played from a first person perspective.
In this game you reprise your role of a lone soldier fighting the Nazi's behind enemy lines during World War II.
Spear of Destiny was the commercial sequel to the shareware classic Wolfenstein-3D.