In World Reborn you take on the role of the hero, Thiel, and recruit new pilots on your journey to restore freedom and control to mankind. You will acquire a variety of ships and weapons to help you on your chosen path through the game. Your ships will range from fast and light to heavily armed and slow. Whichever best suits your playing style is up to you.

Unlike many other shooters, World Reborn features a leveling system for the pilots and the ships. This system utilizes the points earned from the enemies you defeat to increase the power of your pilots and ships, much like an RPG (Role Playing Game). This combines with in-game power-ups for weapons to grant you the firepower you need to drive back the Biotech forces for good.

World Reborn features a map selection system, which allows you to select the next area you wish to complete from a group of available levels. You might decide, for example, that you want to submerge yourself in an underwater area to defeat the Biotech forces. Or you might decide that you want to fly into the canyon and perform a daring "trench-run" defeating the Biotech in the hot, arid landscape. This grants you freedom to control your route as well as improving replayability by allowing you to take different paths and explore new areas.

You're in control and your decisions affect the outcome of the story. You will meet different characters in your journey depending on your actions and reveal a different story each time. You'll make new friends and learn about their personalities. World Reborn has two main storylines and each features two subplots; how you save the world is up to you.

World Reborn also features no profanity, no sexual content and no blood and gore. As a parent, you wouldn't have to worry about buying this title for your children. And as a child, you wouldn't have to worry about whether or not your parents would find it acceptable. In a time when so much pressure is placed on the industry to control the content of its games, a series of family oriented titles is a welcome sight.