Scramble is a scrolling shooter video game for Xbox 360 where players control an aircraft known as a Jet. The objective is to navigate varied terrains while battling obstacles and enemies. Armed with forward-firing weapons and bombs, players must conserve fuel, which depletes over time. The game features six terrain sections, each offering unique challenges, and awards points for survival and destruction of enemies and fuel tanks, culminating in a mission completion by destroying a base. The game cycles back to the initial section with increased difficulty.
The player controls an aircraft, referred to in the game as a "Jet," and has to guide it across a scrolling terrain, battling obstacles along the way. The ship is armed with a forward-firing weapon and bombs; each weapon has its own button. The player must avoid colliding with the terrain and other enemies, while simultaneously maintaining its limited fuel supply which diminishes over time. More fuel can be acquired by destroying fuel tanks in the game.
The game is divided into six sections, each with a different style of terrain and different obstacles. There is no intermission between each section; the game simply scrolls into the new terrain. Points are awarded based upon the number of seconds of being alive, and on destroying enemies and fuel tanks. In the final section, the player must destroy a "base". Once this has been accomplished, a flag denoting a completed mission is posted at the bottom right of the screen. The game then continues by returning to the first section once more, with a slight increase in difficulty.