 The game was awarded "Best 3DO Game" at the 1994 Consumer Electronics Show by "GamePro" and "Best 3DO Game of 1995" by "Electronic Gaming Monthly".Gilde highly praised Gex's visuals, and wrote that it would "win a 3DO beauty pageant".Prior to release, "GameFan"s E. Storm called Gex's model "one of the best looking and animated characters that [they] have ever seen" and praised the game's environments and parallax scrolling; however, he also expressed disdain in the game's titular character dawning the only pre-rendered model out of all of the characters, although he admitted that they were still "drawn well for the most part."