Descent

Since its initial release, I have maintained that no game past or present has had a user interface as sophisticated as that found in Descent. Think about it. Where else can you strafe straight up? Relative to other first person combat games of the era such as Doom and Heretic, the graphics really stood out from the pack. Full 3D enemies, weapons, and artifacts made this game believable. The only think left to say is not a statement of fact or a praise, which this game deserves much more of than I am giving it in this review. Rather, I'll end with a question. will we ever see a Descent 4? The world needs to be re-exposed the greatness that is Parallax Software.

You know the feeling when you relive a moment from your childhood and you remember the sense of joy that one particular thing brought you. Ya. This is one of those games. The quality is great for it's age, the gameplay is so incredibly solid you'll soil yourself, the music will get stuck in your head simply because it's that good, the level design is very unique to each level and set up like a maze that was constructed by the best minds on the team, and it has a very high replay value due to the difficulty differences each rank has. I am very happy I was able to find a copy that wasn't a portion of the game or just a taste, and 2 of them at that. Only problem is that I had to adjust some settings in the compatibility menu to get it to work right, but after that, no issues at all. If your a fan of blowing things up, flying freely, and high quality production for 1994-1996, Why are you reading this, get the game NOW.

And thats this game in a nutshell. Great maze crawl with enough action and hidden zones to keep you searching long after you know how to finish the level. The piloting can be done from a keyboard (I prefer it that way) or gamepad/joystick/mouse. Regardless of HOW you fly its challenging to master the strafes and longshots not that you have to, Much like its FPS counterparts running in guns blazing is still an effective method on most maps. Graphics are obviously from the dos era but you wont care after a few minutes of game play. Sound is amazing the soundtrack is actually industrial techno esque and not just some 8bit garbage. ALL in ALL great game and worth the money everytime.

Descent is my favorite game of all time. I've played *tons* of games throughout my life, but none has been as interesting and re-playable as Descent. Only wish they were still making them...oh well, at least GoG.com had the good oldie's available for download :)

Descent is the best flight game ever, you can move in all directions, smart enemies, great levels, when you are running away from the explosion after defeating the boss is very exciting. You will not regret after playing this game, in one word: awesome!!!.