Descent

I've waited quite a long time for an opportunity to play the Descent series once again. Thirteen years ago, the first Descent game was the game that made me the gamer I am today. If it wasn't for this game, I am certain I would not have taken to games the way I have. For years I've been searching for a way to relive my original experience, even going so far as to restore the original computer (which failed miserably) I played it the game on for the first time when I was 7. All I can say now is, I wouldn't be surprised to see my grades start to slip and my friends to start worrying. I haven't been this excited about a game in a while, and this one is more than a decade old. If you're like me and you want to relive your old school gamer-dom, by all means do it! It's a nostalgia overdose! Now to find a way to get my ancient Sidewinder joystick to work again...

This was the very first game addiction I had. I would stay up till 4am or all night just to play this. The multi-player back then was incredible. I don't remember the name of the service, but it was like Steam, but for old games. Me and several friends would fight each other for hours. Oh the memories. Bottom line, with the DXX rebirth open-source code this game is incredible. Just Google it, then download. Copy and paste and you're done, you can run them at 1080p. The A.I. in this game is among the best. Dang that thief in D2! You will have hours and hours of fun, and a race to find the exit:-) You will not regret this game if you purchase it.

Everyone remembers Doom for being the Godfather of first person shooters, but Descent is the game that took arcade FPS and threw in six degrees of freedom into this turbulant mix! Playing this game on PlayStation did this franchise little justice - It wasn't until you installed this game on your beast of a PC and break out the state of art peripherals (eg, Joysticks, Gamepads, HOTAS rigs, VR Headsets, etc.) did you begin to appreciate the experience this franchise has to offer. Frantic combat with boots on th ground is one thing, just try the same thing in zero-G 360 degree combat in tight spaces. The first two games offer arguably the pinacle experience as you levels involve fighting your way through swams of robots armed to the teeth into order to blow a reactor, the race like a bat of hell to the exit just as Wedge Antilles and Lando Calrisian did in Return of the Jedi - Not making the exit before the reactor blows is pretty obvious as you lose a life and all the sweet gear you racked up in the previous levels. Both Descent 1 & 2 run beautifully on both Windows and Macintosh... Run the games with DXX Rebirth for Linux along with extra peripheral support and these games really rock! Best workout I ever got was setting my Yaw to the rudder pedals on my CH HOTAS ;)

Thanks for bringing these two games back! They are among the first I played on PC, in addition to other classics like Doom, RoTT, Duke Nukem, etc. of the same era. I think this is the first and maybe only game I have played where a joystick was a distinct advantage. I used to be big on flight sims, and I could manage to play these using just the keyboard/mouse. Not Descent, though! Still trying to find that optimal control configuration to this day. Truly a classic in every sense. Gameplay that continues to impress, appropriate difficulty settings, and revolutionary in the FPS and simulation genres.

Spent weeks beating this on a 486/33 with an S3 911 video chip . . . I remember the local rock radio station (DC/101) handing this out to the [whatever]ith caller!