Descent

At first game starts pretty easy. It provides a lot of fun, until specific type of drones appear. Hitscanners. It is really hard to avoid their shots and their appearance means to you will simply loose health. From this point on game is really hard. This is a shame, because game is actually good. Great controls, maze like levels, awesome weapons.

i played the original shareware and full game in 95 when it came out. full multiplayer combat experiences, the tense moments in singleplayer, and a renewed experience in dxx-rebirth. having played the original and now a linux native d1x-rebirth source port, it still holds up excellent. DOSBOX version has an issue with cpu cycles and the "bob" "hover" movement, its unfortunate. the d1x-rebirth has the option of 16:9 but its fake, its stretched. the hud is stretched, the world pixels are stretched, its not true widescreen. play with 4:3 and youre golden.

First off, the main engine and source of this game is opensource and there is a better solution out there already called the descent rebirth project (google it), gog didn't bother including it in this package. Second, it runs under windows vista as a dosbox application, why bother? the rebirth engine runs as a windows app out of the gate. Third, stability. the dosbox equivalent of this game crashes on me repeatedly in the first D2 level. Which is the reason I went searching for the rebirth patch / fix in the first place. Fourth, to get the rebirth patch working with the right music for the game you have to disect the gog file to make it work. Sure this complaint shouldn't really be a complaint seeming obviously it was gog.coms intention to make you play the old, non-improved, cheap dosbox edition. In short, Descent and Descent 2 are great games, but gog.com really doesn't deliver anything but the descent.gog files for you to make your own solution out of them. Are all gog.com's games this slapped together?

Seriously, 360 shooter is awesome, how did games like Halo and other such popular shooters not have a space level with 360 controls.

It's hard to forget Descent. And I know, my copies of D2 still sit in my desk drawer. :-)