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Descent

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4.6/5

( 161 Reviews )

4.6

161 Reviews

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Descent
Description
Prepare To Start Your Descent. Sensory overload in 360° 3-D. Welcome to Descent™ - 27 levels of the most mind-bending, stomach-churning action game ever. Featuring true 3-Dimensional worlds with light source shading, texture mapping, 3-D morphing, directional sound effects and sizzling music,...
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4.6/5

( 161 Reviews )

4.6

161 Reviews

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Product details
1995, Parallax Software, ...
System requirements
Windows 10, 1.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c, 1 GB available space...
Time to beat
12.5 hMain
20 h Main + Sides
30 h Completionist
16 h All Styles
Description
Prepare To Start Your Descent.

Sensory overload in 360° 3-D.

Welcome to Descent™ - 27 levels of the most mind-bending, stomach-churning action game ever. Featuring true 3-Dimensional worlds with light source shading, texture mapping, 3-D morphing, directional sound effects and sizzling music, this is technology taken to the limit.

Something has happened at Lunar Base I. The Post-Terran Mining Company has lost contact with the miners and none of the mining robots are responding. The PTMC has brought in you the Material Defender to deal with the situation. Your mission is to find any survivors and find the source of threat. You will start a journey that takes you from the Moon to Pluto. Best of luck Material Defender.

Lunge straight down mine shafts, twist around never-ending tunnels and fight your way past robotic menaces in an environment that's truly 6 degrees of freedom... move up, move down, shoot everything everywhere. Hang onto your senses (and your lunch) as you drop straight down mine shafts on a ride that'll leave you spinning.

And what's the good of losing your mind if you can't share the experience with your friends? Descent invites you and your buddies to dive into the action together with head-to-head combat and cooperative two-player modem and eight-player network support.

Get ready for Descent...

(C) 1995 Parallax Software Corp. Descent and the Interplay logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Interplay Entertainment Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. All rights reserved. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Goodies
D1 in-game soundtrack avatar HD wallpaper D1 best soundtrack (MAC) manual reference card
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:
This game is powered by DOSBox.
Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
12.5 hMain
20 h Main + Sides
30 h Completionist
16 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (10, 11), Mac OS X (10.9+)
Release date:
{{'1995-02-13T00:00:00+02:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0200 ' }}
Size:
25 MB

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Posted on: May 9, 2009

DEMON212

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Games: 123 Reviews: 16

Brilliant!

60 fantastic levels for less than a fiver! For those who've never played it before the basic gist is that something went down and you're the guy they've sent in to fix it. You've got to navigate your way through the mazes finding keys to advance to the reactor to blow it up, then you've got a mad dash to find the exit. So it might be worth finding the exit first. In your way are hordes of enemies that've gone haywire, so thankfully your ship comes with weapons as standard. And with a little exploration you can find even more than your bog standard Lasers and Concussion Missiles, like Quad Lasers, Homing Missiles, Plasma Cannons, Vulcan Cannon etc... There's also some items out there, for example to help you in dark areas find the headlight, or for a quick getaway get the afterburner! Descent also features some boss enemies, so there's a good deal of variety here :) The only downside is the speed of the mouse, it's very slow. But, for the price, if you like FPS', then you can't go wrong. It's just brilliant :)


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Posted on: May 21, 2009

Storko

Verified owner

Games: 3 Reviews: 3

Still The Best

It doesn't matter what I play over the years, nothing has surpassed Descent.


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Posted on: May 29, 2009

Edgecrusher2

Verified owner

Games: 232 Reviews: 4

Great game

This game is still as fun as it used to be. I recommend using DXX-Rebirth, as it enables high resolution (well of course models are still low-polygons), 16/10 aspect ratio and good controller support, while still retaining the original feeling. I personnaly play with the Xbox 360 controller and it's really confortable. This game is stil unmatched and really brings a lof of fun.


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Posted on: July 14, 2009

ram8966

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Games: 49 Reviews: 3

Desecent a way of getting sick

Love the game so many mind twisting level of just blowing shit up. Love coming back over and over to play this game.


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Posted on: July 15, 2009

AceJak

Verified owner

Games: 12 Reviews: 3

I really LOVED Descent:

To tell you all I have really injoyed playing this 1 again, Descent was 1 game that certenly bought back a hell of a lot of nostouger & memory's, vertialy all through playing Descent it just bought about emotional feelings of times past, how ever having played & completed (Descent 1) when playing (Descent 2) I couldn't for some reason turn down the damned music I could only turn down the FX volume but not the damned music, The music in D2 is so bloody loud that it drains out the FX sound in the game and also I even tryed to go to setup to try & turn down music volume but cant for some reason, None the less I.ve certenly injoyed playing Descent 1 though


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