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Descent

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4.6/5

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4.6

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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

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4.6

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Product details
1995, Parallax Software, ESRB Rating: Teen...
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
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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.

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D1 in-game soundtrack avatar HD wallpaper D1 best soundtrack (MAC) manual reference card
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DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
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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
Rating:
ESRB Rating: Teen (Animated Violence)

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Changelog (13 November 2024)
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Posted on: July 14, 2009

ram8966

Verified owner

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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Posted on: September 21, 2009

MadMacs1958

Verified owner

Games: 51 Reviews: 16

WHAT?

you have never played Descent?! why not? this is a classic joystick arcade style game. blast away in 360 degrees of 3D space, upgrade weapons and missles and kill the bad bots. theres a upgrade on the net to put the game in true hi res 3D. (thanks for that GOG,) grab your joystick and download Descent 1,2,or 3 and have a blast. http://www.dxx-rebirth.com for the upgrade.


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Posted on: August 4, 2010

ship32

Verified owner

Games: 54 Reviews: 4

DESCENT LOVER

I had Descent 2 in my life I've been playing it a lot since I was young it used to belong to my big brother but I pay him for that game and it's mine, Descent 2 works on my win XP on disc but it depends of requirements that it may need to work on your XP computer. On 2009 I've ordered Descent 1 and try to see if it works on my XP but it was too fast and difficult for me to control and there is no sound at all which is not very compatible for XP so I tried playing it on my old laptop win 98 and it works great it plays musics but no sound at all just music :( on August 2009 I got a new Vista computer so I tried to install Descent II but had an error saying not compatible with the version of windows that I'm using and I think that game may not like the 64-bit Vista. Thanks to GOG that made Descent 1 & 2 very compatible for new modern computers like mine, I perches that game and it works pretty well not an error that will prevent me from playing Descent 1 & 2. If Descent II would have worked I wouldn't be able to end up looking at GOG and create an account.. Descent 1 & 2 are now stuck in my life lol but I might play my old disc of Descent 2 on my win 98 laptop and it works great on that too.


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Posted on: October 30, 2009

draconkang

Games: 7 Reviews: 3

Amazing

This game is a must have for any sci-fi fan, or anyone who claims to be into gaming. It just is fantastic as it presents a well written story, with a situation you can really emmerse yourself into. I really wish another would come out but alas the game industry says this type of game will not sell so no one is willing to make a similar game. It is the last of its kind, though I wish it was not true. Pick this game up if you want to see what old school gaming was like.


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