Descent 2

I grew up playing this game in 1995, it is the main reason I like flying today! Awesome Game

Descent was the first game to truly creep me out with the uncanny AI of the enemy robots. The storyline of the game was equally unnerving - being sent to remote mining colonies to hunt down mining robots gone rogue. One of my all-time favs.

Okay, I'll give you a little insight as to how much I love(d) this game. I was in 2nd grade. The day I bought it from Circuit City and brought it home, I was immediately hooked. I stayed on my Gateway 2000 for hours until I developed a fever and had to go to bed. Not long after, I wrote a 16 page short story based on the story given in the game. I was OBSESSED. Over the years, my copy deteriorated, O/S's started to hate it, and I was unable to play it for the longest time. Descent 3 gave me a little solace, but it was no replacement. When I found it on here, I immediately dropped everything I was doing, called in sick to work, and got the frak to it. Everything is JUST as I remembered it. The Cutscenes. THE CUTSCENES! This ALMIGHTY game is, and will always be my favorite videogame of all time. DUDDABOO!

"This is Vertigo One on approach to PTMC outer rim station MIL123, requesting clearance to dock..." OMG these games on Heat.net were SO fun.

I've played through Descent 1 & 2 probably about 5 times each over the course of the years since their release. They are timeless classics that will keep you coming back over any over again. I listened to the soundtrack of Descent 2 repeatedly, there are 1 or 2 annoying songs but for the most part each song adds to the atmosphere of the game giving it a sense of depth and epic seclusion. The atmosphere of the games is disorienting and claustrophobic but in a really good way. There are also thousands of fan made levels for both Descent 1 and 2. This is another reason that this game still has legs. Endless variety. Some of the fan-made levels take advantage of the fact that the Descent engine allows for creative geometry that can overlap itself. Anyway, for some of the nice extras you should be aware of: Descent Rebirth (high quality textures and an updated rendering engine): http://www.dxx-rebirth.com/ Kool Bear (Get hooked up to multiplayer games, and download fan levels. Yes, people are STILL, as of April 2012 playing this game multiplayer) http://www.koolbear.com/Descent/intro.shtml Enjoy!