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Descent Review
No exploding body parts or fireball-vomiting demons here--Descent puts an industrial spin on the genre by taking you into the bowels of huge factory-like space stations to fight mining robots ...
Descent was the first fully three-dimensional, 360 degree space shooter available for PC. You were a mercenary pilot hired by a mining corporation to destroy robots that went berserk due to a virus. The game took you thr... Read Full Review
5 of 5 users found the following review helpfulYou know how everyone always talks about how Quake was the first truly 3D first-person shooter (by which they mean "totally made out of polygons")? It's just video game trivia, so it's not worth getting into an argument ... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpfulThe Descent series holds a special place in my heart. I played D1 and D2 (Sorry D3 fans, the game just never felt the same) from release until about '02, a total of 7 years of continuous game play. I can safely say that ... Read Full Review
3 of 3 users found the following review helpfulBack in 1995, Descent was the game that spawned the genre of Six Degrees of Freedom games, games that enabled the user to fly on all three axis rather than planting the user on the ground, forcing the user to utilize two... Read Full Review
4 of 5 users found the following review helpfulThe Descent series was my first experience as a gamer so I have some bias towards the title. Even still I can to this day remember 8 years ago when at my school the Typing teacher installed Descent on all the computers a... Read Full Review
2 of 2 users found the following review helpful
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