Descent
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Descent is a shooter developed by Interplay Productions, released 3 March 1995 on Panasonic M2, PlayStation, DOS and Mac.
What Descent is
Descent is a shooter game developed by Interplay Productions and released in 1995. It was published by Interplay. It is available on Panasonic M2, PlayStation, DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Descent is a first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Parallax Software and released by Interplay Productions in 1995 for MS-DOS, and later for Macintosh, PlayStation, and RISC OS. It popularized a subgenre of FPS games employing six degrees of freedom and was the first FPS to feature entirely true-3D graphics. The player is cast as a mercenary hired to eliminate the threat of a mysterious extraterrestrial computer virus infecting off-world mining robots. In a series of mines throughout the Solar System, the protagonist pilots a spaceship and must locate and destroy the mine's power reactor and escape before being caught in the mine's self-destruction, defeating opposing robots along…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Descent holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 74, across 73 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1 Gigahertz or faster, 1 GB RAM and 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 or better. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Descent launched on 3 March 1995, within three weeks of Chrono Trigger, Star Wars: Dark Forces, Discworld and Front Mission. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Chrono Trigger, Star Wars: Dark Forces, Discworld, Front Mission.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Descent yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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