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[xonic64]

Descent 3 was also great.

Hey

Descent is still around. There´s a large German community, visit www.descentforum.de
There´s also the DescentBB, with people from the whole world, visit www.descentbb.net and www.descentbb.com

For D1 the Project D1X-Rebirth was started, with the goal to enhance the original Descent and make it run under Windows.
For D2 there is D2X-Rebirth (same as D1X-R, for Descent2), and D2X-XL, a large project for Windows, Linux and MacOS, with a lot of graphical and gameplay improvements and bug fixes.

www.dxx-rebirth.de
www.descent2.de

Descent3 is played by most players, on over 50 onlinegame-servers.
The tool Vortex makes it especially easy to join a game (with one or two clicks!).

oh, Descent1 and Descent2 can also be played online easily.

Descent rulez! k:

[Cosmonaut_Roger]

Hah, There are 3 games I grew up playing over the modem: Descent, Rise of the Triad, and Doom. I have to say, seeing that Descent intro really brought back memories. It truly was a wonderful game, and I really liked that Descent 2 incorporated early 3Dfx features.

What are some other opinions on Descent 3 here? I didn't like it, but I could never figure out why. It seemed like it did what D1 and D2 did, but better, but I just could not get into it. I used a joystick with the same controls I used for the old games, but something about it seemed hollow to me. I dont know what it is, but I've tried about 4 times to get into Descent 3 but it just never worked. Anyone else experience this?

Most people who grew up with D1 and D2 (including me) say D3 doesn´t have the dark claustrophobic feeling like D1. D1 always used to scare the holy daylight out of me, it never got boring, but D3 gets really boring after a time.. There are several differences between D1: The "mines" are way to big, the robots look just neat and nice.. The weapons seem to have no effect (in D1 the weapons always make a loud explosion) and the robots are a too small so you cant hit them..

[Sartoris]

I'm not sure whether Freespace 1/2 are part of this series, but personally I think they're much better than the early descent games...

I enjoyed D1 and D3, for different reasons. True, D3 did not have the dark scary feeling that D1 did, but it holds it's own in other ways.

To play Descent 1 and Descent 2 on todays machines, use D2X-XL.

Visit www.prepare4descent.net

Anyone else use to play this with World of Warcraft on Kahn or Kali?

A very nice and really inovative game. The sequels are even better. Descent 2 was some kind of an "extension", and Descent 3 is a real masterpiece of the series, with new Windows engine and graphics, and inovative gameplay and storyline...
The first part is also very good however.

PS: Speaking about the review - Screenshot #4 there is from Descent-2...

[Scatty]

No it isn't. It's just with a fullscreen view without the cockpit, and if you look again you'll see that the red robot is from the first Descent too.

[Inquisitor]

well I played this one now and have to say its not as good as it was when I played it the first time in 1996. But still fascinating and over all measures: disorientating