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I think that you can use the cd in a (maybe non-computer) cd player. I remember that being pretty cool

[JimmyJ]

maybe, or perhaps it'll say NO DISK INSERTED !!

Well, you can use the CD of Descent II as music CD, but I think Descent 1 has only MIDI music. At least I know nothing of CD music being released for Descent...

[scav_engr]

This game is one of my all-time favorites, and for one big reason- u got to fly. Once you got used to be in tunnels verses outside, and once you got your flying down, this game was just great. Keyboarders I never understood how they did it, but played this game with Logitech's original Wingman Joystick- it was the best. With the Wingman and the cone hat switch you would do your directional strafe- up/down/L/R- this was key. Once u got your bearings in flying, this game was just awesome, maps not that hard to figure out, smart bots, a good challenge the whole way. Before I was able to fly 'right,' this game was very discouraging and was easy to be uninterested, but once fixed- great ride. Online with Kali was just great and not until Descent 2 did things for me get complicated. They went nuts in the map design and lack of ammo on the maps- I lost interest and didn't even finish D2. -But the addition of the thief bot in D2 was very slick.

Years later and after it's release I found Descent 3 out there and got that- with the publisher changes, it was a little different, but same good 'ol fun. The maps here were less complex than D2, but progressively became much longer and the add-on extra levels were gigantic. Too bad for D1,D2, or D3 that this game isn't played online anymore, think it still is on re-restarted Kali, but not in a huge community like it was. Multiplayer in DeathMatch and the just as fun or better in the other respect- CoOp, was just great. Get a good joystick with a good hat switch to control your strafe and a-z for forward/back gas on keyboard and this game is easily played. Cool to see this on this site, have all the original releases d1-d3, a Descent 4 on say the Doom3 engine would be great- hope it happens.

-comment replies-
-vr goggles: not me, but always wanted to try that
-kali: kali was great with this game, rounds and rounds of megapro, (the often complained was played too much as a level- loved it everytime), this was the best
-Tony: thnx for the keyboard layout, always wondered how to do it easily on a keyboard, have to try that. This also cause alot of keyboard player people were always very good in multiplayer. (whomever those people were.)
-Orientation: yes, an option to re-right the ship in options, very handy to have turned on.
-Descent 1 was only midi


Awesome Game.


sc

Hey Yall, they are still doing more work on the Descent series...

The communities of Planet Descent and the DBB have been doing a lot to upgrade the older versions to new, more workable games. Now they can't continue the series because of copyrights...

Check out the two newest projects:

-Now play Descent ][][ with WHOA graphics! It allows the game to run on Win and Mac. Check out the new Descent Relived project. http://novacron.sitesled.com/drelived/

-If you want EXTREME graphics :blink: ...Check out the project InterCerberon. They a running the Descent series into the face of Doom 3. This all makes for awsome graphics k: and gameplay. http://www.chmodoplusr.com/IntoCerberon/

Visit the forums of PD and the DBB here
- HOME http://www.planetdescent.com/
FORUMS http://www.planetdescent.com/asp/forum_index.asp?

- HOME http://www.descentbb.net/phpbb/index.php

This game is great!!! When I was younger I spent much time in front of the computer playing this game! (My english isn't very good - I'm from... Poland )

[Cockroach]

I got a demo for the game about 10 years back. Got so disoriented on the 3 missions that it had that I uninstalled it and never played it again to this day. :blink:

LOL it was the same with me when I played the demo back then. But I tried it soon after again out and liked it then so much that I bought the full game when I had enough pocket money together...

This game was frustrating and good, i remember me and an old friend stayed up all night playing this game, we drunk lucazade all night to keep awake and alert, we couldnt stop twitching the following day...LOL..memories.

Descent rocks!

How Do You Download It??