The second Descent game features new levels, new weapons and new robot enemies. It also comes with helpful ideas for the player like the Guide-bot, the ability to fly with afterburner or energy-to-shield converter that many times they become a must!

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Alternate Titles

"Descent 2" -- European title

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Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Descent 2	Windows	$8.99
	Descent 2	DOS	$8.99
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User Reviews

A great FPS with a cool twist!	Windows	Lord Matthias (18)
The same game with better graphics and better levels	DOS	wossname (159)
Didn't like the first, didn't like the second.	DOS	Tomer Gabel (4418)
Fantastic graphics and sound but hard to control.	Windows	gametrader (229)

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The Press Says

World Village (Gamer's Zone)	DOS	1997		100
Electric Playground	DOS	May 10, 1996	10 out of 10	100
GameSpot	DOS	May 01, 1996	9.2 out of 10	92
Entertainment Weekly	DOS	Apr 12, 1996	A-	91
PC Games (Germany)	DOS	Apr, 1996	91 out of 100	91
Mac Ledge	Macintosh	Oct 27, 1996	8.8 out of 10	88
Power Play	DOS	Apr, 1996	84 out of 100	84
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Windows	1996		80
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	DOS	Jun, 1996		80
High Score	DOS	Jun, 1996	2 out of 5	40

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Trivia

3D card support

The 1.2 patch of this game provides support for 3dfx and Rendition Video cards. The gameplay is the same, but the blockiness was smoothed out. The result is a more realistic looking game environment.

References

A cheat code in Descent II is FREESPACE. This was also the name of the next game from the developer.

References to the game

A voice sample from the game was used in the song Plasticity (on the same-titled record) by the industrial band Front Line Assembly.

Soundtrack

Descent II features music by the New York goth metal band Type O Negative in the form of a very shortened, instrumental version of their song Haunted, as well as two tracks written by industrial legend OhGr (formerly of Skinny Puppy), called Ratzez and Glut.

T-Shirt

The original marketing slogan for Descent II was "Your going down... AGAIN!" You could even get a T-Shirt featuring that slogan if you purchased the game from CompUSA.