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
Coming Soon Magazine	DOS	Apr 15, 1996	92 out of 100	92
Entertainment Weekly	DOS	Apr 12, 1996	A-	91
Mac Ledge	Macintosh	Oct 27, 1996	8.8 out of 10	88
PC Player (Germany)	DOS	Mar, 1996	85 out of 100	85
All Game Guide	Macintosh	1998		80
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Windows	1996		80
macHOME	Macintosh	1997		80
Computer Games Magazine	DOS	1996		80
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	DOS	Mar, 1996	76 out of 100	76

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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.