The third installment of the famous 3d shooter Descent. Hop in your Pyro-GX, dive at high speed into the mines and blast hordes of robots without mercy!

Descent³ features the same 360 degrees, three axis action that the players of Descent and Descent II have come to love, but this time the game has far improved 3D graphics, more diversified objectives, more lethal weapons, and 3 different ships you can pilot.

And for the first time in the Descent series, you can actually fly out of the mines and explore outdoor areas.

Descent³ was also designed with multiplayer play in mind, and features a lot of mutiplayer game modes: the classic deathmatch, teamplay, capture the flag, monsterball (a kind of soccer with giant balls) and entropy.

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Alternate Titles

"Descent III" -- Informal title

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Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Descent 3	Macintosh	$2.85
	Descent 3	Windows	$2.85
	Descent 3	Linux
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User Reviews

Not just for mining anymore...	Windows	Chris Martin (1112)
Very nice installment in the Descent series, but not the best.	Windows	Goteki45 (308)
May be the best game out there	Windows	Jeremy Bailey (5)
My Favorite Descent "Descentdant!"	Windows	Peter Hoeft (2)

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The Press Says

Daily Radar	Windows	1999		100
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Windows	Jul 01, 1999		100
PC Gamer	Windows	Sep, 1999	93 out of 100	93
Game Revolution	Windows	Jul 01, 1999	A-	91
GameSpot	Windows	Jun 28, 1999	9 out of 10	90
Game industry News (GiN)	Macintosh	2000		90
Svenska PC Gamer	Windows	Sep, 1999	89 out of 100	89
GameStar (Germany)	Windows	Jul, 1999	82 out of 100	82
Absolute Games (AG.ru)	Windows	Jun 22, 1999	80 out of 100	80
Spel för Alla	Macintosh	Feb, 2000	7 out of 10	70

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Trivia

Novels

There are several Descent³ novels in your local bookstore, written by Peter Telep (who also wrote novelization of Space: Above and Beyond, and Wing Commander: The Movie, among others)

Trailer

The 1st disc came with a trailer for the late lamented Star Trek: The Vulcan Fury game. This was to be the ultimate trekkie adventure game, complete with a script by Trek author DC Fontana. The game used photorealistic renders of the cast of TOS. You could even see the drawn eyebrows on Spock! For some reason, Interplay canceled this game.

Information also contributed by Scott Monster

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