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Descent II

Trivia

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

Contributed by Santa (847) on Sep 22, 2004.

This egg only works on version 1.2 of the game:
Go into any level and get a bunch of robots in one room.
Now type SILKWING
Watch the fun begins :) (play on hotshot or above for the ultimate display of AI)

Descent II featured 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.

A cheat code in Descent 2 is FREESPACE. This was also the name of the next game from the developer.

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

Contributed by phlux (4157) on May 23, 2002.

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!

Did you know that you can run Descent II in higher than 800x600? Just type in the command line, "descent2 -superhires" and access additional 1024x768 and 1280x1024 resolution modes from the options menu!