Descent³

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Description

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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Trailer

Alternate Titles

• "天旋地转3" -- Simplified Chinese spelling
• "Descent III" -- Informal title
• "Descent³: The Saga Continues..." -- UK tag-lined title
• "Descent³: La saga continue ..." -- French tag-lined title
• "Descent³: die Saga wird fortgesetzt" -- German tag-lined title
• "Descent 3" -- Alternative spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Descent series
• Genre: Six degrees of freedom
• Middleware: SDL
• Setting: Venus

User Reviews

Not just for mining anymore...	Windows	Chris Martin (1204)
Very nice installment in the Descent series, but not the best.	Windows	Goteki45 (352)
May be the best game out there	Windows	Jeremy Bailey (5)
My Favorite Descent "Descentdant!"	Windows	Peter Hoeft (2)

Critic Reviews

PC Gamer	Windows	Sep, 1999	93 out of 100	93
Game Revolution	Windows	Jul 01, 1999	A-	91
Mac Ledge	Macintosh	Mar 12, 2000	4.5 out of 5	90
IGN	Macintosh	Jun 07, 2002	9 out of 10	90
Inside Mac Games (IMG)	Macintosh	Mar 03, 2000	9 out of 10	90
IGN	Windows	Jun 14, 1999	9 out of 10	90
Svenska PC Gamer	Windows	Sep, 1999	89 out of 100	89
PC Player (Germany)	Windows	Jul, 1999	89 out of 100	89
Hacker	Windows	Jul, 1999	69 out of 100	69
Macworld	Macintosh	Apr, 2000		60

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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

Related Web Sites

• Planet Descent (One of the biggest Descent sites around the internet)
• The Descent-Network (Site Description: "The Descent Network hosts the biggest websites for Descent-related information and download since mid of 97. Since mid of 1998 we are extending our web to cover all other games released or about-to-be released by Volition, Inc. and Outrage Entertainment. This URL, descent-network.com, is there to combine the sites and to serve as a gateway to the Descent Network sites, as well as offering shared resources."
  
  My Opionion: Its the largest collection of stuff for the Descent Series that I have ever seen, thousands of levels for Descent 1,2,3 and Freespace 1,2. Numerous contests going on, like level building contests and robot building contests. Also has a whole arsonal of Descent robot and level editing tools for download. If you like descent, you will LOVE this site. )