Descent Game?

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Anyone still remember Interplay's Descent series? A true 6-degrees of freedom shooter playing mostly underground in huge, complex maps, infested with "evil" mining robots?

Well, there is a kickstarter for a new game:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/descendentstudios/descent-underground

The game will feature multiplayer, but single player is also planned. One of the people working on it used to work on Star Citizen, too.



I have fond memories of Descent. I played all 3 parts. It's maps and play style were something unique. It was probably also the only FPS that I was good at - 3D is really hard for people.

Though I mostly focused on single player. (So I was a bit disheartened reading only about multiplayer features in the kickstarter project, but that was clarified - they also intend a single player campaign.)

 

[Janx]

yup, we had a lot of fun playing Descent after Doom and Duke Nukem as the mainstay for multi-player in college.

after awhile we went to Quake, but we got quite a few miles out of Descent.

 

[GMMichael]

I played Descent once or twice. Definitely overlooked it in favor of Quake and Nintendo64. I think it was the extra keyboard keys needed for z axis rotation that got to me.

Kickstarter has been my nemesis ever since these guys failed to fund: http://www.groundbranch.com/
[MENTION=8835]Janx[/MENTION]: since Quake didn't require the CD to be present to run, it presented some nice musical options. Did you get the chance to see how well Frank Sinatra went with killing?