Interplay Productions Mac Play (Mac OS) R-Comp Interactive (Risc OS)
Director(s)
Mike Kulas
Matt Toschlog
Producer(s)
Rusty Buchert[1]
Designer(s)
Jasen Whiteside
Mark Dinse
Che-Yuan Wang
Programmer(s)
Matt Toschlog
Mike Kulas
John Slagel
Jason Leighton
Che-Yuan Wang
Artist(s)
Adam Pletcher
Jasen Whiteside
Doug Brooks
Writer(s)
Ryan Garcia
Composer(s)
Dan Wentz
Brian Luzietti
Larry Peacock
Leslie Spitzer
Jim Torres
Tim Wiles
Platform(s)
DOS
Mac OS
PlayStation
RISC OS
Windows
Release
MS-DOS
NA: March 13, 1996
EU: March 29, 1996
Mac OS
NA: August 1996
PlayStation
NA: May 15, 1997
EU: Mid-1997
RISC OS
WW: May 19, 2001
Genre(s)
First-person shooter, shoot 'em up
Mode(s)
Single-player, multiplayer
Descent II is a 1996 first-person shooter game developed by Parallax Software and first published for DOS by Interplay Productions. For the PlayStation, it is known as Descent Maximum. It is the second installment in the Descent video game series and the sequel to Descent. The base of the gameplay remaining the same, the player controls a spaceship from the pilot's perspective and must navigate extrasolar underground mines to locate and destroy their reactors and escape being caught in their self-destructions, while engaging and surviving infected robots, which will attempt to destroy the ship. Unlike other first-person shooters, its six-degrees-of-freedom scheme allows the player to move and rotate in any three-dimensional space and direction.
Descent II's development started as a project intended to expand the original using a compact disc's storage, which later became a standalone product. The game received very positive reviews from video game critics, who widely lauded the multiplayer mode and the inclusion of the Guide-Bot, a scouting robot that guides the player to their objectives. The PlayStation version's reception was rather mixed, with critics often disagreeing in their evaluations of its frame rate. A sequel, Descent 3, was released in 1999.
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