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Descent II

kataetheweirdo — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:05:01 +0000

Descent II feels more like an expansion pack than a sequel and that's because it's pretty much the same engine with minor cosmetic enhancements.

CD imaged as a bin-cue pair and compressed with OS X zip. Just unzip and burn with Toast to make a CD that contains both game (version 1.2) and audio partitions.

Download from max1zzz's server
Descent_II_bin-cue.zip

The last download at the top right is an updater.

Descent

MacWise — Fri, 01 May 2009 04:07:04 +0000

Featuring a full 3D engine a year before Quake was released for the Mac, Descent is the brain child of Michael Kulas (Ultima Underworld) and Matthew Toschlog (System Shock). But unlike those last two games, Descent is all about blowing things up. Robots, doors, reactors, other players—you name it.

Descent was substantially improved in the transition from DOS to Mac OS. Its screen resolution more than doubled, and its MIDI music became studio-quality CD tracks.