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	Gamasutra - Features -"Outrage’s Descent 3" [10.08.99]
		One year later, the sequel Descent II was released, which added another 30 levels to the mix and improved the game’s AI, thanks to the addition of the Guide-Bot and Thief-Bot.
		While Descent II was deemed a successful project, the process of trying to get teams located in two distant offices to work effectively together took a heavy toll on both teams.
		Descent I and II had the makings of a franchise for Interplay, and with any franchise, successful or otherwise, sequels are sure to follow.
	www.gamasutra.com /features/19991008/descent_01.htm (1169 words)

	Descent (computer game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Descent is a 3D first-person shooter video game noted for popularizing the use of true 3D rendering technology and providing the player with six full degrees of freedom (often abbreviated "6DOF") to move and to look around.
		Descent is also touted as being one of the first games that allowed on-the-fly joining of multiplayer games, whereas in Doom it is presumed that all players have to be queued prior to initiating the match.
		Descent Maximum is the PlayStation counterpart of Descent II on the PlayStation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Descent_(computer_game) (7823 words)

	Computer Game Reviews
		The game is actually based on a boardgame counterpart and makes the transition from game pieces and dice to computer monitor quite nicely.
		The game can be configured for several levels of realism so that everyone from casual to hardcore flight sim pilots can be satiated.
		This game has been on the hype list for a while, but unlike some over-hyped, over-sold games in the past, Homeworld delivers on all fronts.
	www.mikeriley.com /archives/cltv_02_files/games.htm (760 words)

	John Laird's Computer Games Research
		Research in Human-level AI using Computer Games.This was published in Communications of the ACM in January 2002.
		AI Characters and Directors for Interactive Computer Games, Proceedings of the 2004 Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, San Jose, CA, July 2004.
		A comparison of AI in computer games to research on computer generated forces (CGF) for distributed training.
	ai.eecs.umich.edu /people/laird/gamesresearch.html (628 words)

	Descent
		The word Descent by itself also refers to the part of a flight of an aircraft of decreasing the altitude before landing.
		The verb 'descent' also means decreasing the altitude in general.
		This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/de/Descent.html (84 words)

	MacGamer - Get In The Game
		Descent is the latest title to follow the first person 3D action game theme (do I seem to be in a reviewing rut, or what?), with all the features you have come to expect, i.e.
		Descent is one of the first games to take advantage of the 3D acceleration, drawing the animation from 3 to 10 times faster than machines without the card.
		The game ships only on CD-ROM and, although the game installs fully onto your hard drive, the CD must be present in the CD-ROM drive for the game to run.
	www.macgamer.com /features/?id=397 (2073 words)

	Descent review for the PS
		Yes, that already classic computer game has made its way on to the PlayStation, and it has brought some pleasant new surprises that were lacking on the computer version.
		Descent is a first person shooter game in which players must blast everything in sight to progress to the next level.
		Descent is the first game I have ever played that should come with a bonus sound track.
	www.gamerevolution.com /review/sony/descent (418 words)

	My Descent: Free Space Review
		This is where the game splits away from its cousins X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter and Wing Commander: Prophecy.
		This is one of the only games that actually make my heart pound, with scary time-critical levels such as blasting asteroids away from your flagship, and the climactic final battle in subspace against a HUGE (and I mean HUGE) enemy capital ship.
		The game branches off into 2 plot points in the middle somewhere, allowing you to play around 30 of the 50 missions for single player at a time.
	members.tripod.com /trencheralb/DescentR.html (487 words)

	"DESCENT 3"/ a game review from Christian Spotlight
		This is the one downfall of the game.
		In fact, in the Descent world, one of the objectives is to rescue hostages and preserve life.
		...as a wife who doesn't particularly enjoy her husband's enjoyment of computer games, I would like it noted that "Descent" is one of the rare games that doesn't annoy, horrify or sicken me with bloodshed and unnecessary language.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/games/2000/descent3.html (1091 words)

	Review: Descent 3 for PC on Gamepro.com.
		Descent 3 is a white-knuckle adrenaline ride of twisting tunnels, laser-turreted alien landscapes, and eye-popping pyrotechnics.
		New to Descent 3 is the opportunity to take your craft outdoors and shoot up various bunkers, gun turrets, and defending fighter craft.
		The level designs contain some of the most breathtaking sights ever seen in a computer game and they are filled with cunning enemies just waiting to sink their steel claws into your smoking carcass.
	www.gamepro.com /computer/pc/games/reviews/639.shtml (532 words)

	Review: Descent: Freespace - Part 2
		The action in the game itself seems to be a bit slower than both X-Wing and Wing Commander, although there is no shortage of action.
		Descent was heralded as having excellent AI (enemies would actually lure you down halls and into traps), and Descent: Freepsace has similar excellent artificial intelligence - not just with the bad guys, but your wing men as well.
		Probably the best feature of Descent: Freespace is multiplayer action, which the designers promise will have "12-player games over TCP/IP, Internet, or LAN." The possibilities of multiplayer action are endless: you can form squadrons and go on campaigns against the computer enemy, fight together, or fight against other squadrons.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/computer_gaming/7415 (300 words)

	GameSpy.com - Spotlights: PlanetDescsent
		Descent lives on as the staff of PlanetDescent continue to give a home to a community.
		The game may be old now, but the community lives on.
		Descent 3 totally captivated me with its beauty and innovative essence compared to the rest of the series.
	archive.gamespy.com /spotlights/august01/planetdescent/index.shtm (653 words)

	Forgotten Realms: Descent to Undermountain article by Al Giovetti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Many computer fantasy role playing games have been financial disasters because someone designed a game that was either buggy or did not have the right mix of features, play balance, and complex plot needed by the cadre of grognards.
		Each of the 50 evil denizens in the game are composed of from 235 to 350 polygons with new textures on the walls and characters.
		When Dungeon Master, a single player game not unlike Doom, but with a plot, was released one of the artists at Faster than Light received an award for the best animated figure: a very large red dragon.
	www.thecomputershow.com /computershow/previews/frdescenttounderm.htm (1239 words)

	Review: Descent: Freespace - Part 1
		Once in awhile, a game comes along, where, upon running the demo for the first time, it dawns on me: This game will be mine.
		Descent: Freespace is, as its name implies, an almost entirely opposite game than its distant cousins, Descent and Descent 2.
		Descent: Freespace is built around a very, very impressive 3D graphics engine, which fully supports the advanced features of most 3D graphics cards.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/computer_gaming/7414 (450 words)

	CNN - Review: Descent 3 - August 5, 1999
		Descent's 360 degrees of nausea-inducing movement, level design emphasizing players' spatial-awareness skills, and killer AI made the game a looker and a fighter.
		The game's indoor environments are strikingly different from each other--you'll zoom through caves, prisons, a subway, and otherworldly mineshafts.
		Descent 3 is pure action and unique combat at its best, with improved AI, some decent puzzles, and excellent level design to boot.
	www.cnn.com /TECH/computing/9908/05/descent.idg/index.html (936 words)

	Science Fiction Game Reviews: Final Fantasy VII
		One reputable gaming magazine--Computer Game Strategy Plus--claimed the game failed to work on five of their seven machines.
		A problem appears to exist with the game's full-motion video routines, but whatever the glitch, prudent gamers may want to wait for the inevitable patch before sinking forty bucks into the product.
		Although the combat system is top-notch (all real-time RPGs should drop their systems and adopt SquareSoft's approach), the rest of the game was intensely mediocre.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue77/games.html (635 words)

	Jumpgate to my Computer games page!
		For those of you that have been stuck in a cave for the past three years, Descent is a 3-D game that has you flying a ship through subterranean mines.
		Based on the board game, Mechwarrior 2 has a lot of information and storyline that is not in other games.
		The great thing about this game is that it gives you a Mech Lab where you can choose the armorment and type of mech you wish to use.
	www.ocf.berkeley.edu /~nathprac/games.html (440 words)

	Planet Descent - News, Screenshots, Previews, Reviews, Guides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Since the famous german yearly Descent LAN "Do_LAN_6" is less than two weeks ahead, the time is runing out for a chance to sign up...
		This large project completely reworks all of the ships, weapons, and countermeasures in the game, including replacing the Magnum with the Starhawk and the BP with a brand-new model, the Fang.
		Descent will of course be the main game played, but your kind host has asked you what you would perfer to eat at this party, how do you respond?
	www.planetdescent.com (1194 words)

	Descent II - Linux Gamer Guide - StrangeGamer.com
		In the game, players pilot a hovercraft/spaceship through more tunnels and fight more robots.
		Some games have specific system requirements, and may not be compatible with all versions of Linux.
		This game has Free (as in Freedom) source code available for download.
	linux.strangegamer.com /index.php?title=Descent_II (200 words)

	Descent game help
		Descent is a stomach wrenching game that is a truly 3D action shooter.
		In Descent you control a robot which must navigate through tunnels collecting weapons, bonuses, collection hostages.
		In some cases this game may not work if you have the SET BLASTER statement in your autoexec.bat.
	www.computerhope.com /games/games/descent.htm (185 words)

	Descent 3 (pc: 2000): Reviews
		This is one of the very best games I’ve played in years, and an instant recommendation for anyone who has ever fondled a joystick or stroked a mouse.
		With its added story elements, new play features and improved game engine, Descent 3 has clearly distinguished itself from its other 'descentants' (I swear, it's really late right now) and is one of the best vehicular shooters I have ever played.
		This is a tough game to control, and has enough twists and turns to keep even hard-core fans of the genre involved and challenged.
	www.metacritic.com /games/platforms/pc/descent3 (1161 words)

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		Chosen by Computer Gaming World as part of their 'Hall of Fame' ("DOOM revolutionized PC action games"), DOOM has been one of the most played computer games of the past few years.
		The game engine can be a bit buggy at times, but this can be overlooked because of the (at the time) excellent graphics, sound effects, and the coolness factor of playing a game based on the Terminator movies.
	www.dosgames.com /g_3d.php (2389 words)

	Descent 3
		When run on a descent computer, the game is smooth; and you can brilliantly take advantage of the game's 360* motion.
		The most annoying part about that game were those parasite robots, they always kept me on edge, and the mosquito-bots.
		It also was one of those games that had a very complex setup installation, and if you don't know much about the parts or port numbers you could be easily fooled and the game stuffs up and the refresh rate becomes poor...as you have the wrong settings!!
	www.dosgames.com /forum/post-34319.html (826 words)

	Descent II for PC - Descent II PC Game - Descent II Computer Game (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If you don't like Descent at least a little bit, make no mistake, there is something wrong with you.
		It's a video game, it's a cartoon, it's a toy, it's a lunch box, and now it's a PC CD-ROM game.
		Mindscape's fantastic new adaptation of the classic can teach you how to play, how to improve your game, and how to gracefully get your butt kicked over and over by a computer.
	www.gamespot.com.cob-web.org:8888 /197096 (298 words)

	PC Demos - Descent: Freespace - The Great War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		The latest in the always entertaining Descent series.
		This one includes over 40 ships, lots of weapons, tight control over your squadron, and a mission editor.
	www.computeruser.com /free/downloads/games/pc/demos/descent.html (190 words)

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	www.gamespot.com /pc/action/descent (198 words)

	descent - OneLook Dictionary Search
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	www.onelook.com /?w=descent (286 words)

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