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As with the previous titles, Descent 3 puts you at the controls of a heavily armed, highly maneuverable little spacecraft. Your mission is to duck and dive through subterranean mazes, blasting robotic foes into scrap, all the while fighting vertigo as you spin, thrust, and fire in every conceivable direction. Rich, flawless graphics rendering and realistic sound effects make D3 more convincing than ever. Although the controls can be a little overwhelming for the uninitiated (and might even be complex enough to make a keyboard preferable to a joystick), the upside is superior handling that lets you park on a dime.
Keeping with the same-but-better theme in D3, you get more weapons than ever (20 weapons in primary and secondary slots, including the evil-glee-inducing Mass Driver and Napalm Cannon); an improved Guide Bot to track down whatever you desire (power-ups, enemies, or the next piece in a problem-solving puzzle); way-better robot AIs (letting your enemies hit and run, ambush, work in teams, and feint); indoor/outdoor action (Descent 3's new Fusion Engine uses a flight-sim engine to seamlessly splice in wide-open outdoor environments); and more variations on multiplayer play (over a LAN or the Net). --Paul Hughes
Pros:
- Same addictive action of Descent and D2--one of the best shows in town for the Mac
- Deadlier weaponry and smarter robots to use it on
- Better rendering than ever, plus outside environments
- No significant improvements on game play from previous titles
- Yawn-inducing back-story
| PLATFORM: | Macintosh |
| AGE GROUP: | 12 years and up |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | Graphic Simulations |
| ESRB RATING: | Teen |
| TYPE: | Three (III), Science Fiction, First Person, Computer Games, Macintosh (Machintosh), Mac, Apple, Action |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| ACCESSORIES: | |
| UPC: | 740569000201 |
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Customer Reviews of Descent 3 (Mac)
Wow! This is a really cool game. When I found it at a college bookstore ..., I hadn't heard of it and didn't expect much. As soon as I installed it, I knew I was wrong. Although the plot of the single player mode is lame (oh come on, robots with viruses?), its still fun. The environments are very realistic and, after a while, call me crazy, but when I got shot after a time, it almost hurt... :). Multiplayer is even better for this game. Because much of the game is indoors, player pop out of random coridoors and surprise you with your friendly neighborhood mega. Also, the fact that it takes place indoors also makes it really fun while playing against other humans. They are smart, unlike the robots in single player mode, and many times, when a player is concentrating on a dogfight with another player, they are surprise from a nice Mass Driver round in the tail. Well, what are you waiting for? Buy it!
THE BEST MULTIPLAYER OUT OF THE BOX!
D3 rocks the online world! No game currently available (Dec 2000) has better netcode. The fully Client/Server architecture (Not Permissible C/S!) plays extremely well even when lagged at up to 500ms. "Peer to Peer" multiplayer mode will provide acceptable gameplay at up to 650ms.
Online play is brutally tough. Even with a million robot kills under your belt, you will die many many times when you first venture online to play.
You will need a good joy-stick with an 8-way "HAT" switch - a mouse is a poor controller for D3 (making it much tougher than it already is). D3 requires "Deep Skills" to play online successfully - in other words, you won't get good in 2 weeks. I've been playing online for over a year and now consider myself to be a "good" pilot...
There is an excellent and helpful on-line community. A chat interface comes with Descent 3. You'll often have more than 50 people to talk to in the various chat rooms... to organise a game or ask questions etc.
There are a LOT of web sites to help the online newbie...
The people who stay for more than a week all become addicted! There's nothing quite like it out there - dedication, practice and skills are rewarded with the adulation of your peers and a high kill-ratio. So, put down that tired old "Ground Pounder" and experience the joys of the "Six Degrees of Freedom" that D3 provides.
I'm gonna be sick
awesome packaging, and an even better game. Wow!