Descent 3 1998
Win9x Shareware (partial game)
Developed by Outrage Entertainment
Published by Interplay Productions
Genre: 3D Shooter
User rating: 7.0 (1 vote)
32MB RAM
100MB hard drive space
Taking place immediately after the events of Descent II, you pilot a space ship that moves 360 degrees in all three dimensions inside of space mines. You work for a mining corporation whose bases have been attacked by an invasion force that is heading towards Earth. The manufacturing facilities have been adapted from building mining robots to develop a robot army. Your mission is to move from mine to mine, destroy the core and escape before the entire mine is obliterated. The GuideBot, introduced in Descent II, is still present. Descent 3 gains DirectX, OpenGL and 3Dfx Glide graphics in the transition to Win9x. Despite being limited to a resolution 640×480, the graphics are significantly improved from Descent II. The robots have much more intelligent AI. A demo was released before the game was released in 1999, featuring a level in the Beta Ceti system on the planet Tiris, where the hero wiped out a virus in Descent II. The belief is that the virus may have mutated. A second demo was released later on, which takes place on the Martian moon Deimos. There are 15 levels in this game, with only 1 level playable in each of the shareware demoes.
Developed by Outrage Entertainment
Published by Interplay Productions
Genre: 3D Shooter
User rating: 7.0 (1 vote)
System Requirements
Pentium 200 or better32MB RAM
100MB hard drive space
3D Accelerated Video Card
Windows 95/98 with DirectX 6.0
or Windows NT with DirectX 3.0
Graphics
Downloads
| Descent 3 Demo 2 Version 1.2 (38,149,632 bytes) | 19 April 1999 | Win9x | |
| Descent 3 Interactive Demo v1.0 (29,363,712 bytes) | 24 October 1998 | Win9x |
Availability
Interplay no longer sells this game.It can be downloaded in a Windows XP/Vista/7-compatible format from GOG for $5.99.
It can be purchased from Amazon:
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