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Product Features
- 20 weapons--from the Flame Thrower to the Black Shark
- All objects have mass, velocity, moments of inertia, and other real-world properties
- More than 30 all-new robots
- Incredible special effects, including spectacular reflective surfaces
- Complete cross-platform play (Macintosh to PC and vice versa) or Internet play over a modem
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This third installment of the Descent adventure continues the saga by utilizing advanced technology. The game,powered by a new Fusion engine, offers players a whole new level of freedom, allowing multiplay over the Internet and even across computing platforms.
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10 of 14 people found the following review helpful
actual game is great, but but it's extremely buggy
16 Mar 2000
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Descent 3 is such a great game! sweet graphics, an engrossing plot, really fun to use weapons, and cool new robots. But then it started crashing. And crashing. And crashing more and more in every possible way you could imagine, from in the middle of a level, to when I was trying to quit, to loading a saved game. I email graphic simulations repeatedly and never got a reply from them. Finally, I called them up and got things working ok(I actually got an email back from GraphSim a couple days ago, about 3 weeks after my first email). Now that I know what to do to make the game run without crashing, it's an awesome game, but I definitely had to do some fine-tuning to get it working right.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Wow!
11 Jun 2001
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!
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
THE BEST MULTIPLAYER OUT OF THE BOX!
20 Dec 2000
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.
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