Descent

This is the first level of Descent, the 1996 shooter from developer Parallax. Descent introduced "six degreees of freedom;" basically it provided the movement capable of a flight sim in a confined environment like Doom. The end result was incredibly fun, particularly the multiplayer matches, requiring mastery of a fairly complex set on controls and spacial awareness.

This is actually a video of the DX1 Rebirth project, bringing the engine a little more up to date with OpenGL acceleration and higher resolutions. The original game, of course, used a software renderer.

I used to play this game with the Gravis Phoenix flight stick, ideally suited for the complex controls of Descent other than the fact that it would break so easily.

This is the first level of Descent, the 1996 shooter from developer Parallax. Descent introduced "six degreees of freedom;" basically it provided the movement capable of a flight sim in a confined environment like Doom. The end result was incredibly fun, particularly the multiplayer matches, requiring mastery of a fairly complex set on controls and spacial awareness.

This is actually a video of the DX1 Rebirth project, bringing the engine a little more up to date with OpenGL acceleration and higher resolutions. The original game, of course, used a software renderer.

I used to play this game with the Gravis Phoenix flight stick, ideally suited for the complex controls of Descent other than the fact that it would break so easily.