The game received very positive reviews from video game critics, who widely lauded the multiplayer mode and the inclusion of the Guide-Bot, a scouting robot that guides the player to their objectives. Unlike other first-person shooters, its six-degrees-of-freedom scheme allows the player to move and rotate in any three-dimensional space and direction.ĭescent II 's development started as a project intended to expand the original using a compact disc's storage, which later became a standalone product.
The base of the gameplay remaining the same, the player controls a spaceship from the pilot's perspective and must navigate extrasolar underground mines to locate and destroy their reactors and escape being caught in their self-destructions, while engaging and surviving infected robots, which will attempt to destroy the ship. It is the second installment in the Descent video game series and the sequel to Descent. For the PlayStation, it is known as Descent Maximum. Descent II is a 1996 first-person shooter game developed by Parallax Software and first published for DOS by Interplay Productions.
