![Descent [Long Box]](https://gm.egamedb.com/descent-long-box-fct-sony-playstation.jpg)
| Console: | Sony Playstation |
| TV Standard: | NTSC |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Developer(s): | Parallax Software |
| Publisher(s): | Interplay Entertainment Corp. |
| Release Date: | 1996-01-26 |
| Players: | 1 |
| Co-op: | No |
| ESRB: | T - Teen |
| Type: | Action, Shooter, Flight Simulator |
Descent is a first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Parallax Software and released by Interplay Productions in 1995 for MS-DOS, and later for Macintosh, PlayStation, and RISC OS. It popularized a subgenre of FPS games employing six degrees of freedom and was the first FPS to feature entirely true-3D graphics. The player is cast as a mercenary hired to eliminate the threat of a mysterious extraterrestrial computer virus infecting off-world mining robots. In a series of mines throughout the Solar System, the protagonist pilots a spaceship and must locate and destroy the mine's power reactor and escape being caught in the mine's self-destruction, defeating opposing robots along the way. Players can play online and compete in either deathmatches or cooperate to take on the robots.
