‘Descent’ Reboot Mines 90s Nostalgia While Updating Original Trilogy
‘Descent’ Reboot Mines 90s Nostalgia While Updating Original Trilogy. “Doom” and “Wolfenstein 3D” get a lot of credit for kicking off the first-person shooter genre (and deservedly so). Sadly, Parallax Software’s 1995 release, “Descent,” is often forgotten for its contributions to the genre.
For those who might have forgotten (or were too young to enjoy them), Parallax’s “Descent” trilogy added six degrees of freedom, creating