Like Doom, Descent offers excellent competitive multiplayer game play over a LAN.

In contrast with most popular multiplayer shooters such as Doom and Descent, XvT required far more data tracking and flow.

Descent was ported to Apple's Power Macintosh in 1996 and both versions support multiplayer network play over a variety of protocols.

Descent: FreeSpace was well received as a single-player space simulation that integrated all the desired features of its genre, but its multiplayer mode was plagued by lag and inaccurate tracking of statistics.

Descent is also touted as being one of the first games that allowed on-the-fly joining of multiplayer games, whereas in Doom it is presumed that all players have to be queued prior to initiating the match.

An add-on for Descent II containing twenty additional levels ( and three secret levels ), two new multiplayer modes ( Hoard and Team Hoard ), plus the officially licensed Descent Mission Builder 2.

The computer game Descent utilized fully three dimensional mazes.

* Three levels of the computer game Descent are set in facilities on Mars.

Descent 4 was a game being developed by Volition as part of the Descent game franchise, as a prequel to Descent.

* Descent ( video game ), first in a series from Interplay Entertainment and Parallax Software

* Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War, a computer game by Volition Inc

* Descent: Journeys in the Dark, a 2005 board game by Fantasy Flight Games

This wouldn't have been a big problem for the 6x86 if, by that time, Quake had a fallback to do perspective correction without the FPU like in e. g. the game Descent.

* In the video game Amnesia: The Dark Descent, there's a corpse on the morgue which you have to trepan in order to obtain a vaccine for a fungus in the game.

Descent is a 3D first-person shooter video game developed by Parallax Software and released by Interplay in 1994.

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Ogre and Mark Walk also contributed several tracks to the Descent II game soundtrack.

Agrippa is a character in Frictional Games ' 2010 video game Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

Alongside his tutor, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, he appears as a character in the video game Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

In 1995, Interplay published the hit game Descent, developed by startup Parallax Software.

* Interplay Films, a division of Interplay Entertainment, was formed in 1998 and was supposed to develop seven of the company ’ s most popular video game titles into movies, including Descent, Redneck Rampage and Fallout.

Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War is a 1998 space combat simulation IBM PC compatible computer game developed by Volition, Inc. when it was split off from Parallax Software.

Descent II was especially popular online due to its support for short packets and variable packet rate, which significantly improved quality of play over the slower Internet connections prevalent at the time.

With the advent of the Internet, IPX emulators such as Kali and Kahn, which actually combined better compression for IPX games with its own IRC network for users to meet in a standalone client, more and more people began to play Descent and Descent II over the Internet.

Descent II was especially popular online due to its support for short packets and variable packet rate — options which were crucial for smooth Internet play.

It also had a Major BBS add-on called " Game Connection " which allowed its users to play games such as Descent, Doom, and Quake, among other popular BBS door games such as Legend of the Red Dragon, Lunatix, TradeWars 2002, MajorMUD, BladeMaster, and Swords of Chaos.

After entering lunar orbit, Young, Duke and Mattingly began preparations for the Descent Orbit Insertion ( DOI ) maneuver to further modify the spacecraft's orbital trajectory.

* 29 + Evidences for Macroevolution: the Scientific Case for Common Descent.

The main sources available for discussion of this period include Gildas's De Excidio Britanniae and Nennius's Historia Brittonum, the Annales Cambriae, Anglo Saxon Chronicle, William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum and De Antiquitate Glastoniensis Ecclesiae, along with texts from the Black Book of Carmarthen and the Red Book of Hergest, and Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum as well as " The Descent of the Men of the North " ( Bonedd Gwŷr y Gogledd, in Peniarth MS 45 and elsewhere ) and the Book of Baglan.

* Inanna's Descent ( 2000 ) for mezzo-soprano, piccolo, oboe, violin, piano, 2 percussion ensembles ( 4-12 total players )

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

16th century Russian icon | Russian icon of the Descent into Hades of Jesus Christ, which is the icon for Holy and Great Saturday.

Today several versions of the Sumerian death of Dumuzi have been recovered, " Inanna's Descent to the Underworld ", " Dumuzi's dream " and " Dumuzi and the galla ", as well as a tablet separately recounting Dumuzi's death, mourned by holy Inanna, and his noble sister Geštinanna, and even his dog and the lambs and kids in his fold ; Dumuzi himself is weeping at the hard fate in store for him, after he had walked among men, and the cruel galla of the Underworld seize him.

Descent from Cerdic became a necessary criterion for later kings of Wessex, and Egbert of Wessex, progenitor of the English royal house and subsequent rulers of England and Britain, claimed him as an ancestor.

Zündel gained prominence and respectability during the 1970s as spokesman for Concerned Parents of German Descent, a group which claimed that German-Canadians and their children were the target of discrimination due to anti-German stereotyping in the media.

Sometimes there will be a reënactment of the Descent from the Cross ; for instance, at Vespers in the Byzantine ( Eastern Orthodox and Greek-Catholic ) tradition.

Descent can be made by shuttle bus back to the Pinkham Notch camp for a fee.

In 1990, Christ recorded guitar for the Samhain album Final Descent.

The trademark registration for Descent was allowed to lapse by Interplay in 2002 and was re-registered in 2008.

A console port of Descent was created for the Sony PlayStation.

( However, Descent does use sprites for power-ups and the hostages.

) Unlike Doom and Quake, Descent does not use BSP trees for visibility culling ( to speed up rendering ), instead taking advantage of the game's use of collections of cubes to form rooms and tunnels.