The macosxhints Rating:
[Score: 8 out of 10]
- Developer: Doverstreet (?) / Product Page
- Price: Free!
The OS X version owes its existence to the Descent2 project, D2X. From that point, it was ported to OS X by a couple of people. The version that I ran and linked here is from 'mcotis at yahoo dot com,' but I don't know anything more than that.
If you haven't played Descent2, I'm not sure it's worth the trouble to download and play. You'll be greeted with some nicely-updated versions of 1996's best graphics, and you'll be severely disappointed if you've been playing Halo and Unreal Tournament! On the other hand, if you played the original, this is a near-perfect OS X implementation with only a couple minor bugs. Since the program uses the original data files, this isn't an interpretation of Descent2, this is Descent2. You can even listen to iTunes while you play -- just create a playlist called D2X, and Descent2 will choose and play songs at random from that playlist as you search and destroy.
I doubt I'll be playing it all the way through again, but boy, does this bring back some memories of my gaming years past!

