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Title: Old-school gamers--remember Descent?
Post by: Private_Joker on November 11, 2010, 05:23:23 am

Upcoming game modeled after the Descent series!

http://www.minerwars.com/?aid=3892

(http://mirror1.minerwars.com/Images/MinerWarsPoster.jpg)

-Joker

Title: Re: Old-school gamers--remember Descent?
Post by: killermonkey on November 11, 2010, 12:24:32 pm

Oh fuck, descent was one of my favs for sure!

Edit: I preordered will be trying the alpha today

Title: Re: Old-school gamers--remember Descent?
Post by: killermonkey on November 11, 2010, 08:10:50 pm

Well after spending about an hour in the pre-alpha release I must say it is very much a pre-alpha release. LOL.

From a developers stand point, AMAZING! I love the work they are doing and it ran pretty damn smooth for having almost no optimizations yet. They left a lot of the programmers tools in (much like what I do in GES) to tinker with the internal settings, spawn stuff, and test out the features. The destructible asteroids reminds me a lot of Red Faction. There is a really neat commercial side to the game in mining for ore that looks like it will be a nice way to "buy" weapons and upgrades for the missions.

From a gamers stand point, WORTHLESS! There is no single or multi player yet. Its pretty much a sandbox for the programmers.

I can't wait to see where they take this, it has so much potential. The music is amazing and fitting. The weapons look meh, need some nades and special effects.

Title: Re: Old-school gamers--remember Descent?
Post by: Private_Joker on November 12, 2010, 10:46:17 pm

I agree with all that. Sandbox for now, except instead of grains of sand, they're colossal asteroids that you can blow apart with cannons.

Also: In later releases, this game will likely be cross-platform with Xbox. I'm unbeleivable stoked.

-Joker