Descent

This game followed after DOOM in the beginning of the era of 3D action shooters. Descent, however, was the first ever game to incorporate the third dimension in it's entirety. You can move up/down, left/right, forward/backward. You can turn right/left, bank up/down, and pitch or roll side to side. You fly a ship that has absolutely no spatial constraints. For over ten years I have been playing this game and it still ranks high on my list. Problem is, you have to have a Windows98 (or earlier) machine to play it. At the time I wrote this review WindowsXP was the current technology and unfortunately, they have killed DOS which is the environment that this game runs in. I have heard of some people successfully configuring later operating systems to run dos games but it is very difficult. That is a shame because this is one of the games that transformed the video game industry into what it is today and you can't even play it any more unless you are running a Legacy machine. I recommend that every video game fan play Descent at some point. It is to the PC video game realm what the original Nintendo 8-Bit system was to the console industry.