Descent II

Descent II
Developer(s)	Parallax Software Interplay Productions (Mac OS) R-Comp Interactive (Risc OS)
Publisher(s)	Interplay Productions Mac Play (Mac OS) R-Comp Interactive (Risc OS)
Director(s)	Mike Kulas Matt Toschlog
Producer(s)	Rusty Buchert[1]
Designer(s)	Jasen Whiteside Mark Dinse Che-Yuan Wang
Programmer(s)	Matt Toschlog Mike Kulas John Slagel Jason Leighton Che-Yuan Wang
Artist(s)	Adam Pletcher Jasen Whiteside Doug Brooks
Writer(s)	Ryan Garcia
Composer(s)	Dan Wentz Brian Luzietti Larry Peacock Leslie Spitzer Jim Torres Tim Wiles
Platform(s)	DOS Mac OS PlayStation RISC OS Windows
Release	MS-DOS NA: March 13, 1996 EU: March 29, 1996 Mac OS NA: August 1996 PlayStation NA: May 15, 1997 EU: Mid-1997 RISC OS WW: May 19, 2001
Genre(s)	First-person shooter, shoot 'em up
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Descent II is a 1996 first-person shooter game developed by Parallax Software and first published for DOS by Interplay Productions. A version for the PlayStation was released under the title Descent Maximum. It is the second installment in the Descent video game series and the sequel to Descent. The player controls a spaceship from the pilot's perspective and must navigate extrasolar underground mines to locate and destroy their reactors and escape being caught in their self-destructions, while engaging and surviving infected robots, which will attempt to destroy the ship. Unlike other first-person shooters, its six-degrees-of-freedom scheme allows the player to move and rotate in any three-dimensional space and direction.

Descent II started as a project intended to expand the original using a compact disc's storage, and later became a standalone product. The game received very positive reviews from video game critics, who widely lauded the multiplayer mode and the inclusion of the Guide-Bot, a scouting robot that guides the player to their objectives. The PlayStation version's reception was rather mixed, with critics often disagreeing in their evaluations of its frame rate. A sequel, Descent 3, was released in 1999.