Descent Coming To WiiWare!

[Hadrian]

As well as bringing Earthworm Jim, Clayfighter and Stonekeep to WiiWare, Interplay have just announced plans to bring the classic PC title Descent to the service!

(April 14th, 2010) — Interplay Entertainment Corp. and G1M2 will partner to bring the classic Descent to the Wii.

“Descent remains the most popular 1080º 3D blasting game. Translating its 3D worlds and game play to WiiWare™ is an exciting move”, said Hervé Caen, CEO of Interplay. “Descent will pair perfectly with the motion sensing Wii Remote™ controller and we can't wait to show players how intuitive the game play and control can be” seconded Scott Hawkins, the Founder of G1M2.

Descent is expected for initial release during Fall 2010 and is planned for electronic distribution through Nintendo's WiiWare™ service.

Fall 2010 seems too far away now. I find it odd that they are spending a lot of time bringing stuff to WiiWare and DSiWare and not PSN/XBLA but whatever, keep them coming....MDK3 please.

http://www.interplay.com/about/article.php?id=44

 

[mightymage]

HOLYY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
descent with motion controls cant wait

 

[_Chaz_]

I can have Descent on my DS at anytime, why buy it on the Wii?

 

[Bladexdsl]

oh fucking sweet loved that game on the old pentium 100

 

[Bladexdsl]

Fall 2010 seems too far away now. I find it odd that they are spending a lot of time bringing stuff to WiiWare and DSiWare and not PSN/XBLA.

cos the controls would suck

if i remember correctly you used the mouse to control the ship on pc.

 

[Hadrian]

Fall 2010 seems too far away now. I find it odd that they are spending a lot of time bringing stuff to WiiWare and DSiWare and not PSN/XBLA.

cos the controls would suck

if i remember correctly you used the mouse to control the ship on pc.

Maybe for you but I could control it with a joystick extremely well.

I guess I'm more "core" than you.

 

[syko5150]

I can have Descent on my DS at anytime, why buy it on the Wii?

Buy?

 

[IBNobody]

Let's hope they decide to port Freespace and Freespace 2, too.

 

[Bladexdsl]

Fall 2010 seems too far away now. I find it odd that they are spending a lot of time bringing stuff to WiiWare and DSiWare and not PSN/XBLA.

cos the controls would suck

if i remember correctly you used the mouse to control the ship on pc.

Maybe for you but I could control it with a joystick extremely well.

I guess I'm more "core" than you.

unless you owned both an atari and commodore 64 both tape (yes tape) deck and disk drive than your not

 

[ProtoKun7]

I should've known it'd be you that posted this.

I barely do anything with the Wii, but good news anyway.

 

[Hadrian]

Fall 2010 seems too far away now. I find it odd that they are spending a lot of time bringing stuff to WiiWare and DSiWare and not PSN/XBLA.

cos the controls would suck

if i remember correctly you used the mouse to control the ship on pc.

Maybe for you but I could control it with a joystick extremely well.

I guess I'm more "core" than you.

unless you owned both an atari and commodore 64 both tape (yes tape) deck and disk drive than your not

Many Ataris and Commodores (C16, PET, C64 & variants like 128, cartridge only etc, Amiga and the variants). As well as BBC Micro, most Sinclairs, Dragon 32 and others.

One day I'll gather them all for a nice photo.

 

[raulpica]

Fall 2010 seems too far away now. I find it odd that they are spending a lot of time bringing stuff to WiiWare and DSiWare and not PSN/XBLA.

cos the controls would suck

if i remember correctly you used the mouse to control the ship on pc.

Maybe for you but I could control it with a joystick extremely well.

I guess I'm more "core" than you.

unless you owned both an atari and commodore 64 both tape (yes tape) deck and disk drive than your not

Many Ataris and Commodores (C16, PET, C64 & variants like 128, cartridge only etc, Amiga and the variants). As well as BBC Micro, most Sinclairs, Dragon 32 and others.

One day I'll gather them all for a nice photo.

Hadrian is as hardcore as it gets, boy!

Yay, I'd love a nice nostalgia/collection pic, Hadrian

Especially of that sexay A4000T (I WANT ONEEEEE

)!

As for Descent... awesome, it's great seeing so many classics remade.

 

[DSGamer64]

Fall 2010 seems too far away now. I find it odd that they are spending a lot of time bringing stuff to WiiWare and DSiWare and not PSN/XBLA.

cos the controls would suck

if i remember correctly you used the mouse to control the ship on pc.

I have an old steering wheel that has pitch controls, man it was such a royal pain in the ass to get good at but it was hella fun. I had Descent 2 for my computer back in the day, with the steering wheel you had to push it in or pull it out to get it to pitch up and down, forward and reverse were done with a throttle control, tilting left and right was done with the turning of the wheel. It was a really good game, very hard though, especially those bastardly Spawns which were fast and had lots of armor but dropped a boat load of stuff.