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Descent
Descent may refer to: As a noun Genealogy and inheritance * Common descent, concept in evolutionary biology * Kinship, one of the major concepts of cultural anthropology **Pedigree chart or family tree **Ancestry **Lineal descendant **Heritage (other), Heritage **Royal descent - lineal descent from a monarch *Phylogenetics **Tree diagram (other) *Inheritance (law and property) Mathematics * Infinite descent, a method going back to Fermat to solve Diophantine equations * Descent (mathematics), an idea extending the notion of "gluing" in topology * Hadamard's method of descent, a technique for solving partial differential equations * Gradient descent, a first-order optimization algorithm going back to Newton * Descents in permutations, a classical Permutation#Descents, permutation statistic in combinatorics Other uses *Descent (aeronautics), the decrease of an aircraft in altitude during flight *Descent (font), the distance that a typeface descends below the base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Descent II
''Descent II'' is a 1996 first-person shooter game developed by Parallax Software and first published for DOS by Interplay Productions. For the PlayStation, it is known as ''Descent Maximum''. It is the second installment in the ''Descent'' video game series and the sequel to ''Descent''. The base of the gameplay remaining the same, 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''s development started as a project intended to expand the original using a compact disc's storage, which later became a standalone product. The game received very positive reviews from video game critics, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |