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Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter
(arstechnica.com)
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I had to websearch this so might as well share it here: 6DOF = six degrees of freedom. You can move and rotate in all three dimensions.
Accurate for Descent. I played this game as a kid. At the start I hated it, because unlike Doom you need to aim vertically (Doom has three degrees of freedom: X axis, Y axis, rotation). But eventually it grew on me, it's like going from stale bread to a buttered toast - harder but nicer.