![]() But the satisfaction of finally experiencing it is enough for me. It's less a game and more a museum piece a sort of historic artifact.Īs we waited for 'Duke Nukem Forever', we always wondered just what 3D Realms was spending all that time developing. I can't say I've enjoyed playing it, but I can say that I do not regret the experience. It's a step back in time: A look at what one of the world's most talented developers thought was the future over a decade ago. But it adds up to an experience like no other. The individual parts that make up 'Duke Nukem Forever' are awful. (And believe me, 15-year-old me thought 'Duke Nukem 3D' was hilarious.) It makes me giggle to think that I ever found any of it funny. But Duke's humor isn't so bad it's good, it's so bad it's just. All you have to do is point at the enemy and hold down the trigger.Īll the while, Duke is spewing one-liners that would embarrass Jean-Claude Van Damme. Does it even matter where you shoot them, like GoldenEye 007? Not as far as I can tell. Do the enemies team up and intelligently flank you, like Halo? No. Does it have a cover mechanic, like Gears of War? Nope. ![]() You're immediately reminded of every single advance in the genre the minute you start shooting. Playing the game feels like being thrown back into the mid-'90s, and not in a happy, nostalgic sense. At best, it can look a few years out of date at worst, it is a blurry, stuttering mess. It is not, on my Xbox 360, a good-looking game. The screenshots you see here make it look like a good-looking game, but they don't tell the whole story. What Gearbox apparently didn't do was overhaul the game. In 2010, Gearbox Software took over responsibility for the game, fixed it up, and quickly pumped it out for release. when 3D Realms finally gave up and closed down.Įven then, it wasn't over. 'Duke Nukem Forever' made an incredible 12 appearances in Wired's annual Vaporware Awards list. 3D Realms overhauled the technology behind the game more than once constantly pushing it back, with only the odd screenshot here or trailer there to keep people believing that the game still existed. This is to be expected from a game that spent over a decade in development. But it has entertainment value beyond being a game. You won't find me arguing that it is a good game - frankly, it is not. They range from brutal to, well, more brutal. But I think 'Duke Nukem Forever' is worth playing for a different kind of experience. The reviews have not been kind to the Duke. So when developer 3D Realms announced in 1997 that a sequel was on the way, fans rejoiced and waited eagerly.ġ4 long years later, 'Duke Nukem Forever' is finally available. And instead of a faceless, mute space marine, it starred Duke Nukem: A man who looked like the result of throwing every 80s action movie star into a blender, with a set of one-liners ripped from all of them. Instead of brown, dreary corridors, you could interact with everything from toilets to pool tables to strippers. ![]() It followed ' Doom', but took the genre to another level instead of a generic Martian base, it's set in Los Angeles. It took 14 long years, but gamers can finally get their hands on ' Duke Nukem Forever'.įor those born after 1996, it's the sequel to ' Duke Nukem 3D', a raunchy, violent, but critically acclaimed and popular first-person shooter.
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