Having developed the series’ most iconic and well-loved instalment, Duke Nukem 3D, 3D Realms had to fire a large amount of staff and cancel work on DNF in 2009 when its funding ran dry.Ī lengthy and bitter legal battle with publisher Take-Two resulted in the retention by the latter of the existing game assets that had been developed from 1997 up to that point, which led into the project being handed over to Gearbox Software. Duke Nukem Forever plays out like a badly designed brief history of the first-person shooter. It is a game with the character models of late 90s FPS titles trying to replicate the scripted scenes of the likes of Half-Life 2 (minus significant amounts of subtlety and characterisation). This is a game with the shooting mechanics of Doom, and the restricted weapons loadout of Call of Duty. The odd combination of styles brought on by its staggeringly long development makes it even more difficult to engage with than its predecessors, however.
THE GAMEĪn jarring mix of FPS conventions from every gaming era since the early ‘90s, Duke Nukem Forever was never going to win any prizes for gameplay innovation.
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Monotone, muscle-bound and full of hateful one-liners for both his alien foes and the entire female gender, the Duke was the anti-hero Generation X both wanted and deserved, and they loved him for it. Walking a fine line between tongue-in-cheek and just plain insulting (and spending most of his time leaning to the latter side), Duke found easy fame amongst a generation of gamers raised on the films Swartzenegger and the ‘comedy’ of Tom Green.
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