The Duke Nukem franchise is now owned by Gearbox Software, the development house behind celebrated game Borderlands. If Duke ‘s indulgent strip-club scenes and nothing-is-forbidden-not-even-poop attitude inspire other games to unleash some creativity, then it will have been a good thing that 2K Games forged ahead with the project and actually brought it to fruition. Videogames represent infinite possibility, but too many of our best gamemakers get stuck making safe, samey products. The Parisian primary-schoolers and I got killed comme un fils de pute each multiplayer mode seems to favor learning where the best weapons spawn and going on a rampage with them.
There are three different game types: deathmatch, king of the hill and a variant on capture the flag in which the flag is a scantily dressed lady. I spent a brief amount of time with the multiplayer Duke was released in Europe over the weekend and consequently I played with what I am reasonably sure was a group of small French children. The gameplay itself feels like a generic shooter strip away the ridiculous sex-and-poop jokes and you’re left with a lot of bland, action-game cliches. You’ll encounter only a handful of foes - you might actually have more guns than things to kill with them. Combat is the strongest part of the game, but even this doesn’t leave a lasting impression. Strip away the sex-and-poop jokes and you’re left with bland, action-game cliches. Something as simple as turning a water valve can be frustrating because sometimes pressing the B button to make Duke let go of it doesn’t work. Duke’s dune buggy gets caught in the scenery. The aforementioned billiards and pinball games are clunky. Nothing seems to work very well in Duke Nukem Forever. By the time I was running through another bland underground (or worse, underwater) shooting stage with nary a chuckle in sight, I felt like Duke was no longer playing to what we might charitably consider to be his strengths. Eventually, not only does the shock wear off (save for a midgame scene in a bathroom strip club in which Duke finds and utilizes a glory hole, which will not fail to shock anyone), but these amusing bits become fewer and further between. But the novelty only lasts for a little while. This sounds and is disgusting, but quite frankly I like this kind of no-holds-barred stupidity at the very least it is something different from today’s generally by-the-numbers shooters. Not a minute after the game begins, you can remove a piece of human feces from the toilet and run around with it, splattering poop on the walls and people. Throughout the game, you’re encouraged to do all sorts of silly things, like get drunk and piss in any available urinal, doodle on whiteboards, play pinball and billiards, etc. The opening scenes, in which you run Duke through his palatial Vegas penthouse and onto the set of a late-night talk show, are funny and different, the sort of frivolity that has been stripped away from serious-business shooters like Halo and Call of Duty. At some particularly frustrating points during my playthrough, it felt like I was spending more time waiting on loading screens than actually playing.Īll things considered, Duke doesn’t start off so bad. This wouldn’t be so bad if it didn’t also happen every time you die.
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The single-player campaign is divided into a great many brief levels, and every time you move from one to another, the game dumps you out to a loading screen where you wait for almost a full minute for the next chunk of game to load. The first thing you need to know about Duke Nukem Forever is that it is a technical mess, and this makes everything the game does badly that much worse. The first thing you need to know about Duke Nukem Forever is that it is a technical mess.
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