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Bombshell, Born From the Ashes of a Duke Nukem Lawsuit

Interceptor and 3D Realms decide to build a new franchise from its former Duke Nukem video game.

May. 15 2014

Posted by: Patrick

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My face is not ready

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@flacracker: WOW, nice work digging that back up. That puts this trailer into context and makes this whole thing look even more crappy.

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That music at the end sounds pretty badass

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Awful.

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I await the Quicklook of this game.

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lol, the bike is standing still, and the wheels are spinning.

At the shot where she aims the shotgun at you, you can still see the weapon-rack she picked it up from blurred out in the background.

that's... strange.

I didn't see that! High comedy!

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This trailer has a weird tech demo vibe. Just not a tech demo from 2014.

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Edited By Itwastuesday

So is it a husband arm?

PLEASE BE THISSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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Yep, that looks kind of terrible. Confirmed.

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I can sort of see why the trailer seems so bad now? Considering the top down style of the game.

Click to get a better look

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This went to a level faaaaaaaaaar beyond any standard of crappy that I knew of. Are we 100% certain this wasn't a school project or something?

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@turboman said:

What was that dialog at the end?

Yeah, I'm hoping that was an outtake or something... because if not... oh man, that's some pretty poor acting right there. -_-

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Edited By TruthTellah
"So yeah it's like Duke Nukem but with a skimpy-dressed female cyborg called Bombshell (get it?! Clever riiiight??) and it's all futury and shit but we're reusing assets from 2002 and..."

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Appealing exclusively to late-1990's 13-year-olds wasn't exactly a winning strategy even in the late-1990s.

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Everything about this trailer looks bad. The weirdly stilted animation for her walking and grabbing the shotgun, the oddly lifeless robot (cyborg?) like quality to her riding the bike and pointing the shotgun; nothing about this made me interested.

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So Lady Nukem is a Terminator sent back to fight The Patriots?

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The animation is really stilted because she's a robot, right??

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WTF did I just see. The Game looks insulting to games. Now back to Ashes Cricket

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Here are some more screens guys.... like i said i think that they completely missed any sort of real representation for this game in the trailer. What a bad impression. .

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This trailer was about 3 minutes too long.

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Man, that trailer is like a 13 year-old boy's wet dream.

I don't doubt that it hasn't been touched since 2002. The first thing I thought of when I saw it was "wow, this looks like a late 90's PC shooter!"

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What a weird trailer. If you're gonna spend soooooo loooooong highlighting the character sitting around doing nothing they better look real good. This didn't.

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Someone should tell 3D Realms that FMVs are capable of not looking like shit now. Maybe if they'd poked their heads out of their offices any time in the last 13 years, they would have noticed.

Adapt or die, bitches.

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2015+3D Realms=2045. I will be long dead.

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if this trailer was supposed to look like PS2 shovelware as a joke then I'm still in, I guess?

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Edited By deckard

No thank you 3D Realms, I am not going to "prepare my face."

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Hasn't "badass female character with bionic limbs" been done to death already? Considering that, this seems inappropriately dull and uncreative looking. Which is odd given the hyped-up metal music and constant panning shots of those shitty model textures, I'm assuming the creators think is supposed to look cool for today's audience. Couldn't be more disinterested.

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ALEX MUST PLAY THIS GAME

Jesus fucking christ that is a terrible trailer....

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Man...this is the most nothing trailer I've ever seen in my entire life.

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I look at her and can't help but think of that female boss from Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Also the dialogue at the end turned me off from playing this.

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Sweet, imagine how unfinished and broken this game will be in 15 years.

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Hail to the Queen, baby!

Seriously though, that trailer looks like some early-2000 graphics card benchmarking demo.

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How can something be this bad?

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lol, i guess they purposefully made it look like an early ps1 era cg intro?

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So I guess this is what video games would be like if every year after 1999 continued to be 1999...

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If nothing else, it was nice to know that you can make a trailer without dubstep.

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Those alien bastards are going to pay for takin away my shirt.

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@karkarov: Duke Nukem 3D was an excellent game. There were lots of over-the-top things in it, but it was never flat-out stupid. It was dumb in the "good way," and it still has the most fun selection of weapons I've ever seen in a FPS too.

Yes, everything they've done since then has been crap, but at one point they were a high-quality, well respected game studio. People should remember that.

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Gotta love the up-ressed 90-s quality CGI

2015 will truly be magical

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oh come on, video games! pull it together. >____<

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Looks like a tech demo for the Voodoo 5 5500.

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Two comments.

FIrst, DANIEL JACKSON"S WHISKEY ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?

Second, that it totally Adam Jensen in an alternate universe.

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Should have had Flying Wild Hog do it. It would have played well at least.

Shadow Warrior was great.

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The trailer could have worked if edited down to a 30 sec teaser. With 3 to 5 secs of gameplay flashing in and out at the beat of a better song.

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Looks like someone time travelled from the mid nineties and was given free reign to make a modern video game.

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Did some animator accidentally attach one of their old school projects to the announcement email for this game instead of the real trailer?

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Those sure are some modeled objects.

Whatever, I hope this is at least a bit fun, unlike Duke Nukem Forever.

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Looks like something my uncle would thing is the most awesome thing ever.

Perfect.