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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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No fate but what we make.

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Musically and visually fantastic but goddamn, what a boring trailer. The whole flow of the video feels so outdated; feels like a student project than an actual game.

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Wow, what the hell was that? I saw some screenshots too. I'm sorry to judge a game just from the first screenshots and a trailer. But it looks like a up-resed 2005 game. And that voice at the end... omg... I was expecting Duke to come on "Hell, it's about time 3D Realms made a game... and chew bubblegum"

I don't know... I get what they're going for and I don't like it :D

I hope I'm wrong and it's some amazing, funny over the top game.

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@midnight Ride to Hell Retriboobtion! #monstercables #dvd

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@joshwent said:

And apparently "Bombshell" was supposed to be another character in Duke Nukem Forever. Does anybody know if she even made it into that final game?

Having played the game to the very end (maybe...I might've just watched Let's Play instead...), there was no Bombshell character in the game at least, don't know about references. But I do remember seeing some concept art and a bit of text of her on some old-ass PC-Gamer issue, back when DF actually looked like a dream come true.

Didn't watch the video yet, but I'm sure it'll blow my miiiiiind!

Edit; I don't think that was as awful as some people made it out to be...and I kinda wish it would've been, because now it was just so bland that I'll probably forget it even exists when a few hours have passed.

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@drdarkstryfe said:

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

I saw that and immediately thought Stargate(i know it's 'Jack Daniels' reversed).

I guess this will at least answer the question, "Would Duke Nukem be as gross if Duke was a lady?"

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What the fuck is going on here?

Everything about this is so mid-90's.

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@jimfear: You seem like a totally classy, not-at-all-a-sad-internet-troll kinda guy!

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This looks like one of those fake video games that they used to show in commercials on G4 for those for-profit game designer colleges.

They should tighten up the graphics on level three, is what I'm saying.

This game looks fucking terrible, you guys. Holy shit.

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@redhorn said:

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

This is exactly what I thought. The character design, the animation quality, the fire effect, the glass effect, the overall pacing and editing. I've seen throwaway school projects way better than this.

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My face is clearly not prepared for this.

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At no point when making this did anyone say "I get it she has breast".....

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Wow, it would have been way better to release nothing, than that lackluster trailer. Cyberpunk 2077, that's how you release a trailer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P99qJGrPNLs

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Maybe she wouldn't have lost her arm if she wore some actual fucking body armor.

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@psylah said:

Man, this is some last gen looking shit. Animations, textures, geez.

Also, she is just a lady Duke? Come on.

Make that last, last gen.

Maybe Last, last, last gen.

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

Perfect.

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

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

Shadow Warrior was great.

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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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Looks like a tech demo for the Voodoo 5 5500.

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

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Gotta love the up-ressed 90-s quality CGI

2015 will truly be magical

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

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

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

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How can something be this bad?

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

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

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ALEX MUST PLAY THIS GAME

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

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

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

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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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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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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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This trailer was about 3 minutes too long.

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

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

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