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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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Take a drink every time is pans past her chest.

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No part of this looks interesting.

With that said, I move on to the real issue. How in the Biblical Hell is 3D Realms still a thing? Seriously?

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See it in 2025, after this voice actress completely regrets doing this game and has to deal with it like the Ghost of Christmas Past.

I don't expect the game to be released that soon. However, the regrets will be there.

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Oh man... I feel twin stick shooters are the most uninteresting games...

I'm not trying to bash anyone that actually like these types of games, in any sense. It's just not for me.

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No part of this looks interesting.

With that said, I move on to the real issue. How in the Biblical Hell is 3D Realms still a thing? Seriously?

Wizards.

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What happened to Adam Jensen? Oh wait it's just a student project to remake this trailer.

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Good on 3D Realms for not going quietly into the night, I guess?

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@brianp: The hand on her robo arm is exactly ripped off from the T-800 Endoskeleton. The shoulder looked pretty close, too, with some bullshit armor slapped on that rotates for some inexplicable reason.

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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.

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am I in 1990?

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She kinda looks like pornstar Christy Mack

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None of that seems exciting.

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I feel like I'm watching an old ATI Radeon 9000 Series commercial or something.

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If Jen St. Jen doesn't do Bombshell's voice then I'm not buying.

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The 3D realms guys show off that they're really getting too old for this shit.

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Even though it's halfway through May, I thought this was an April Fools joke.

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Why? No really... Why?

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Wow this looks amazing..........for a game from 1994.

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I guess it's the 90's again.

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This belongs in 2008

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This trailer looks like it was made in parallel with the other Duke Nukem Forever teaser.

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Even with how completely terrible DNF turned out to be, I'd still be more interested, at least on paper, in another Duke Nukem game than in this. At least the former still has some level of nostalgia left to soften the blows of how mediocre the gameplay will inevitably be. :P

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Is the soul of Duke Nukem in the arm?

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I don't think I have ever been this bored watching a trailer. This might be the most soulless and generic looking game I have seen in a while.

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Why does this look like an old tech demo?

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Oh, for fuck's sake!

If she had a frickin' shirt on, I might be convinced to allow for the chance that this will be some irreverent commentary about gender roles in video games, but given that she's basically wearing Lara Croft's polygon brassiere from the original Tomb Raider, there is but one possible conclusion:

3D Realms wouldn't know irreverence if it tore off their heads and shit down their necks.

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If someone told you that this was footage from a Twisted Metal or Killer Instinct game that ended up getting scrapped from like a decade ago would you know any better or think to dispute them?

I don't know that I would/could

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What happened to Adam Jensen? Oh wait it's just a student project to remake this trailer.

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I was reminded of exactly that when watching the trailer. I was wondering "is this supposed to be a parody of the Deus EX trailer?" because it seems to be lifting a lot from it.

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It's like someone watched Terminator 2.

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I love the Stargate references on the whiskey bottle. Unfortunately, that was the only interesting thing in the video, which felt like a tech demo from years ago.

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Take a drink every time is pans past her chest.

I thought the same thing. First thought: hey at least it's a female protagonist?

Immediately after: how many more angles can they pan over her chest from?

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Damn y'all I thought this was giant bomb. This looks amazing.

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That character animation looks really bad. Also, this is probably the loudest video that's ever been posted to Giantbomb.

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huh

set for release in the 2020's i'm supposing

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Actually that duke trailer looked better, smother with better graphics

They need to fire their animator, that looked BAD

The trailer reminds me a lot of this one:

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It looks like a crap sandwich with an order of suck fries.

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Man, it's like they ripped off my head and shit down my neck.

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*Farting Noises*

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Is this a real thing? I can't tell if I'm supposed to laugh at this or what.

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@meatsim said:

I guess it's the 90's again.

Huh, yeah, I guess it kinda reminded me a bit of this 90's classic:

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@yummylee: I was thinking more that one boss from Deus Ex 3

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This is laughably bad.

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Are we sure this isn't just a highschooler's final project for an animation class using some models they found online?

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Nope!

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There really was a need for a trailer of a girl just riding a bike through nothingness and explosions.

Probably should have waited till they had something more interesting(and better animated).

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So is it a husband arm?

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This is so 90s, I can't help but love it.

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Patrick says: No. No. No. No. No. Pissing. No. No. No.

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That character "design" looks like someone just added a robot arm to a female wasteland bandit from Fallout...

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@iigrayfoxii: That does not fix how bad it looked, if anything my response to those shots would be "Really? Top down twin stick shooter? Is this a mobile game?"

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