Bombshell, Born From the Ashes of a Duke Nukem Lawsuit

Dat animation!

Man, is this some hot garbage.

This is one early 90's looking game trailer.

I like how, one, this trailer doesn't convey that it's an isometric shooter, and two, people seem to think 3D Realms is developing this, not Interceptor, who put out the pretty rad Shadow Warrior.

Ugh.

seems legit....i'd play it.

Flying Wild Hog made Shadow Warrior, Interceptor made Rise of the Triad, which also was totally rad.

@fisk0: Ooooh that's right. Yeah, I liked ROTT too. I'm glad with those and the new Wolf we're getting some fast-paced shooters again.

Damn looks like a kickass... phone game?

Oh wow that was HORRIBLE. That could absolutely have been a Duke Nukem trailer from 5 years ago, except with a robot lady model subbed in for Duke and without Jon St John's voice.

How can anybody possibly think that would get somebody excited to play their game?

"Shit, guys, we can't use Duke. Okay... what if Duke was a chick, but the whole thing is still obsessed with tits and booze and guns and being a cartoon badass? That'll work, right?"

Trainwreck from the word go. Bravo.

EDIT: Oh, she's literally a Duke Nukem side character to begin with. Even less creative than the barely-above-zero level of creativity I thought it had, then. Super.

Lord in Heaven, why would anyone want to go anywhere near 3DR? You get to work on one project for 12-14 years under leadership with no unifying vision, and when the game finally comes out, the critics take a shit all over it and you can't find any other work...

At least Interceptor has the awesome ROTT remake under their belt.

I guess it's somewhat baffling to me why anyone would pay for the 3D Realms name, even if they thought they were getting the Duke IP along with it, after the huge embarassment that was DNF.

Kinda cool the way she watches TV in the same smokey void where Duke lifts weights.

Hype level: zero.

Maybe some gameplay footage 3 years from now will change that. In any case, the character design feels like somebody read a bunch of bomb queen and decided she would be totally sweet with a robot arm as well.

this looks fucking awful....

I can really imagine the brainstorming session that lead to this:

Guy1: we need an replacement for duke nukem and it needs to be better than duke!

Guy2: how about we give him boobs? Boobs make everything more awesome!

Guy1: sounds solid! But let's add something edgy sci-if like, that's all the rage these days, how about some cyborg implants?

Guy2: make it an mechanical arm, that's genius! You wanna eat tacos for lunch?

Guy1: sure lets eat some tacos, this job is already finished.

And alas we end up with above character... Duke with boobs and a mechanical arm.

I think calling this rough would be an understatement

Join 3D Realms as they set out to answer the question, "How many times can one video game pan the camera over a pair of breasts?"

Judging from the trailer, they may be setting the target too high for themselves.

Reminded me of the intro from Urban Chaos, for some reason:

But less characterful and with even stiffer animation - quite a feat, 15 years later.

I know it's silly but I just kept wondering how the weight of the metal arm was supported by her musculature and skeletal frame. It's only attached at the shoulder and it looks like it's 150lbs+ of steel, motors, actuators.

but then I saw that glorious glass ash tray and realized maybe I was nitpicking.

Coming from the Transistor and Wolfenstein trailers to this makes me want to puke...

Graphics look fine for a top down action RPG.

Pure garbage

I wish my hips stayed completely stationary when I walked. Maybe then I wouldn't knock shit over with them all the time.

Didn't have me until it said "PREPARE YOUR FACE".

wow

This might be the worst trailer I've ever seen.

This is a weird thing...

It looks like a poorly made student demo reel.

All I could think about while watching this was how hilarious it would be if she opened her mouth and Jon St. John's Duke Nukem voice came out of it.

The entire time I was watching this I could feel the Internets collective eye roll. Also that tagline "prepare your face." What. The. Fuck.

This has got to be the worst teaser trailer I've seen in ten years. No exaggeration.

Everything played out so slowly. Felt uncannily similar to the time-slowdown effect you get with you smoke too much green plant.

“Do you remember the 90s? People were talking about getting piercings and getting tribal tattoos, and people were singing about saving the planet and making FPS games? There’s a place where that idea still exists as a reality: 3D Realms. Remember when coders only ate pizza and slammed a Dew?

“I thought that died out a long time ago.”

“Not in 3D Realms. 3D Realms is a company where brains and good taste go to retire.”

What the fuck did I just witness?

Chick with mohawk, cybernetic arm, and little clothing? Check.

Booze and ashtray implying smokes? Check.

Sawed-off to get you hard-off? Check.

Bad ass motorcycle? Check.

Explosions in the distance? Check.

Cheesy ass metal music? Check.

Attitude and a smart mouth? Check.

This is literally everything my 14-year-old self wanted in a video game. To find out that it's a dual-joystick isometric shooter makes that even better.

I'm down for this.

@dogbutter: Your avatar picture just caused me a really heavy nostalgia trip. Love it!

This "trailer" on the other hand... english is not my native language and I just don't know any words that would be insulting enough for what I just saw.

woah. aside from not showing anything for context besides slow panning shots of a character model with some explosions, those slow panning shots of a blank faced character model with blurred out explosions looked really bad.

3D Realms, go home. You're drunk.

This looks like complete shit. I don't support this in any way.

I will not prepare my face!

Or a modded version of 3DMark 2001 SE

Is this game going to be nothing but references like the last Duke Nukem game?

If Jon St John is providing her voice, I might be on board.

*I watched the trailer on mute--in case she actually said anything and has a voice already.*

Holy shit 3D Realms, just go out of business already!

Too bad this trailer is awful to watch.

Good to see PS3 launch titles are still being released.

that was some of the most stilted animation ive seen in a long time...

Sometimes I think they make these kinda games just so Patrick has material for his articles about sexism in vid games.