Duke Nukem Forever Review
Let me start off by saying that this is one of those games that had been in development for so long that no one was quite sure what would happen. This game also went into a momentary state of being thought dead as 3d Realms ran out of money. It was through the brave move of Gearbox that this game came into being.
In this game you will be playing the part of Duke Nukem, your super badass, monster ass kicking, roid raging hero stuck in the nineties. To be fair though this game should have come out in the 90s which probably would have made this game that much stronger. The Aliens are still hanging around and though you want to kick thier asses again, you've been asked by the President, to hold off. Well that doesn't last very long and you're back to doing what you do best, and leaving quite a few bodies lying around in the process.
Graphically this game would have been near the top, if it was 1999. As it is though this game seriously lacks the graphics of a first person shooter coming out now. There's serious texture issues, well everything looks flat, and you're going to be left wondering if the graphics had been improved if the game might have flowed better. There are going to be a wide variety of bad guys to shoot at, and most of them pay direct homage to the enemies in past Duke Nukem games.
The sounds are what make the game famous, well I should say the dialog. This is the part where you're going to hear the cliche phrases and the I'm too good for you mentality. At one point they make fun of Halo, which at the time of the original release would have been kind of funny, and true fanboys would have cheered a hearty, "hell ya", but as it stands the power that Halo has over the first person shooter world now, it might have been better to take that little bit out.
The controls are your average first person shooter controls. You're going to have two weapons that you'll be able to switch between, and you'll also have an assortment of explosives to help clear the way.
I really really really wants to like this game, to have the nostalgia been enough to make this game a great game to play, and to tell the world that even absent heroes, when they return, can still be relevant, but at the end of the day this game is simply there so that people can say it came out. There's nothing about this game that warrants the need to play very long. One of the biggest hindrance of this entire title is the load screens, you won't get through much of a level and then you'll be faced with a rather lengthy load screen. The action also doesn't seem to go very smoothly. Sure the dialog and mouthing off that Duke is known for does make things interesting, but there's just not enough here to really say much more about the game.
So it is with a heavy heart that I must say, unless you want to have the game so that you can prove to your friends that it does indeed exist, stay away from this game. There are better indie FPSs that blow this game out of the water. This game gets a 4.2 out of 10.
