Duke Nukem Forever

FIRST OFF: Yes, get the game, but NO don't play it how it is. As it comes, the game is not good and definitely was a disappointment. What you will want to do is go to NexusMods and get a mod called Duke Nukem Forever Enhanced. This makes it play like it should have.
Pros:
Duke one liners and gorey nonsense. The level design is actually clever at times, especially at Duke Burger. The levels when you are shrunk are actually quite fun. Also, the holoduke is useful now. I swear that thing never helped me in the original game. The story is simple but effective for this goofy game. The voice acting isn't bad.
There is a surprising amount of environmental story telling and physics based puzzles. Technically there is no traditional save system which is a con but the pro part of it, there is an quicksave feature (not sure if part of base game or was added with the mod) so you can still save scum to your heart's content.
Cons:
The sound effects are bad which is a huge buzzkill since that is arguably the most important part to me aside from the gameplay itself. The weapons and explosions sound weak for the most part. The game is rather short and the ending felt anti-climactic. Duke even makes a joke about it as it happens...
Character movement isn't great. The base game is too slow and the mod I mentioned above improves that greatly but it still feels clunky, especially when jumping. So the numerous platforming segments are rather annoying.
If you install the mod I mentioned above, the game will technically run outside of Steam meaning you won't get Steam to clock time. If the game has achievements then they won't work but I don't know if it does and I don't care because I don't achievement hunt. There is a way to force Steam to get it to still clock time but I didn't bother.
Overall - The game is like Half Life 2 and Postal 2 had a baby and that mutant baby grew into this. You get a Half Life 2 style action adventure but with the ridiculous absurdity that you would expect from Postal 2.
Hail to the King, baby!

Ironic that the last entry in the Nukem franchise is old enough now that it is almost as much of a classic as the original. Almost. Being as I don't keep up with trends and I don't read reviews on stuff I plan to just experience for myself without letting the medjya spoil it for me first, I don't know the specifics, but I seem to remember this entry was poorly received when it was released. Shame because there is quite a bit to like about this game in my opinion, and I think it fits well as the next installment when seen as the next evolution at the time, of Duke 3D. Love the vehicle love in this game, love the miniature worlds integration in certain levels/areas, piloting RC vehicles as both a full size operator, and as a mini 1st person drivers as well. Thought the level puzzles were decent without being so hard to make it not fun. Loved that to me, they had a lot of nods to the Half Life franchise, alien invasion via wormhole, succubus alien types, telekinetic alien types, and of course the classic original enemies as well, the lizards and mutated pig cops. All the original weapons are there. Not sure if its something you unlock or if it was added as DLC, but I remember the original game you could only hold two weapons akin to Halo, and then later at some point I noticed suddenly could hold a max of 4 weapons. I like being able to have 8 guns, but 4 is ok enough at least. Hold the weapon switch button down and you a kind of weapon wheel on the screen that you can direct select with the D pad so you don't have toggle through the whole chain to get to the gun you want. There are numerous environments, the plot and story was decent enough, at least as solid Duke 3D, better in some ways, the people models still hold up OK for being as old as they are, I believe this was done in UE3 or 4 maybe? I hope to see another modern title,, would have been awesome to see a movie that was hyped online for a bit then never happen. Duke Nukem Forever, hail to the king baby! If you are a Duke diehard then this game should be fun for you, I enjoyed it and still enjoy going back to play. Not sure when they released the DLC as I know when I had it on my xbox 360 way back, there was no DLC. Its a great addition and was great to play a fresh set of levels with expanded story. Wouldn't hurt my feelings if they got all nostalgic and release more DLC for it. Unfortunately I think this was yet another story of a studio going under after the game was released so pry will never happen, but yah get this game and the DLC if you haven't played it, or if its been a while and you had it on an older console, get it and play it again on steam! I don't care what anyone says, its time to kick arse and chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of gum!

Honestly, it's a blast to play. It's fun and silly. I've played through it all at least 6 times over the course of years and I'd still recommend it to this day.

Step 1: Turn off Bloom/Advanced Graphical Effects
Step 2: Turn on Expanded inventory and subtitles
Duke Nukem Forever is a functional game that is unfortunately stuck in an awkward phase; With all the jankiness we saw in gaming in the 7th generation (and even now), it's fair to say that the game works well and one can even say it's fairly well polished. (aside from the jumping animation and ONE sound file for it)
Unfortunately, the personality of Duke wasn't the only thing fans liked about the franchise, as the identity/consistencies of the franchise have been replaced by other 7th gen shooter tropes-- For example: 2 guns at a time (4 with extended inventory, still much less than classic Duke but in line with other 7th gen shooters), regenerating health, no babes to save/parts to collect, linear level design that lacks secrets, a decent story with incredibly poor writing, no keycards, missing/useless weapons with questionable accuracy (shotgun is great though in it's defense!), the list goes on.
It tries to do new things and succeeds in that, although many newer things are incredibly boring. (monster truck running out of gas 3 or 4 times, grabbing one canister when there's 4 available, really?) The more I write and think back the more I realize influences from Half Life and Half Life 2 alongside other Quake or Unreal Engine games. The fact that Duke Forever was in the oven for 14 years is evidence enough of always being a state of always "catching up" as opposed to doubling down and committing to it's identity and personality. Duke Forever could have very easily had sequels that competed with 7th gen tropes as opposed to delaying to the extent of losing some core elements of it's franchise, but I digress.
Duke Nukem Forever is by NO means a bad game... I repeat, it is NOT a bad game. It functions well, I only had ONE softlock (jumping animation clipped on a ledge while falling), and for the most part I had a lot of fun playing it, having not played Duke since the N64, and I purchased it on sale for $2.00, which is well worth that price. Surprisingly, Duke Forever, with it's identity crises and all, functions better (less bugs and glitches) and has more personality than a majority of games released in the last decade, which is what I believe the industry is sorely missing.

If you ever wanted a game, that combines, Far Cry, Doom 3, Half-Life 2, Quake 4 and F.E.A.R. and Prey 2006 in one game, well this is the only game that do this, is not as good as any of the games that i listed, But is good on its own way in this case Duke Nukem Forever is a actually a Great Game, well this it comes from a DOOM, Quake and Unreal fan, so i know what a good games is, if ever you want to relive 2004, 2005, 2006 again, well Duke Nukem Forever is a must play game. Still this is only my opinion.

A good Classic style game. a boob slappin, booty grabbin, ball shootin, ass kicking of a game. CLASSIC game from just, 2011. it took 12 years to make, so youu know "itsGOOD"

game goes hard...dunno why people hated it, though i can see with some of the humor. kinda immature, and a lot of titties. fun, although i'm currently stuck on a level lol