Duke Nukem Forever
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The King is Back! Cocked, loaded and ready for action, Duke delivers epic ass-kicking, massive weapons, giant explosions and pure unadulterated fun! Put on your shades and step into the boots of Duke Nukem. The alien hordes are invading and only Duke can save the world. Pig cops, alien shrink rays and enormous alien bosses can’t stop this epic hero from accomplishing his goal: to save the world, save the babes and to be a bad-ass while doing it. The King arrives with an arsenal of over-the-top weapons, non-stop action, and unprecedented levels of interactivity. With hours and hours of action, and a range of bodacious multiplayer modes, rest assured knowing the fun goes on and on.
Steam User 35
it's the kind of game that you know is bad, but you still play and and still enjoy it.
Steam User 30
seen through a vent a girl who was recording other naked girl masturbating 10/10
Steam User 29
Not AS bad as people claim. Has some decent ideas and mechanics, although can be tedious at times. Most of its "charm"(?) comes from the Duke himself. Nothing special or groundbreaking, but it can be fun and enjoyable nevertheless.
Steam User 21
The good:
It's Duke Nukem. Duke is once again voiced by the legendary John St. John. All of Duke's attitude is on display. You get all the classic one-liners and pre-2000's humor. You get most of the classic enemies, and a few new ones. There's plenty of familiar weapons to play with. Difficulty scales well, so if you're getting your ass kicked, lowering the difficulty helps. If it's not challenging enough, play on the harder skill and you'll get more of a challenge. Graphics-wise there's nothing to complain about. It's appropriate to the game's release, and a modern system should have no problem running at high visual settings. The combat is pretty straight-forward FPS action. All the guns feel pretty solid and fill different roles, and explosives are pretty destructive. There's plenty of things to interact with in the environment, as classic Duke fans would expect.
The bad:
When initially released there was a two-weapon limit. That was shortly patched to a 4 weapon expanded inventory, which helps tremendously, though it does manage to ruin one particular joke. There is regenerating health in the form of Duke's "Ego" meter. You can increase this by interacting with the environment - playing pinball and beating the high score, working out, sinking all the balls in pool, etc. The regenerating health system is not really conducive to push-forward gameplay, but if you're a veteran FPS gamer that shouldn't be too much of a problem. There are some button-mash events, again, a product of the time, and gameplay is very linear. There are two vehicle sections that are not exactly the best thing in the world, and some turret sections that can be mildly frustrating until you realize that if you just tap the fire button instead of holding it down you'll never overheat your weapon and it fires just as fast.
The ugly:
The hype. The vaporware. The reputation as a bad game. If Duke Nukem Forever has one glaring flaw it's that it was a victim of its own ambitions. Duke Nukem 3D was such a blast and so well received that nothing like it could ever really happen again, and too much was promised, too much kept changing and being re-worked, and it was stuck in development hell for far too long. Compromises were made to the game play in the form of the Ego system and weapon limit, and it really hurt what could have been a much better game.
Conclusion:
Don't expect the best game ever made. Expect a fun game with some decent combat. If you like Duke's humor it hasn't changed. If you've never played a Duke Nukem game before, I recommend playing Duke Nukem 3D first to really understand the character and what he's about. I do recommend Duke Nukem Forever as I enjoy the hell out of it, but I'm fairly easy to please. Your mileage may vary.
Steam User 23
play with the enhanced edition mod, whole new game.
Steam User 24
Better than fortnite.
Steam User 26
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!