Duke Nukem is fun and funny, shame on Escapist

[Vandenberg1]

The game is boring, plays like crap, and should've been released in 2002. GBX's previous games were all great, except this one. No need to make excuses to justify your spent money if you enjoyed it, but don't go making claims that simply aren't true.

Or this guy will eat you

Dide he die? I miss Undertakers Possee of wrestling weirdos...Minion..

Thankfully no, he's just fatter than ever. Occasionally he would do a tour for All Japan Pro Wrestling, as Big Daddy V, under the Voodoo Murders stable. Now that they've disbanded, due to an actual backstage fight, things are up in the air for him.
Here he is in 2010, against former Shootfighter Masakatsu Funaki:
As you can see, his wrestling ability hasn't improved one iota...
But what more can you ask of a monster heel?

looks like he ate two opponents before the match..Thor almighty, he looks like he can't even move his arms now. Is there even an oppent in there? Poor Japanese guy musta felt like screaming "Gorjiirraa!"

Side note.. Japanese wrestling is usually pretty good. They smack each other with Neon lights alot tho. Guess its there version of the chair.

 

[Ascarus]

i swore up and down that i was going to buy this. i expected a fun, but largely irrelevant game.

what i did not expect was an average critic score of 4.4 and an average user score of 5.4 (from gamespot.com). metacritic lists it at 48/100 with an average user score of 3.8 / 10.

those scores are pretty abysmal. as such, i won't be getting it. sadly, the reviews just make the game sound entirely too tedious without any semblance of what made Duke, Duke.

 

[Wolfram23]

Well, it's not THAT bad but it is pretty bad.

Graphically it looks like HL2 era. Kind of sad, really.

Gameplay wise it has it's moments but it just feels so bland most of the time. I mean maybe if they just made the combat more... surreal? Like better animations, being able to blow body parts off, etc.

Story wise it is a complete and utter fail. I mean I don't even mind "aliens are taking women, go stop them!". What gets me is that I don't have a damn clue why I'm doing what I'm doing at pretty much any point in the game. So there's no motivation besides "enjoying the gameplay" which, sadly, is lacking.

I will say that I actually enjoyed some of the different elements. I thought the RC car was cool but then it got boring due to repetitiveness. Not to mention it was lame having to run all the way back after. WTF. I liked the little miniature platforming at the burger place. That was fun. The monster truck is also pretty decent. The two turret parts I can remember sucked though. The first one, at the start of the game, was shit and the second one (on the tower) was just barely any better.

But there's some good parts. I like how you boost your ego bar (although I think with the regen, they should have had Duke giving himself a prep talk to give it some sense). I liked the stupid dream sequence in the titty bar - air hockey was awesome!

I'd have to say the game isn't really worth playing in the end, mostly because so much of it is bland and doesn't really make me feel like I want to keep playing. But then I do something fun (glory hole at the titty bar rofl!) and it kind of makes up for it. I just can't believe they took this long to make it. Shit. It should have come out yeeeaaaarrrsss ago and then it would have been good. Maybe.

 

[briunj04]

Damn you, Escapist! Having opinions and being subjective like it's the goddamn 1970's all over again!

 

[CD-R]

Well I just watched the Video Games Awesome play through and yeah I gotta agree with the majority of the critics on this one.

http://www.blisteredthumbs.net/2011/06/duke-nukem-is-awesome-but-his-game-is-awful/

 

[scully745]

They don't drop ammo for the Shrink Ray because it would overpower the whole game, you're supposed to just use it for tougher enemies.
Mighty Boot is in there, or at the very least a reference to it with the monster truck you drive being called Mighty Boot.
If you died in 3 v 1 then I'm sorry but that's your problem not the game's. I went through on Come Get Some and as long as I kept a shotgun on me and used the environment I didn't die an abnormal amount.

Overpower the whole game? Did you think before typing that?
Also, the game is less fun then DN3D. I died because I was having fun.
It is retarded that you cannot carry more than two weapons. Also, it is the games fault that I kept dying because DUKE DOESN'T FUCKING DIE AFTER 3 SHOTGUN BLASTS!

Let me rephrase: Constantly dropping Shrink Rays would mean that the game takes around ten minutes to finish. Also, what? It's the games fault because you DON'T die after three shotgun blasts? What did you do, go stand in a corner and huff raid after someone popped up with a shotgun? You died because you were having fun. Explain?

 

[Waaghpowa]

[font color="red"]Oh look, this crap again.[/font]

Seriously, I enjoyed it for what it was, but I'm not going to go around telling people their opinion was wrong.