The game certainly isn’t afraid to poke fun at itself, as well as plenty of other big gaming franchises, and shows a character and humour that is so often lacking in games these days.įollowing the self referential intro there is a lull in the action to set the story up. None of it was real, it was just the Duke playing his new game that he’d been waiting twelve years for. Take the big fella down, and kick his eyeball across the stadium for a field goal and you’re treated with a little twist. The game starts in typical Duke fashion, with a big fuck off boss battle – not a tough one, they’re saved for later – but something to give you a taste of what’s to come.

Duke Nukem Forever may suffer in the areas I just mentioned, but it is fun, and lots of it if you are willing to overlook its technical issues. To me fun is far more important than quick loading times, a consistent frame rate or realistic character models. Technical performance isn’t everything though, I could list a number of recent games that were technically excellent, but no fun whatsoever. It’s a twelve year old game that’s had a bit of work done now and again, and it just doesn’t match up to games being released these days, not technically anyway. This was never going to be that game, and anybody who thought otherwise was just kidding themselves. Anybody who was expecting some revolutionary new shooter is going to be seriously disappointed and should just walk away now. The first, and probably most important to some people, thing I have to say is that technically it’s not good. The game has been so long in the making it passed in to legend, there’s no way the finished product could ever live up to the legacy it has earned. Part of me didn’t want to review Duke Nukem Forever, I don’t know what I was thinking when I volunteered for the job.

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