Duke Nuked…forever ?!
June 12th, 2011After 12 years of on/off waiting, I finally got my mitts on the new Duke Nukem game a couple of days ago…and cannot for the life of me think what the wait was for…Yes, it’s still definitely a “Duke” game…with all the peurile humour, and shoot-em-up goodness we’d come to expect all those years ago…but that’s the point, it hasn’t progressed noticably…
…the graphics are on a par with Doom 3, which came out some 7 (!!) years ago (and, inexplicably, the gamma level is so low as to make the game too dark to play in some areas, with no way of altering the levels)…the gameplay is stilted, and DNF joins the infamous “Call of Duty:Black Ops” in being incredibly linear…
Gearbox Software who, in my opinion, completely ruined Halo on the PC seem to have done the same to the Duke Nukem series here. Yes, there are spots of genius, and some of the side games are diverting. However, its a shame that Gearbox didn’t take a close look at the awesome “Bulletstorm” to see how this sort of thing should be done. Tellingly, Bulletstorm was, like DNF, slated as both a console and PC game…but managed to be tremendous on both formats. This isn’t and although it will sell by the bucketload, it doesn’t deserve to.
