I want to be forward with you. Declaring Duke Nukem: Forever this week’s “Release of the Week” is in no way an endorsement telling you to run out and buy the game. In reality this is more of a warning that if you are planning a trip to hell any time soon, I would pack some snow shoes. Announced back in 1997, this game has had a development cycle that exists only in legends and nightmares. Finally Duke Nukem: Forever‘s tumultuous journey to store shelves is about to end.
Duke represents the 12 year old boy in all of us. If you find yourself lacking much in the immaturity department, then this game probably won’t offer much. Aliens have invaded earth, while in the process stolen Duke’s beer and kidnapped his women. As you can imagine, this gets Dukes attention and thus he commences kicking some alien ass. Duke’s other activities include enjoying naked women, drinking beer and then going to a bathroom and pissing it out again. Non-killing activities are usually tied to raising the ego meter, which acts as the health bar.
The early word on Duke Nukem: Forever is that it is very immature and not very good. Next time you hear a game wasn’t very good because it was rushed, just think of the Duke. At least by getting this game out the door, Gearbox is free to do something else with the IP, for whatever it’s worth. For right now it looks like Duke Nukem and Arnold Schwarzenegger are mounting similar comebacks.
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