The Duke now has its own fast-food chain and a large casino. The fans love him and especially the women lie at his feet. But the blazing babes are suddenly abducted by aliens. The King can not leave this course sit up and does so on the way to powerful kick ass alien, and thereby ensures the coolness not to be miss out.
Retro
Macho sayings and cool actions, that is Duke Nukem. The special charm and humor of the series is an encounter at every turn. On his journey through varied areas the Duke is a crazy weapons arsenal available. So there are about a shrink gun, transformed the pigs to miniature size or a freeze gun to shock freezing of aliens. Anyone who has played a previous installment of the series, will already know this shootas. New on board is the Holoduke. This gadget projected similar to Crysis 2, an artificial image of the hero in the environment that distracts the enemy. Moreover Dukes Sunglasses has a Night Vision, with which you can see in the dark. At some points in the game this night vision mode is required, but was graphically implemented mau. Pipe bombs and laser-mines are also on board. Overall, the Arsenal is average and would have a surprise or two can tolerate more. Duke Nukem Forever is a feast for retro fans. There would, for example, the crisp Boss Fights, areas that can be left only when all enemies have bitten into the digital grass and of course the constant search for an opener for closed passages. Retro spectacle is completed by the simple control and a non-existent free storage system. The AI is largely Duke typical stupid, but sometimes annoying unfair.
Technically also Retro
The long development time is advantageous for the technology was not absolute. Although the dusty Unreal Engine conjures quite beautiful lighting effects on the TV, textures and animations but move at very low levels. In addition, there are far too long loading times and annoying performance degradation. The sound is ok, and the English language edition a pleasure, here is the Duke recognizes immediately.
With just under 15h season on the normal difficulty the title is way ahead of other genre representatives. For a change, driving passages and the very different locations like Las Vegas or the Hoover Dam care. However, the levels are very linear set up. In multiplayer part to Duke Nukem Forever is minimalist. The offers four classic modes: Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, King of the Hill and Capture the Flag, where only the latter has its own flair. Instead of a flag we steal as a babe, that must be every now and then reprimanded with a smack on the bottom. This corresponds to the Arsenal of the story, however, takes on some of the ten cards even in the campaign sorely missed jetpack as piece of equipment added. Nostalgic Bonus: One of the maps of Duke Nukem Forever comes from Duke Nukem 3D. Cool, but ugly. Duke Nukem Forever includes in multiplayer mode experience points system, with which we enable any new weapons or abilities, but clothes for the Duke or furnishings for his penthouse that we can visit between matches. Bottom line: the multiplayer is a nice touch but nothing more.
Conclusion
From retro view Duke Nukem Forever can fulfill its obligations and has become an amusing game. However, the development time you realize the title more than clearly, but he also offers uncompromising action, cool macho, creative game ideas and slightly or barely clad ladies everything that makes a real Duke. This game is thus a tribute to all Duke fans, everyone else should first try the demo.
