ncmark wrote:It's all moot for me because I don't have a machine capable of playing it. But everything I've heard abut it has been bad. It's a shame - what were they doing for 10 years????
They got an overdose of envy and wanted the perfect game.
It seems that they didn't like that Quake came out and left DN3D as an outdated game, so they spent too much time trying to keep with graphics evolution.
Also, they tried to put everything that appeared in other games and the user could enjoy.
As a result, DNF is a bad mix... they put so much that they forgot to put some action (enemies are scarce, and you can only take two weapons in your inventory), the levels are too linear and Duke Nukem itself seems outdated.
IMHO, if they put the programmers into a jail and left without news of the gaming world, after three years you could have been obtained a much better game. Maybe without some characteristics, but overall a better game.
Also, the super-macho Duke Nukem seems outdated by now... there are many politically incorrect characters today, so it's not as breaking as before. If they had made two or three DN games in those years, it may still be a "healthy" character, but now it's somewhat like Lara Croft... they were better back in the day.
EDIT: Maybe that above review indicate that DNF is a very bad game, but in fact is not THAT bad. I'll gave it a 6.5 or 7 out of 10, but me (like most gamers in the world) was expecting a 9.5 or 10 game. Most gamers are very dissapointing for getting a "normal" game after playing DN3D when they were younger... but I bet the same game without "Duke Nukem" name would have received better reviews worldwide.
I have traveled across the universe and through the years to find Her.
Sometimes going all the way is just a start...
I'm selling some stuff!