Duke Nukem Forever Reviews

A nonsensically over-hyped utter failure of a game. This is the ultimate "boomer shooter", and I mean boomer shooter. The humor here is for emotionally stunted man-children who stopped learning emotional regulation at age 13, yet believe they are the coolest, most capable, most virile creatures alive on the planet. The impotence of this game, its culture, and the ideological space behind it are the funniest part of the game, but if you spent money on it, the humor is gone immediately.

there is a lot i want to say about this game. i could say it if i wanted, but at that point i might as well make a youtube drama slop video about it. let me summarize this for you, the developers don't care about duke nukem at all. if they cared, they would have finished this game back in 2001. the 2001 version is absolutely amazing, even if it is 20% finished, it is so much better than this gutter trash. the developers just saw whatever was cool in 2008, and shoved that in the game, they didn't even care about what duke was like before. this game, is not worth any amount of your time. piece of shit, let's move on.

In the hour i spent on this game, I pushed E to open, tapped scp to release, drove an RC car for some reason and got stuck in a casino slot machine room trying to just progress. This game is garbage ran out by morons.

I agree it's terrible for a (14?!) year wait but I personally like what we got here (played this on Xbox but also got this version for the expanded inventory and proper freeze ray) also love the executions and the doctor who cloned me dlc is a blast

The game is ok but the one who designed the truck levels, I hope you were fired and that you are still unemployed. Those sections are the biggest pieces of garbage I have ever seen. To think that someone allowed a stupid designer who had never played a car game nor drove a car his/her entire life is ridiculous.

The game play tries to be like the original Duke Nukem games. But the Duke franchise needs the Doom Eternal treatment.

Duke Nukem is an incredible character but this game doesn't do him justice. The quirkiness starts very strong but quickly turns bland. The gameplay is underwhelming, levels are ugly and the shooting feels weightless. PROS - Crude humour - Badass 80's style protagonist - Sexy babes - There are some creative, quirky ideas like using shrink machines and light platforming through turning cogs and machinery. There's a monster truck which is neat. There's a western style town / Mexican standoff. Simultaneously, there's some really lame lame, lazy parts void of thought or effort like large empty levels with zero visual interest. There are some shallow turret sections that fall flat. But then there's an Aliens inspired underground 'hive' section which is pretty creepy and atmospheric with pretty intense content which is fantastic. CONS - Gameplay seems confused between tight spaces or large empty spaces. - The special effects setting makes everything blurry. This is to cover up lackluster visuals. Turn this off. It may effect lighting but it won't feel like you're blind. - It feels disjointed and consistent. It needed better art direction, graphics and setting. Levels needed to be tighter and packed with detail - The graphics are ugly and don't pay homage to the original Duke Nukem games - Shooting feels weightless FINAL THOUGHTS - Dropped after 7 hours. Not wasting anymore of my time. Go play Duke Nukem 3D

It really isn't as bad as many folks will have you believe. It's Duke dialled up perhaps a little too high but still nonetheless enjoyable. I liked it when it released and I still do now. The shrunken puzzle/platforming sections I find to be particularly clever and fun to tackle. One issue it does have occasionally is pacing. Some sections drag on for a bit too long. Also, The Dr Who Cloned Me DLC is in some ways even better than the base game as well. Hail to the King, baby!

Maybe the first review I am writing. Duke Nukem spells fond memories of childhood and while I resumed playing it just to uninstall it faster and check one more finished game from the library, in the end I can say that I enjoyed it and will also buy the DLC. Good fun, good memories, mindless shooting around and loads of ironic punches delivered by Duke, targeted towards other popular shooters. Give it a shot!

Yeah, this game is no where near as good as Duke Nukem 3D, but I don't think it's as bad as everyone says it is. Outside of the dated graphics and humor, the game is alright. There's still a lot of environmental interactivity, you can increase your health in various ways, and many Duke 3D enemies and weapons return. The shooting is actually kinda fun, I liked weapons like the shotgun and the shrinker, many Duke 3D enemies like the Assault Troopers, Octabrains and Pigcops return with many of them being not changed that much, and I think most of them are satisfying to kill. The game often has puzzles and driving sections that serve as distractions from the combat and I didn't care much for them. Boss fights suck since the bosses can easily kill you and there's no checkpoints between boss phases. So you fought the final boss and you die in the last phase? Too bad, you are sent to the beginning of the fight. Duke Nukem Forever is not really a bad game imo, just alright. The combat is actually fun and the minigames are fun especially if you play them to get health boosts. But then the bad boss fights, the sections that distract you from the combat and other things bog the experience down. 7/10