Duke Nukem Forever Video Review

GameFerret

This is one of the only time I can say I disagree with a review from Sessler and/or XPlay. I understand the complaints about the graphics and syncing issues. But, the review seems to pose that one thought wasn't included when playing the game.

DNF never intended to break barriers and start a new path for gaming. It was never supposed to compete with the big 2 (Battlefield and CoD). It was meant to finally be completed after engine hoping for years and give gamers that nostalgic taste from days of old while touching upon a few new features introduced by games and inturn, making fun of those games. It was meant to make you laugh and remind you of your younger days of gaming and movies. I got done playing and immediately tried to figure out how long it's been since I enjoyed watching 'They Live', 'Starship Troopers', 'Army of Darkness', and I even got the urge to play Halo again. Not to mention the previous DN games.

And I feel that was it's purpose. Not to break barriers, but to break the funny bone on all us 'old timers' who grew up in the olden days of gaming and grew up through what is now considered the years of bad graphics. It reminds us that the game shouldn't be taken seriously and doesn't have to topple the barriers. It reminds us that among our gaming forefathers exists a mushroom addicted plumber, a bling obsessed hedgehog, a stickman and an anonymous pilot in an overpowered unrealistic space ship. So we should never take foregranted why we started to play games in the first place. It gave us a grin and flicked our imaginations.

And it's a tribute to itself. I laughed and grinned looking at the cheesy screenshots and statues from the Duke games of past in the museum. I laughed at the fact that it's one of the only non serious game(besides pokemon and Zelda is more a serious minded game minus the chickens) that, after nearly 20 years, is still keeping true to it's core as it aged. Sonic the Hedgehog is going back after years of trouble trying out new things, Mario appears to have upgraded from mushrooms to lsd, Donkey Kong quit attacking constuction sites and put on a tie and, after a brief musical interlude, is now back at it's core. Duke was essentially a smack talking, alien killing, line stealen, babe lovin', big gun shootin' freak that tended to run on engines(sometimes outdated) with more popular games and graphics on day one. And it still is. Nothing more should be expected.

I would have liked to see the lip syncing fixed, maybe a few more layers added. Some glitches fixed. But if I was given one thing to change about Duke Nukem Forever...It would be giving him back his dual Desert Eagles. Maybe they'll return in a sequel. If Dynasty Warriors, CoD, Pokemon, and FF can have enough regurgitation's and remakes to fill landfills, then DNF doesnt deserve to die after the hell it's fought through to stay alive. I wont say it's a 5/5, but I'd give it a 3/5 on the all around big picture of the game itself. It definitely doesn't deserve a 1. Only Bad Boys deserves a 1