![]() ![]() Playing as pint-sized Duke is a neat idea, and he spews profane chatter as if he has inhaled a tank's worth of helium. Several jumping sequences see you shrinking to action-figure height. You do a lot of platforming and some occasional puzzle-solving, but all of these portions are dull as dishwater. That kind of pace-killing monotony is frequent in Duke Nukem Forever. And just when you think you're going to get the chance to do something different, you get in your monster truck and drive up more ramps. The driving just goes on and on, and then on some more. But this structure repeats itself three times in a row. It's nice that you get the chance to shoot some aliens amid all this bland driving. You see a lot of the same brown canyons and cliffs in these sections, and on scripted occasions, the rover stalls and you have to get out and search for gas cans. In these sequences, you drive over aliens and use ramps to jump across chasms. Take, for example, a series of levels in which you drive Duke's four-wheeler. Other sections drag on interminably, and there are frequent stretches in which nothing is happening. You might spend only three or four minutes on one level, doing nothing but walking and jumping a bit, before reaching the next. Now Playing: Duke Nukem Forever Video Reviewĭuke Nukem Forever is a treatise on what happens when random ideas are slapped together without regard for how they fit with one another. This is a few seconds before Duke delivers his repeated line about pork chop sandwiches.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's That is, unless your idea of fun is to catch an occasional glimpse of digital nipples while you jump and drive around, and only occasionally shoot a few brain-dead aliens. In Duke Nukem Forever, there is little joy, little excitement, and little fun. He receives a lap dance from a topless stripper, smacks monsters in the crotch to humiliate them, and has no problem using words beginning with the letter "f." But there's nothing sexy, provocative, or sly about his portrayal in this long-awaited sequel. ![]() Sure, he spouts the occasional sexist quip. Neither crowd is likely to get worked up over Duke's actions here. ![]() Some see the cigar-chomping alpha male as a misogynist pig others see a clever and ironic take on macho cliches. Duke may be an icon, but he's just going through the motions in this stitched-together collection of poorly paced levels, which do the unimaginable: they make Duke boring. So this is what we've been waiting for, it seems: a tedious and unattractive sci-fi shooter that would quickly hit the bargain bin if it weren't called Duke Nukem Forever. ![]()
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