Description
Aliens have landed in futuristic Los Angeles and it's up to the Duke to bring the pain and show them the door. After the initial entries of side-scrolling platform games,
Duke Nukem 3D introduced a first-person perspective to the series and turned the game in a full-fledged shooter with 2.5D graphics.
Duke's arsenal includes pistols, pipe bombs, laser trip mines, Nordenfelt guns, a chain gun and various rocket launchers, but also his mighty foot to kick enemies. The game sports a high level of interactivity. Many objects in the environment can be broken or interacted with, such as pool tables, arcade machines, glass, light switches and security cameras. As a mature game, the protagonist is also able to hand strippers a dollars to have them remove their top.
The character, voiced by
Jon St. John, also regularly delivers commentary on the events through one liners. There are 28 levels, divided over three episodes, set in locations such as streets, a church, a space station, a Japanese villa, a football field and many modern environments. Enemies mainly include aliens, mutated humans and members of the police force that have been turned into Pig Cops. Next to weapons, Duke also has access to medikits, steroids to enhance his speed, nightvision, protective boots, a hologram known as the holoduke, and a jet pack to reach higher areas. Most of the gameplay is action-oriented, but there is also an amount of puzzles needed to progress or access secret areas.
The game includes network play through the IPX protocol, for deathmatch and cooperative games.
Alternate Titles
- "毀滅公爵" -- DOS Chinese spelling (traditional)
- "Duke Nukum 3D" -- Working title
- "Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown" -- PlayStation title
- "Duke Nukem" -- European PlayStation title
- "Duke3D" -- Informal title
- "デューク ニューケム トータル メルトダウン" -- Japanese PlayStation Spelling
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Trivia
Although Duke Nukem 3D uses only a pseudo-3D like Doom, it is possible to achieve things in Duke Nuke 3D that you couldn't do in a proper 3D game. Duke Nukem 3D's levels are made up of 2D planes, and some of those planes can overlap. For example, it is possible to walk into a building and enter a room larger than the actual building was. Another example can be found in the secret level in episode two, "Lunatic Fringe", where there is a 720 degree circle that overlaps itself once.
