Nintendo 64

Duke Nukem: Zero Hour

Duke Nukem: Zero Hour is hard, bloedig, filmisch en complex. Een spel dat perfekt tegemoetkomt aan de hoge eisen die de gamer tegenwoordig stelt aan zijn niet te stillen honger naar bloed en avontuur. 'Hail to the Beef baby...!'

Il est quand même dommage qu'un aussi bon jeu que Duke Nukem soit gâché par un stupide système de sauvegarde. Le mode solo s'en trouve entaché de manière rédhibitoire alors que le mode multijoueur reste un must. De plus, Duke Nukem Zero Hour est doté d'une réalisation parfaite aussi bien visuelle que sonore.

Som konkurrent till Turok 2 eller Quake 2 håller inte Duke Nukem: Zero Hour. Det har inte ett lika gediget flerspelarläge, lika stora banor eller lika hårt motstånd. Det är helt enkelt ett shoot 'em up som inte röcker hela vägen fram och som snabbt avslöjar sina brister. Alltför snabbt.

Duke Nukem: Zero Hour is a very good action-shooter that, with a few improvements, could have been a classic. The game's 4MB Expansion Pak enabled high-resolution mode is too slow to be played and its glaring lack of save-points really puts a hamper in replay value, as gamers may eventually grow too frustrated with the title to give it another shot. However, if players don't mind Duking in low-resolution mode and can live without save-points, Zero Hour comes highly recommended thanks to top control, lots of environments to explore, more baddies to kill than ever before, an excellent multiplayer mode and extremely pretty visuals. All in all this game is still an excellent buy despite some significant shortcomings.

I am the biggest fan of Duke that there is, but even I had trouble getting motivated to play through a level over and over again. I can't begin to explain how ticked off you will get when your 45 minutes of playing is completely lost because you miss a ledge when you jump or if you open a door and get ambushed. The game itself is fun and pretty enjoyable, yet unoriginal in most areas. They did a great job with all the voice samples and little touches scattered across the worlds, but the third or fourth time through a level, you just want to get done and move on so they lose a little of their luster. So if you are a patient person and don't mind playing the same level a few times, then you should be OK with this. If you get frustrated doing the same thing over and over again, you will not be happy with this game.

It's a hard game, which is good - blasting alien scum was never easy. But, it's a pretty un-original game too. You're still gonna have to do better, GT software designers. That pansy-ass Bond still has a better game than I do.