Duke Nukem 3D

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" -- Chinese DOS spelling (traditional)
• "Duke Nukum 3D" -- Working title
• "Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown" -- US 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

Part of the Following Groups

• 2.5D Engine: Build
• Anaglyph 3-D Support (3-D Glasses)
• BPjS / BPjM indexed games
• Duke Nukem series
• Games featuring auto-mapping
• Games with Dopefish

Merchant Title Platform Price   Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown PlayStation     Duke Nukem 3D SEGA Saturn $20.00   Duke Nukem 3D DOS $4.28   Duke Nukem 3D     Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition $5.99   Please select your country: United States Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Canada Chile China Colombia Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Japan Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Malaysia Malta Mexico The Netherlands New Zealand Norway Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Russia Saudi Arabia Serbia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Africa South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Thailand Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom Uruguay Other Worldwide Not an American user?

User Reviews

The Most Original and Fun FPS Yet	DOS	Halmanator (537)
The first game that can be legitimately called a Doom killer	DOS	Maw (827)
I want to be like Duke when I grow up.	DOS	Zovni (9205)
Parallel to Quake - and pretty much the last good 2.5D game.	DOS	Quackbal (46)
The last great 2.5D game.	DOS	Smackmud (5)
"My name's Duke Nukem...and I'm coming to get the rest of you alien bastards..."	DOS	Mr. Me (36)
It's time to kick ass and chew bubble-gum... and I'm all out of gum.	DOS	Steve Hall (322)
The best damned 2.5D shooter out there.	DOS	Andy Voss (1633)
Memorable and innovative: the second great FPS	DOS	Chris Wright (93)
The most fun FPS game to play	DOS	Steve . (138)

The Press Says

Digital Extremes	SEGA Saturn	1997	10 out of 10	100
1UP	Xbox 360	Sep 26, 2008	A-	91
Thunderbolt Games	Xbox 360	May 19, 2009	9 out of 10	90
Meristation	Xbox 360	Sep 26, 2008	8.5 out of 10	85
GameFocus	Xbox 360	Sep 29, 2008	8.1 out of 10	81
TeamXbox	Xbox 360	Sep 27, 2008	8 out of 10	80
Jeuxvideo.com	Xbox 360	Oct 01, 2008	16 out of 20	80
Objectif-SEGA	SEGA Saturn	Sep 06, 2008	8 out of 10	80
Computer Games Magazine	DOS	1996		80
NZGamer	Xbox 360	Oct 16, 2008	8 out of 10	80

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Trivia

Unlike the N64 and PlayStation ports, the Saturn version of Duke Nukem 3D does not use a port of the Build Engine. Instead, the game is recreated in SlaveDriver engine, which was also used in Powerslave. Lobotomy Software made both games.