$4.99 (−75%)Is Duke Nukem Forever worth it?
Duke Nukem Forever is worth it if…
- you grew up on 90s shooters and want to visit the era's attitude, warts and all
- you like shooters that do not take themselves seriously for a single second
- you have a couple of evenings for a linear, straightforward singleplayer campaign
- you want crude, juvenile comedy delivered with total confidence
- you enjoy chaotic PvP where opponents shrink, freeze, squash and shatter each other
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Big guns, bigger aliens
This is a run-and-gun shooter in the old style: the game hands you an arena, fills it with aliens, and lets you sort it out. Pig cops, shrink rays, enormous bosses that take explosive ordnance and turrets to bring down. Combat lands somewhere between classic Half-Life pacing and Halo arenas, minus the tactics: you shoot, you duck, you blow something up, you move on.
A world you can mess with
Duke's world runs on interactivity, and the game is weirdly proud of it. Between firefights you can shoot hoops, lift weights, play pinball, pool, air hockey and slots, and the game will happily let you waste an afternoon on any of it. You also get driving sections, physics puzzles and platforming between the shooting. It does not all land, and the pacing can feel stitched together from different eras of shooter design, because in a very real sense it is. The one-liners, though, never stop.
Quick answers before you play?
Is the humor actually funny?
It is juvenile, crude and completely unashamed, and whether it works depends heavily on you. Duke fires off one-liners at everything that moves, and the game leans into memes, dark humor and 90s macho caricature with zero self-awareness. If that style lands for you, it is an out-loud good time; if it aged badly for your taste, no plot twist will change your mind. The story itself is simple on purpose: aliens invade, steal Earth's women, drink Duke's beer, and get shot for it.
How rough is it around the edges?
Noticeably. It shipped in 2011 after more than a decade of troubled development, and it shows: the visuals look older than their release year, hit feedback is vague, and sections jump between styles in a way that feels stitched together. The old-school core, blasting waves of aliens with ridiculous weapons in open arenas, still works, and that is what people come for.
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