The first Duke Nukem Forever reviews are in, and the overall consensus is quite negative. Does the game really suck, or does it simply mean that because of all the…

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No Duke game today will ever top the 1996 DN3D.

No, this cannot be happening!

The trailer has put me off this game. Too much bad language, sex, drugs and basic crudness. Good riddance Duke.

Fail to the king, baby! The action was absolutely laughable, and repetitive. The graphics didn't impress me with anything special. The graphics engine looks pretty much like Far Cry 2004. Not even the occasional jokes or punchlines had any nostalgic feelings that would make the game more bearable. This round Duke is definitely out of gum. In my honest opinion Gearbox turned the game into trash.

It's pure garbage. The next duke game would need to follow a more original back in the day formula different than today's FPS's.

Zero surprise. The trailer was totally weak (including graphics). The game has been manhandled by how many different programmers and studios over a 14 year period? Expectations were sky-high. People remember that when they were 15 years old playing the original, that type of humor rocked their world but are now approaching their 30's and think that same style of humor is now juvenile. You could see this disaster coming from a mile away.

I'm just wondering how many were sucked into pre-ordering it. Especially the limited edition which was something like $80?? Crazy.

Oh well, 2K can now get back to what they do best. Making a Borderlands sequel.

Well thanks for telling us you're completely unaware of the point behind duke nukem.

I agree with Princeton. Does the guest have a clue what the whole franchise is even about?

It's a shame really.

Maybe some things are just best left in the old days.

All Gearbox could do was polish a turd, and I'd say they gave it their all. Gearbox does 'outrageous' and 'gratuitous' pretty well. Any other developer, and it would have turned out even worse. They'll do the next Duke Nukem game right.

But now we can look forward to Serious Sam 3!

I agree, when anything (including games, shows, movies, music, etc) focus too much on that stuff, it means it sucks because they dont have any good ideas but try to appeal to 'X' number of kids who think it's cool.

Have you seen the TV Commercials? It looks like a bad re-skinning of the doom 3 engine that's been dummed down to work on something 'tarded like the wii. Seriously. Worst looking game ever, the storyline is pretty lame, and well, let's just say the 'attitude' the game has was cute back in the early days...

but we see worse on 6:30 cartoons nowadays.

stupid bad evil resurrection of a hero that should have been left dead.

I think that everytime I hear a remake of a song or movie.

I guess I've moved on from all the inappropriate behaviour seen in these type of games, once upon a time it might have appealed but you soon learn there is more to life than chasing these short term pleasures.

Can't wait till I can get it for 10 bux or less on steam... in a month or 2! smh lol

So you stopped chasing short term pleasures and moved on to self righteousness. You might want to reevaluate yourself again since I don't see anything but downward movement here.

Bo who, Duke Nukem was Crysased

I also agree with Princeton. A little bit of a bad thing is sometimes good, but put in a lot of a bad thing and it usually just makes everything bad. This rule applies to pretty much anything art related; movies, games, music, painting, cooking, dancing.

Watching the DNF trailers reminds me of the Transformer film sequels. They took the comedic relief parts of the movie and said "if that was funny let's put twice as much of it. Then we'll take the action and put even more action in there. Then we'll make the big robots even bigger. Then we'll have the best movie ever."

Stupid.