Duke Nukem Forever release date
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This is something we've been itching to write for years: Duke Nukem Forever has a rock-solid release date.
The Gearbox-adopted shooter will launch worldwide on 6th May.
The US plays slightly earlier from 3rd May.
Confirmation comes from Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford and 2K president Cristoph Hartmann, who both outed the date to Game Informer magazine.
Boy has Duke Nukem Forever taken its time: Eurogamer once talked of DNF as the most anticipated game of 2000. By 2006, its extended development was a pantomime gag among the industry, causing even developer 3D Realms to joke that Duke Nukem Forever would be released "when pigs fly".
During the next few years, fleeting videos and sporadic screenshots offered glimmers of hope. But it wasn't until September 2010, and the announcement of Borderlands dev Gearbox as the heroic Duke Nukem Forever rescuer, that we dared believe.
Eurogamer played Duke Nukem Forever shortly after that announcement. What did we think? "This game isn't trying to rewrite the first-person shooter rulebook. Instead, it's hearkening back to a simpler time, when story was just an excuse for guns, girls and gags."
What took 3D Realms more than a decade to complete a game? "I wish there was an easy or dramatic answer for what took so long but there just isn't," said original designer George Broussard in November.
"It was just never ready. We had lots of development issues along the way. It wasn't a quest for perfection as some silly article in Wired implied last year."
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-01-21-duke-nukem-forever-release-date
The Gearbox-adopted shooter will launch worldwide on 6th May.
The US plays slightly earlier from 3rd May.
Confirmation comes from Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford and 2K president Cristoph Hartmann, who both outed the date to Game Informer magazine.
Boy has Duke Nukem Forever taken its time: Eurogamer once talked of DNF as the most anticipated game of 2000. By 2006, its extended development was a pantomime gag among the industry, causing even developer 3D Realms to joke that Duke Nukem Forever would be released "when pigs fly".
During the next few years, fleeting videos and sporadic screenshots offered glimmers of hope. But it wasn't until September 2010, and the announcement of Borderlands dev Gearbox as the heroic Duke Nukem Forever rescuer, that we dared believe.
Eurogamer played Duke Nukem Forever shortly after that announcement. What did we think? "This game isn't trying to rewrite the first-person shooter rulebook. Instead, it's hearkening back to a simpler time, when story was just an excuse for guns, girls and gags."
What took 3D Realms more than a decade to complete a game? "I wish there was an easy or dramatic answer for what took so long but there just isn't," said original designer George Broussard in November.
"It was just never ready. We had lots of development issues along the way. It wasn't a quest for perfection as some silly article in Wired implied last year."
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-01-21-duke-nukem-forever-release-date
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? gonna score like a 5 in game informer
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well they been on 3d realms testies even back when they were called EGM...
just saying...
damn so they gonna suck ? and rate this ? super high smh -
this game is gonna be ass
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I don't believe this game is coming out. I'll believe it when I'm playing it
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im still getting i regardless of the score been play Duke since the old PC days...but this is the video game version of Detox so ill believe when i see it.
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vespesianus wrote: »I don't believe this game is coming out. I'll believe it when I'm playing it
Well, we never thought we'd see Alan Wake or GT5 lol lol -
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seems like resistance does killing aliens way better now. this better have an AMAZING single player experience. and they couldnt even get a proper Duke Nukem voice?
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earth two superman wrote: »seems like resistance does killing aliens way better now. this better have an AMAZING single player experience. and they couldnt even get a proper Duke Nukem voice?
This better have LOTS of ? -
After a decade, I have to check this out. Need some funny one liners.
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** SPOILER ALERT!! ** SPOILER ALERT!! ** SPOILER ALERT!! **
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Even though Duke Nukem Forever purposefully overlooks many of the shooter advancements made by Halo and Call of Duty, it does at least acknowledge their existence. It just does so to poke fun of them. Early in Duke Nukem Forever, Duke is offered some green power armor to use when taking on the alien menace in downtown Las Vegas. Naturally, the big guy declines, dismissing power armor as something for, well, "pu----s."
Duke don't need no power armor.
It's a clever little aside and further demonstration that Duke is about machismo above all else in his quest to save his babes and kick alien ass. We'll see if Duke (and Gearbox) have any other video game targets when Duke Nukem Forever drops this May.
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