Customer Ratings & Reviews

Duke Nukem Forever is a much anticipated sequal to a PC game series. It singularly fails to deliver. If this game had been released in 2002 as it is right now, it would still have been a dissappointment. The AI is poor with frequent examples of NPCs becoming bugged or stuck. Similiarly, they also tend to get stuck on the environment, especially the leaping pigs who upon reaching you will often get stuck mid air on you. Additionally, ordinary enemies will sometimes not take damage from a weapon, if you started shooting at them before their scripting finished and they became vulnerable to attack. More specifically to the PC release, the PC version feels like a poorly executed console port. When using the keyboard and mouse, the controls feel sluggish. If you happen to have an XBOX 360 controller that you can connect to your PC, then it becomes playable, but at that point you might as well have purchased it for a console. Despite the fact that the franchise was a PC staple for many years, the PC market was clearly not a priority for this release.

Background: I've been waiting for this game since 3DRealms was still doing it. What I expected: Duke3D with modern visuals, and modern duke-isms What I got: better than expected. I too waited close to half my lifetime for this game... Duke3D was even a reward in school to play after getting all my homework done. It was my first foray into FPS's, and was far superior in playability, challenge, and humor than anything that came before it. As one that has waited this long, I felt compelled to purchase Duke Nukem Forever. Sadly, I had to get it somewhere else. Install went without a hitch. And many of the load time issues and graphical glitches I see people mention seem to be a ting regarding one of the console or unpatched copies, because I can safely say that I've yet to see most if any of these apparent glitches that show up on Youtube recorded video capture sessions. Okay, it is no Crysis 3, but the game looks very good, and plays fluidly as well. This let me get to the part that matters the most... enjoying the game. Yes, there was that bit about waiting after the game was loaded to get the appropriate quality textures, but that appears to be an issue with the Unreal Engine (as it happens in EVERY UE 2/3 game I've ever played) than a fault of DNF itself. I can appreciate the game for what it is, and from reading the dev notes, Hope that Randy and his crew at Gearbox are granted a chance to do their own homage to the King himself as they would hope to do it. If nothing else, by releasing this game Gearbox has earned a ton of good karma for managing to release the "unreleasable", and what had become a joke in the industry. What I can say (take it for what it's worth) is that I had a lot of fun, and found it a good challenge. Most of the criticized glitches just never happened for me. My only wish was that there was more to the single-player portion. 3DR was usually pretty good about supplementing expansions that added a ton of good single-player levels (co-op with mod).

Well I waited for13 years and I think they need to take this one back to the developers and rewrite it. R rated video and language some of which is funny. You can't do your own thing you have to follow the game and no backtracking. Spoiler alert you can't save the girls from the aliens. It seems like they researched the prior limits and pushed them a notch higher or lower depending on your viewpoint . The humor is really what you would expect from middle school. The graphics get a C+ and you had better have a powerful machine to run it.

Simply put if you are a Duke Nukem fan then you will absoultely love this game. No it is not completely polished, but what it lacks in graphics it annihilates in gameplay. It is hilarious, action packed, and at times makes you put on your thinking cap for mixed in puzzles/platforms. Very underated game compared to what the professional reviewers have to say about it. Overall gaming experience I would give it a 7 out of 10.

Spent a lot of time playing Duke 3D. Couldn't wait for the new game to come out. What they don't tell you is this requires a major download from Steam, if you have a sattilite internet connection be ready to spend about a week downloading, can't just play from the DVD. Once it's downloaded, don't think you can just start up and play, may have to wait 20 -30 minutes for a Steam update before it starts. No joystick support so if you don't have an xbox or playstation figure on buying a new contoller. Purchased game in June for a bit above $50.00 and now it's down to $39.00. The graphics aren't bad but the comments that show up at the bottom of the screen look like they were written by a 12 year old.

Awesome! About time they came out with a new Duke Nukem! Was just like the origionals, you run around kickin butt, savin the chicks. Decent story line, Duke Nukem never had a huge story line like some of the other games, was simple, big guy goin to save the world by kicking butt, simple enough. Few mini puzzles tossed in to extend the length of the game but over all I liked it a lot, needed to be longer but still was a fun 2 days!