Showing posts with label Duke Nukem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Duke Nukem. Show all posts

Saturday, February 25, 2017

Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour review: Hero or Has-Been



It is crazy to think that the original Duke Nukem 3D was released 20 years ago, changing what Duke Nukem would be forever. For those of you who don't know, Duke Nukem started out as a 2D side-scroller for the PC and stayed this way for its first two installments. However, in 1996, 3D Realms, following in the footsteps of iD Software and their titles Doom and Wolfenstein, changed Duke into the first-person shooter we have grown to know and love.

In Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour (what a mouthful) we see the re-release of all four original episodes with as little touch up as possible. In this new release, Gearbox added a fifth episode, Alien World Order, bringing us seven new levels. They kept the graphics of this new chapter very faithful to the original game, even building it with the same toolkits and assets that were used in the original. In the newest episode, Gearbox takes us around the world traveling through everything from Russia and Egypt to Hollywood and Rome, killing alien baddies along the whole way.