Remember this?
If you do then welcome, you're probably as old as me although let me tell you I wasn't of legal age to be playing this game which is why I wanted to review it in addition to all the hype that's been recently going on about Duke Nukem Forever and whatnot.
Back in the day being 3D in a FPS involved having a pasted plain "enemy" in front of you that would "rotate" as you walked around which kinda sucked but at least you were indeed walking in a 3D mazed world which defined the FPS genre as we know it today.
Now here's the deal. Back then we had Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Hexxen, Heretic and Quake, to mention a few, which all were as violent as you could get back in the day but the catch was that you were either killing Aliens, evil Monsters, Demons or Nazis... and then came Duke Nukem 3D.
Duke Nukem 3D was crude as hell, in the obscene and morbid sense, and pushed a lot of boundaries back in the day such as kicking the crap out of things, pissing to gain health, dropping cash on strippers so they would show you their pixelated boobs and this was all back in ol' '96.
Playing this game in '96 really made me laugh and at the same time made me think that society was screwed up, really screwed up. Killing pig cops with the word L.A.R.D. on their uniform was interesting, blasting away aliens with a shotgun was also fun, going into a strip joint ensued hilarity, pressing the self-destruct button on everything at the end of each level also made me laugh like that time you blow up a submarine and Duke complains that he should have waited before he did it and obviously the one-liners, ohhh the one-liners!
What else can I say about Duke Nukem 3D?
That you should give it a try by downloading eduke32 which is available for all platforms. Try it out and enjoy it, feel that old FPS love, and laugh a bit damn it and stop taking the FPS genre so serious.
There was a time when an FPS was all about being scared to death while you lurked in the darkness and fired at who knows what, where your heart pumped really hard trying to get the hell out of there alive and most importantly was that you would laugh at the end of the day because you know it was all for the fun of it.
Yeah there's the whole Columbine and that Brazilian dude that went nuts on a Movie Theater but in all due honesty I just got something to tell ya...
Stop blaming it on games and start blaming yourself because you failed to raise your damn kids for letting them play a game that's supposed to be for adults!
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