Yes, Duke Nukem 3D was an awes꧂ome shooter for its time, and it holds up surprisingly well today. And no, Duke Nukem Forever never really got a chance to shine.
Above: Oh, what might have been
Between those two titles, though, Duke has starred in no fewer than five complete games (not counting cell-p☂hone games or the re-releases of DN3D), and none of t🌟hem were very good.
Above: Planet of the Babes was one of them
True, there aren’t really a lot of places a cigar-chomping, stripper-rescuing parody of a game hero can go that he hasn’t been already, and he might even be a little out of his depth in the modern game market. With the right mix of action and wry meathead humor behind him, though, that probabl🎃y wouldn’t matter. He isn’t completely out of the picture, either; even after the cancellation of Forever, publisher Apogee has vowed to bring him back in a trilogy of handheld games. We don’t have any idea if those will actually be any good, but at the very least they&rsqu🎐o;ll probably be better than Duke’s run of crap/nonexistent games.
