This Week’s Xbox Live Arcade Release: Duke Nukem 3D
- Scribbled on September 22nd, 2008 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in New Release(s), Release Date(s), Shooter, Xbox Live Arcade
3D Realms announced that their classic first-person-shooter Duke Nukem 3D would come out on September 24 - well, Microsoft makes it official, as Gamerscore Blog confirms it.
For the kiddies who weren’t even alive in 1996, Duke was the main competitor of Quake back in the day. While Quake had the far superior graphics, Duke and its relatively lo-tech Build Engine oozed personality by the bucketloads, from the weapons (shrink ray + Duke’s mighty foot = squish!) to the dialogue cribbed from hip early ’90s movies (”Come get some!”) to the frenetic deathmatching (”Dukematching”), it even holds up today as I occasionally play it on my older PC.
Unlike Marathon: Durandal, Duke 3D holds up. Now, when are they going to release the previous two Duke games (which were sidescrolling jet-pack platformers), or better yet: Commander Keen.
(Thanks, Gamerscore Blog.)
September 22nd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Boring. Want Duke Nukem Forever. Played a good deal of Duke 3D back in the day. Something new would be nice. Sure, this fixes IPX/SPX sync issues but… I’ve grown up since then and have lived through an industry of FPS saturation.
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Derrick, you can’t possibly want DNF, besides that game is just an urban legend, like bigfoot or reasonably priced a thai food…
No way it lives up to the decade of hype
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I want DNF, chiefly because I loved Duke 3D for years.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
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