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[Spectre]

From IGN:

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After nearly 13 years of development time, Duke Nukem Forever is finally complete.

The game was on display at the Penny Arcade Expo this weekend in Seattle. Texas-based Gearbox Software confirmed they finished development of the title. Studio president Randy Pitchford said during a presentation the game is in the final polishing stages, and is coming in 2011 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.

First announced in 1997, Duke Nukem Forever was originally planned as a sequel to the 1996 hit Duke Nukem 3D. Since then, however, the game has famously suffered from continuous development delays, leading many to wonder if Duke would ever see the light of day.

For nearly a decade not much was seen or heard about the project until things began to heat up in May 2009 when rumors surfaced of 3D Realms' closure. That same month, publisher Take-Two filed a lawsuit against 3D Realms/Apogee Ltd for breach of contract.

Studio co-founder George Broussard soon spoke out saying that due to a lack of funding, the Duke Nukem Forever team was let go, but 3D Realms would remain open in a much smaller capacity. A courtersuit claim was filed against Take-Two a month later.

The lawsuit and countersuit were finally settled this past June, paving the way for the game to be released. Duke Nukem Forever again made headlines last month when rumors began that Gearbox Software had taken over control of the game to finish it.

IGN is on the show floor playing the game right now. We'll be posting our impressions later today.

This great and all, but i never cared for this game. Will it be bad or decent?

[Smacktalks]

I never really thought this would ever make a release after so long.

It's hard to guess what it will be like, but surely they'll put everything into it otherwise they'll get slated for taking so long and then putting out a rubbish game. I'm looking forward to seeing it in action, hopefully there'll be some videos up in the next few hours.

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Screenshots:
http://kotaku.com/5629778//gallery/

[Aero]

Smacktalks, on 03 September 2010 - 09:02 PM, said:

surely they'll put everything into it otherwise they'll get slated for taking so long and then putting out a rubbish....

lolololol "guns 'n' roses" - chinese demoCRAPcy

[eliteX]

@ the cock block drawing

[eliteX]

@ the cock block drawing

[Chillalex]

7/10
i called it.
it's good it's coming (really?) but the myth has outgrown the product. I never really liked duke nukem anyway. might have been good in the 90s but not so relevant now surely.

[Strum la Frantique]

Not relevant now!? The first person shooter genre needs Duke now exactly how it needed him in the mid 90's. The genre is just taking itself far too seriously, with everyone jumping on a "me too" bandwagon. Now we're swimming in average releases like Singularity, Wolfenstein, Metro 2033. It's mirrors 15 years ago where to go with Dooms you had Hexens, and Heretics and Rise of the Triad (which is also getting a reboot).

Even all the top tier release like Call of Duty, Halo, and the ever missing Half Life - take themselves seriously. The only one that dared to be slightly different is Bad Company, but it's no Duke. In the age of the FPS characterless protagonist, the genre needs Duke Nukem.

He wasn't relevant in the mid 90's when he hit store shelves, he'd only starred in two pretty standard side scrollers. He was more 80's action hero, going against the seriousness of the early to mid 90's when everything was blood and grunge music. Much like what Sam Raimi did with Army of Darkness at the time, it went against the trend in films at the time and became a cult hit...and Duke steals a quote of two from Ash.

The market is saturated in superhero properties because Sam Raimi (once again) made Spider-Man a massive success at a time when you couldn't get funding for a superhero film, they weren't relevant. Now there's an endless supply, but even in that market Matthew Vaughn couldn't get a studio to pick up Kick-Ass. It wasn't relevant, a superhero black comedy, it's not what audiences wanted - it's a massive success

And that's my thesis on saying something isn't 'relevant' is completely ridiculous. If it's good, you can make it relevant.

ps I like Chinese Democracy.

[Aero]

lmao im not gonna dis Chinese democracy, but its not 12 years of work coem to epic fruitation... shacklers revenge is my favorite song but its hardly their best work..... nor is it part of "an epic trilogy which will be released by 2012!" lmao axl you ballbag, never give a date, surely you of all people should know this by now!

[salizzle]

Chris, Kick-Ass is great and all, but a massive success? It didn't break £100,000,000.

[Strum la Frantique]

It was only made for like $20 million though. For an independent movie, it's a huge success.

[Spectre]

They Say The DVD sa;es will help Kick-ass greatly, i thought the movie was funny

[Strum la Frantique]

Just putting up an exerpt from Yahtzee Croshaw's Extra Punctuation from last week where he too tackles Duke Nukem's relevancy.

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Having said that, I've got to admit that my feelings for Duke Nukem Forever have changed. They've changed almost constantly throughout the last decade - through anticipation, indifference, hatred, mockery, pity, mockery again, pity again, and recently to hatred again just in time for that video I made. For the longest time, my main point against it was that Duke Nukem is a dinosaur - a representative of an age long past, when people liked overly-macho self-assured 90s misogynistic action men in lead roles, decidedly out of place in the modern climate of grim, gritty, morally questionable protagonists.

But now I feel differently. Things have come full circle. Making my most recent video has made this all very clear to me: silly 90s style action shooters are something we desperately need back. Quickly, please. Because the alternative is more hideous, grimy, ditchwater dull piles of putrid elephant guts like Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days.