Duke Nukem 3D-Atomic: Lets Rock I review the game Duke Nukem 3D. A Must-have for PC gamers, a Pop-culture hit.
Nintendo is a kiddie company. FACT. Look at the Nintendo 64's port of Duke Nukem 3D as proof. Duke 3D: a game about blowing aliens' heads off, swearing, and about strippers. After a port to Nintendo, the cleverly renamed Duke Nukem 64 lost significant gore, every bad phrase in Duke's vocabulary, and every single girl. This is a problem for me for one reason: Duke Nukem is no **** In the second episode, he threatens the alien overlord before he goes to battle with him by promising that he will "Tear off [his] head and [poop] down his neck"...and he does...
Duke Nukem is and always has been a huge name in gaming. With this update of the most popular and sucessful of the Duke titles, Duke 3D, interest in the series rose once again, resulting in the unveiling of the planned Duke Nukem Forever (which is another story altogether). Duke 3D: Atomic takes everything good about 3D and makes it better. More frames-per-second, more blood and gore, true 3D enemies (rather than sprites), more explosions, more levels, and or course, more pixelated ****
Duke: Atomic is the revamped story of Duke 3D. Duke is returning from his adventures escaping from the aliens who abducted him when his shuttle is shot-down above LA. Duke is not campaigning to stop the aliens from taking the world's lives, property, and of course, the world's babes.
Many graphical updates have occured since the original title. Enemies are now in true 3D (except for battlelord bosses and the overlord) and, as such, bleed (semi)realistically. If you shoot an alien at point-blank range with a shotgun, blood and bits of flesh will splash all over walls. In the previous game, the enemy would fall into a nice, neat sprite on the floor, here, realism comes into play. With more frames-per-second, the atomic edition runs smoother, plays faster, and requires much less dramamine to handle than duke 3D. A fourth episode was made for this edition in order to shake-up the action. This fourth game--"The Birth"--is easily more difficult that all three previous ones combined, and is a great addition to the game.
And as an ending remark: ****
HeadshotJackal's Rating:
I gave this game a 9/10. It is a solid title and a great shooter. Hail to the King, Baby!