ORIGINAL: Silentbomber
End of the world, I' ll love if this is called duke nukem forever...
Why do people love Duke so much anyway??
Because he shit down an aliens throat.
Duke Nukem 3D was amazing... at the time. It' s only real competition was the original Quake and because Nukem used sprites it looked smoother. Heh, i was 13 year old when it was released and i remember chuckling at how you could give prostitutes and strippers money to shake their tits in your face.
Duke also had some of the best one-liners ever...
There were funny references to Doom and Quake...
There was a corpse of a space marine that looked like the main character from Doom and as you enter Duke says " That' s one Doomed space marine" ...
And there was a part where a building (with a sticker warning of a fault line) collapses due to an earthquake and Duke says " I ain' t afraid of no Quake"
There were also references to The Simpsons, Indiana Jones, Terminator, Luke Skywalker, Snake Plissken, Dirty Harry, Die Hard, Mission Impossible, Beavis & Butthead etc... and in 1996 it just kicked ass.
It also had the best weapon loadout ever. The game was a work of genius and the hope is that 3D Realms haven' t lost their touch. The sequel has changed engines multiple times and staff have left... it could turn out awful.
I' m not sure what engine it' s running on now... Doom 3 or Unreal Engine 3.0 are probably the most likely candidates. Hopefully todays trailers will be realtime and not CG and we' ll be able to get an idea of what to expect.
They' ve released this screenshot...
...which if rendered using the game engine actually looks very poor. I' d probably guess Doom 3. But the really small images they released earlier in the year had a distinct UE3.0 look to them... so who knows...
