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Duke Nukem Forever release next year?
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 27th November 2007
Could Duke Nukem Forever see a release in Q3 2008? Only time will tell...
Since 1997, the game has changed drastically. It has switched from the Quake II engine to the Unreal engine, to Unreal II engine to a new engine which has been essentially rewritten. The current version still has parts of the Unreal II engine in it, but has been modified to support HDR, pixel shading and a load of other swanky bits and bobs. The physics engine also changed, from a Karma Engine to one designed by Mequon.
It was rumoured that the game had moved to the Doom 3 engine, but that turned out to be false. Very few bits of confirmed in-game footage have been released for the current build.
The constant engine switches have meant the game has been completely re-designed several times and that old footage of the game is no longer reliable. The game has been labelled as vapourware by pretty much everyone, having been in development for more than ten years now officially, and even longer unofficially.
Still, sources inside 3D Realms have suggested that the game will finally see a release on the modified Unreal II engine in Q3 next year, putting it in the same quarter as game-revivals like Fallout 3.
The Inquirer has got some comments from Voodoo Extreme, which says that enormous progress has been made on the game and that a load of the early levels have been put back into the gameplay. Apparently, a console version is in the pipe, a sequel is planned and there'll be more information next year.
Industry insider and rumour-monger extraordinaire, Surf Girl has also got a bit of a scoop, narrowing the release date down to Fall 2008 and indicating that the new king of vapourware after Duke sees a release will be Max Payne 3, which has been pushed back to 2009.
Skeptical or excited? Let us know what you think in the forums.
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Ah, no, my bad, it was just fog.
So often people turn their noses up at games that dont put they uber clocked quad core, sli beast under some kind of strain. For me good gameplay comes first followed by eyecandy
Kimbie
Ain't it the truth. Graphics are all very well, but if they're not backed up by a solid game... then when the next graphical marvel arrives, they're forgotten about.
I want to play this... but I'm not gonna hold my breath for the release date being accurate. ;)
An old 2001 screenshot.
i wont hold my breath.... but.... when it comes out i will be sure to buy it.
I was going to write something lengthy and clever, but I decided not too:
If you were having relations with a stunningly ugly girl/guy but their performance was excellent, would you still not be put off by the troglodyte looking dreamingly into your terrified eyes? Wouldn't you just prefer the best of both worlds? Or are you happy with the bag-over-face technique?
Of course the gameplay still matters, but after this long wouldn't you expect them to have at least tried to make it look pretty? I wouldn't own a wii if I didn't appreciate gameplay.
Granted many extremely delayed games end up being shite (e.g. Daikatana), but in the grand scheme of things, just because a game is delayed doesn't mean it'll be automatically crap if, or when, it is finally released. If Duke 4 does eventually come out, I'll be more excited than sceptical, but granted, that's a very big if. That said, in the past few months the trickle of information has been actually quite positive. Yes it may all be lies, but what would they gain from pretending it's going well? 3D Realms fund themselves now, and free from the influence of any publisher, it might actually turn out to be something special.
At least Valve isn't this bad.
Stalker wasn't exactly that aged, it still needed quite an umphy computer to run it properly. I'd have liked to have seen people try to cope with running the game were it released a few years prior. I kind of wish with Stalker they'd taken another 6 months and just polished the rough edges off, it would have come out around August and still have been a perfectly acceptable game, graphics wise.
End of.
If it does, I'll rip off my head and **** down my neck...
But don't hold me to that.
I am praying this makes it out next year!! :crosses fingers:
ROFL!!!
You cannot compare graphics/gameplay to sexiness/attitude of a girl.
If you can though, you need help. :)
One game which graphics doesn't matter at all is Live for Speed, graphics is med, but gameplay is 100% amazing.
found it, it was ars technica http://arstechnica.com/reviews/games/forever.ars
WE NEED TO BELIEVE!
http://godmodeonline.com/d/20070924.html
agreed ...... I mean , these days I play Gran Turismo 2 on my pc (emulation, of course) and it looks so bad that sometimes I can't even tell what model the car behind me is..... but it's fun ! it's actually 10 times better than the previous two NFS (before pro street, which i didnt try)