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3D Realms releases new Duke Nukem Forever image
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 19th December 2008
Duke Nukem Forever has been in development for more than a decade. Eleven years, really.
But, on the plus side, 3D Realms has released a new image from the game, though it may be all pre-rendered by the looks of it. Yay.
Showcasing some of the different monsters in the game, which is actually rumoured to be in the final stages of post-production, the image is 3D Realms' gracious holiday gift to gamers.
The image isn't all we've seen of the game in the last twelve months though - there was a rather disappointing trailer released as well which was much-hyped despite showing only a few seconds of gameplay footage.
One of the problems behind the staggering development time for Duke Nukem Forever has been the constant requirement to stay on the cutting edge. Over the last decade the game has switched engines multiple times, going from the original engine to various Unreal Engine versions and custom re-writes of the entire rendering and physics system. Each change has required the team to redo a lot of the previous work on the title. The release date for the game is still 'When It's Done'.
If you want to download the new image from the game then 3D Realms is hosting a selection of different formats and sizes, but if you want something more tangible then you can check out the old trailer for the game below from a few years ago. Let us know what you think in the forums.
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I dont like the trailer either theres vehicles, vehicles in any game except battelfield 1942 are crap.
Well, i have better chance of playing crysis on AA and AF enabled then ever seeing DNF.. :\
Now I missed the original Duke Nukem games, I was too young back than.
But let me use Team Fortress 2 as an example that this game can be good.
Team Fortress 2 was also like 7 years (if I'm not mistaking) in the making, and it is one of the best games ever imo.
It's just wait and see for me!
By the looks of the "trailer" there, it should be called Never-ever, as the graphics are rather horrendous, even though there are some nifty gameplay related things shown.
It's not as if it should come as a surprise that unless they've changed the engine several times, it will look outdated before it's even been dated, for release. Oh well, whether or not it's something worth it or not...passing judgement is going to wait until it's actually released. Until then it's still vapor.
@ Anti-Hero, really, TF2 is in your view one of the best games ever? All there is to say is that we're all happy you're happy. Games that have been delayed for release this long are on average flops, so even if TF2 made it well isn't anything to draw much conclusions from.
FAIL!
It's Daikatana. But yes, it sucked.
So basically, what everyone is saying is every game delayed for quite some time sucks? DiabloII? Half-Life 2? TF2? Oh my... how they sucked... :|
BTW, this trailer is much better than the last year trailer
That trailer is from before Doom3 even. And from the looks of it, it's running on the old Half-Life engine. Figures, huh?
The coffee cup on my desk will erode away to dust before this game hits the shelves...
Yeah, but do you play Time to Kill / Land of the Babes / Manhattan Project?
Thought not. Why? Because they were crap. Duke 1 and 2 were crap! IMO, 3D Realms just got really lucky with Duke 3D/Atomic Edition/Plutonium Pak.
I second that but can't help feeling i've seen the abreviation DNF before somewhere else *cough* Did Not Finish *cough*...need i say more?
Duke will be back, like Bruce Willis in a Die Hard film, he's just waiting for it to be time to kick ass and chew bubblegum again....only problem is, he's still got plenty of gum.
TTK was fun and a change of pace at the time. I never played LotB and MP I liked because it was Duke meets Contra.
As for getting lucky with Duke3D, I don't think that was the case. Games like Doom were on the gamers wanted list. Also at the time games like Duke3D were considered taboo and that made people want them even more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke3d#Content_and_controversy. Dukes build engine and multiplayer also helped it's success.
@KITT. Prey got lost in development and still came out. It also got good reviews. So Duke might end up the same way. IMO multiplayer will make or break DNF.
Yes. Not sure what engine they're on now. I believe this is their 4th engine change for DNF.
I still think we'll see UE4.0 (or whatever its name might be) before the release of DNF.... sadly.
BTW: There was a group remaking DUKE3D on the Source engine but they got shutdown because of 3DRealms. The mod was a complete remake of Duke3D with the side episodes.
Did anyone build maps or play mods like Platoon?