Duke Nukem Forever – 3D and Gameplay PC Review
Andy Ruffell / 13 years ago
Single-Player Part 3 – Crude Humor & Adult Oriented Jokes *MA Recommended*This part of the review is for educational purposes, I know some parents are full believers in video game rights and that they should be protected by journalistic and free speech rights same as any publication or book in a library, but that does not mean you should necessarily rent the book in question or hand your kids over a playboy without some serious consideration beforehand. The same goes with video games and especially this particular title, I’ll warn you this page is meant to be educational but does contain some adult content and graphics, this is done more so to keep readers informed of the contents of the game, its not like your typical Mature Audience title that so many parents succumb to their kids whining pressures to go out an purchase.
This is a true adult title, strippers, boobs, language, sexual content in addition to the mind numbing violence that so many parents have grown accustom to, I was abhorred to learn of a friends mother purchasing this game for her 11 yr old son, please take the time to read reviews and realize what your are buying for your children, especially before you go out and start blaming the gaming industry for faults that you as a parent had the opportunity to deny to your children’s viewing. **This is your last warning Adult Content Follows** Continued reading means your acceptance and acknowledgement of said content.
Right from the get go Duke Nukem shows that crude and adult humor that has come to be expected from the series.. From the start of the game your pissing in a urinal and then offered to explore the rest of the bathroom, even going so far as to let you pick up a piece of feces, carry it around and fling it at given things.
Here is an intro video of the type of things you can do with said feces from the start of the game, video courtesy of 2kInternational:
From here on out its all shock value toilet humor and sex oriented jokes, before you even make it to the fire your first shots at an enemy you’ll hear and see at least a dozen different curse words used in more rapid fire manners then bullets in a machine gun.
Other adult content comes from Duke’s one liners ” I’m going to rip your eye out and piss on your brain you alien dirtbag”, “Not my babes. not in my town, you alien mother^*&^7rs are going to pay for this” or the ultimate digg to halo fans everywhere “Power armor is for Pu#$i#$”, there’s much more including the famed Cuchi Cuchi reference made when Duke Fingers an Alien orifice for it to open, alot of the dirty humor is open to interpretation, but those with the right mindset will find themselves on the edge of their seats laughing.
Another adult oriented aspect of the game has to do with a complete chapter based in a strip club, where your on a leisure suit larry type of task set to find the required items in order to get lucky from your friendly hostess, she of course requires some snacks (popcorn), a vibrator and a condom in order to get things moving along.
Finally one of the most notable things I found in the adult parts of the games was the queen alien boss battle in which the queen has 3 breasts, this candid reference reminded me instantly of the movie “Total Recall”, of course its been used recently in the alien movie “Paul” as well, but its still an instant classic gag that causes me to laugh internally, not to mention they even included some decorations in the aliens lair to include 3 breasts hanging next to each other, Slapping them makes duke comment something along the lines of “Baby you make me wish I had three guns”.
Now if your a wholesome church going zealot, there’s no way your going to be playing this game, some reviewers even went so far as to say only truly demented and twisted people are the ones that would enjoy the game. in that criticism , I guess I must be one of the twisted and demented ones, because I saw through most of the shock value comments and one liners, laughed quite a few times, and even shook my head in a “no they didn’t just do that” manner.