Duke Nukem Forever – 3D and Gameplay PC Review

Multi-Player and Upcoming DLCMulti-Player was where I found Duke Nukem Forever extremely lacking. For the good points there was excellent map selection using most in game scenarios , also the idea of leveling up and customizing your Duke character was something to keep experienced players entertained. To further detail the map choices, there were a total of 10 different maps included in the initial offering for Duke Nukem Forever, including Morning Wood, Hoover Damned, Hollywood, Duke Burger, Vegas Ruin, Hive, Sausage Factory, Casino, Erection Site, and Highway Noon, and from the looks of rumored content to be released in the 2nd installment of DLC, their should be 4 DeathMath(aka DukeMatch) maps upcoming.

Multiplayer game types for Duke Nukem Forever comes in 4 varieties, Duke Match (DM aka DeathMatch) Team Duke Match (TDM), Capture the Babe (CTB), and Hail to the Kink (HTTK aka King of the Hill).

I mostly played Death Match and Team Death Match and found the game play to be quite lacking and definitely compromised of most problems of old days from multi-player games, including spawns points that are quickly learned and easily forecasted, and experienced players guarding the most powerful weapons spawns so the new players spawn in only with a pistol to be easily outmatched by a player with a rocket launcher and rocket pack camping chokepoints to the best weapons.

The Multiplayer experiance is also based upon a player who is the host creating a game so all the advantages of hosting a game are also inherent to the system, as is the lag as well that can cause in game warping and repetition action loops that I haven’t seen for many years in multiplayer gameplay since hosted servers were introduced.

Rumoured DLC Content:

From what I’ve read around various parts of interviews and leaks, and around the net from eurogamer.net and http://egamer.co.za, it looks like there are going to have new weapons released in the first DLC pack, deathmatch maps in the 2nd DLC pack and the third DLC pack will include more singleplayer gameplay.

DLC Pack #1 contains four new weapons – a minigun, a “noob tube”, a sticky grenade and a “BFG” – the latter of which was a big plasma weapon found in Doom and Quake.DLC Pack #2 consists of three new deathmatch maps – “EDF Base”, “LKR” and “Map 3”, presumably for the game’s multiplayer mode.
DLC Pack #3 includes 15 new single-player maps, arm wrestling, the “Impregnader” weapon and a karaoke machine.