Duke Nuk’em For(n)ever

Over ten years ago I played a game that reinvented the FPS genre. Duke Nukem 3D was the first FPS (first person shooter) that took the game to a third dimension. The game, like Doom or Wolfenstein, allowed the player to man a jet pack, throw pipe bombs and featured some of the best level design to date. The game was due I believe originally in 99, then it was 2000, then it became the infamous “when it’s done”. When it’s done became over ten years of waiting and hoping. It became the joke of the industry constantly winning awards for never showing up, being a thing of legend etc.

About a year ago a webblog posted a test session of the game, stating it was worth the wait, and amazing. It seemed like the game would actually show. That is until yesterday. May 6th brought news that 3D Realms (DNF’s publisher) was going under and work would cease. I smell bullshit, there is no way basically the most famous game never released ,will go unreleased. A handful of screen shots have trickled out over the years each one improving upon the previous.

Worth buying a PC for, I have been waiting for a eleven years for this game, never in my life have I waited a decade for anything except maybe doing it. Pray to your Gods, this game must be released.

UPDATE-

This is an old article, about 2-3 days after I initially wrote it that game was canned forever. Fuck you very much.