Evolution of Duke Nukem Forever

Okay, this is not really a DOS game, but it is the long-awaited sequel to Duke Nukem 3D, a first-person shooter done by 3D Realms in 1996.

First announced in 1997, 3D Realms started development using id Software's Quake II engine, which was far superior to Ken Silverman's Build engine used in Duke Nukem 3D. However, in 1998, Epic MegaGames introduced their Unreal engine featuring more realistic graphics. Since 3D Realms had been struggling to render the Nevada desert and George Broussard wasn't happy with the progress being made, they decided to switch over to this one. In 2004, rumors appeared that they switched to the DOOM 3 engine, but Broussard explicitly denied it. He reported in January 2006 that many of the game elements had been done and just need to be put together. Since nothing much happened since then, the publisher Take-Two Interactive offered a $500,000 bonus if Duke Nukem Forever was released until December 31, 2006. However, 3D Realms didn't care about it and some of the employees had left the team being tired of the delays. Broussard became serious about shipping the game, so he posted two job ads in early 2007. The team doubled in size within a short timeframe. At the end of 2007, 3D Realms finally published a short trailer six years after the last one. Unfortunately, the whole development team of Duke Nukem Forever had to go on May 6, 2009 due to lack of funding. The former employees posted several screenshots, concept art and pictures of models as a goodbye message. At that time, Take-Two still held the publishing rights for this title, so it was unclear if the game will ever be finished.

Since 3D Realms stopped development of the game, some ex-employees continued work at their homes and formed Triptych Games, an independent studio located in the same building as Gearbox Software. They collaborated with them on the project. 3D Realms noticed that and asked Gearbox if they were interested in officially helping Triptych Games there. Duke Nukem Forever was re-announced at the Penny Arcade Expo 2010. On the last day, Gearbox bought the Duke Nukem intellectual property from 3D Realms and 2K Games got the exclusive long-term publishing rights of the game. On January 21, 2011, the game has been announced to be released on May 3 in North America and on May 6 in the rest of the world. We'll see if this will actually happen.

In this video, you can see the trailers that have been published over the years.

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[MitchZer0II]

Am I the only one who thought DNF was a good game?

[theNerdGamer88]

give us the 2001 version please .

[jakedizzle]

I wish they would have given us the 2001 edition packed in the 2011 disc. The 2001 edition looks way more bad-ass and more of a true sequel to Duke Nukem 3D.

[JoeyDrunko]

Although the final game wasn't terrible, the 2001 version looked a LOT better.

[erwinvb09]

I hope the old versions (1997 / 2001) will be released one day officially or not and finished or not. I just want to play what exists if there's still anything left from that time. I can't actually believe they would really delete those old versions. It's probably in a double safe in someone's bedroom.

[Gkthepwner]

@MitchZer0II Yes

[Quaker763]

@theNerdGamer88 IKR. They should have included it in the Limited edition version. oh and @MitchZer0II I thought it was pretty good. I laughed at the humour (Even though iits pretty immature, lol) I loved the way you could interact with EVERYTHING. I cant wait for the D3D Remake using the DNF engine (Unreal)

[Kaweebo]

@MitchZer0II

Not at all. I don't personally think it was great, but it's one of my friend's favorite games of all time.

[Karekristensson]

@MitchZer0II I actually thought it was decent.

I didn't exactly expect the game to be extremely stellar after all those problems it went through, but I did have some fun with it although I did feel a bit sick in the alien hive level.

[Mr234Wtf]

@MitchZer0II No I think so too :)

[MrZ0mbiE3000]

@MitchZer0II It's just a long time to develop what they did, I was highly hyped for DNF and when I played it I was disappoin 12 years to take a shit is a long time on the toilet.

[MrZ0mbiE3000]

The old one looks more fun lmao