Played as part of the Evercade Duke Nukem Collection 2.
I forgot just how much this game takes from Tomb Raider, which is a funny coincidence as I started playing with this and TR in the same week, completely unintentionally.
It's definitely aged. Very rough round the ages and the controls are a little clunky, but otherwise its a fun adventure game with plenty of gore, violence and stupid one liners. Obviously the games attitudes and treatment of women are extremely outdated, but it's not all that frequent, fortunately. Although there was some gross dialogue/noises over the end credits I could've done without.
Duke looks pretty old and gross, even in ps1 fmv form, which makes his apparent sex appeal quite funny, but otherwise, that side of it I can do without.
I like the games structure. Find time machine, power up time machine, go back to specific time period and stop the baddies killing of Dukes lineage, repeat a couple of times, with more amusing results when coming back to the present day.
Some of the levels feel like really well laid out puzzles to be navigated, whereas others, particularly late on, feels like they've thrown mud and seeing what sticks.
I appreciate being able to use save states on evercade, as I'm not sure I'd have finished this. I'd probably have given up halfway through the castle section. Which I think I did back in the day when I first played it. I had very little recollection of the boss fight for that area or anything beyond.
It's rough round the edges, controls like a cruise ship, and if you can deal with it's terribly 90s attitudes, it's a fun game. I had a good time.
I forgot just how much this game takes from Tomb Raider, which is a funny coincidence as I started playing with this and TR in the same week, completely unintentionally.
It's definitely aged. Very rough round the ages and the controls are a little clunky, but otherwise its a fun adventure game with plenty of gore, violence and stupid one liners. Obviously the games attitudes and treatment of women are extremely outdated, but it's not all that frequent, fortunately. Although there was some gross dialogue/noises over the end credits I could've done without.
Duke looks pretty old and gross, even in ps1 fmv form, which makes his apparent sex appeal quite funny, but otherwise, that side of it I can do without.
I like the games structure. Find time machine, power up time machine, go back to specific time period and stop the baddies killing of Dukes lineage, repeat a couple of times, with more amusing results when coming back to the present day.
Some of the levels feel like really well laid out puzzles to be navigated, whereas others, particularly late on, feels like they've thrown mud and seeing what sticks.
I appreciate being able to use save states on evercade, as I'm not sure I'd have finished this. I'd probably have given up halfway through the castle section. Which I think I did back in the day when I first played it. I had very little recollection of the boss fight for that area or anything beyond.
It's rough round the edges, controls like a cruise ship, and if you can deal with it's terribly 90s attitudes, it's a fun game. I had a good time.