Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project

by Arush Entertainment

Product Features

• Supports joysticks and game controllers
• and force feedback.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000683EW
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: May 21, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,040 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Edition: Standard

From the Developer

Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project is an all-new PC game starring gaming's king of action. Set in New York City, Duke battles his way across towering skyscraper rooftops and through gritty subway tunnels on the hunt for power-hungry villain, Mech Morphix. Mutants of every kind are thrown at Duke, including PigCops, as he chases down Morphix through eight huge environments and avoids the green slime called GLOPP that is causing all the chaos.

Product Description

Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project is an all-new PC game starring gaming's king of action. Set in New York City, Duke battles his way across towering skyscraper rooftops and through gritty subway tunnels on the hunt for power-hungry villain, Mech Morphix. Mutants of every kind are thrown at Duke, including PigCops, as he chases down Morphix through eight huge environments and avoids the green slime called GLOPP that is causing all the chaos.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Purity of FUN is back!, September 1, 2002

By 

Mark Lahren (Bismarck, North Dakota USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project (CD-ROM)

Like many others, I've grown away from the simple computer games of the past, largely because I've had no choice. Almost every game being released actually prides itself on being ultra-complicated to play. I imagine the benefits of complexity are primarily so the player can have fine control over the gameplay mechanics, but this also means investing a great deal of time just learning how to play these games.

Well, I'm very happy to report that "Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project" is not one of those games. This game is one of those addictive-type games that is easy to learn and hard to master. It is a side-scroller in the purest sense, however the graphics are rendered in 3D, making this the most visually appealing side-scroller I've ever seen. And just because its gameplay harkens back to the purity not seen in games in the last 10 years, don't think you can run it on just anything. I recommend at least PII 450 with a 32 meg graphics card to run this at a decent resolution and framerate. I myself am running it on an Athlon 1.2 ghz. with an NVidia GeForce 4 Ti4200. It runs flawlessly at 1024 X 768, and you can go higher if you want. The graphics are beautiful and the gameplay butter-smooth with simple controls. You can use the keyboard or a joystick or both. I was hesitant to try the joystick on a game like this, but I found that it works very well, and is intuitive. You'll be up and running in just a few minutes.

I've really missed this simple kind of gameplay. It's like being back in the arcades again! Duke fires off his irreverent comments just as you'd expect him to. And best of all, the voiceovers are still done by Jon St. John, the same guy who did them in the legendary Duke 3D! The atmosphere of that game has been captured just fine in this game. You have to rescue bouncing babes, and shoot the 'pig-cops', etc. The music is also notable. With most games, the first thing I do is turn the music off. However, the music in this game is so good, I actually turned it up! I guess the music is somewhat repetitive, but it actually sounds good that way for some reason. Hey, it works. There is a 4 MB patch available for this game at Apogee's website, but I haven't experienced any problems yet, and I'm running it right out of the box.

I can't imagine anyone not having fun with this game. Unless you don't like blood and gore, but you can shut that off if you want to and password protect it. All in all, this should hold all us Duke fans until "Duke Nukem Forever" comes out hopefully sometime within the next ten years. Remember, good things come to those who wait.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unfairly criticized--it's a top game!, June 17, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project (CD-ROM)

Some of the comments here are quite funny. The original Dukes were both sidescrollers! And they were fun. DNMP is fun as well, and looks better than I would have thought. I was skeptical but once I saw the gameplay movie on the official site of the game, I was sold... I can't believe they made it so inexpensive. Well, we win, cause this game ROCKS! It feels like Duke and it is the most fun I've had on a pc since Duke Nukem 3D.

If you are sad and hurt that it's a platform scroller, and not another FPS, then you're a little too shallow to enjoy this game. This is what gaming is about, having fun! Take a chance on this one, you won't regret it. I play more DNMP than I do SOFII..and that's saying something.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Classic Duke Revisited, June 2, 2002

By 

Zen Druid (Aloha, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project (CD-ROM)

If you've ever played Duke Nukem I & II, you will probably love this game. This side scroller incorporates a lot of the themes (think cameras and helicopters among others) from the classic games into a 3D environment with good results. Lots of running, jumping, ledges, you know the drill. Lots of funny "Duke-Speak" and a few buxom babes. See how many secret areas you can find, it isn't so easy. The downside of the game is the somewhat repetative nature of the levels and the lack of freedom of movement that comes from a side scroller. Still, it's cheap and fun and will tide you over until Duke Nukem Forever sees the light of day

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