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Everyone who watches the evening news knows that sex and violence sells. Hence, The 17+ warning and lurid screenshots on the Duke Nukem jewel case become an alluring advertisement for what's inside. The little black CD fits all three "episodes" from the original game and throws in a final episode to keep things interesting. Playing through the game, Duke visits a host of cheesy locales, including strip bars and skin-flick theatres, eventually finding himself aboard a giant space station. Each soda machine, movie poster, magazine rack, and barroom is luxuriously appointed with beautiful textures, making environments fresh each time you round a corner. Of course, beauty isn't necessarily a protective quality, as you'll quickly find that most objects can be obliterated with a couple of properly aimed gun blasts.
Weapons exhibit an ingenuity that surpasses the Doom model of simply raising the caliber with each new gun. For example, Duke can lob a pipe bomb and wait to detonate it when an unsuspecting creature approaches, or he can reduce befuddled foes to a squashable size with a shrinker gun. There are also original items that can be picked up, such as the jetpack, which gives Duke the power to fly around freely until his jets have cooled. When the novelty of these implements of destruction begins to get old, however, the game as a whole begins to cool down.
First of all, the monsters appear markedly dated. LAPD piggies, flying brains, and spastic, machine gun-wielding aliens are among the humorous nasties you'll meet, but their sprite-based 2D rendering makes the action a little flat. When you combine this with the fact that the animations of fiery explosions and pulpifying creatures seem to be sorely lacking in frames (as compared with the PC version), you may question why Duke ever decided to make another platform jump.
What's more, only three set control configurations are offered. Control style can vary greatly from player to player, especially in first-person shooters. Given this, most people may never get their coordination entirely up to speed in Duke Nukem before another, more option-rich shooter comes along for the PlayStation.
If you want to duke it out deathmatch-style in Total Meltdown, you're out of luck unless you have two PlayStations. Why 3D Realms didn't allow for players to have a slug fest on one machine, or even include AI "bots" to use as target practice (as it did with the N64 version), remains a mystery.
Duke Nukem remains a classic game for the PC. Running on a PlayStation, the game suffers from sketchy graphics and limited control. If nothing else, this PlayStation version will give non-PC owners a chance to sample 3D Realms' ridiculous world of blood and lace. --Tim Soete
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14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good game but hard to handle ?,
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown (Video Game)
With so many duke predecessors this game had a lot of hype to live up to. With the option of link up, it is well worth purchasing the game with a few friends and playing all through the night. However the one player mode is repetitive and flawed. With many similar situations arising the game becomes predictable and easy. The controls can be hard to grasp at first with too much to do in such a short period of time So if you do not own any other Duke Nukem games and you have some fellow Playstation owning friends then this game is well worth buying!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Duke Does Doom,
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This review is from: Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown (Video Game)
Total Meltdown is the console version of Duke Nukem 3D with an additional scenario (but not the Plutonium Pack).Duke has just been shot down to find aliens in control of Earth and they are trying to take out women. This does not make Duke happy so he must try and stop the aliens. Play is in first-person shooter mode (like in Doom) and handles pretty nicely. Added to this game, and missing from so many shooters, is a level of humor as Duke wisecracks his way through the game. The controls are not bad but luckily you never have to run, shoot, jump to stay alive. You always seem to have some time to remember the L1, L2, R1 and R2 buttons. All in all this was a very successful port of the PC game to a console. Games load and save at about the same speed as the original did at its release.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Duke Nukem: THE KING!!!!!!!,
= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown (Video Game)
Duke Nukem games are old and repetitive. But you know what? WHO CARES!? No matter how old and repetitive Duke Nukem gets, it's still awesome. That's due to the fact that DUke Nukem can make ANYTHING and EVERYTHING look good. Hell, he can even make taking a dump look awesome! The one thing I've noticed about Duke over the years is that he doesn't have and hair on his balls, then I realized that hair doesn't grow on steel!
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