Customer Reviews

Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

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!

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.

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!

Today i saw this game at the store for 12 bucks, and i'm gonna pick it up since i have a PS2. I rented it 2 times (after that the dumb stores got rid of their copies) and it was better than the sega saturn version. The graphics didn't have the neat lighting effects, but the game was a whole lot more like the pc version. If you have a PC get that version, if you have a ps2 get this version, or both. I'm probably one of the biggest Duke fans in my area, i have the origional Duke 3D for PC, the Atomic Edtion , The sega saturn version(my 1st copy), Duke Manhatten Project, Time to Kill, Land of the Babes, the Duke Nukem album, all of the Duke Nukem action figures, The Duke Nukem screen saver pack, and now this. As the great Duke would say "Holy S@$T!" Any way if you are one of the few who don't have a PS2 yet here's what will happen to this game.. You know how these losers say the game looks flat? Lie! You know how they say the N64 version looks better? They fogot to tell you the game is cut up (no nude chix), and the textures are super-low res. But with this vesion, when you set up your PS2 for smooth texture mapping, it will make all the "2D" images get smooth edges, and the textures will be nice and smooth. Since the game is almost all sprites(which isn't realy a bad thing at all, easier to edit on pc) Every image on screen will look close to a PS2 game! The reason i don't give this 5 stars is because you can't edit it like the PC version.

do i really need to say anything else? classic duke nukem game. one of the first i played for the playstation. great fps with decent graphics for its time. and of course the classic duke nukem "battle cries" always make me laugh.

good classic imo.

I purchased as a gift for my nephew. Game arrived really fast and was in excellent shape. No problems with the game.

Unless I'm mistaken, this version of Duke Nukem (3D) came out a couple of years after the PC version, yet the graphics and animation were much better playing this on my old 486dx2-66 at the lowest graphic mode settings. This PSX version is really ugly, and I was very disappointed because I was looking forward to having fun playing Duke Nukem again after all these years. Do yourself a favor and play this on the PC instead -- not only are the PC graphics much better (even on a low-end Pentium) but the controls are much better too (keyboard beats joystick for 1st person shooters any day).

I don't see how any body can't like this game. I remember when the playstation first came out and this was the first game i got. I thought it was the coolest game ever, and i still think it's my favorite playstaion game. And im 17 now. It's a classic duke nukem game, i know the graphics aren't the best and a lot of the stuff is cheesy about the game, but regardless it's fun to play, and is easily a classic. :)

Duke Nukem is a pretty cool series. I use to own some of the Nukem Games...I happen to buy this game along time ago at a game store called GameMax..They had it for 4 bucks...It was pretty sweet. The graphics were terrible but Hey it was on the Play station. The game play was kinda slow but still good. I don't know if this is and edited copy of the game...I can tell you is that in this version I got for PS1 you do see women take there braws off when you pay em' cash..But they have stars...Literaly covering there nips..And it also has a type of color...The one that matches there bra..

The games violence is over the top. But still it's a winner...I happen to like the N64 versio more then this even though there isn't Brief nudity like The ps1 version But in the N64 version there is more violence...The bodies explode when you shoot them again after there dead. You can't do that in the PS1 version but that doesn't really matter.

Duke Nukem Total Meltdown is recomended for a mature audience since this game does have over the top pig exploding violence plus you go to an Adults Only Book store and there are half naked strippers with stars on them.

I had fun with this game. It kinda pissed me off cause you didn't get to do all the stuff you can do in the PC version But I still liked it. Over all it's a mediocer version.

I do not recomend this version at at all! Get the PC version! Or the N64...I donno I just liked that version.

It's a great Duke Nukem Game...

Later...

This is definetly the best DN game for the Playstation console ever made. From the big guns to the large and difficult levels this game is classic to be remembered. And I just love those one-liners. ...