The biggest sadness is that DNF has adopted the Halo-style two-weapon system, which frequently forced me to abandon my beloved Shrink Ray for lack of ammo. The new weapons, a rail gun sniper rifle, an alien laser, and a triple-missile-launcher called the Enforcer Gun are pretty ho-hum-no new classics here. There's absolutelynothing old-school about that.It also didn’t have weirdly consistent texture pop-in issues, which kick in every time Duke comes back to life here.Duke's trusty pistol, shotgun, Ripper chaingun, and rocket launcher may not be anything particularly unique or special (and certainly not realistic, lacking even a hint of recoil) but they're loud and potent alien killers. But it’s a boss fight, right? Modern games hold our hands too much and have turned us into mewling crybabies, right? Well, when Duke Nukem 3D threw a grossly overpowered boss at us, it didn’t make us sit through any fucking 30-to-45-second loading screens every time we died.
So yeah, it’s difficult, frustrating and unfair.
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While that’s happening, annoying aliens with jetpacks will shoot at you from the air, and if you manage to whittle the Battlelord’s health down to zero, you’ll stab him in the neck via a quick time event – and then he’ll get back up, at full health, and chase you even more aggressively than before. After a while, though, he’ll start aggressively chasing you and kicking cars out of the way, forcing you to run scared through cover-free areas to grab ammo while the Battlelord unloads his oversized minigun/rocket launcher into your back. The secondĪbove: His entrance, however, is easily the bestĮasily the most frustrating boss fight in the entire game, the second Battlelord confronts you on what amounts to a long, narrow arena filled with cars you can take cover behind. At least it’s short, and not something that’s ever repeated again (which tells us that the designers at least understood that something was wrong with it). It barely even counts as a quick time event, and at best it’s just an annoying bit of filler standing between you and the game’s action. You’re just falling and pulling a lever, and whether you live or die depends on some accident of luck and timing.
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At least it’s short, and not something that’s ever repeated again (which tells us that the designers at least understood that something was wrong with it).Īside from a view of the Vegas skyline out the windows to the right, there’s no real indicator of your progress down the shaft, so success or failure can feel completely arbitrary.
Pulling the lever just slows the elevator and overheats the brake, at which point it disengages and the elevator starts falling at full speed again.Īside from a view of the Vegas skyline out the windows to the right, there’s no real indicator of your progress down the shaft, so success or failure can feel completely arbitrary. The elevator-brake sequence is a strange, dull roadblock in what’s supposed to be an extreme first-person shooter, but it might not have stood out so badly if the game had made it clear exactly what the hell it is you’re supposed to do. First you’ve got to pull a handbrake and stop an elevator from falling! You’ve got a gun now, and you’re ready for some badass alien-killing.
When jumping in front of a mirror, though, would it really have been so much trouble to make Duke move his arms? Just a little?Īll right, so you’ve made it through the uneventful casino stroll, you’ve punched your way through the Duke Cave, and you’ve shot down alien dropships in the overlong stationary-turret sequence. Jumping in frontĮven for what could be considered a two-year-old game (production originally halted in mid-2009), DNF isn’t exactly pretty. Couple that with their corpselike stares and the way they stick around for way too long (delaying DNF’s supposedly over-the-top action so you can watch them comment on the news), and they set the stage perfectly for the dull stroll through Duke’s casino that makes up the game’s second level.
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