It's one of the longest, bad jokes in video game history that comes back to haunt us. Indeed, one of the earliest versions of the much maligned Duke Nukem Forever appeared on the Web this week.
If many highly anticipated games are sometimes affected by one or more postponements, none can do worse than Duke Nukem Forever. Developed by 3D Realms in 1997, the FPS only arrived 14 years later through Gearbox Software. Presented as “revolutionary” when it was announced thanks to its sumptuous graphics, the title was ultimately a huge disappointment when it was launched in June 2011.
What to have regrets?
To remember "the good old days", we invite you this weekend to discover a playable version of Duke Nukem Forever dating from 2001. It is in this form that the game was shown at E3 2001. This version of the FPS appeared on 4Chan and can be downloaded right now at this address. Everyone will then be able to play it on PC.
Of course, this old-school Duke Nukem Forever was never finished, so don't expect a full adventure. 3D Realms received a very positive response to the release of this demo, but development resumed from scratch in 2006 before switching to Gearbox a year later. And with an average of 49% on Metacritic, in other words, the expectations of the players have not been rewarded at all.
Sources : Video Games Chronicle, Metacritic
