Broussard then thought it would be a good idea to upgrade Duke Forever to the latest Unreal Engine, so that the game could have the Unreal Tournament style multi-player for Duke Forever. Broussard himself then saw more complex games coming out and, as he did so, he rushed to 3D Realms stating that all these elements he had seen in all sorts of video games needed to be put into Duke Nukem Forever. Broussard was getting shot down time and time again by game critics and the future of Duke Forever looked bleak. It was still deemed unplayable and a load of the weapons still remained conceptual.
It was coming to the end of 1999 and the game had now missed quite a lot of release dates, whilst still needing a stupid amount of work to be done on it.
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One of the 3D Realms programmers, on the other hand, stated that the whole game was going to go through a full reboot, making the E3 trailer pretty useless. Broussard also stated that none of the features in the video shown at E3 would be lost. So in June 1998 the switch was announced and Broussard himself said that this wouldn’t severely delay the game, and that Duke Nukem Forever would be in the same stage as it was on the Quake II engine within six weeks. By “struggling”, I mean that they couldn’t even manage to make the Nevada desert look right and so one of the programmers at 3D Realms suggested they move Duke Forever to the Unreal Engine and, after a meeting or two, 3D Realms agreed that the change was a good idea, although it also meant scrapping a load of their work and wasting Broussard’s $500,000 investment. Critics were generally impressed but Broussard on the other hand wasn’t, while Infogrames, the publishers of Duke Nukem, were happy for the development to continue forward.Īfter the Quake II engine was released, Epic Games released its Unreal Engine and got 3D Realms thinking, as they were struggling a lot with the Quake II engine. It wasn’t until E3 in 1998 that the first video was shown of Duke Forever on the Quake II engine. Turns out that id didn’t actually give the engine rights to 3D Realms until November 1997, already delaying the previously announced mid 1998 release. Broussard thought that this would be a brilliant money saving idea, and would also save time on building an engine from scratch, thus giving 3D Realms a leg up in the creation of the sequel. Their “awesome” idea was to cash in with Duke Forever and shed out a whopping $500,000 licensing fee for the game to be built on id Software’s Quake II engine. The announcement of Duke Nukem Forever back in 1997 came barely a year after Duke 3D was released and came from Scott Miller and George Broussard who were co-owners of 3D Realms, the developers of Duke Nukem. Having said that, my dad did hear about the announcement of Duke Nukem Forever by word of mouth at work, and so we started to keep an eye out for any other news on Duke Nukem Forever. You have to let me off here as I was only nine years old and didn’t actually get internet savvy till I was around fifteen. Both of these games were pretty poor, in my opinion, and didn’t give me the Duke Nukem fix I needed.īeing the young video gamer I was, I didn’t actually know that Duke Nukem Forever had originally been announced a year after Duke 3D’s initial release. Eventually, of course, Duke Nukem the Manhattan Project and Duke Nukem Land Of The Babes both came to the PlayStation and I was really excited for all of three seconds until I found out these were nothing like the first person shooter I fell in love with – Manhattan Project was a side scroller and Land Of The Babes was a third person shooter. Unfortunately, as with all games, they do eventually age and get very old and so I moved on from Duke 3D, got a PlayStation and had my weird phase of really enjoying extreme sports and wrestling games but, that aside, my heart did crave another Duke Nukem game to come round the corner. When I got a bit older, around ten or eleven, I then started playing Duke 3D myself killing aliens, watching pixelated boobs on the screen and even trying my hand at a bit of level editing on the Duke 3D level editor – I didn’t think this game could get much better. The variation of levels and bosses coupled with Duke’s bad ass attitude really made the game for me and I would spend hours watching my dad play when it first came out. Duke Nukem has always been a firm favourite of mine ever since I saw my dad first freeze a pig cop then kick it into a million pieces back on Duke Nukem 3D in 1996, I was hooked.
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