Duke Nukem 3d 20th Anniversary World Tour Ps4 Box Art

Content Type: Gaming Reviews
Date: January 18, 2018

Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Ceremony Earth Tour is a offset-person shooter game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4 with a limited retail release at GameStop stores. Knuckles Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour is an enhanced version including the retro classic Knuckles Nukem 3D which was originally released on January 29th 1996 and an all-new episode having been brought to the PS4 past Gearbox Software. Duke Nukem 3D was originally adult by the legendary 3D Realms who have been developing, publishing, producing and licensing videogames as early equally 1986 under their original company name Apogee Software with the first appearance of Duke Nukem being in the side scrolling platformer Duke Nukem which released on July 1st 1991 for PC. Every bit a gamer who has played Duke Nukem 3D since it was released on PS1 in Dec 1997; I have always had addicted memories of the series peculiarly from Duke Nukem 3D, but can Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary Globe Tour deliver the ultimate release of Duke Nukem 3D that fans deserve?

The story revolves around Duke Nukem saving the Earth from an alien invasion only in comic fashion for them to invade over again as presently as he attempts to get some rest as they blast a sizable tear through the hull of his cruiser causing him to eject and take the fight to the conflicting race in Los Angeles in an endeavour to salvage the entire planet and the population of the human race for what Duke Nukem hopes to be the final battle.

Knuckles Nukem 3D: 20th Ceremony World Tour is a compilation of Duke Nukem 3D content including the four officially released episodes from the Atomic Edition called 50.A. Meltdown, Lunar Apocalypse, Shrapnel City and The Nativity with The Nascency having never released on PS1, while likewise featuring a brand new episode titled Conflicting World Order totalling to v episodes spanning twoscore levels and eight secret levels which tin can be reached in single role player past finding an culling exit from certain levels. However, it unfortunately does not include the three further episodes included in the Megaton Edition that released on PC which never made it to the PS1 in the class of Duke Caribbean area: Life's a Beach, Duke Information technology Out in D.C. and Duke: Nuclear Wintertime, while too non containing the PS1 exclusive episode Plug 'North' Pray.

The new episode titled Alien Globe Lodge contains 8 new levels created by the original level designers Allen H. Blum III and Richard "Levelord" Grey which sees Duke Nukem visiting locations across major cities and landmarks throughout the world including Amsterdam, London, the Golden Gate Bridge and much more besides. A existent standout in relation to the environment blueprint has to be the Mirage Barrage level from the new episode which is rather ambitious in its arroyo every bit information technology contains an outdoor maze based upon the existent ruins of the Giza Pyramid, while the interior is authentically based upon the Slap-up Pyramid of Khufu, while too taking inspiration from The Fifth Element and Stargate SG-1.

There are a vast range of weapons with a standout being the new incinerator which fires projectile flames at enemies that volition damage them for a few seconds later on making contact and can be found in the final episode. The get-go weapon bachelor is Duke Nukem's mighty foot which is perfect for when you have run out of ammo and find yourself in close quarters combat with an enemy; a pistol is technically the weapon of Duke Nukem's choice as it is the weapon that he starts out with; a shotgun which is perfect for close range attacks; a ripper is a rapid burn chaingun; and an RPG is a rocket propelled grenade which is capable of causing a lot of impairment from shut or long range distances with a unmarried shot. Pipage bombs are ideal to aim close to a group of enemies and running away from them followed by remote detonation to impale as many enemies every bit possible without even being inside their field of vision to shoot dorsum; the devastator is the well-nigh powerful weapon as it quickly fires rockets, while tripbombs can be attached to any flat service which will explode if the laser beam it produces is ever tripped and can exist used to provide a trap for enemies within darkly lit areas. A freezer shoots orbs of water ice which temporarily freezes an enemy until they take thawed out, although for the period of time that an enemy is frozen it is no longer a threat and tin exist dealt with easily; a shrinker is alien weaponry purpose built to temporarily compress an enemy to two inches in size in order for them to exist stepped on similar a bug or to access new areas; and a microwave expander which uses the aforementioned weapon as the shrinker, only with a different set of ammo as instead of shrinking enemies the microwave expander makes an enemy inflate outwards until they explode which also causes damage to anyone standing within a shut vicinity.

There is as well a range of gadgets including a portable medkit for emergencies when Duke Nukem is running depression on health; a jetpack which allows exploration of areas that are of an increased top, while simultaneously providing you with an aerial reward over enemies as it becomes harder for them to shoot accurately; a pair of nighttime vision goggles to see clearly in darkly lit areas; and steroids to provide an immediate speed boost and to return shrunken players to their normal size. Further gadgets include protective boots to protect the histrion from sure chancy materials; holoduke projects a hologrammatic epitome of Knuckles Nukem reminiscent to that of Full Recall, although it is all-time used in online competitive multiplayer to fool human opponents as the in-game A.I. enemies tend to immediately detect and attack the real Duke Nukem; scuba gear to provide a express amount of air for underwater exploration; and more besides.

Grapheme design is first-class equally Duke Nukem is the ultimate musculus bound world saving hero, while the enemies have a wide variation and complication that yous practise not encounter in even some modern games. The new episode introduces a new enemy chosen Firefly troopers that are equipped with the incinerator, while also possessing the ability to shrink its size to increase the possibility of sneaking upwards on you without you always seeing it until it starts attacking, although Firefly troopers also have jetpacks to provide an aerial advantage. Assault troopers are the most common enemy, but do not let that fool y'all as the assault troopers are reliably armed with laser blasters and a jetpack to provide an aerial advantage while simultaneously making them all the more difficult to shoot, although assault captains take the same characteristics but lead the set on troopers into battle and tin can only exist distinguished by their cherry-red armour. The range of enemies continues with pig cops who have mutated from LAPD officers as they still wear their uniforms and armour as well as being armed with shotguns and cunning tactics as they tend to drop to the ground on occasions equally they shoot in order to reduce the chances of you shooting them. Assault enforcers are the space equivalent of pig cops every bit they are just as mortiferous with their ripper and venomous spit while looking closer to dinosaurs instead of pigs, although it does take a distraction that it has to take care of on occasion that proves to be its major flaw. The appropriately named octabrain is half encephalon, half octopus with menacing eyes and teeth that volition endeavor to surprise from the shadows on land and specially underwater, while sharks are the only enemies that will attack Knuckles Nukem considering they want to assault as predators despite not being role of the alien invasion. A further range of enemies include assault commanders, mini battlelords, recon patrol vehicles manned by pig cops, turrets, scout drones, enemy bosses and much more than also.

Environs pattern consists of many dissimilar settings throughout the game such as the streets of Los Angeles; a cinema; apartments; sewers; a prison house; a spaceport including astonishing views of the World, moon and sun; a eatery; a movie gear up; and much more besides, while you should exist on the look out for the auto destruct level go out symbol; although when you detect that y'all may desire to keep on exploring every bit there are secret passages and on some levels there is an culling motorcar destruct symbol that provides access to a secret level. Levels tend to consist of keycard access panels in which you will have to find a sure color of keycard in a item location of the level and then match that up with the corresponding color of keycard access panel in order to open the door; in that location are a variety of designs for switches consisting of a single switch throughout various areas of a level and philharmonic switches are a set of 3 switches that require the advisable combination to open up the door or trigger a reaction elsewhere in the level such equally an environmental change in which the height of h2o increases or decreases to allow admission to a new expanse. Firing an RPG or detonating a pipe flop side by side to cracked walls will ever reveal a new path or a secret path; and there are some explosive objects such as toxic barrels that may produce a new area. Further attempts at complete exploration includes shooting off grills in order for you to enter air ducts to find a new area or a quick passage from ane explored area to another which tin come in handy when looking to find a keycard access console after having constitute the required keycard; standing on teleportation devices in social club to access a new area; and fifty-fifty accessing monitors to come across unlike areas of a level that remain ahead of y'all.

There is an interesting playback feature which tin can be utilised when respawning as you lot tin can rewind to any specific catamenia of time from within the duration you have been playing that item level for in social club to resume from a time when you had a greater preferred amount of ammo and health which is a great design selection as information technology provides a more user friendly and unique take on saving your progress regularly. Notwithstanding, the user clips feature from the Megaton Edition has unfortunately not been retained resulting in players non being allowed to view a replay of an entire level and actually resume playing a level from any given moment throughout the duration of the user clip after they have finished playing it, while the community interaction of sharing your clips with players from effectually the world is some other interesting element of Megaton Edition that has not made the cutting in this version of the game.

Statistics are only displayed later on a level has been completed comprising of your level completion time, par level completion time, 3D Realms level completion time, the corporeality of enemies killed, the amount of enemies left, the amount of secrets plant and the amount of secrets missed. There are no longer meta scores after each level, while at that place are also no multiple sets of statistics available directly from the menu; despite them previously being a bang-up design choice in Megaton Edition as they provided the player with such of import information regarding the corporeality of secrets they were yet to notice, the amount of enemies that had evaded you, a elementary reminder of which levels had been completed in single actor or online multiplayer, their best score for each level and how close they were towards a item trophy.

An interesting part of World Bout is the all-new developer commentary from Allen H. Blum III and Richard "Levelord" Gray which is not a running commentary, simply instead a snippet of audio fastened to an icon that produces commentary covering a specific area or element within the level, while too mentioning inspirations behind important areas of levels and gameplay elements likewise as comparing the limitations of the engine during the original evolution procedure in comparison to developing the eight new levels for the new episode. Quite surprisingly for a 20th ceremony edition of Duke Nukem 3D; there is no unlockable concept art which is something y'all would absolutely expect from a celebration of an important function of a series. In contrast to the lack of concept art; Megaton Edition contained an entire fine art gallery including 22 drawings captioned with a story of the thought procedure behind each cartoon which was unlocked every bit you completed any 22 levels and provided excellent fan service to everyone who has ever enjoyed the Duke Nukem series.

There is a varying degree of humour ranging from funny to adult with a reference on the iconic front comprehend of Duke Nukem 3D which sees Duke Nukem in a similar pose to Ash from Evil Dead, while farther Evil Dead references include Duke proclaiming "Hail to the king, baby" and "Dandy!". In that location are such phrases as, "It'south time to kicking donkey and chew bubblegum…And I'chiliad all outta bubblegum!" based upon Roddy Piper'south one-liner from the moving-picture show They Live, "Come get some!", "Let's stone", "Where is it?" when unsuccessfully searching for a undercover passage or room, if the player waits around for a few moments Duke volition shout, "What are you waitin' for…Christmas?!" and "Damn! I'm lookin' good!" when looking in the mirror are just some of the humorous wisecracks that Duke Nukem will produce during gameplay. Opening the curtains on a movie house screen or berth will result in an adult film being played. There is fifty-fifty a Mission Impossible themed level with a cassette histrion that should you interact with it will play a recording of a human proverb, "This tape will cocky-destruct…in 1 second!" which it does and so in spectacular fashion. There are as well a diverseness of Easter Eggs included in World Tour relating to Doom, Serious Sam and even Luke Skywalker which are hidden away in hole-and-corner areas in which you lot will actually need to search for them.

It is genuinely disappointing to non see a Vita version of Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Ceremony Globe Tour to replace the removal of the previously cross-purchase and cross-save Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition on Vita and PS3. Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Ceremony World Tour's remote play functioning is excellent as the graphics, audio and general performance is the same quality as the PS4 version, while the control scheme has been optimised, although not necessarily to the best of its ability. The default control scheme during remote play re-maps shooting from R2 to the top right of the touch screen, Duke'due south mighty pes moves from R3 to the lesser correct of the touch screen and running is re-mapped from holding L2 to the top left of the touch screen. This results in a less than comfortable control scheme as you lot are aiming with the right analogue stick yet shooting with the summit right of the touch screen that may crusade a moment of hesitation betwixt the two actions which can also be stated for the movement with the left counterpart stick while attempting to simultaneously run with the summit left of the impact screen. I had the all-time remote play feel with Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour afterward customising the command scheme in which shooting was re-mapped to R1 with running moving to L1, Duke's mighty pes mapped to the top right of the touch screen as it is not used equally regularly as shooting, running and changing weaponry, while borer the lesser correct or left of the touch screen to cycle through to the side by side or previous weapon respectively equally the lesser of the touch screen is a lot closer to the counterpart sticks resulting in a far more comfortable control scheme than the optimised remote play control scheme.

The controls handle more than along the lines of a modern beginning-person shooter as the DualShock 4 controller has dual counterpart sticks and a bear on pad, whereas the original PS1 controller only had the d-pad to provide move for your character. The control scheme is fully customisable, while there are likewise options for await sensitivity and inverting your aim, although the ability to bandy the analogue sticks for moving and aiming contained within the Megaton Edition is not present in Globe Tour. The control scheme consists of pressing R2 to burn; pressing R3 to kick; pressing R1 or L1 to bicycle through to the side by side or previous weapon respectively; property L2 to run; pressing X to jump; pressing square to utilise or collaborate with an object; pressing O to crouch; pressing triangle to utilize an inventory particular; pressing right or left on the d-pad to bike through to the next or previous inventory item respectively; pressing upwardly on the d-pad to toggle between the map being off and the two different types of map; pressing downwardly on the d-pad to toggle between the new true 3D rendering and the original graphics; changing the direction of the left analogue stick to move; changing the direction of the right counterpart stick to aim; pressing the share button takes you to the share characteristic carte du jour; and pressing the options push to display the interruption carte du jour.

Borer the impact pad displays the scoreboard in online multiplayer, while the DualShock four controller vibrates for the duration of when Duke Nukem falls from a distant height, when he is underwater and his scuba gear has depleted, when he is shot by an enemy or is killed and a variety of other situations. There is no light bar implementation which could have been utilised to display the current status of Duke Nukem's wellness such as producing greenish when Duke has 75% to full health, yellow for 51% to 74% health, orangish for 26% to fifty% health, red for xi% to 25% health and flashing blood-red for 0% to 10% wellness.

Graphically, World Tour provides players with the power to switch between the original graphics and an all-new true 3D re-mastering of the original ii.5D engine from the 1996 source lawmaking with new lighting effects, while preserving the charming retro mode which unquestionably established Duke Nukem 3D alongside its gameplay as a cult archetype hit.

The presentation of the game is solid with a swell user interface beyond various menus such as the chief carte, single role player menus, online multiplayer menus, options menus and gameplay menus with support for navigation via the left analogue stick, directional pad and face buttons, although it does not include support for navigation via the right analogue stick and touch pad. The groundwork of the card screens consists of an outline of the Knuckles Nukem symbol complimented past the Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour logo.

The vocalization-over bandage stars Jon St. John as the voice of Duke Nukem in a performance that provides many fun one-liners, while Jon St. John has too recorded new dialogue as well equally high-allegiance re-recordings for World Tour which is perfectly accompanied equally far as fan service goes past a programmer commentary from the original level designers. Jon St. John has likewise voiced the character in every Duke Nukem game since Duke Nukem 3D originally released in 1996 also as various characters including Big the Cat, Chaos Gamma and E-123 Omega in many Sonic games and the lead graphic symbol John Rochard in Rochard, amongst many more videogame voice-overs. The sound furnishings include Duke Nukem firing his guns at enemies and enemies firing dorsum, explosions, reloading weapons, grunts from conflicting pigs and screams from aliens yous have killed as well as key card activations, pushing switches, opening doors, flowing h2o and collecting medikits, weapons and more also. The music includes the iconic Duke Nukem metal theme called Grabbag which was written past Lee Jackson, while new songs have too been composed and recorded by Lee Jackson for the new episode. At that place is no DualShock 4 speaker implementation which would have been perfect for producing the programmer commentary.

However, the accent was not just placed on the main theme as there is besides a rather large soundtrack beyond the theme which is progressively established with an original piece of music for each level throughout the unabridged game. The title theme went on to become and so popular that information technology fifty-fifty inspired an entire 12 track album rather amusingly titled Knuckles Nukem: Music to Score By which was released on August 24th 1999 via Red Ink Records. The soundtrack anthology included a cover of Grabbag by none other than Megadeth and featured heavy metallic songs from Coal Sleeping accommodation, Corrosion of Conformity, Megadeth, Sevendust, Slayer and Type O Negative as well as rock music from Stabbing Westward and Zebrahead, alongside hip hop music from The Beatnuts, Wu-Tang Clan and Xzibit. Duke Nukem: Music to Score By was a major breakthrough for videogame soundtracks as information technology too features 175MB worth of Duke Nukem themed promotional materials such every bit an interactive strategy guide, shareware, audio samples from Knuckles Nukem: Time to Impale on PS1, Duke Nukem: Nil Hr on Nintendo 64 and even audio from the unreleased original PC version of Duke Nukem Forever and much more than besides, therefore appealing to both the gamer with interactive materials and the music lover with a strong soundtrack spanning three genres.

The bays listing includes 28 trophies with x bronze trophies, 11 silverish trophies, 6 gold trophies and i platinum trophy. Easier trophies include the Shake Information technology, Baby bronze trophy for tipping an exotic dancer; the Information technology Happens bronze trophy for stepping in a pile of excrement; the All Too Easy statuary trophy for finding a undercover area; the That'southward What She Said statuary trophy for listening to developer commentary by using at least i commentary icon; and the Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em bronze bays for using the new Incinerator weapon during the 5th episode. Harder trophies include the See I'm Tough Too silver bays for completing any level on Damn, I'g Good difficulty and the Nukem All gold trophy for killing 5 bad guys with one shot. Information technology is estimated that depending upon skill and a good trophy guide to provide some helpful tips that information technology would accept between fifteen to twenty hours to platinum the bays list.

There are four difficulty levels including piece of cake, permit's rock, come go some and damn I'1000 skillful with the major differences between each difficulty level being gradually more enlightened and active enemies with some of them using their jetpacks to gain an aerial advantage when looking for your location. On the hardest difficulty level titled Damn, I'g Good; you lot tin can expect many enemies to randomly port into the area you are located inside or even directly nearby to provide a sudden surprise by bombarding you with simultaneous burn. On harder difficulty levels; enemies volition receive less damage for every shot you burn at them, although they do inflict more damage for every shot they fire at you; therefore you will take to exist far more than careful and more tactical when approaching whatsoever given enemy.

There is no separate-screen competitive or co-operative multiplayer which is rather disappointing considering that the censored port of Duke Nukem 3D on Nintendo 64 from 1997 contained 4 thespian separate-screen competitive multiplayer and two player split-screen co-operative multiplayer. However, the online competitive multiplayer offers up a frantic deathmatch for ii to eight players called a Dukematch which allows players to battle it out in a full of 48 arenas spanning 5 episodes worth of single actor levels. Players compete until a player has reached the set frag limit of v, 10, xx, xxx, xl, l, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100 or unlimited kills in which it would be based upon the highest amount of kills within the 1 minute, v, 10, fifteen, 30, 45 or 60 minutes time limit, although there is also an unlimited time limit for a set up amount of kills. A further variant on Dukematch is the ability to have a competitive multiplayer friction match against up to 7 bots set to any of the four difficulty levels. Megaton Edition contained an option for adding monsters roaming around the levels during the match ready to any of the iv difficulty levels which provided an excellent customisable gameplay element, although that is too missing from World Bout.

At that place is as well online co-operative multiplayer for 2 to 8 players spanning 5 episodes worth of unmarried player levels across 48 levels with a friendly fire option to increment the amount of fun. Later whatsoever competitive or co-operative multiplayer round has been completed; anybody participating in the match is kicked back to the chief menu without being able to remain within the lobby. Some other omission is the lack of online leaderboards, despite Megaton Edition containing an incredible 133 online leaderboards covering single player, time trial and Dukematch fifty-fifty before 3 filters are factored in. Given that the PC versions of Knuckles Nukem 3D since its original release has supported mods leading to the cosmos of hundreds, if not thousands of mods producing all fashion of expansions from all-new levels to graphics packs; it is surprising to still non see mods supported on a dwelling house console release of Duke Nukem 3D, especially when considering how expertly Unreal Tournament 3 on PS3 provided unlimited replay value through a sensational quantity of game changing mods.

Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Ceremony World Tour'south replayability is certainly non but express to retro nostalgia, although it is a large part of the release, but the main hook for fans of the Duke Nukem series will exist the new episode containing eight new levels with a total of five episodes spanning 48 levels, alongside online competitive and co-operative multiplayer and more than as well collectively bringing you lot back for more, although the replay value is particularly emphasised in unmarried player.

Analysis

• Title: Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary Earth Bout
• Developer: Gearbox Software
• Publisher: Gearbox Software
• System: PS4
• Format: PSN Download/Express Retail
• Cross-Buy: No
• Cross-Play: No
• Players: 1-8 (Online Competitive and Co-operative Multiplayer)
• PS4 Difficult Drive Space Required: 1GB (Version ane.01)

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