Despite the ... unique trailer featuring logos dancing around, Apogee insists they won't screw up the ultimate badass' return in the upcoming Duke Nukem Trilogy games. Terry Nagy, CEO of Apogee Software, gave some details about the newest outing of the Duke on the PSP. He started off by stressing immediately that the game will be out for summer 2009, unlike a certain other Duke Nukem game.
With the trilogy, Apogee's plan is to have "another Duke game ... on the store shelves as the first one is starting to fall off the shelves." The first game Critical Mass will take place in the future, so the player will have "really cool futuristic weapons" at his disposal. Chain Reaction is set in current times while Proving Ground has Duke traveling back into the past to 1945 as "the Forrest Gump of World War II" and using "period-style weapons." Finally, Nagy reveals that the PSP version is "more mature, more hardcore of gamer, third-person, first-person, top-down scroller type of stuff" and that it is aiming for a Mature rating, as opposed to a Teen rating on the DS.
[Thanks, David B.!]
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7-18-2008 @ 5:03PM
farfisa said...
I believe all of this information was obvious from the E3 trailer.
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7-18-2008 @ 5:12PM
dabamf said...
Coming soon to the DS: "God of Peace: Resolution of Conflict." It's time to make peace with the gods of Olympus using the stylus!
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7-18-2008 @ 6:03PM
Jason said...
This is going to be the biggest joke when/IF it comes out. So much progress has been made in the industry since the original that there won't be much beyond the nostalgia to make this worthwhile.
I'll put my money on "steaming turd" for this one.
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7-18-2008 @ 7:09PM
Jason B. said...
But they said there will be less modes than the DS version...how can there be less?
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7-18-2008 @ 7:32PM
Smokey said...
Who says games have come alone way since duke, I would argue that majority haven't... it's ur right now to care about his return, but me, I havent been excited about videogame news like this for awhile, duke forever (lol)
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7-18-2008 @ 10:27PM
cafecito said...
Oh, You'll see... DUKE NUKEM'S ABOUT TO MAKE YOU HIS BITCH.
I'm really excited to see how these games are gonna turn out. Nostalgia factors should be a plus, and not the only reason to play them. As I understand it, they're not gonna be remakes, but 3 new games instead.
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7-19-2008 @ 5:12AM
Peter R. said...
PSP ver. gets mature rating, while the DS gets a teen rating.................WTH! I know Nintendo used to be toy makers, but that still doesn't justify shoving watered down kiddie games down the fan base's throat.... (>_>) ....ok whatever, Nintendo been pissin me off anyway, they're slowly screwing themselves over. If this game EVER comes out, I'll just buy the PSP version and be done with it.
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7-19-2008 @ 5:11PM
myuusmeow said...
Think about it, there has been only 4 M games on the DS. While on the PSP, there has been 39 Mature games. (go to esrb.org and search for Mature games on the DS and on the PSP)
7-19-2008 @ 8:32PM
cafecito said...
Yeah, but who cares bout the DS anyway.
7-19-2008 @ 6:57AM
mellie_the_sprite said...
@ Peter
As far as I was aware, they used to make cards, not toys.
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7-20-2008 @ 6:00AM
Peter R. said...
-_- Right they made cards, not toys, damn how did I mix that up. Anyway thanks for setting me straight there Mellie.
7-20-2008 @ 8:32PM
mellie_the_sprite said...
Not a problem. One more piece of useless trivia I have lying around. =P
7-19-2008 @ 1:28PM
Lord Bowser said...
Duke Nukem 3D was a game I loved. Not so sure about this, though.
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7-19-2008 @ 4:30PM
Jacksons said...
I can't believe how many people are making judgments before anything at all has been shown about the game(except the logos...for 4 minutes.) Way too much pessimism!
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