![]() ![]() The politically correct world that cartoon characters like Duke and Dennis Leary were created to rebel against no longer seems to exist, making Duke's jokes come off like humor from another country, or at least another time. But the autotargeting is an imperfect fix in that it makes the gameplay a bit repetitive.Īs he did in earlier games in the series, Duke makes tongue-in-cheek comments full of sexual innuendo throughout the levels, though the humor falls increasingly flat over time. This keeps you from getting shot up too much by foes before you're able to aim your sight on them manually. ![]() One new feature since Time to Kill is an autotargeting function. The controls work well, and your character turns translucent whenever he's blocking the view in front of you, meaning that the game camera is never a problem. Pipe bombs, freeze throwers, shrinkers, and all the other weapons that have appeared in previous Duke games show up here, as do enemies such as the pig cops and necrobrains. However, since Duke is primarily known for firepower, the emphasis here is much more on shooting than on anything else. Now it's up to you to wipe out the alien invaders - and the schoolboy premise surmises that once you've completed that job, you'll start working to single-handedly repopulate the planet.Īs in Time to Kill, you run, jump, climb, swim, puzzle-solve, and do all the other things that Lara Croft does in her series. ![]() In this troubled time, all men have been hunted down by alien forces, leaving only a ragtag group of female fighters, who at one point, by all appearances, made their living starring in late-night films on Cinemax. In the game, the earth's future is in crisis again, and its remaining few human inhabitants send for Duke to help put things right. While Duke's brand of '80s action-movie machismo may seem particularly antiquated, Land of the Babes shows that the hero's endurance hasn't completely run out yet. The style of play in his latest outing mirrors that found in Duke Nukem: Time to Kill - the 1998 PlayStation Tomb Raider-like game that was something like the eighth iteration in the Nukem series. Duke Nukem has crossed several genre lines throughout the last decade, appearing not only in the first-person shooters he's known best for, but also in 2D side scrollers and third-person adventure games.
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