Control: Turok fans will be happy about the default setup (move with the C-Buttons, look around with the control stick), and GoldenEye players can change the control to the more conventional analog movement. Add to that pipe-bombs, laser trip mines, heat-seeking missiles, and the ever-popular shrink-ray, and you know the action in Duke can get pretty intense. Most of the weapons from the original Duke game make a return in Duke 64, but the Ripper Chaingun, the Devastator, and the Freeze-Ray have been replaced them with John-Woo-style sub-machine guns (one in each hand), the Expander (makes people, well, I don't know how else to put it, "pop"), a chargeable plasma cannon, and a grenade launcher. Sometimes you have to find a grenade launcher to shoot a hole into a wall, key in code sequences to blow up a building, shrink yourself to fit into a tiny passage, or lure enemies to a certain spot to set off a laser bomb system. There are tons of challenging puzzles that elevate the game beyond the usual "get the key and get out" playing style of the genre. In a nod to Total Recall, Duke even lets you create a decoy of yourself with the Holo-Duke, distracting enemies long enough to shoot them in the back.ĭuke 64 features over 30 levels, some from the original Duke, and some from the optional Plutonium Pack. For example, you will have to find scuba gear to breathe underwater, use medipacks, switch on nightvision goggles to find secret passages and even take to the sky with a jet pack. Unlike in games like Doom or Turok, the use of items is actually a key element to making it through the levels. You can walk into all directions, strafe sideways, look up and down, jump, duck, and shoot. Gameplay: Players shoot their way through tons of well-designed levels, from the streets of LA to a distant space station, and then into the heartland of alien territory.
Luckily, those elements all transferred beautifully to the N64, despite some minor "adjustments" by Nintendo's censors. When it first came out on PCs, Duke managed to stand out from the glut of Doom-clones with its blatant macho humor, solid graphics and intelligent level layouts. From there, players are thrown into a first-person action fest - jumping, ducking, strafing, and most of all, blowing pig-faced alien monsters to bits. The game is essentially a sci-fi parody that casts you in the role of the smart-talking action-hero stereotype, Duke Nukem, who returns to Earth to find the planet taken over by aliens.
The giant PC hit from two years ago is finally available for the Nintendo 64, and all in all, it's a pretty smashing conversion. "I ain't afraid of no Quake." One of Duke's one-liners in the LA Rumble level best describes what to expect from GT Interactive's latest first-person shooter, Duke Nukem 64.
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