Duke Nukem: Forever is finally released

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Duke Nukem: Forever is from Friday morning in the shop. The successor of Duke Nukem 3D in 1996 came out, has a lively development time. The game would be released “when it’s done’, until Gearbox development took over.

Friday is Duke Nukem available in stores for pc, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The iconic blonde action hero returns after a whopping 15 years back in the sequel to Duke Nukem 3D. Gamers who have the game purchased in advance or the Game of the Year edition of Borderlands have bought, got it a week ago access to the demo of DNF. When the demo available to everyone is, is still unknown. Tweakers.net assessed the delay-plagued game with a 7.

The pc version of Duke Nukem Forever makes use of Steam. The game requires at least an Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2 from 2GHz. If graphics card is at least a GeForce 7600 or Radeon HD 2600 with 256MB of internal memory is required. The recommended requirements are not much higher; the developer of Duke Nukem Forever recommends in regards to processor a Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.6 GHz. In addition, a GeForce 8800 GTS or ATI Radeon HD 3850 with 512MB internal memory as the recommended video card. The recommended ram is 2GB.

The development of Duke Nukem Forever started in 1997, immediately after developer 3D Realms had done with Duke Nukem 3D. There is more than once an engine is changed, what years of delay resulted because parts of the game again had to be built. This resulted in the shooting game more than once a vaporware award. The long development process took 3D Realms, eventually, financial problems. The studio was in 2009 the entire staff dismiss, after which a legal battle between 3D Realms and publisher 2K Games ensued over the rights to the game. There was concern that the game would never appear.

After mediation by Randy Pitchford, who as a studio-boss of Gearbox Software was responsible for Borderlands, it was decided that his studio has the rights and development of Duke Nukem Forever would be taking over. A group of 3D Realms employees has under the name Triptych Studios at Gearbox connected and contributed to the completion of the game. The original release date was by Gearbox at the beginning of may, but in style was the game postponed until June 10.

Friday is also the review of Duke Nukem: Forever on Tweakers.net published.