This clip is currently being hosted on the site of a now-former 3D Realms employee (though it can no longer be accessed publicly). It’s full of, supposedly, Duke Nukem Forever gameplay footage.
You’ll see many of the same enemies from that concept art that surfaced the other day, so it certainly looks legit. It also has boobs, so don’t watch it at work.
Aditya Goyal
Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 8:35 PMdamn your slow kotaku
avsky
Monday, May 11, 2009 at 10:06 AM@ Aditya Goyal
“You’re” not “Your”.
nate
Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 8:35 PMOk this actually looks freakin’ sweet. Hopefully it gets picked up. Still has that Duke charm we all love.
Shawn
Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 8:52 PMlooks like crap
LazyAza
Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 9:17 PMIt was certainly headed in the right direction, lots of good animation and solid looking gameplay in that footage.
Gentleman.nosh
Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 9:23 PMThis is awesome! A little early in development, hence the pixelation, but it keeps that sweet Duke attitude, Nude dancing girls, and humor that really set Duke Nukem up as a classic. Let’s hope that some games house can pick it up and make it the Grungy winner that it has always promised to be.
Steve
Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 9:30 PMThis actually looks really good. I mean, obviously a lot of it is really raw, but if you take everything here for what it is – a work in progress – it’s really something I could get excited about if it were to gain a future more certain that it’s ever had.
Neil Williams
Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 9:34 PMIt’s a bit of a shame. Yes, 3DRealms was hugely lazy in trying to get this out the door, but it was actually looking okay and reasonably solid (well, this iteration of it anyway). If they’d just gotten the game out the door years ago like they should’ve, the team could’ve had the money and backing to deliver a few more Duke-filled games. Instead, the team is all jobless, with no game to their name after all these years of work (or lack thereof), and all we get is a teaser and some artwork from an unfinished game.
And before I get flamed for being a 3DRealms supporter, I’m certainly not. But as someone who’s looking to get into the industry as a programmer just as soon as I get off my ass and start applying for jobs, it seems like a shame to see this work go to waste. It seems to be happening to a few companies at the moment…
Job
Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 11:03 PMTwelve years… and this is all they had to show for it? Unbelievable…
Spin the Elf
Monday, May 11, 2009 at 11:36 AMI hear that.
Steve
Monday, May 11, 2009 at 11:56 AM@Job
You’re operating on the (quite probably wrong) assumption that they have released all their assets and materials. Take a look at the context of this video. It was leaked by someone whose roles was “animation, modelling, storyboarding”. What do we see here? That’s right: modelling, animation and storyboarding, at various stages of completion and complexity.
I know this probably all sounds like some crazy idea, but I think there’s something there. Perhaps if a level designer leaked some footage, we’d see some completed level fly-throughs.
Look, when someone from 3D Realms puts out a rar file of stuff and says, “This is everything we had,” then we can make judgements. Until then, let’s try to look at the bigger picture and not make – no offense – unfounded assumptions.
CyK
Monday, May 11, 2009 at 2:55 PMAlso the fact that it certainly wouldn’t be 12 years of development, not even 6 years, the bulk of the work would be design.
Josh
Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 11:58 PMThis looks really good, you can see alot of solid base work in place. Wouldnt have been too much longer to have the game released. Pity its a bit too late now.
Bob
Monday, May 11, 2009 at 1:16 AMYou cannot say that 3D Realms are lazy, especially when you did not work on this game/in the studio.
Ad
Monday, May 11, 2009 at 9:57 AMIt’s a shame we’ll never get to play it, looked like fun. Ah well.
mikezombie777
Monday, May 11, 2009 at 12:16 PM12 years and this is what they’ve come up with – what an absolute fucking joke. Looks like a N64 game.
David Wildgoose
Monday, May 11, 2009 at 12:24 PM@mikezombie777
You’ve obviously never seen a work-in-progress game.
Btw, this is an N64 game – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNpBwU3PTX8
Chris
Monday, May 11, 2009 at 1:42 PMAfter 12 years, that is pretty dissapointing.. I’ve seen more work done in 12 months.
FFox
Monday, May 11, 2009 at 4:25 PM…Yeah, because footage made for an artist’s demo reel for the purpose of seeking employment would no doubt show EVERYTHING that was made for Duke Nukem Forever. This is obviously not everything that was made, nobody ever said this is everything that has been done, and this is not even an official 3D realms trailer, it’s just a demo reel. Way to jump the gun.
Moo
Monday, May 11, 2009 at 2:35 PMI for one think it looks great. Sure not 12 years great, but I want to play it now. I want to fight a huge monster on a football field. It’s sad we may never get to.
Zero
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 12:26 AMWhat the hell happened to the “game” we saw wwwaaaayyyyy back in trailer form in 2001? If it had come out then, people would have enjoyed it. But in today’s market, there’s no way in hell this would sell. People demand more from an FPS than a grunting sexist main character dispatching “witty” quips.