What's it got to live up to?
What made Duke fun was that enemies exploded into gibs, Duke had funny one liners, and visited interesting environments like strip clubs. And we've seen the video from 2001. It may look different now than it did then, but we know the game has all that, and more. Drivable vehicles, interactive soda machines, interactive pole dancers, and more cool environments than you can shake a stick at. Plus decent supporting characters.
Duke won't be a masterpiece of storytelling like HL2 was, but where HL2 made you hide whenever you were confronted with more than one enemy, I suspect Duke will be all about charging right into the fracas, guns blazing. And that's what will make it different and cool.
If being ported to the Doom 3 engine didn't force them to take all that cool stuff out which we saw in the 2001 trailer, that is.
What made Duke fun was that enemies exploded into gibs, Duke had funny one liners, and visited interesting environments like strip clubs. And we've seen the video from 2001. It may look different now than it did then, but we know the game has all that, and more. Drivable vehicles, interactive soda machines, interactive pole dancers, and more cool environments than you can shake a stick at. Plus decent supporting characters.
Duke won't be a masterpiece of storytelling like HL2 was, but where HL2 made you hide whenever you were confronted with more than one enemy, I suspect Duke will be all about charging right into the fracas, guns blazing. And that's what will make it different and cool.
If being ported to the Doom 3 engine didn't force them to take all that cool stuff out which we saw in the 2001 trailer, that is.