You run from checkpoint to checkpoint, puzzle to puzzle, more annoyed that you need to do these pointless tasks than anything. That would all actually be manageable if the game were any good. The load times are excruciating, and when you die, you wait, and wait to come back. ![]() The game engine looks like something from mid last decade and doesn't stand up well against today's more modern titles. There, I just spent as much time describing it as the game makers did coming up with it. the aliens come back, mayhem ensues, blah blah blah. I bet I played through the first level hundreds of times.Īction sequences straight out of the 90's. I recommend you do so just to remind yourself of what an event that game was. There's a version available today for the Xbox 360, go figure, which you can download as an Xbox LIVE Arcade title. That last bit got me hooked: I used to playing DN3D online over the TEN online service with friends, phones achingly pressed between our shoulders and heads so that we could taunt each other in pre-online communication days.ĭN3D was the real deal, and I played through the single player campaign through several variations that included various product editions and re-releases. They offered a comfortable, familiar way to move to the PC.ĭuke Nukem 3D, of course, was a seminal PC game, taking previous innovations in first person shooters such as DOOM and adding a patina of fake 3D to the mix, along with Duke's trademark humor (now famous in-game quotes like "Damn, I'm looking good" and so on), amazing (for the day) environment interactivity, inventive weapons and tools, and killer multiplayer. The first two Duke games were among the first PC games I ever played, side-scrollers that played like (but didn't look as good as) the Amiga games I enjoyed in the early 1990s. I look back at the embarrassing bad TV shows I loved as a kid and wonder what I was thinking. The cockpit was quiet except for the slow hum of the ships engines.I'm no stranger to the notion that the things I enjoyed as a younger person no longer resonate with me today. For the moment she could relax and she retracted her helmet. She sat back in her cockpit chair as her orange and red ship hurtled through space at 4 times the speed of light. After completing this mission, she had broken the record for the most missions completed by any bounty hunter. It was an attempt at trying to heal the tensions between the Galactic Federation and herself, after she destroyed the B.S.L Station.Even though her trust of the Federation was straining she still felt somewhere inside of her that she should still try to help her government. It had been another successful mission, protecting a large convoy of colonists, and her 200th Completed mission. Rise of Champions: Chapter 1: The Bounty Hunter ![]() Weaknesses: Extremely overconfident in his abilities, Is ‘stuck in the 90’s’ and has a very 50’s mentality when it comes to chauvinism, race and women, Tends to rely on his Weapons high damage output to spray and pray rather than actually aim, Expects everything to naturally go his way. ![]() ![]() Strengths: Saved Earth from Alien invasions single handedly on multiple occasions, Above peak human strength (Benches 600lbs with ease, Can punch and kick Aliens to pieces), Superhuman durability (Can shrug off gunfire, Lasers and explosions, Can survive the vacuum of space without a suit without freezing), Above peak human speed (Can outrun an RPG round), Once went back in time to beat the Nazis. Weapons: Bare Hands, Golden Colt 1911, Spas-12 Shotgun, Enforcer Gun, Pipe Bombs, Freezethrower
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