Don't expect all your weapons to appear straight away either, the developers give you a bit of time to find that handy Smith and Wesson so in the meantime you will just have to live with the sledge hammer. The premise being that on a future Earth all resources have been used to the point where humankind is on the brink of total annihilation but "they" find an ancient artifact deep below the ground that will save civilization except when the artifact is raised all hell breaks loose (or something like that) but who cares, the point is to have fun blowing things away. Glorious graphics with nice textures and of course what would a lame Duke or Sam game be without the comedic interspersions such as "it's all fun till someone loses an eye!", No seriously - Sam or Pam or Pete this is a great distraction and all good fun. Most of the old enemies reappear but graphically much time has been spent bringing this baby up to date. Despite the nVidia 3D advisory that the game was only fair in 3D it was actually very good - no problem there, some mention of objects not properly rendering in 3D but the advice was wrong! This game looks good runs beautifully in 3D although for the first time the nVidia 3D cross-hair worked worse than the in-game cross-hair so choose your favorite cross-hair from the setup menu. Steam downloaded and ready to rock (not Will Rock) the stage was set. A few weeks ago it was Duke Nukem, great fun but over in a flash. At the time of writing this review there was little the author had not played so in between playing all those favorite oldies came the desperate search for something new. In a time when there is a virtual plethora of FPS PC games available One must think hard about their next choice of game.
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