GAME · 2011 · USA
Duke Nukem Forever
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When the aliens return for revenge, they hit Duke where it hurts: they drink all his beer and abduct all the hot women.
12 Interesting Facts About Duke Nukem Forever
Interesting Facts (6)
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Human characters in the Japanese version generally stay "in one piece", so there is no more mutilation or dismemberment, including the corpses left lying around as decoration. Where uncensored versions show bodies missing a limb here and there, every extremity stays in place in the Japanese release, and even the textures depicting damage were covered up. All severed heads were removed as well. These changes reflect Japan's far lower tolerance, and that of its video game rating system, for depictions of human bodily mutilation compared with the West. The Japanese version also censors every image of breasts except a drawing of one on a blackboard. In addition, a mission in the strip club replaces the vibrator and condom with a Duke figure and a construction helmet, because depictions of vibrators and condoms count as expressions of stimulation, which CERO bans.
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Production Story (2)
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Development began in 1997 on the Quake 2 engine. After missing an unofficial late-1998 release date (the company always gave "When It's Done" as its official date), the studio decided to restart production on the Unreal engine. The game went on to change publishers, engines and release dates several times before finally arriving in 2011, and it now holds the record for the longest development of a single video game at 14 years.
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Easter Eggs & References (3)
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After Duke is knocked out at the Duke Dome and wakes up in his strip club, players unsure whether he is imagining the place or really there can confirm he is still unconscious by visiting the room with the security terminal (the door marked "Exit - Employees only" is easy to find). Beside the terminal on the desk sits a constantly spinning top, a nod to Inception (2010), in which Leonardo DiCaprio's character uses a spinning top to tell whether he is still dreaming, since it never stops spinning in a dream.
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The first hint that Duke is still unconscious at his strip club, and a reference to Portal (2007), comes from the lap dancer at the start of the level, who promises a lap dance and cake for completing a task. Portal (2007) likewise offers cake as a reward for finishing a series of tasks, and only later do writings on the walls reveal that "the cake is a lie."
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