Pitchford insists that this time, Duke is really happening. “We’re in the polishing phase now. This is a game where we cannot make a promise we cannot fulfill,” he told the Wall Street Journal.
Duke Nukem Forever’s troubled development history caused 2K Games to debut the title to the gamer crowd at PAX rather than issue a press release. “PAX is not a show about retailers, not a show about journalists. It’s about players,” Pitchford said. While 2K is not allowing video of the game, the company is encouraging attendees to take as many still cellphone shots as they want.
“Upload that shit to Facebook!” said Pitchford before playing the game’s new trailer at PAX. “Steal a thousand screenshots — I don’t give a fuck.”
During the PAX demo, we got through the first level but were kicked out of the room not long after I got my hands on the game’s second level, in which Duke drives around an arid desert in a monster truck.
I saw enough to reassure anyone worried that a developer change would take the edge off Duke’s greasy sexist charm. Perhaps the high point was the arrival of a building-size, grotesque green alien with three pendulous nude breasts.
“Yeah, I’d still hit it,” Duke growled.
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