Aspyr Media on Monday announced that they’re bringing Duke Nukem Forever to the Mac in August. The controversial game was released in June for consoles and PC.
[ad#Google Adsense 300×250 in story]Duke Nukem Forever is a first-person shooter created by 3D Realms and Gearbox Software. The game features a cigar-chomping, crewcut-wearing musclebound hero determined to save the Earth – and lovely ladies – from the clutches of vile alien scum.
Duke Nukem 3D made a big splash in the 90s late in the Doom era, and Duke Nukem Forever was announced not long after. But the development of the game took 14 years (and two game studios) to finish, leading Duke Nukem Forever to make it on more than one video game pundit’s “vaporware” list.
Duke Nukem Forever features plenty of crude humor and pretty ladies in distress who need to be saved from aliens and pig cops (literally, porcine cops) as Duke himself uses over-the-top weapons. There are plenty of silly diversions along the way, like shooting hoops, lifting weights, reading girlie mags and more.
Calling Duke Nukem Forever “the high-octane video game equivalent of a Hollywood summer blockbuster,” Aspyr says the game will be available for same on Valve’s Steam video game download service and will support Steamworks features and Steam Play. No specific Mac system requirements have been announced.
The game is rated M for Mature by the ESRB.
Unfortunately, this game has gotten all-but universally panned by critics. I haven’t seen much feedback about it from gamers, yet.
They pretty much agree that it isn’t worth playing. Most of the gamers I know who are buying it are doing so just to be a part of history and say that they played it. The map designs, enemies, and humor are all apparently far below what is expected in today’s FPS market, and I’ve heard about quite a few gamers simply putting it down after a few hours, rather than playing it all the way through (@notch even did so).
I am somewhat surprised that this article does not mention the ability to play Duke Nukem Forever for the Mac right now with the OnLive service.
Well, it appears this game’s delay was caused by the fact that whenever it gets too close to release, embarrassment stopped them, until now.
Now that it’s out, they might as well release a game to Mac users in hopes of making some money from gamers desperate for something new to play while they wait for RAGE for Mac to arrive.