Duke Nukem Forever: Performance Analysis

[cleeve]

It took more than a decade to complete, but the long-awaited sequel to Duke Nukem 3D has finally arrived. We take a look at the performance of Duke Nukem Forever to see how much horsepower it takes to get this iconic character back in action on your PC.

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[kcorp2003]

I have yet to purchase this game. waiting on a nice sale to pick it up. I waited for this game for so long and i will play it! but not on my #1 priority list of games to buy right now.

 

[wiinippongamer]

I never played the first title, yet I played only the first 2 hours or so then uninstalled it for good, the game is a turd.

 

[megamanx00]

Got it on sale at Target for like $20 ($40 but half price if I bought another game at the same time ^_^) so yeah I was happy with what I paid for it. I'd say for $40 it's not bad since it's funny, crude, and the graphics are all right. It's a shame that some of the effects that probably tool alot of time to develop (like the rain in the first level) were used only once and sparingly. I thought the monster truck stuff towards the end was cool, but the RC driving in the beginning was a little odd.

 

[lmlim]

yawn...

 

[RazberyBandit]

Your benchmarks show some rather obvious CrossFire and SLI issues, yet you chose not to even mention it. Why?

 

[cleeve]

[citation][nom]RazberyBandit[/nom]Your benchmarks show some rather obvious CrossFire and SLI issues, yet you chose not to even mention it. Why?[/citation]

From the benches it seems kind of self explanatory that SLI and CrossFire aren't working. This is the case with a number of other titles, so it's not really a huge surprise. SLI and CrossFire are inconsistent at the best of times.

 

[JMcEntegart]

[citation][nom]Don[/nom] ... causing Duke to hand money to a topless dancer and say “Shake it, baby!” [/citation]

This was literally my favourite part of Duke 3D. Oh, to be eleven again.

As far as Forever is concerned, I'm waiting for an irresistible sale.

 

[haplo602]

do we still get the fying eyes from killed enemies ? like when you hit an alien with an RPG, you got quite identifiable fying eyes

 

[tomc100]

Is this a joke? Might as well do a benchmark test on the Sims.

 

[youssef 2010]

Like the gamespot review put it

"If Duke Nukem Forever weren't called DNFE, nobody would be paying a bit of attention to it; it's boring and ugly and........"

This reviewer really hates the game. but after watching the review, I can't help but agree with him.

I mean, If a game ever took 10 years to mature, then it should be something like Crysis, Far Cry, COD, Medal of Honor.

I enjoyed Manhattan Project but this sequel looks just.....too boring to play.

Disappointed

 

[JOSHSKORN]

It took 13 years to make it...after buying it and playing it, I wish I'd waited another 13 years to purchase it.

 

[Guest]

Why so much work for a review of a very bad and simple game, that you can run on any low end system ?

 

[professorprofessorson]

Talk about being late to the party. This article must have been a afterthought considering how long the games been on the market now.

 

[back_by_demand]

The next Duke should be a prequal.

 

[kingius]

Where are the six cores in the CPU charts?

Toms is biased to Intel yet again...

 

[Zeh]

There really wasn't an improvement from 3 to 4 cores on a Phenom II, it's assumed 6 cores wouldn't help.

 

[Parrdacc]

[citation][nom]professorprofessorson[/nom]Talk about being late to the party. This article must have been a afterthought considering how long the games been on the market now.[/citation]

This review comes after the sales for June put DNF as #2 selling game for xbox and ps3 despite the bad reviews. Hmmm? http://www.tomshardware.com/news/NPD-Duke-Nukem-Call-of-duty-Pc-Gaming-LEGO,13089.html

 

[Owenator]

I enjoyed it. And had a lot of fun playing it. A refreshing break from the current spate of rehashed FPS titles. DNF doesn't take itself seriously and that makes it all the better IMHO. But I'm and old school gamer (Duke was new when I was in college). Apparently you have to be "old school" to enjoy the new Duke. So be it.

 

[cleeve]

[citation][nom]kingius[/nom]Where are the six cores in the CPU charts?Toms is biased to Intel yet again...[/citation]

Biased? You have no idea what you're talking about, sir.

If we wanted AMD to look bad, we'd add Phenom II X6 results, because they would be identical to similarly-clocked X4 results. No game I know of makes good use of more than four execution cores...

 

[Th-z]

Don, maybe you can add more samples in core scaling test in future review, at least one more speed in the mix, e.g. 3.5 GHz, and add Intel CPU in the test, thanks.

 

[mayankleoboy1]

No game I know of makes good use of more than four execution cores

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,...already-benefit-from-six-cores-CPUs/Practice/

 

[mayankleoboy1]

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,794274/From-Medal-of-Honor-to-Civ-5-17-Games-that-already-benefit-from-six-cores-CPUs/Practice/

 

[Guest]

Don't waste your money, it's like the people that made it had never played the orginal

 

[warezme]

..., waiting for the bargain bin ass in the air shuffle on this one.