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Retroview: Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project
Babes, blood and bodies along with a lot of tasteful dialogue, Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project feels more like a Duke Nukem game than Duke Nukem: Forever. Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project is a platform game developed by Sunstorm Interactive, produced by 3D Realms that was released on May 14, 2002. It was quite well received by critics when it released and got generally positive reviews in the 7-8 range out of 10. But the question is does the game still hold up and should you play it? Let’s start off with the gameplay of the game which is fairly simple. Jump, run and shoot your way to find a woman that has been strapped to a GLOPP bomb and to find a key that opens the exit. That’s the premise of every level of the game and you might think it gets repetitive but after playing through the game I d...
Split Screen Gaming: The Rise And Fall
As someone who grew up playing video games, there’s an itch that no modern day game has been able to scratch. I’m talking about split screen couch co-op gaming. Growing up in the 90s and early 2000s as a gamer, we all had friends and siblings with whom we would play games with. It could have just been passing the controller around or watching someone play while you sat, but the best thing ever was to play together. Huddled around a small television, laughing, calling out each other for screen cheating and then getting scolded by your parents because you were making too much noise is honestly one of my fondest memories not just related to gaming but in general. Split Beginnings It all started back with GoldenEye on the N64 that had a 4 player split screen deathmatch mode. The mode was so po...
Cuphead, The 1930’s Style Platformer Delayed To Mid 2017
Cuphead, the upcoming indie platformer inspired by 1930’s animation style has been delayed to next year. The game was initially scheduled for a release this year, but according to the studio MDHR, it is not feasible anymore. The official blog post reads : “We wanted to finish our game 80 years after 1936 but it will now be 81. Throughout this year we discussed reducing the scope to make a 2016 release, but we made the difficult decision to delay the launch in order to ship with our vision intact.” Cuphead made its debut back in 2014, when the developers were looking forward to a later 2014 release for the PC. However, the game was showcased at E3 at year along with a delay to 2015. It was also announced that rather than just a retro run-and-shoot, the title will be a comp...