You are Duke Nukem, gun-toting, pig-shooting superstar. Of course, you get the standard four-player modes, including team play, and several well-built deathmatch arenas.

Despite some odd texture choices and slowdown, the graphics are decent and pretty sharp in Expansion Pak-enhanced hi-res mode. But jumping is a plain of pain in the ass, no matter which setup you choose. Control setups are plentiful, and I had the best luck with the Turok configuration. They are well-designed (the future-shocked Manhattan stage has an Escape from New York meets Terminator feel).

You've heard me complain about this problem before with a few N64 first-person shooters, but the absence of checkpoints in Duke is especially painful, since the game's levels seemingly sprawl for miles. Few things are more frustrating than dying near the end of a level and having to replay that stage from scratch. My main gripe: The levels lack save points, forcing you to save only after you complete a stage. But big guns and lewd guffaws aside, this shooter is anything but golden. Duke's back to his filthy-mouthed self again and dirty jokes abound (watch for posters advertising 'louinski's All Natural Clam juice' and 'Goldenguy: Agent 069'). The levels are huge and you get lots of them. Everything appears to be running in a resolution higher than your standard N64 blur-o-vision, and the team at GT assures us the game will support the 4-Meg pack to give the graphics an even sharper and smoother edge.Д®verything you'd want in a typical kick-tail Duke Nukem experience is here.

Running along the streets and looking up at the sky really shows off the engine as the skyscrapers reach upward in a very convincing manner. All of the locations in the game give a good impression of scale, with the streets of New York being worthy of particular note. It has to be noted that the graphics engine employed by developers Eurocom is actually pretty impressive. The Duke ain't broke, so there's no need to fix him. It's nothing unexpected.but that's nothing bad. He runs, he jumps, he shoots stuff, he blows stuff up, he wisecracks.he runs through a one-player adventure, or he lets you death(Duke)match with up to four players. as seen in Duke Nukem 3D (the whole first level is in there) as well as present day and futuristic, post-apocalyptic streets of New York.ДЄs far as the gameplay goes, this is looking to be pretty much what you'd expect from the Duke-churning-out-machine. The action doesn't just take place in the distant past though, Duke also has to travel to the streets of L.A.

Play through the Victorian London level and you'll eventually end up on a certain overexposed ship just before it has its tiff with an iceberg. Cowboys, posh-people and Victorian dapper folk all make an appearance throughout the game as Duke is faced with variations on Pig-Cops decked out like native American warriors, outlaws and alley-dwelling muggers with switchblades. As you'd expect from a multigame franchise star like Duke, his ancestors have all been terribly important figures in conveniently action-oriented periods of time. The story deals with aliens screwing around with the fabric of time in order to take over the world, and yet again (Time to Kill-style), one of their major goals is to kill off all of Duke's ancestors. Both games star Duke, both are full-on 3D fests and both could be pinned with the tag 'Duke Raider.' Upon closer inspection, the similarities are even more pronounced.both games are third-person action/adventure hybrids (although Zero Hour can be played in first-person mode too), both games have a lot of speech, and both deal with time travel as a major plot point. You'd be forgiven W for thinking that Zero Hour looks just a bit like the recently released PlayStation title, Time to Kill.

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