Aliens have landed in futuristic Los Angeles and it's up to the Duke
to bring the pain and show them the door. After the initial entries of
side-scrolling platform games, Duke Nukem 3D introduced a first-person
perspective to the series and turned the game in a full-fledged
shooter with 2.5D graphics.
Duke's arsenal includes pistols, pipe bombs, laser trip mines, a
shotgun, a chain gun and various rocket launchers, but also his mighty
foot to kick enemies. The game sports a high level of interactivity.
Many objects in the environment can be broken or interacted with, such
as pool tables, arcade machines, glass, light switches and security
cameras. As a mature game, the protagonist is also able to hand
strippers a dollars to have them remove their top.
The character, voiced by Jon St. John, also regularly delivers
commentary on the events through one liners. There are 28 levels,
divided over three episodes, set in locations such as streets, a
church, a space station, a Japanese villa, a football field and many
modern environments. Enemies mainly include aliens, mutated humans and
members of the police force that have been turned into Pig Cops. There
are also multiplayer modes playable through early network protocols.
The Atomic Edition of Duke Nukem 3D contains the three original
episodes of the main game and the Plutonium Pak expansion, which adds
a new episode, "The Birth".
This version of the game is built for 68k processors and came on a
single CD bundled with the PowerPC-native version. It is the game not
the full CD, ready to be extracted (with StuffIt 5.x) and played.
Compatibility
Architecture: 68k
68LC040 33Mhz ('040 with FPU recommended), 8MB RAM, Mac OS 7.0 through
9.x, 256-color monitor, 30MB free Hard Disk space
NOTE: You must install the 1.2 [k] patch, which is included, in order
to play the game once unpacked, otherwise it will ask for the CD.
