10 Beloved First-Person Shooter Video Games That Need Rebooting
9. Duke Nukem
How do you live up to 14 years of hype? The answer, as anyone who bought a copy of Duke Nukem Forever will tell you, is that you can’t.
The plight of the eternally-delayed sequel was a disappointment for the shooter genre, not least because it scuppered any immediate plans for future Duke outings.
You may wonder why gaming would miss the kind of foul-mouthed parody that makes Rainier Wolfcastle look like a credible hero, but rewind to 1996 and Duke Nukem 3D was a breath of fresh air for FPS fans everywhere.
The cigar-smoking alien-stomper’s 3D debut arrived at a time when the genre’s shoot-anything-that-moves ideology was ripe for parody - and the Duke ripped it a new one, emulating the testosterone-soaked playability of Doom while lampooning its conventions.
With the right amount of irony, a Duke Nukem reboot could be to 2016’s Doom what Borderlands is to Fallout - guns of comical proportions and more laughs, yet just as riveting.