10 Video Game DLC Stories Better Than The Main Game

1. Duke Nukem Forever - The Doctor Who Cloned Me

Arkham Origins
Gearbox

Fourteen years. FOURTEEN YEARS. For Duke Nukem Forever. Panned by critics and consumers, the latest of iteration of the Duke found itself pushed onto shop shelves with a style that just didn't belong anymore.

Following another alien invasion on Earth, Duke does what Duke does best: kill the extraterrestrials and save (some) women. In a game where throwing faecal matter, disrespecting far more successful titles and Duke Nukem wanting to become the 69th President of America is the basis of the humour, it was always destined to fail.

Following the nuclear bomb that dropped at the end of the base game, The Doctor Who Cloned Me retcons the presidential campaign, revealing that Duke had been captured and the aliens were impersonating him in order to take over the world. Duke must fight through an army of clones of himself in order to save his planet.

The Doctor Who Cloned Me simply cannot improve or remove many of the aspects that made the initial launch of Duke Nukem Forever flop, but with the better-placed humour and more imaginative story segments, such as driving on the moon, we see more the promising aspects that the game should have followed through on.

The weightless combat and uninteresting AI remain in place though, and for the foreseeable future at least we can comfortably say that Duke Nukem is a dead and buried franchise. What a shame.

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