Buying this on release day is one of my biggest regrets*. Fuelled by nostalgia I was prepared to invest a sizeable amount of my time and effort in an experience 15 years in the making. And an experience it was. A shoddy one. Critically panned by everyone, the game dropped in price to pennies within days. It had multiplayer but after the abysmal single-player campaign I just couldn't be bothered wasting more time on it. And neither should anyone else. The developers even cared enough to design some additional content including an additional single-player campaign Getting a few pennies back on it is completely worth it, if only for the cathartic release of sending the Duke back where he came from. *At least it led me to not purchase Aliens: Colonial Marines on release. Instead I picked up the limited edition for £3 the other day - and brand new I might add. I think to justify criticism you need to have experienced it yourself so as to have a fair opinion, which is probably the only reason Aliens isn't on this list.
I’ve been a film fan for as long as I can remember, with one of my earliest memories watching my dad’s copy of Star Wars one rainy afternoon in the mid-nineties. Then the 21st century happened, and my interests developed from there – mainly including comics and video-games, and recently an introduction into WWE. It’s a good time for popular culture. Follow me on Twitter: @TW0_ST3P or on Facebook: facebook.com/Tw0st3p
