8 Video Games That Turned Out Nothing Like We Were Promised

4. Duke Nukem Forever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d09kva8wghM Duke Nukem Forever (never has their been a more apt title for a game) spent over 14 years in development hell, moving between developers, switching game engines, and generally finding itself being more and more compromised as time went on, until... well, let's go back to the beginning. If you check out the original E3 trailers for Duke Nukem Forever as early as 1997 (and as late as 2001), the game - and you have to allow yourself to pretend you have an N64 at this point - looks awesome: insane shoot-outs, wild driving levels, violence, hot girls, and crude jokes. The game never arrived on schedule, however, and - after been shopped around for years - it eventually came out in 2011 and into the arms of fans who had been eagerly awaiting it for, oh, over a decade. A lot of expectations there, right? Hard to meet expectations like that, right? Well, yes, but Duke Nukem Forever didn't even bother to meet excited gamers half way: the final trailer made the game look like something of a blast, but it wasn't at all representative. Dull and oddly uninspired, the promise of those mounting years soon felt like the result of some strange fever dream - had gamers really waited all that time for a less than average experience? Yes, they had.