A video for Gearbox’s cancelled Duke Nukem Begins provides us with an idea of what the game might have been.
In 2008, with Duke Nukem Forever in development hell, artist Gregor Punchatz headed up a Gearbox-commissioned project at Dallas, Texas-based production studio Janimation to create an animated vertical slice to show what Duke Nukem Begins was meant to be.
The video shows third-person shooting, with Duke killing various demons using familiar weapons in an urban setting. We also see four-player co-op. There’s a big boss fight at the end, with Duke flying around using a jet-pack. Yes, that’s Guerrilla Radio by Rage Against the Machine.
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