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Good game but hard to handle ?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 19
Date: November 19, 1999
Author: Amazon User

With so many duke predecessors this game had a lot of hype to live up to. With the option of link up, it is well worth purchasing the game with a few friends and playing all through the night. However the one player mode is repetitive and flawed. With many similar situations arising the game becomes predictable and easy. The controls can be hard to grasp at first with too much to do in such a short period of time So if you do not own any other Duke Nukem games and you have some fellow Playstation owning friends then this game is well worth buying!

A good game, when played on a PS2.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Today i saw this game at the store for 12 bucks, and i'm gonna pick it up since i have a PS2. I rented it 2 times (after that the dumb stores got rid of their copies) and it was better than the sega saturn version. The graphics didn't have the neat lighting effects, but the game was a whole lot more like the pc version. If you have a PC get that version, if you have a ps2 get this version, or both. I'm probably one of the biggest Duke fans in my area, i have the origional Duke 3D for PC, the Atomic Edtion , The sega saturn version(my 1st copy), Duke Manhatten Project, Time to Kill, Land of the Babes, the Duke Nukem album, all of the Duke Nukem action figures, The Duke Nukem screen saver pack, and now this. As the great Duke would say "Holy S@$T!" Any way if you are one of the few who don't have a PS2 yet here's what will happen to this game.. You know how these losers say the game looks flat? Lie! You know how they say the N64 version looks better? They fogot to tell you the game is cut up (no nude chix), and the textures are super-low res. But with this vesion, when you set up your PS2 for smooth texture mapping, it will make all the "2D" images get smooth edges, and the textures will be nice and smooth. Since the game is almost all sprites(which isn't realy a bad thing at all, easier to edit on pc) Every image on screen will look close to a PS2 game! The reason i don't give this 5 stars is because you can't edit it like the PC version.

Duke Does Doom

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Total Meltdown is the console version of Duke Nukem 3D with an additional scenario (but not the Plutonium Pack).

Duke has just been shot down to find aliens in control of Earth and they are trying to take out women. This does not make Duke happy so he must try and stop the aliens.

Play is in first-person shooter mode (like in Doom) and handles pretty nicely. Added to this game, and missing from so many shooters, is a level of humor as Duke wisecracks his way through the game. The controls are not bad but luckily you never have to run, shoot, jump to stay alive. You always seem to have some time to remember the L1, L2, R1 and R2 buttons.

All in all this was a very successful port of the PC game to a console. Games load and save at about the same speed as the original did at its release.

if you have a PC or a MAC, dont buy the psx version

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have this particular game for both PC and PSX, and the PC version is much better. The playstation version is choppy and has very akward controls. I truely believe that for 98 cents its a good buy, but the most fun idea would be to throw it out of a car bus ect. instead of actually playing it. for a good FPS get The World Is Not Enough, or Quake II

the best game that my mom won't buy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: April 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

although I have never played it I am allowed to have M rated games but My mom won't buy it because she thinks I all ready did buy something but back in arizona I plaed it but I can't rember it that is all.

How can anyone like this game at all, really?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Honestly, there's nothing good about this game. The graphics are NOT at all what the playstation console has the ability for. The graphics are more like Sega Genesis or Super Nintendo or even the atari rather than the Playstation. If you like games with good graphics, do not get this game.
The gameplay isn't that great, also. The N64 version is much better, because the gameplay is more up to date and realistic, and plus the graphics are what the graphics SHOULD be like on the new and modern consoles.
I swear, play a demo or atleast rent the game, (I rented it and it was the worst money I ever spent) and check out the graphics. Plus, in order to know the story of this game, you have to read the direction book. I can't remember it word by word, but it went something like this: "Duke was blasted out his ship and was about to be greeted by earth, when he realizes that a swarm of aliens has crowded the city of L.A." Okay, so the story sounds good...but why wasn't there a sequence within the game SHOWING us the story? And plus, all the bad guys that you shoot look like cardboard.
I think that whatever company or designers created this game obviously didn't have much money at the time, so they decided to make a mediocre game. This was bad. Believe me.
If you want a game with good gameplay, excellent graphics, wonderful and atmospheric feelings to it, get some game on the playstation like a final fantasy.
If you want a game with awful graphics, bad gameplay, no storyline sequences, and a Sega Genesis feel, then get this game.
This game is not worth any money at all.

Complete waste of the purchase price

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was truely dissapointed in this particular Duke Nukem title. Maybe had I not purchased 'Time to Kill' a year prior, my opinion on 'Meltdown', would have been different. Meltdown is nowhere in the same catagory as 'Time to kill'. The graphics to begin with are mediocre and better suited a less powerful system, i.e. the genesis or n64. Second the controls are cumbersome and hard to operate. There is no cycling of the weopons that made time to kill much more enjoyable. My suggestions to any fans of the Duke Nukem titles to completely pass this one up and if possible borrow a friends copy of 'meltdown' so you can return it after the dissapointment.

Duke Nukem : Total Meltdown

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is definetly the best DN game for the Playstation console ever made. From the big guns to the large and difficult levels this game is classic to be remembered. And I just love those one-liners. ...

The PC version is much better

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Unless I'm mistaken, this version of Duke Nukem (3D) came out a couple of years after the PC version, yet the graphics and animation were much better playing this on my old 486dx2-66 at the lowest graphic mode settings. This PSX version is really ugly, and I was very disappointed because I was looking forward to having fun playing Duke Nukem again after all these years. Do yourself a favor and play this on the PC instead -- not only are the PC graphics much better (even on a low-end Pentium) but the controls are much better too (keyboard beats joystick for 1st person shooters any day).

Eeeeh not the best version...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Duke Nukem is a pretty cool series. I use to own some of the Nukem Games...I happen to buy this game along time ago at a game store called GameMax..They had it for 4 bucks...It was pretty sweet. The graphics were terrible but Hey it was on the Play station. The game play was kinda slow but still good. I don't know if this is and edited copy of the game...I can tell you is that in this version I got for PS1 you do see women take there braws off when you pay em' cash..But they have stars...Literaly covering there nips..And it also has a type of color...The one that matches there bra..

The games violence is over the top. But still it's a winner...I happen to like the N64 versio more then this even though there isn't Brief nudity like The ps1 version But in the N64 version there is more violence...The bodies explode when you shoot them again after there dead. You can't do that in the PS1 version but that doesn't really matter.

Duke Nukem Total Meltdown is recomended for a mature audience since this game does have over the top pig exploding violence plus you go to an Adults Only Book store and there are half naked strippers with stars on them.

I had fun with this game. It kinda pissed me off cause you didn't get to do all the stuff you can do in the PC version But I still liked it. Over all it's a mediocer version.

I do not recomend this version at at all! Get the PC version! Or the N64...I donno I just liked that version.

It's a great Duke Nukem Game...

Later...

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