Duke Nukem Trilogy for PSP 'more mature, more hardcore'

by Alan Tsang { Jul 18th 2008 at 4:45PM }

Despite the ... unique trailer featuring logos dancing around, Apogee insists they won't screw up the ultimate badass' return in the upcoming Duke Nukem Trilogy games. Terry Nagy, CEO of Apogee Software, gave some details about the newest outing of the Duke on the PSP. He started off by stressing immediately that the game will be out for summer 2009, unlike a certain other Duke Nukem game.

With the trilogy, Apogee's plan is to have "another Duke game ... on the store shelves as the first one is starting to fall off the shelves." The first game Critical Mass will take place in the future, so the player will have "really cool futuristic weapons" at his disposal. Chain Reaction is set in current times while Proving Ground has Duke traveling back into the past to 1945 as "the Forrest Gump of World War II" and using "period-style weapons." Finally, Nagy reveals that the PSP version is "more mature, more hardcore of gamer, third-person, first-person, top-down scroller type of stuff" and that it is aiming for a Mature rating, as opposed to a Teen rating on the DS.

We aren't too optimistic about this game, but then again we've seen basically nothing. Either way, we would avoid the DS version, not because we are fanboys at all, but because Duke himself would never be caught dead playing a Teen game.

[Thanks, David B.!]

Tags: apogee, chain-reaction, critical-mass, duke-nukem-trilogy, proving-ground

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

farfisa @ Jul 18th 2008 5:03PM

I believe all of this information was obvious from the E3 trailer.

dabamf @ Jul 18th 2008 5:12PM

Coming soon to the DS: "God of Peace: Resolution of Conflict." It's time to make peace with the gods of Olympus using the stylus!

Jason @ Jul 18th 2008 6:03PM

This is going to be the biggest joke when/IF it comes out. So much progress has been made in the industry since the original that there won't be much beyond the nostalgia to make this worthwhile.

I'll put my money on "steaming turd" for this one.

Jason B. @ Jul 18th 2008 7:09PM

But they said there will be less modes than the DS version...how can there be less?

Smokey @ Jul 18th 2008 7:32PM

Who says games have come alone way since duke, I would argue that majority haven't... it's ur right now to care about his return, but me, I havent been excited about videogame news like this for awhile, duke forever (lol)

cafecito @ Jul 18th 2008 10:27PM

Oh, You'll see... DUKE NUKEM'S ABOUT TO MAKE YOU HIS BITCH.

I'm really excited to see how these games are gonna turn out. Nostalgia factors should be a plus, and not the only reason to play them. As I understand it, they're not gonna be remakes, but 3 new games instead.

Peter R. @ Jul 19th 2008 5:12AM

PSP ver. gets mature rating, while the DS gets a teen rating.................WTH! I know Nintendo used to be toy makers, but that still doesn't justify shoving watered down kiddie games down the fan base's throat.... (>_>) ....ok whatever, Nintendo been pissin me off anyway, they're slowly screwing themselves over. If this game EVER comes out, I'll just buy the PSP version and be done with it.