Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project

[Grovyle]

Released: 2003
Category: Shoot'em up/Run n Gun
Platforms: Windows (and soon XBLA)

Manhattan Project features the humorously chauvinistic action hero Duke Nukem, this time fighting Mech Morphix, a mad scientist who is using a radioactive slime dubbed G.L.O.P.P. (Gluon Liquid Omega-Phased Plasma) to mutate  creatures into deadly monsters in order to take over Manhattan  island, New York City. These enemies include mutated alligators, giant cockroaches, and even the Pig cops from Duke Nukem 3D. Duke also faces a few enemies who are not mutants, such as Fem-Mechs, lethal whip-wielding gynoids. Levels in the game contain recognizable parts of New York City.

Manhattan Project is not a direct sequel to any earlier Duke game; however, each earlier game in the series featured a completely different story and a new enemy force for Duke to mess up as well, with only the second and third games directly connected chronologically. Manhattan Project is much like the original Duke Nukem due to its many similarities, such as 'Mech Morphix' looking and acting very similar (eg. half a metal face and also a mad scientist) to 'Dr. Proton', the main antagonist of Duke Nukem. The side scrolling element also pays homage to the original.

Duke's primary enemy in the game was originally supposed to be his old arch-nemesis Doctor Proton, but this was changed to avoid possible continuity clashes with Duke Nukem Forever.

The game is built around a 3D engine called Prism3D: Levels and characters are fully three-dimensional, and both the camera and Duke can move along any axis, although the paths are fixed.

Utilizing the 3D engine, the player can zoom in and out focusing either on the enemy approaching or an overall view of the field. Duke can crouch, run, jump and slide kick underneath small counter space. The game is organized in 9 chapters, each one having 3 parts. In each part, you must rescue a "babe" strapped to a GLOPP bomb and find a keycard to unlock the way to the next part. There are no vehicles, but at some parts, you get to use a jetpack to fly over large voids or hazardous ground. The controls are also quite easy to get used to, with buttons only for jumping, moving, firing, and weapon changing. Using a cheat, you can also move the camera to any angle and take screenshots.

The game CD includes a level editor named PrismEd, but level-creation activity for the game never reached popularity among the players, and only a tiny level editing community is currently active.

It's 7 years old, but it's a very fun game! You should try the demo

[AlexStruck]

OMG OMG OMG i Love this game!! Duke Nukem 4 evr 

[YS_JAPAN]

multiplayer capable?

[Grovyle]

multiplayer capable?

Nope, just singleplayer.

[Todor]

Epic game that, I loved playing 3D when I was like 5.

[Voodoo]

Incredibly awesome. Enjoyed every moment of my 6 playthroughs to it.

[Grovyle]

I still can't master the double jump, and I need to do it in one of the levels for the yellow card
How can I do it?

[9r2e5i3k]

LoL. The game is epic to play on a gamepad. I still have a savegame where I'm in the last level and found almost all hidden nukes.


Stopped playing because game was crashing at some point