Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project
Duke Nukem takes his Mighty Boot to the Big Apple. Using GLOPP (Gluon Liquid Omega-Phased Plasma), the maniacal mech Morphix has transformed the creatures of New York City into an army of bloodthirsty mutants…
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project is an adventure developed by 3D Realms, released 14 May 2002 on Xbox 360, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 8 hrs to finish.
What Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project is
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project is an adventure game developed by 3D Realms and released in 2002. It was published by Apogee Software. It is available on Xbox 360, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Prism3D.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Duke Nukem takes his Mighty Boot to the Big Apple. Using GLOPP (Gluon Liquid Omega-Phased Plasma), the maniacal mech Morphix has transformed the creatures of New York City into an army of bloodthirsty mutants. In Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project, Duke must deploy WIN (Weapons, Insults and Name-Calling) to rid the city of goo-based bad guys, and return peace and tranquility to The City That Never Sleeps.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project holds a critic score of 45 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 23 points below the year average. Players rate it 60, 15 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 8 hrs.
What it launched against
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project launched on 14 May 2002, within three weeks of Medal of Honor: Frontline, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, World Soccer: Winning Eleven 6 International and Aggressive Inline. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Medal of Honor: Frontline, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, World Soccer: Winning Eleven 6 International, Aggressive Inline.
Official trailer
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