The lack of music made this game very atmospheric. As a kid I always felt like I was playing a horror game, like I was the last man on Earth having arrived after the aliens had killed off nearly the entire planet's population.
i know it wasn't great but it was still very enjoyable. Me and a friend skipped school one afternoon to play this. I remember running around the empty stadium level. The school rang the house and my friend answered by mistake and we got busted! what a dumbass. Didn't regret it though. great game. great day. miss the 90's
@@FuriousMan226 he said he was sick. Then they rang his mother at her workplace, she rang the house, my friend told her he was sick so had stayed home that afternoon. That was it. I was in a different class, they assumed I was running late and had missed the register. case closed. terrible school really.
My brother and I rented this one so often from the local video store that the guy there ended up giving it to my mom for free so we could keep it. I would venture a guess at many hundreds of hours being spent on this co-op. Probably similar to how many hours we spent with Goldeneye and Diddykong Racing/NHL 99 which were our "big" N64 games. Great game, worth a play-through for sure!
This was one of the few games I played first on a computer. I remember sitting for hours playing it while listening to 90s rock. My parents were not very happy with me. 😆 The memories!
i loved this game. in my personal opinion i actually liked this game as much as goldeneye. I loved all the secrets hidden throughout the levels. i think a lot of your negativity of it comes from experiencing the pc version first. most gamers back then didn't play pc games so this was one of our first experiences like this. I played the crap out of this game.
this game, goldeneye and doom64 made me a pro at virtually all fps games at a young age. The multiplayer component was extremely fun when I was a kid and I used to play against the AI for countless hours all the time.
I have fond memories of this games MP. I vividly remember playing the stadium map. It had four entrances to the field which could be opened and closed. This is important because my arse of a brother concocted a plan. During a match he proposed to science the medicine X (i believe) which gave you super speed. So, we met at one of the goal posts and lined up. I were to run at full speed with med X while he would shoot a missile paralell to me with the goal of seeing which one was faster. What i did not know, was that he had loaded a heat seeking missile, not a regular one. I won the race, but then i noticed that the missile was tracking me. I laughed at his feeble plan, and headed for one of the exits... closed. Med X at 60%... next exit.. closed... Med X at 30%...He was laughing up blood and i were cursing him in elvish, orcis and probably some dialects unknown to man. It was great fun,hinking back.
That stadium map was the best. I used to mine the shit out of the field and shoot some sort of missile or beam weapon (been 25 years I can't remember exactly) everyone who survived the mines
The weapons are so much better than in the original 3D. The freeze gun suchs and the grenade launcher in Duke 64 is the best weapon ever, especially in multiplayer...
This is a bias review imo. Forget the pc version and take it on its own merits. This game yeah had a few dull moments, but for 97 and cartridge?? This was an amazing achievement and me and my friends newish to Duke back then literally started our own cult following. The multiplayer battles brought more laughs and fun than any game amongst me and my friends. A sure fire cult classic forever in our eyes, we always quote it. Love this game forever. I still have one n64 cartridge but no console. Duke nukem 64 is that cartridge!!! "I guess he Didn't escape from LA!!!" explosive shotgun shells, multiplayer, stadium - more laughs than any game ever for me and my pals. Peace
If youre a big fan of duke nukem you would like this game too. peronally grew up to this game i do wish it had the music, but i prefer the plasma gun over freeze gun. Heat seaker was better than the devastator in my opinion. I loved playing the AI on dam im good. it was a real challenge lol
This was one of my first n64 games and I loved it! I still love it today and play it. I've lost count how many times I have finished it, but Duke Nukem never gets old! I like the n64 version just as much as the original.
I loved this version of Duke Nukem, and it was actually my first experience with the franchise. I can remember seeing it advertised on TV during Monday Night RAW back in the late 90's. I rented it many times from a local video store, and knew that I had to have it one day! I spent HOURS playing the Deathmatch against the A.I. controlled bots and had so much fun with it. My favorite level was Hotel Hell for single player. I remember kiting the aliens upstairs and trying to trap them in the different hotel rooms. XD Such good memories for me. I'm glad I still have this game, and I still love it to this day. Great Review.
this game is very classic, I love the games I played n64 they bear 12 years until today, forever, duke nuken64 is a super game, impossible to forget himself :), loved the video, very good =]
thanks weakerfan! theres also some cool movie nods in the game such as the terminator exoskeleton and in the LA level he says something about quake which was a game rival for the time....pretty cool indeed
Oh my. I remember spending countless hours playing deathmatch mode in this game. Explosive shotgun is my favorite weapon. Too many nostalgic N64 memories here.
What you say about the weapons tells me, that you don`t understand the game... Or didn`t play it much in multiplayer. The weapons are awesome, especially the grenade launcher!
I had a love hate relationship with this game. I remember being horribly upset with changes that were immediately noticeable, stage one is now set during the day, and there is no music. Then the horror of Red Light District getting turned into Duke Burger. But the game grew on me and there were plenty of fun nights with my buddies deathmatching in Castle Dukenstein.
The "Lazy" version of Quake? I mean sure you'd be well within your right to call it downgraded and not as creatively diverse as, say for instance, the same team's port of Doom to PS1 or Doom 64 or Quake 2 for the N64, but lazy? take one look at how badly the Saturn port of Quake fared by Lobotomy Software who made Powerslave/Exhumed (and the Saturn port of Duke 3D) compared to how well Quake 64 runs. Porting anything from PC to console at the time was never the lazy option purely because of how many workarounds and changes would have to be made, regardless of how the end resuly turned out, so to get even close to a 1:1 port would be more of a sign of hard work because of the effort that would have had to be put in to get it to that point.
Sure the n64 version of quake isn’t as bad as Saturn but considering they could and perhaps really should have at least added the 4 player mode it seems such a cop out
@@n64glennplant Understandable, I just have a lot of respect for Aaron Seeler and co for their work in bringing id softwares library to far more limited consoles, especially considering how badly some console ports fared (Shadowmans PS1 port being thr first big offender that comes to mind) I'm just more glad they got the base game playing as well as they did, but then Ive never really been one for the multiplayer experience so I can understand how you would want that to be implemented and running smoothly, considering they managed to add it into quake 2
This game was actually my first experience playing Duke Nukem, after playing it, I quickly went on to play Duke Nukem 3D on PC and it was so much better. I do still like this game though. Some of the changes may be for the worse, but I think the fact that it was my first Duke Nukem experience means I have a nostalgic love for it. Great review!
I got this game in the Summer of 1998 ...I think. It was a lot of fun. The 2-player coop campaign and the 4-player "Dukematch" were so cool. I really enjoyed the 3 extra levels in the multiplayer deathmatch. I got it used and definitely feel as if I got my money's worth.
I remember using cheats like infinite ammo, godmode, level skip etc. And i thought the game was boring. But later played it legit from the beginning and i ended up liking it a ton. So the cheats killed all the fun. Moral of the story, say no to cheats.
DUKE 3D is my favourite game of all time. It runs near perfectly on the N64 and was the best way to play multiplayer back in the day. The only gripe is it censored some of the original content. But the 3D bosses were awesome.
Good thing about no chapter breaks: you get to keep your weapons and items between episodes. A fun twist on the progression, makes the game easier to blast through for fun.
I think I would've enjoyed this game if I hadn't played the PC version first. Its a good port but the PC version will always be my favourite. Great review.
Duke Nukem is a classic game on any platform. The PC version of this game is just plain awesome! The N64 game is just about as good. There are some places that it lacks compared to the PC Version, and the game play is kind of tough to get used to at first.
was a grind getting back into the swing of things and feeling a little rusty but ill get back to one a week in no time i hope! just 3 massive exams coming up in the first 6 weeks of january so really need to knuckle down studying!
Hey Glenn, hope you had a good Christmas mate. I always liked this Duke port. It is heavily censored, but it plays nice, a lot nicer than the PS1 port. I always thought Eurocom was a very talented studio, they did some great work with quite a few ports for the N64.
its i think someone said it best below when they said RIP eurocom....they were very under rated at the time for their work but did some fantastic work on the n64
My friends and I really enjoyed the Multiplayer in this one... though the balance was a little out there. It was always a race to see who could get to the jetpack and then the explosive shotty shells :)
Great review this was a great port for the time just a shame there is no in game music which really drags it down for me I can only assume this was either due to lack of cartridge space or perhaps more likely to reduce the load on the N64s cpu to keep the game running smoothly as the N64 has no dedicated sound chip as the music plays in the intermittent screens but not in game just like Doom on the Atari Jaguar for the same reasons. Also strange that the game would include the strong violence but remove the swearing as it got an 18 rating anyway.
I played the shareware episode of this first game when I was super young, my older brother had it installed on the computer. Our computer was destroyed and I missed playing the game, then my mother managed to find a second hand copy of this port so I could play it on the N64 and I really liked it, I thought it was a very solid port. The only complaint I have that I cant understand why, is removing the Devastator in place of the Missile Launcher. The Devastator was the most satisfying/fun gun to use in the game by a margin, then they replace your RPG with a grenade launcher just to make the devastator a missile launcher? I love all the alternate ammo stuff but they could have kept the RPG and Devastator as they are and had heat-seeking devastator missiles or something. I also miss some of the levels like Tier Drops (my favourite) but all things considered they did an awesome job repurposing a couple Atomic Edition levels as bonus episodes, and how they reintegrated the Expander as a weapon you could get ammo for throughout the game. All things considered this was a very solid port for the limitations of the N64.
It's a classic game for sure, never played this port... "Duke Nukem Forever" would end up being announced in 1997 to use the Quake 2 engine which almost makes "DN64" obsolete:L We all know what happened with DNF so it doesn't really matter now haha
It was a pretty good Duke Nukem game and I would give it a 8 out 10 but I still think the original Duke Nukem games were a lot better with the graphics and story. I hope they bring back some decent Duke Nukem game in the future
It's funny how games that were released already dated seem to hold up better now than they did back then. When I look at this game, I just see Duke Nukem running well on the N64, and I have no idea that it was released 2 years later than the PC original. And of course that doesn't matter at all now. It only matters if I want to play it or not. When I think about Doom running on the SNES, I remember that this really was the earliest Nintendo console that could have run this game, so the N64 is where it belongs. Of course we would have loved some improved graphics like the Doom 64 treatment, but at least the released it.
Exactly. The game runs surprisingly good with an expansion pak. I can clearly feel the 60 fps which is really impressive for a N64 game. The censorship now feels more like a new game and tbh I come to realize Duke Nukem is as good without this sexism and misogyny BS so kudos to Eurocom!
I like your series but one thing that annoys me is the aspect ratio of the game play footage being stretched from the original 4:3 AR. Is there any way for you to fix this in the future?
thanks for your feedback :) its not stretched its transcoded and scaled into 16:9 as personally i prefer how it looks. i know its not everyones taste but i can't please everyone :D also some games did have 16:9 as an aspect ratio in the settings such as goldeneye so its all about preference really
***** no problem Glenn, just one of those little things that kind of annoys me. I typically watch the episodes through my tv and I can manually change the ar myself but figured I would give my feedback. Anyway I appreciate the content and continue to enjoy it! Hope to see more homebrew and beta episodes soon :)
Great review and as I said before I have fond memories of this game although I feel the PC version is far superior this was my original entry into the game series. So it was worth the buy I remember seeing this in the rental store but not being able to rent it.
This was my first duke nukem experience and I thought the game wasn't that great until I played years later on xbl. Still enjoyed the 4 player death match on this.
I think it's a great version of the game. For one, the fact that the levels are slightly different isn't a negative thing, it's great to re-explore. And while I agree that the lack of music is a big downer, this version does have the best (in my opinion) rendition of Grabbag EVER!
This was the first version I ever played back then, so I couldn't see any of flaws or differences from the PC version, plus I was a kid. I loved it. The times spent roleplaying (pretending the secret areas were our homes/bases lol) or dicking around in Deathmatch with my friend lead to a lot of secrets found, and some interesting glitches. Also your profile pic comes from that old N64 magazine from the UK, doesn't it ?
I did like a few of the weapon changes, like the plasma cannon replacing the freezer, and the bonus ammunition. At the time, they also made other additions (Overlord clones, Protector Drones added to Lunar Apocalypse and Shrapnel City episodes, and some of the 3D effects). However, the removal of the adult content sucked.
Like Hexen, playing co-op with my best friend during sleepovers and being 11 years old made these games perfect in my memory. I realize reality will be much different haha
I played this game to death as a young fella and as the 64 is by far my favourite console and still gets a relative hammering, I decided to just throw in the old Duke Nukem 64 for a bit of fun. The game is as fun as I remember and I'm not somebody who bashes graphics 20 years in the future BUT MAN THE CONTROLS!! Even as an avid 64er today with experience on the single joystick 3d games, I cannot get used to the controls. Maybe because I upscale the game to 65" UHD TV with a good quality upscaler for which this console was not designed, the controls are unbearable. The smallest touch of the stick completely overshoots where you are aiming. I'm finding it completely unplayable. What a shame, really.
When I recently realised this existed, I was really excited, as I had loved the original, but had only finished the (actually reasonably good) GBA version. The addition of co-op was a huge bonus. From my perspective it was easier to get this than to fuss with the PC version on a modern computer, and play without co-op, which to me is great. As for the lack of soundtrack...that's sucks, but it does give you the opportunity to put on your own music. My mate that comes round for games and I struggle a bit because we love the in game sound tracks of many games, but slso love sharing music...this gives us the chance to game and listen to whatever without losing out on the intended game experience.
You mentioned censorship in this game a few times. That doesn't add anything to the overall performance of the game. This games (yes even thou censored) still finds its way into my n64. Love it
Good review, although I'm surprised by your assessment of the multiplayer. My friends and I found it so much more fun than Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Turok 2, or any other shooter on the system. The bots, while dumb, added a lot to the game and made 2 player DM matches more interesting, and Piracy was one of the most enjoyable multiplayer maps in Duke history.
When it comes to FPS games, I had always wished that Star Wars Dark Forces was ported to the N64. The PS1 version suffers from a terrible frame rate and at the time my family didn’t own a competent PC. Since the game already used a MIDI soundtrack it seemed like it would have been a perfect fit.
The grenade launcher on DN64 was the best weapon in any FPS ever! You could bounce the grenades off of walls and have them roll around corners and blow up yet unseen enemies, and if you weren't careful, you could blow yourself up mistakenly, which was comedic in itself. I don't understand why anyone wouldn't like that weapon. If they are upset that the rocket launcher was replaced, then I propose a remake that has both the grenade launcher and rocket launcher. Who would oppose that?
Duke Nukem 64 has to be the best console version of Duke Nukem 3D, it was worth having as a secondary version if you already had the PC version but now there's a mod of it for the PC version.
It's actually available for the 360 through Live Arcade, the full plutonium pack edition. Sadly it's not made compatible on XBONE yet which I regret selling my 360...
+Ryuujin1078 Just get the PC version on GoG or Steam, it'll run on just about anything short of a toaster thanks to source ports being available these days.
My favorite version of Duke Nukem 3D is Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition for the PC, though the first version of the game that I played was Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown for the Sony PlayStation. One of my friends still has Duke Nukem 64; we played the multiplayer quite a bit in both cooperative and deathmatch. I also played the single player mode and thought the new weapons were really cool.
thats the cool thing with the duke games of this time, they were essentially the same game but with enough tweaks to make it worth playing all versions i think
I noticed you were "saving" the babes in the game, I had no idea that was possible in this version of the game (I have the game sitting on my shelf but I only got it for collection purposes and only ever play the PC version of the game). Is this the only version of the game where you can do that? Pretty sure you can't in the PS1 port.
well spotted! yes as far as i know this is the only port where you save them, nintendo were all over that censorship which makes this version quite unique!
Loved this game, it had a great multiplayer mode and was great fun with friends. Tons of levels, great weaponry. Co-op singleplayer was a great addition and was superfun. Weak points for me personally were probably graphics, enemies and items were sprites, overall not the greatest but perfectly fine. And singleplayer lacked music.
i love your channel, it's all about my favorite console. there is only one flaw i have about it and there's nothing that can be done about it, though. the flaw is that you live in a PAL region, i live in the US. because of this, i am never too sure of what's rare and what's not, because, rarity often depends (in n64 sake) on types of cartridges, and how they were received. Like "Clayfighters sculptor's cut" was only in block busters, and a rare game in only America was the Turok Rage Wars grey cartridge, it fixed a glitch in co-op, in pal regions, they were all grey.
generally if i don't mention regions when talking about a game it means its the same across regions like this one. if a game is rare in certain regions i do try to mention that. for example snowboard kids 2 NTSC is uncommon but in PAL its one of the rarest games as it was only released in australia and the rest of the pal region didn't get it. there are lots of weird and wonderful examples of this :)
I just got duke nukem 3d world tour on xbox one and im really enjoying it. Its my first duke nukem game i got it for 2 bucks. I guess the n64 one has the same levels right?
i had this game back in the day and i remember it used to irritate me so much,i think it was mainly down to getting lost in the dark maze like levels and finding myself going round in circles looking for keys,i think id probably get more enjoyment out of it today if i gave it another go.
Great game & love the 2 player co-op mode!! My Brother & I use to play this game on our N64 on 2 player co-op & we bust some shit up!! Those were the good old days!! LOL
I played this game, so intensely, I don't know recall if it had a save needed a memory card because I remember always having to restart and never having one. But this game was fun, but also got me mad.
Playing 3vs1 duke bot on damn I’m good was always fun. Always tripped me out when you would here “mmm mmm mmm, where is it?” That’s how you knew the duke boy was close 🤣
this game is one of the only I can play for hours, I love this game, its a 10/10 for me!
The co-op mode on this gave my friends and I lots of fun!
its defo one of the funnest additions to the game :)
Those Duke Bots. ;)
The Duke bots and deathmatch and coop was super fun and kept me replaying this version way more than the PC version
The lack of music made this game very atmospheric. As a kid I always felt like I was playing a horror game, like I was the last man on Earth having arrived after the aliens had killed off nearly the entire planet's population.
I came in the comment section to say that ! Completely agree
Same here ❤
i know it wasn't great but it was still very enjoyable. Me and a friend skipped school one afternoon to play this. I remember running around the empty stadium level. The school rang the house and my friend answered by mistake and we got busted! what a dumbass. Didn't regret it though. great game. great day. miss the 90's
What did the school do when your friend answered it?
@@FuriousMan226 he said he was sick. Then they rang his mother at her workplace, she rang the house, my friend told her he was sick so had stayed home that afternoon. That was it. I was in a different class, they assumed I was running late and had missed the register. case closed. terrible school really.
In co-op the second player plays as Duke Nukem's cousin, Dick Kickem. :D
***** so what about the 3 and 4 players ? :P
um...
***** youtube decided to translate that to "to ..."
***** Duck Chuckem and Luke Dukem
+timmer919hep lmmfao
My brother and I rented this one so often from the local video store that the guy there ended up giving it to my mom for free so we could keep it.
I would venture a guess at many hundreds of hours being spent on this co-op. Probably similar to how many hours we spent with Goldeneye and Diddykong Racing/NHL 99 which were our "big" N64 games.
Great game, worth a play-through for sure!
what an awesome guy! that so cool
Bruh that legit!
This was one of the few games I played first on a computer. I remember sitting for hours playing it while listening to 90s rock. My parents were not very happy with me. 😆 The memories!
"Time to kick ass and chew bubblegum and I'm all outta gum!"
i loved this game. in my personal opinion i actually liked this game as much as goldeneye. I loved all the secrets hidden throughout the levels. i think a lot of your negativity of it comes from experiencing the pc version first. most gamers back then didn't play pc games so this was one of our first experiences like this. I played the crap out of this game.
Bang on mate!! Couldn't agree more
Same here. I had and loved those games both dearly.
this game, goldeneye and doom64 made me a pro at virtually all fps games at a young age. The multiplayer component was extremely fun when I was a kid and I used to play against the AI for countless hours all the time.
multiplayer was the best against friends. i had one friend we played that all the time. This was super awesome. Hotel Hell 4 ever.
My friends and I enjoyed the deathmatch, it acted as a good break from the Goldeneye marathons.
It was way better than goldeneye
My brother and I use to play thru this game like once a day in co-op. So much good memories of it.
I have fond memories of this games MP. I vividly remember playing the stadium map. It had four entrances to the field which could be opened and closed. This is important because my arse of a brother concocted a plan. During a match he proposed to science the medicine X (i believe) which gave you super speed. So, we met at one of the goal posts and lined up. I were to run at full speed with med X while he would shoot a missile paralell to me with the goal of seeing which one was faster. What i did not know, was that he had loaded a heat seeking missile, not a regular one.
I won the race, but then i noticed that the missile was tracking me. I laughed at his feeble plan, and headed for one of the exits... closed. Med X at 60%... next exit.. closed... Med X at 30%...He was laughing up blood and i were cursing him in elvish, orcis and probably some dialects unknown to man. It was great fun,hinking back.
That stadium map was the best. I used to mine the shit out of the field and shoot some sort of missile or beam weapon (been 25 years I can't remember exactly) everyone who survived the mines
The weapons are so much better than in the original 3D. The freeze gun suchs and the grenade launcher in Duke 64 is the best weapon ever, especially in multiplayer...
This is a bias review imo. Forget the pc version and take it on its own merits. This game yeah had a few dull moments, but for 97 and cartridge?? This was an amazing achievement and me and my friends newish to Duke back then literally started our own cult following. The multiplayer battles brought more laughs and fun than any game amongst me and my friends. A sure fire cult classic forever in our eyes, we always quote it. Love this game forever. I still have one n64 cartridge but no console. Duke nukem 64 is that cartridge!!! "I guess he Didn't escape from LA!!!" explosive shotgun shells, multiplayer, stadium - more laughs than any game ever for me and my pals. Peace
If youre a big fan of duke nukem you would like this game too. peronally grew up to this game i do wish it had the music, but i prefer the plasma gun over freeze gun. Heat seaker was better than the devastator in my opinion. I loved playing the AI on dam im good. it was a real challenge lol
hail to the king baby!!!!
there will be plenty of one liners in this comments i think! hah
This was one of my first n64 games and I loved it! I still love it today and play it. I've lost count how many times I have finished it, but Duke Nukem never gets old! I like the n64 version just as much as the original.
Love these N64 reviews! The capture quality looks pretty good, given the nasty N64 composite signal. What are you using to capture this?
svideo to get the best quality and then transcoded into hd :)
Word! I love seeing reviews of games running on actual hardware.
Your reviews are always so honest and not showing preference. Great review.
+Robert Moore thanks Robert 😬
I loved this version of Duke Nukem, and it was actually my first experience with the franchise. I can remember seeing it advertised on TV during Monday Night RAW back in the late 90's. I rented it many times from a local video store, and knew that I had to have it one day! I spent HOURS playing the Deathmatch against the A.I. controlled bots and had so much fun with it. My favorite level was Hotel Hell for single player. I remember kiting the aliens upstairs and trying to trap them in the different hotel rooms. XD Such good memories for me. I'm glad I still have this game, and I still love it to this day. Great Review.
thank you! man i miss monday night raw followed by late night n64 sessions! best memories!
Piracy and hotel hell were da best
I honestly much preferred 64 over the PC version.
Me to, Duke 64 was awesome with 4 player deathmatch. Also the maps where improved.
this game is very classic, I love the games I played n64 they bear 12 years until today, forever, duke nuken64 is a super game, impossible to forget himself :), loved the video, very good =]
i haven't played forever but I'm waiting for a price drop on the mac app store again to download it !
I think the changes to the weapons were intended as an homage to Shadow Warrior. There's even graffiti in some levels depicting Lo Wang.
I remember pkaying this a long time ago thus was a great game and the one liners were pretty funny as great review gleen as always
thanks weakerfan! theres also some cool movie nods in the game such as the terminator exoskeleton and in the LA level he says something about quake which was a game rival for the time....pretty cool indeed
another cracking review Glenn, brill to have you back pal
feels like i was gone for ages!
Oh my. I remember spending countless hours playing deathmatch mode in this game. Explosive shotgun is my favorite weapon. Too many nostalgic N64 memories here.
thats cool that people enjoyed the multiplayer in this one...i guess me and my bro were just die hard goldeneye fanboys to not appreciate this one
What you say about the weapons tells me, that you don`t understand the game... Or didn`t play it much in multiplayer. The weapons are awesome, especially the grenade launcher!
I loved the craziness of the Duke on the ps1 in the 90's but all ports were awesome.
=) its always a plus if a game was on the N64 too.
its a unique port to say the least and worth a play!
I had a love hate relationship with this game. I remember being horribly upset with changes that were immediately noticeable, stage one is now set during the day, and there is no music. Then the horror of Red Light District getting turned into Duke Burger. But the game grew on me and there were plenty of fun nights with my buddies deathmatching in Castle Dukenstein.
jeremysart haha castle dukenstein was awesome :) fond memories of that too
The "Lazy" version of Quake? I mean sure you'd be well within your right to call it downgraded and not as creatively diverse as, say for instance, the same team's port of Doom to PS1 or Doom 64 or Quake 2 for the N64, but lazy? take one look at how badly the Saturn port of Quake fared by Lobotomy Software who made Powerslave/Exhumed (and the Saturn port of Duke 3D) compared to how well Quake 64 runs.
Porting anything from PC to console at the time was never the lazy option purely because of how many workarounds and changes would have to be made, regardless of how the end resuly turned out, so to get even close to a 1:1 port would be more of a sign of hard work because of the effort that would have had to be put in to get it to that point.
Sure the n64 version of quake isn’t as bad as Saturn but considering they could and perhaps really should have at least added the 4 player mode it seems such a cop out
@@n64glennplant Understandable, I just have a lot of respect for Aaron Seeler and co for their work in bringing id softwares library to far more limited consoles, especially considering how badly some console ports fared (Shadowmans PS1 port being thr first big offender that comes to mind) I'm just more glad they got the base game playing as well as they did, but then Ive never really been one for the multiplayer experience so I can understand how you would want that to be implemented and running smoothly, considering they managed to add it into quake 2
This game was actually my first experience playing Duke Nukem, after playing it, I quickly went on to play Duke Nukem 3D on PC and it was so much better. I do still like this game though. Some of the changes may be for the worse, but I think the fact that it was my first Duke Nukem experience means I have a nostalgic love for it. Great review!
its a cool game to play first because you'd have certainly loved the non censored pc version aspects of the game!
"there are many better fps games and I can name you lots of them" doesn't name a single one
i can't think of that many besides goldeneye and turok
Don't forget Perfect Dark
Quake too
And doom
Forsaken also.
I got this game in the Summer of 1998 ...I think. It was a lot of fun. The 2-player coop campaign and the 4-player "Dukematch" were so cool. I really enjoyed the 3 extra levels in the multiplayer deathmatch. I got it used and definitely feel as if I got my money's worth.
I remember using cheats like infinite ammo, godmode, level skip etc. And i thought the game was boring. But later played it legit from the beginning and i ended up liking it a ton.
So the cheats killed all the fun. Moral of the story, say no to cheats.
When you use cheats you're only cheating yourself!
DUKE 3D is my favourite game of all time. It runs near perfectly on the N64 and was the best way to play multiplayer back in the day. The only gripe is it censored some of the original content. But the 3D bosses were awesome.
Good thing about no chapter breaks: you get to keep your weapons and items between episodes. A fun twist on the progression, makes the game easier to blast through for fun.
Great point
I think I would've enjoyed this game if I hadn't played the PC version first. Its a good port but the PC version will always be my favourite. Great review.
yeah the pc version was something close between me and my dad as he let us play it which was so awesome
Theres so much to say about why I like this and what not, but it's DUKE FUCKING NUKEM! HAIL TO THE KING BABY!!!
I never played the other versions so I was completely happy with this game 😊
That’s a great point you know
Duke Nukem is a classic game on any platform. The PC version of this game is just plain awesome! The N64 game is just about as good. There are some places that it lacks compared to the PC Version, and the game play is kind of tough to get used to at first.
Good to have you back Glenn :-)
was a grind getting back into the swing of things and feeling a little rusty but ill get back to one a week in no time i hope! just 3 massive exams coming up in the first 6 weeks of january so really need to knuckle down studying!
With the exception of dying because of platforming I pretty much love this version of the game.
This game was perfect when I was 10 years old, no complaints, good game, lots of fun
The censorship was whatever, but this was the best version of Duke 3d with all the bonus levels and weapons they threw in.
Hey Glenn, hope you had a good Christmas mate. I always liked this Duke port. It is heavily censored, but it plays nice, a lot nicer than the PS1 port. I always thought Eurocom was a very talented studio, they did some great work with quite a few ports for the N64.
its i think someone said it best below when they said RIP eurocom....they were very under rated at the time for their work but did some fantastic work on the n64
My friends and I really enjoyed the Multiplayer in this one... though the balance was a little out there. It was always a race to see who could get to the jetpack and then the explosive shotty shells :)
ha yeah to be fair the jetpack was awesome, almost as cool as the one in shadows of the empire!
A game could just be stick figures on a blank screen... the addition of jetpacks makes it AWESOME... :D
Great review this was a great port for the time just a shame there is no in game music which really drags it down for me I can only assume this was either due to lack of cartridge space or perhaps more likely to reduce the load on the N64s cpu to keep the game running smoothly as the N64 has no dedicated sound chip as the music plays in the intermittent screens but not in game just like Doom on the Atari Jaguar for the same reasons. Also strange that the game would include the strong violence but remove the swearing as it got an 18 rating anyway.
I played the shareware episode of this first game when I was super young, my older brother had it installed on the computer. Our computer was destroyed and I missed playing the game, then my mother managed to find a second hand copy of this port so I could play it on the N64 and I really liked it, I thought it was a very solid port. The only complaint I have that I cant understand why, is removing the Devastator in place of the Missile Launcher. The Devastator was the most satisfying/fun gun to use in the game by a margin, then they replace your RPG with a grenade launcher just to make the devastator a missile launcher? I love all the alternate ammo stuff but they could have kept the RPG and Devastator as they are and had heat-seeking devastator missiles or something.
I also miss some of the levels like Tier Drops (my favourite) but all things considered they did an awesome job repurposing a couple Atomic Edition levels as bonus episodes, and how they reintegrated the Expander as a weapon you could get ammo for throughout the game. All things considered this was a very solid port for the limitations of the N64.
this was my fav version of this game due to the split screen. I was crushed when they remastered duke for ps4 and it had no split screen
It's a classic game for sure, never played this port... "Duke Nukem Forever" would end up being announced in 1997 to use the Quake 2 engine which almost makes "DN64" obsolete:L We all know what happened with DNF so it doesn't really matter now haha
@ 3:18, Is that the Blues Brothers?
yes it is :) theres loads of references to culture in the game like that. theres aliens, duke nukem etc :)
Wow, thats really cool, im buying a copy of this game the second I see one just because of that! :D
If you google it there's a list there's like terminator references too :-)
It was a pretty good Duke Nukem game and I would give it a 8 out 10 but I still think the original Duke Nukem games were a lot better with the graphics and story. I hope they bring back some decent Duke Nukem game in the future
I loved all the tweaks made to the original PC's levels. Areas were expanded and had more detail. One of my favourite games of all time!
Michael Wentworth-Bell i think its a great entry to the series too
It's funny how games that were released already dated seem to hold up better now than they did back then. When I look at this game, I just see Duke Nukem running well on the N64, and I have no idea that it was released 2 years later than the PC original. And of course that doesn't matter at all now. It only matters if I want to play it or not.
When I think about Doom running on the SNES, I remember that this really was the earliest Nintendo console that could have run this game, so the N64 is where it belongs. Of course we would have loved some improved graphics like the Doom 64 treatment, but at least the released it.
Exactly. The game runs surprisingly good with an expansion pak. I can clearly feel the 60 fps which is really impressive for a N64 game. The censorship now feels more like a new game and tbh I come to realize Duke Nukem is as good without this sexism and misogyny BS so kudos to Eurocom!
Welcome back! Another spot on review GP. My PC friends kept me away from this one. When a game costs half your paycheck you'll gotta listen :)
haha yeah thats a good point, its easy to forget that once upon a time these games were a crap ton each!
I like your series but one thing that annoys me is the aspect ratio of the game play footage being stretched from the original 4:3 AR. Is there any way for you to fix this in the future?
thanks for your feedback :) its not stretched its transcoded and scaled into 16:9 as personally i prefer how it looks. i know its not everyones taste but i can't please everyone :D also some games did have 16:9 as an aspect ratio in the settings such as goldeneye so its all about preference really
***** no problem Glenn, just one of those little things that kind of annoys me. I typically watch the episodes through my tv and I can manually change the ar myself but figured I would give my feedback. Anyway I appreciate the content and continue to enjoy it! Hope to see more homebrew and beta episodes soon :)
Possibly a mini beta coming soon but I'm putting a lot of work into Star Wars month which is January :-)
This port seemed kind of pointless to me. The original game could run on pretty much any computer at the time.
Played this a couple of months ago and had a lot of fun. It's still a pretty good game despite its flaws. Also, welcome back!
thanks! star war smooth is january so stay tuned :)
Great review and as I said before I have fond memories of this game although I feel the PC version is far superior this was my original entry into the game series. So it was worth the buy I remember seeing this in the rental store but not being able to rent it.
We had a great time with this game. When we got bored with Goldeneye we switched to Duke Nukem 64 multiplayer and vice versa
This was my first duke nukem experience and I thought the game wasn't that great until I played years later on xbl. Still enjoyed the 4 player death match on this.
Oh yeah forgot this was on xbl too!
I think it's a great version of the game. For one, the fact that the levels are slightly different isn't a negative thing, it's great to re-explore. And while I agree that the lack of music is a big downer, this version does have the best (in my opinion) rendition of Grabbag EVER!
Good points, for me this doesn't quite feel fully finished however
This was the first version I ever played back then, so I couldn't see any of flaws or differences from the PC version, plus I was a kid. I loved it. The times spent roleplaying (pretending the secret areas were our homes/bases lol) or dicking around in Deathmatch with my friend lead to a lot of secrets found, and some interesting glitches.
Also your profile pic comes from that old N64 magazine from the UK, doesn't it ?
I did like a few of the weapon changes, like the plasma cannon replacing the freezer, and the bonus ammunition. At the time, they also made other additions (Overlord clones, Protector Drones added to Lunar Apocalypse and Shrapnel City episodes, and some of the 3D effects).
However, the removal of the adult content sucked.
Like Hexen, playing co-op with my best friend during sleepovers and being 11 years old made these games perfect in my memory. I realize reality will be much different haha
+David Hernández Solyman its times like that where the memory of playing the game can mean so much more than how the game actually is
I played this game to death as a young fella and as the 64 is by far my favourite console and still gets a relative hammering, I decided to just throw in the old Duke Nukem 64 for a bit of fun. The game is as fun as I remember and I'm not somebody who bashes graphics 20 years in the future BUT MAN THE CONTROLS!! Even as an avid 64er today with experience on the single joystick 3d games, I cannot get used to the controls. Maybe because I upscale the game to 65" UHD TV with a good quality upscaler for which this console was not designed, the controls are unbearable. The smallest touch of the stick completely overshoots where you are aiming. I'm finding it completely unplayable. What a shame, really.
When I recently realised this existed, I was really excited, as I had loved the original, but had only finished the (actually reasonably good) GBA version. The addition of co-op was a huge bonus. From my perspective it was easier to get this than to fuss with the PC version on a modern computer, and play without co-op, which to me is great. As for the lack of soundtrack...that's sucks, but it does give you the opportunity to put on your own music. My mate that comes round for games and I struggle a bit because we love the in game sound tracks of many games, but slso love sharing music...this gives us the chance to game and listen to whatever without losing out on the intended game experience.
How does this compare to doom
64?? I would love to hear everyone’s thoughts...thanks
Doom64 is superior imo
You mentioned censorship in this game a few times. That doesn't add anything to the overall performance of the game. This games (yes even thou censored) still finds its way into my n64. Love it
A friend and I used to play this all the time back in the day ^^
Good review, although I'm surprised by your assessment of the multiplayer. My friends and I found it so much more fun than Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Turok 2, or any other shooter on the system. The bots, while dumb, added a lot to the game and made 2 player DM matches more interesting, and Piracy was one of the most enjoyable multiplayer maps in Duke history.
When it comes to FPS games, I had always wished that Star Wars Dark Forces was ported to the N64. The PS1 version suffers from a terrible frame rate and at the time my family didn’t own a competent PC. Since the game already used a MIDI soundtrack it seemed like it would have been a perfect fit.
Always lived dark forces which I had years before on PC when it first came out
would of been ideal for n64
The grenade launcher on DN64 was the best weapon in any FPS ever! You could bounce the grenades off of walls and have them roll around corners and blow up yet unseen enemies, and if you weren't careful, you could blow yourself up mistakenly, which was comedic in itself. I don't understand why anyone wouldn't like that weapon. If they are upset that the rocket launcher was replaced, then I propose a remake that has both the grenade launcher and rocket launcher. Who would oppose that?
Duke Nukem 64 has to be the best console version of Duke Nukem 3D, it was worth having as a secondary version if you already had the PC version but now there's a mod of it for the PC version.
do you know if this game if available for the 360?
I think so. I know for a fact it's on PS3 and PS Vita.
It's actually available for the 360 through Live Arcade, the full plutonium pack edition. Sadly it's not made compatible on XBONE yet which I regret selling my 360...
+Ryuujin1078 Just get the PC version on GoG or Steam, it'll run on just about anything short of a toaster thanks to source ports being available these days.
Review Zero Hour next?
Great game for 2 player co op, and 4 player death match! It was like Goldeneye Multiplayer level of addictiveness
This is my favorite version. I actually like the sub machine guns better then the devastators
My favorite version of Duke Nukem 3D is Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition for the PC, though the first version of the game that I played was Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown for the Sony PlayStation. One of my friends still has Duke Nukem 64; we played the multiplayer quite a bit in both cooperative and deathmatch. I also played the single player mode and thought the new weapons were really cool.
thats the cool thing with the duke games of this time, they were essentially the same game but with enough tweaks to make it worth playing all versions i think
This game was awesome especially in coop
yeah wasn't a bad game really, the Saturn version can still be played online on the Saturn console to this day I believe
I noticed you were "saving" the babes in the game, I had no idea that was possible in this version of the game (I have the game sitting on my shelf but I only got it for collection purposes and only ever play the PC version of the game). Is this the only version of the game where you can do that? Pretty sure you can't in the PS1 port.
well spotted! yes as far as i know this is the only port where you save them, nintendo were all over that censorship which makes this version quite unique!
Lol boomer shooters like Duke still have a level design and environmental interactivity that are miles ahead of tunnel shooters like Cod
honestly as duke nukem fan i can say that this game might not be as raunchy but it is a great game
I remember renting this a bunch. It was a lot of fun and i've never gotten the title screen theme out of my head to this day...
timmer919hep i used to play the heck out of it on pc and n64 - still love it
I used to play the Xbox 360 release a lot with the rewind feature (very handy). Now I own the PC version. I wouldn't mind having the N64 version too.
Never played this version. Looks preety solid for me
lazy version of Quake? it is a masterpiece!
On PC, on n64 it’s meh. The Saturn version however still has people playing online so that’s something cool
@@n64glennplant it's a cool version too...love them all, thank you!
@@n64glennplant split screen, better animation, weapons, upgraded graphics... . Had so much fun playing with three other friends back in the day..
Loved this game, it had a great multiplayer mode and was great fun with friends. Tons of levels, great weaponry. Co-op singleplayer was a great addition and was superfun. Weak points for me personally were probably graphics, enemies and items were sprites, overall not the greatest but perfectly fine. And singleplayer lacked music.
The fact this game has no music at all just kills it for me. Duke needs great music. Just listen to the PC and PlayStation version
detailed review as always :)
thanks barry :) hope your world is good :)
i love your channel, it's all about my favorite console. there is only one flaw i have about it and there's nothing that can be done about it, though. the flaw is that you live in a PAL region, i live in the US. because of this, i am never too sure of what's rare and what's not, because, rarity often depends (in n64 sake) on types of cartridges, and how they were received. Like "Clayfighters sculptor's cut" was only in block busters, and a rare game in only America was the Turok Rage Wars grey cartridge, it fixed a glitch in co-op, in pal regions, they were all grey.
generally if i don't mention regions when talking about a game it means its the same across regions like this one. if a game is rare in certain regions i do try to mention that. for example snowboard kids 2 NTSC is uncommon but in PAL its one of the rarest games as it was only released in australia and the rest of the pal region didn't get it. there are lots of weird and wonderful examples of this :)
I just got duke nukem 3d world tour on xbox one and im really enjoying it. Its my first duke nukem game i got it for 2 bucks. I guess the n64 one has the same levels right?
i had this game back in the day and i remember it used to irritate me so much,i think it was mainly down to getting lost in the dark maze like levels and finding myself going round in circles looking for keys,i think id probably get more enjoyment out of it today if i gave it another go.
those problems are still very apparent....when recording i also too got frustrated looking for some of the keys and the maze like levels :(
It's a shame this series got lousy & petered out.
It surely is.
Great game & love the 2 player co-op mode!! My Brother & I use to play this game on our N64 on 2 player co-op & we bust some shit up!! Those were the good old days!! LOL
I played this game, so intensely, I don't know recall if it had a save needed a memory card because I remember always having to restart and never having one. But this game was fun, but also got me mad.
Have you ever played Duke Nukem Zero Hour for the N64? I played it and found it very unique from other Duke games.
yeah i have it, id like to review it sometime soon
Oh man I miss the plasma rifle, it was so much fun.
Playing 3vs1 duke bot on damn I’m good was always fun. Always tripped me out when you would here “mmm mmm mmm, where is it?” That’s how you knew the duke boy was close 🤣