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Naturally, it's just another day at the office for Duke, who deals out lead from a third-person perspective through 12 long levels. While Duke Nukem: Time To Kill could've delivered better graphics and controls, it's all about action, baby, and Duke won't let you down.Īfter suffering various defeats in the PC games, the aliens want Duke eliminated for good, so they're traveling through time to the Old West, medieval Europe, and ancient Rome to take out his ancestors and prevent Duke's birth. One of PC gaming's superstars marches onto the PlayStation with the same brash attitude and gore laden mayhem that earned him his fame. For more info on Duke Nukem: Time to Kill be sure to check on (for their Designer Diaries. It is not yet known whether or not this mode will have Al bot characters though. What Duke game would be complete without a multiplayer mode? None, which is why Time to Kill features a Two-player Split-screen Mode. This transparency effect also occurs when you go into "Look Mode." By holding down Ri you can aim anywhere on the screen with the help of a little red pixel and blow away your enemies from a distance. The camera in Time to Kill is pretty smart and when the camera goes behind Duke obstructing your field of view, Duke becomes semi-transparent. So are you worried about weird camera problems inherent in 3D action games of this kind? You shouldn't be.

On top of this, he can wade and roll and sidestep-the list goes on and on. Instead of just being able to jump around and crouch like in the first-person Duke, he can now do running dives from platforms and grab on to ledges just before he falls to his doom. Thanks to the various time periods, Duke has easily more than a dozen different kinds of weapons to blow away alien scum with.īesides weapons, Duke has a whole array of new moves similar to those in Tomb Raider. For example, Pig Cops wear armor in the Medieval period while Duke uses a crossbow. While in different time periods (the Old West, Ancient Rome and Medieval, among others) Duke and his friends, enemies and weapons all fit the era.

Dyke puts it, "prevent Duke from kicking their asses." Since Duke can't have this, he jumps through time right along with them.

The story behind Time to Kill starts around the same time as the alien bastards from previous Duke games decide to travel back in time to, as n-Space President Erick S. But we should also mention the team working on Time to Kill believes the similarities to Tomb Raider are only on the outside, and from what we've played so far we have to agree. In fact, the project name is Duke Raider, which pretty much sums the game up in two words. It's more like Tomb Raider with a very Duke Nukem style about it. The first thing we should mention is this version of Duke Nukem isn't a first-person shooter.