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Glorious return of the king! World Tour is a groovy game all around, the new episode Alien World Order is incredibly well done. Blum and Levelord are better than ever, these maps are what gaming is all about. Fun, immersive, like a playground to kill aliens in. Great variety from the famous city maps style to larger more elaborate ones like Egypt or a Greek Arena. Gunplay is fun as ever, doing the shotgun shimmy, the new Incinerator is fun too (if messy, leaves lava everywhere)! The new music by legend Lee Jackson is very cool by the way, has a John Carpenter vibe to it. Duke Match is great as ever, and the Workshop is starting to get going. Countless great user maps out there. On the remastering, I really dig the new renderer, the lighting adds a new sheen of quality (lighting done by Blum and Levelord), ambient occlusion is cool too. Framerate is butter smooth, Jon St. John's new Dukeisms are superb, some of the sounds like the pistol are a bit muffled but not distractingly so. In general this port looks great, plays great, could patch in a few more options, no complaints here. All around a great game here. Duke is back! New episode is the best thing going, every FPS dev should study these masters showing how it's done. Let's rock!

Incredible, best FPS action extravaganza in forever! Combat is fast and furious, the level design is fun with areas to explore, not just a linear straight line, plenty of jumping and fun complexity. Great weapons, great flavor, and the multiplayer is a cool bonus. And SnapMap! Here's hoping more FPS games learn from this and make fast-paced games with levels with plenty of jumps, twists and turns.

Best fighter in years! I'm enjoying it, lots of fun for couch versus. The feel is terrific, the characters in general have a great set of abilities, good buttons, nice back and forth flow. It feels a lot like Third Strike to me with a bit of Alpha and modern smoothness it. For me the versus mode is what SF has always been about, but it is fair to say the game won't be complete until they add the full story mode, patch a couple details etc. But for me, what we have here is a incredible game. Haven't had this much fun since the Dreamcast days!