The Redner Group, apparently responsible for ‘PR’ for Duke Nukem Forever (although not in Europe) has hit out at reviewers for their Duke Nukem scores over Twitter.
The Tweet, which has since been deleted, said “too many went too far with their reviews” and that the company is “reviewing who gets games next time and who doesn’t.” A pretty nasty tactic.
There’s been an apology since. “I have to apologize to the community,” it said. “I acted out of pure emotion. I will be sending each of you a private apology.”
Duke’s publisher, 2K Games, had nothing to do with this whole thing, according to later tweets from the same firm.
TheSixthAxis scored the game 5/10.
Via GAF.
DrNate86
While it is clearly a bad game, I would agree that some reviews have fallen too far on the side of extremism. Reviews scoring it 0 or 1 out of 10 aren’t really reviewing, they are making a point.
skibadee
try it for yourself mate it is still a fun game.
DrNate86
I’ll definitely grab it sometime down the line, but not until it is sat in a bargin bin somewhere. Just like Naughty Bear!
gazzagb
The Metacritic score speaks for itself really. The game’s **** so there’s not much the PR company can do about it.
cc_star
Interestingly on Metacritic it’s scoring ~57 on PC & PS3, but 48 on X360… presumably the terrible technical issues (as mentioned on Digital Foundry) the game suffers from, on top of the game being crap is weighing the scoring further down.
Although I find it weird how a game described uniformally crap is still scoring about 5 or above, Gaming websites just find it difficult to score lower than 6 with 1’s, 2’s & 3’s a total rarity, which is totally opposite to movie reviews on Metacritic where reviewers tend to use the whole scale
Deathbrin
Is there a side-effect when a game based on a movie scores more than the actual movie?
KeRaSh
The side-effect to that penomenon would be a rift in the space time continuum that throws us into a parallel universe in the 1980s without video games being invented…
KeRaSh
I’m going to pick up the Duke from the bargain bin somewhere down the line. It’s kind of like Serious Sam. The games are nothing special but it’s fun to play for a while or with a few friends.
Deathbrin
lol Like they’d want more similar games for review. Good riddance?
Smallville2106
Can’t believe he actually tweeted it. We all know this kind of thing goes on but to tweet about it!!?? lmao
Sad Panda
Seems like hating this game is the cool thing to do now.
While it’s certainly no Half Life 2 I’ve found it far more enjoyable than the standard generic FPS that we get on average 3-4 per year. The multiplayer done in the classic style, where everyone has access to the same weapons, regardless of if it’s your first game or if you’ve no life and play 24 hours a day, is a breath of fresh air.
14 years of hype has not helped the game, but for me it’s a blast from the past, back to my teens and I’m loving it.
Radiitz
I agree with them. Duke got poorly rated just because it was a nostalgic trip to the past, and because it wasn’t “modern enough”. Yet games like COD for example get heavily praised, yet they’re not running on modern tech.
What, did these big reviewer sites actually expect Duke to be mind-blowing and awesome? Of course not. Not to the current gen.
mr187uk
After the reviews for this game and wanting to play it for sometime, I think I will just be renting the game and not buying. :-(
Foxhound_Solid
Never stood a chance really. Shame.