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Developers: Sunstorm Interactive
3D Realms
Publisher: ARUSH Entertainment
Engine: Prism3D
Platform: Microsoft Windows
Release date: May 21, 2002
Genres: Run and gun; side-scrolling platformer
On this day in gaming, in 2002, Duke Nukem Manhattan Project was released.
It was a spin-off of the main series and featured a side-scrolling platform style of play similar to the first two Duke Nukem games, Duke Nukem and Duke Nukem II, except it was chiefly in 3D. It was from this game that Duke Nukem Forever borrowed the idea of the EGO concept. If Duke killed enemies he received more EGO, and if he was damaged he lost EGO. DNF's golden pistol, a 45. Colt, was also an idea taken from this game, although DN: Manhattan Project featured a Desert
Eagle.
The Pig Cops, pipe bombs, and the Mighty Boot from Duke Nukem 3D made appearances too.
At the end, during the credits it states, “See Duke Next in Duke Nukem Forever”.
In fact, many have thought that this game was the game once known as Duke Nukem Forever, a side scroller first announced in 1996, but later cancelled, and the title, recycled for what we now know as Duke Nukem Forever, an unreleased FPS stuck in development hell. This rumour was denied though.
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