CuteFloor | Duke Nukem Forever 2001 Prototype @CuteFloor | Uploaded May 2022 | Updated October 2024, 6 days ago.
Duke Nukem Forever is an infamous first-person shooter originally developed by 3D Realms, which spent well over a decade in development hell. Even though they began just a few months after the release of Duke Nukem 3D in 1996, it left behind a lively history before it got finished by another company, Gearbox Software, in 2011. The final game itself, ... well, it had no chance to meet expectations. Most people would have preferred to play the version they saw in the 2001 trailer.
On May 8, 2022, never-before seen screenshots and video clips of the 2001 version got posted on 4chan's board, announcing to leak the actual files in June. However, they were published on the very next day instead. They include the assets, full source code, the game editor and binaries for two builds, August 21 and October 26, 2001.
00:00 Intro
01:21 The Lady Killer
05:09 Lost Wages
07:15 Leaving Las Vegas
08:35 The Slick Willy
12:05 Stratosfear
15:48 This is not a boating accident!
17:03 Power Struggle
18:02 Countdown to Destruction
18:46 Born to be Wild
20:14 Heat Wave
22:34 Ghost Town
24:32 Ground Zero
30:46 Deja Vu
33:18 Rescue Mission
36:34 Operation Shutdown
41:55 Moon Patrol
42:53 Mother Ship
44:23 Extra Clips
53:45 Character Zoo
55:11 Credits
As the prototype reveals, much of the gameplay the 2001 trailer presented was staged. The game as a whole is very incomplete. Basically, you can roughly play through the chapters "The Lady Killer" to "Countdown to Destruction". The following chapters are barely playable and transitions between most maps don't work. Going further, in "Rescue Mission", "Operation Shutdown", "Moon Patrol" and "Mother Ship", you find yourself in a bunch of empty rooms. As you may notice, the chapter "Deja Vu" resembles the very first map of Duke Nukem 3D, Hollywood Holocaust.
The prototype comes with a completely different menu than the final game. In the prototype, you may freely change the color of its appearance and even change the background image. It comes with several background images ranging from color variations of the default one, gag images, a screenshot of the game Bad Dudes vs. Dragonninja, as well as several images of attractive women from the late 90s. Some backgrounds are not safe for work and would probably have been removed before release.
Duke Nukem Forever is an infamous first-person shooter originally developed by 3D Realms, which spent well over a decade in development hell. Even though they began just a few months after the release of Duke Nukem 3D in 1996, it left behind a lively history before it got finished by another company, Gearbox Software, in 2011. The final game itself, ... well, it had no chance to meet expectations. Most people would have preferred to play the version they saw in the 2001 trailer.
On May 8, 2022, never-before seen screenshots and video clips of the 2001 version got posted on 4chan's board, announcing to leak the actual files in June. However, they were published on the very next day instead. They include the assets, full source code, the game editor and binaries for two builds, August 21 and October 26, 2001.
00:00 Intro
01:21 The Lady Killer
05:09 Lost Wages
07:15 Leaving Las Vegas
08:35 The Slick Willy
12:05 Stratosfear
15:48 This is not a boating accident!
17:03 Power Struggle
18:02 Countdown to Destruction
18:46 Born to be Wild
20:14 Heat Wave
22:34 Ghost Town
24:32 Ground Zero
30:46 Deja Vu
33:18 Rescue Mission
36:34 Operation Shutdown
41:55 Moon Patrol
42:53 Mother Ship
44:23 Extra Clips
53:45 Character Zoo
55:11 Credits
As the prototype reveals, much of the gameplay the 2001 trailer presented was staged. The game as a whole is very incomplete. Basically, you can roughly play through the chapters "The Lady Killer" to "Countdown to Destruction". The following chapters are barely playable and transitions between most maps don't work. Going further, in "Rescue Mission", "Operation Shutdown", "Moon Patrol" and "Mother Ship", you find yourself in a bunch of empty rooms. As you may notice, the chapter "Deja Vu" resembles the very first map of Duke Nukem 3D, Hollywood Holocaust.
The prototype comes with a completely different menu than the final game. In the prototype, you may freely change the color of its appearance and even change the background image. It comes with several background images ranging from color variations of the default one, gag images, a screenshot of the game Bad Dudes vs. Dragonninja, as well as several images of attractive women from the late 90s. Some backgrounds are not safe for work and would probably have been removed before release.
