On January 29th, 1996, 3D Realms released the shareware version of its classic first-person shooter, Duke Nukem 3D. Duke Nukem 3D is one of the best shooters released, featuring some clever one-liners that were voiced by Jon St. John. And in order to celebrate Duke’s 22nd birthday, we are presenting you some of its greatest mods.
First things first, Duke Nukem fans should download EDuke32. EDuke32 is an awesome free homebrew game engine and source port of Duke Nukem 3D that fixes an insane amount of programming errors, allows players to choose between two different hardware accelerated OpenGL renderers, supports high resolutions and adds tons of optional new features that make the player’s life easier including modern status display/HUD, support for loading mods from the startup window, and modern, WSAD-based controls with thoroughly reworked mouse aiming.
The second must-have mod is the High Resolution Pack. This pack works with EDuke32 and features 32-bit high resolution textures with (at least) 4x the detail of the original textures, polymer renderer for EDuke32 offering advanced effects like normal/specular mapping, complex lighting system and more. In addition, the Duke Nukem 3D High Resolution Pack can replace the enemy sprites with new/custom 3D models.
Those wishing to replay Duke Nukem 3D’s campaign can also use the Duke Nukem: Weapon of Mass Destruction mod. Duke Nukem: Weapon of Mass Destruction is a gameplay mod that features tons of new weapon modes, enemies, and player abilities, such as UT style dodge moves, spinning hook kicks, and a Duke bot companion who fights by your side. In some levels you can even get in your skycar and fly it, doing bombing runs on enemies. In this mod, Duke collects glowing coins from slain enemies which are used to purchase various upgrades via a mouse controlled menu. In addition, each of Duke’s weapons has its own experience level which increases with use.
The fourth mod we recommend is the Duke Nukem 64 mod. As its title suggests, this mod aims to bring all the stuff that were present in the Nintendo64 version of Duke Nukem 3D to the PC version. This is a similar project to Doom 64 and we believe that some players will find it interesting.
The fifth mod is a project that aimed to bring the world of Doom to the Duke Nukem 3D engine. Hellduke! TC is a Doom based total conversion which allows many features to player such as environment changes, new art, new levels, new music and many more. While this project was never finished, PC gamers can download a version that features two episodes.
Of course we do have to mention the Duke Nukem Forever 2013 mod for it. As its title suggests, this mod recreates everything that was shown in Duke Nukem Forever’s 2011 trailer in Duke Nukem 3D. It’s an amazing mod, so be sure to download it.
Duke Forces is another cool mod for Duke Nukem 3D. This modification inspired by the Star Wars Dark Forces series and automatically converts weapons, enemies, textures, sprites, music and pretty much everything into Star Wars content.
PC gamers can also check out Duke Nukem Eternity. This mod aims to deliver a more modern looking experience from a very advanced an updated version of the BUILD engine. Duke Nukem Eternity features new real-time lighting techniques, as well as true 3D geometry.
Fusion Redux is also a cool mod for Duke Nukem 3D. This mod mixes weapons, enemies, art and level concepts from diverse FPS games, including Half-Life, Unreal, Quake I and II, and Blood. It looks absolutely retro-gorgeous, so be sure to download it.
Last but not least, you can give a go at Duke Hard and Metropolitan Mayhem. Duke Hard adds 17 maps and is inspired by the Die Hard movies, whereas Metropolitan Mayhem adds 15 maps and it’s themetically very close to the original first and third episodes (LA Meltdown & Shrapnel City) of Duke Nukem 3D, concentrating almost exclusively on classic urban-themed maps.
Have fun!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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Great Article ! Keep them coming.
Definitely worth checking into….Time to relive this old school CLASSIC FPS, which gave birth to this genre.
“HAIL to the King, baby” !
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He missed some good mods check my post
One question though:
Can we MIX/match these MODs, and simultaneously use 2-3 mods at the same time, or we need to use each of them separately ?
Any compatibility issues ? I’m still going through all the links, so haven’t checked the faq either.
no.
Okay, thanks.
This game is just simply Politically Incorrect fun.
Highly recommended to anyone who hasn’t played it.
No one has the balls to make a game like this anymore.
Don’t worry, Gearbox updated it for the bazinga age:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/438a7ffa79e7a68c36274de7c3011df74b279a8d4e36548ab805efecde1b36d4.jpg
JESUS, how did i miss that?
Not when gearbox owns the rights.
Trump would!
“Trump Dump’em”!!!
“In a world, where third-world drought is ended by the volume of leftist tears…”
there is a trump game on steam trump vs mafia.
Damn… Thought I got there first.
I would buy this game.
The kind of game guaranteed to have the po-faced miserable Leftists over at Polygon, Kotaku and PC Gamer frothing. Wonderful.
These people attacked gog twitter for posting a pc master race meme and attacked razer for posting a ugandan knuckles meme, sjws are a cancer and must be destroyed, they are policing memes i repeat THEY POLICE MEMES.
They run so far away from their parents that they became them
It shouldn’t be of any surprise that SJWs behave in such a way. Remember that the so-called ‘Social Justice’ cause is essentially the latest strain and/or expression of Marxism. Communism, socialism, social justice… they’re all peas from the same pod. It’s all ultimately about totalitarianism.
so you say yuri was right? The soviet union fell from falsification of bias and chernobyl, i dont know what our chernobyl will be be but the falsification of bias is coming, look at Grammys blatant propaganda lowest ratings rates ever.
“i dont know what our chernobyl will be”
If Bernie Sanders becomes the next POTUS.
No….
The ONE PUHCENT is the American equivalent of Chernobyl!
You know, all of those evil, evil criminal masterminds that make billions and billions of dol….
Wait – nevermind. Apparently you don’t even have to make $400K a year to be in “THE ONE PUHCENT”
so you say the 1% arent millionaires?
Millionaires certainly fall under the one percent, but the one percent does not consist solely of millionaires and billionaires, but also people who make $380,000 per year who get taxed 55% or more, leaving less than $180,000 in net income for such a person. You can attempt to argue that making that much money or more is criminal, but it’s hardly rational to criminalize someone or a group of people based solely upon the amount of money they earn.
Well, i believe that Bernie would fare better than any dnc/gop candidate because they are all dishonest warmongering shills. Ron Paul is great ofcourse.
Bernie’s a Socialist.
Hmm… It seems Nancy Pelosi DID know what our Chernobyl would be:
**Trump’s tax plan**
“Absolute Armageddon” she said….
Not sure if she’s right or not, but I do know that personally, my world hasn’t ended, all of my stock investments have seen positive growth, and my company even gave me a $1000 bonus in commemoration of the tax cuts. Maybe we’re all ignorant of what the definition of Armageddon is and Nancy Botoxi was right all along.
I’d love a true sequel to Duke 3D where he has aged 25 years, is a grizzled old soldier in his 50s, has a gut and doesn’t understand the modern age. Kind of like Ash in the new Ash vs Evil Dead show. He’s still politically incorrect but would comment on it. Like an old hero’s last hurrah.
I’d see an aged Duke more like the aged Ash from Evil Dead than Logan. Not serious at all. Duke never changes.
Duke Forces is definitely one of my favorite all time mods. Thumbs up from me for this article!
DUDE YOU FORGOT AMC TC THE MOST MASSIVE MOD EVER MADE. Its made by one of the devs of fusion redux, but that mod has a ton of diffirent moders in it, including the guy who made imagination world WG realms, those are massive mods how can you ignore them?
The most massive mod i have ever seen i am more excited for episode 3 than any other game outhere.
SAME doesnt it piss you off how few people know about this? Ill pester john to cover it when the last episode is out.