Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PmX1rulPqw

Textual summary:
First thing first - it's VERY obvious this game was re-branded after the 2011 court case where they no longer had the duke Nukem license, so Shelly was born and with her BombShell. 3d Realms isn't the one that died back in 2009, this is the new Danish studio.

The main "general", "main villain" and one lines totally are not the duke nukem ones. definitely not. (i beg ye, forgive the sarcasm). The game is a top down Aesthetics much like diablo 3, and tries to emulate the same feel and combat. Sadly for bombshell, it fails.

The Fighting is boring with very limited weapons that range from Bland to Expected (machine gun, mini-gun, shotgun, rocket launcher... you get the idea) and all of this is dukes , er.. shellies special prosthetic arm that is also an AI and turns in to a turret, because the arm is alien tech. the duke nukem cheese story really doesn't hold up in this title, with painfully repetitive one lines and even more painfully bad dialogue & story progression.

The combat is bland, sure shooting and executing enemies is great fun, but sadly the half dozen executions of an equally small number of enemies do bring you to sleep a few hours in.... and the first boss is about 4 hours in. This means digging though "okay-ish" and repetitive mobs to the first actually challenging fight. While you CAN level your character, the customization is extremity limited boiling down to HP, Shield, Special power as well as a few weapon upgrades (damage + alt fire mode). Also the AI is dummer than a brick and bugs out quite handidly as well. with going non responsive, jumping of ledges and even shooting the wrong direction.


There are no actual drops in the game outside of money (used to upgrade your weapon) and ammo. which drops like candy on Halloween. And there is no physical customization in any way you can control.

As far as being like diablo, it's exactly that - except for all the things that make diabo fun.

Moving on to performance: the game does perform pretty well, with frame-rates in the high 80-90, except when the game decides to magically drop it down to 20 for no apparent reason.

Sound is probably the games best aspect and is pretty well done, but it doesn't make the rest of the game any better. If you're REALLY Desperate for a shooty-runny-action-adventure game... Get diablo or torchlight for better experience.

Outside of acceptable PC settings & performance, the game-play just doesn't deliver at all.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PmX1rulPqw Textual summary: First thing first - it's VERY obvious this game was re-branded after the 2011 court case where they no longer had the duke Nukem license, so Shelly was born and with her BombShell. 3d Realms isn't the one that died back in 2009, this is the new Danish studio. The main "general", "main villain" and one lines totally are not the duke nukem ones. definitely not. (i beg ye, forgive the sarcasm). The game is a top down Aesthetics much like diablo 3, and tries to emulate the same feel and combat. Sadly for bombshell, it fails. The Fighting is boring with very limited weapons that range from Bland to Expected (machine gun, mini-gun, shotgun, rocket launcher... you get the idea) and all of this is dukes , er.. shellies special prosthetic arm that is also an AI and turns in to a turret, because the arm is alien tech. the duke nukem cheese story really doesn't hold up in this title, with painfully repetitive one lines and even more painfully bad dialogue & story progression. The combat is bland, sure shooting and executing enemies is great fun, but sadly the half dozen executions of an equally small number of enemies do bring you to sleep a few hours in.... and the first boss is about 4 hours in. This means digging though "okay-ish" and repetitive mobs to the first actually challenging fight. While you CAN level your character, the customization is extremity limited boiling down to HP, Shield, Special power as well as a few weapon upgrades (damage + alt fire mode). Also the AI is dummer than a brick and bugs out quite handidly as well. with going non responsive, jumping of ledges and even shooting the wrong direction. There are no actual drops in the game outside of money (used to upgrade your weapon) and ammo. which drops like candy on Halloween. And there is no physical customization in any way you can control. As far as being like diablo, it's exactly that - except for all the things that make diabo fun. Moving on to performance: the game does perform pretty well, with frame-rates in the high 80-90, except when the game decides to magically drop it down to 20 for no apparent reason. Sound is probably the games best aspect and is pretty well done, but it doesn't make the rest of the game any better. If you're REALLY Desperate for a shooty-runny-action-adventure game... Get diablo or torchlight for better experience. Outside of acceptable PC settings & performance, the game-play just doesn't deliver at all.