The canceled Duke Nukem Begins reappears in video 13 years later: this was the Gearbox game

The video shows their action in third person with cooperative for four players.

Thirteen years after we had news of Duke Nukem Begins, a concept trailer has come to light that shows this canceled project from Gearbox , the authors of the Borderlands series or the longed-for Brothers in Arms, who could not finish their work due to disputes. between Take Two and 3D Realms , the company responsible at the time for bringing the memorable Duke Nukem 3D to life .

This video game was intended to narrate the origins of Duke by including cooperative multiplayer in the formula, as shown in this concept video by Janimation , a study dedicated to creating this kind of content to show the essence of the game that you want to design. This Duke Nukem Begins trailer was directed by Gregor Punchatz , who once worked as a modeler on the mythical DOOM or Rise of the Triad.

Punchatz had already shown some images of this video in 2019, but it has not been until now that they have allowed us to see the work done by his team. “Because it’s still a piece I’m fucking proud of, I’m showing it 13 years after it was created,” said Punchatz. “All the team that worked on it deserves to see it made public. I hope that in some way, this demonstration shows the world how incredible it could have been,” he concludes.

With a bet on the third person , instead of the traditional subjective view, this video shows Duke taking down his enemies in very different ways, either using two shotguns, freezing them, or even ripping off an arm to hit them with it. There are other very frantic scenes aboard a vehicle from which Duke shoots flying enemies, and already in the final section of the video, we can see that cooperative for four players in action.