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There is an aspect of Duke Nukem Forever that the media seems not to be picking up on, and that is it's dedication to many of the classic FPS standards that have been completely abandoned in recent years. There was a time when shooters just played faster, when to stop moving for a second was to spend the subsequent second staring at a respawn screen, when a zoom mode meant your screen actually zoomed rather than being filled with a bulky sight, when you could get a clean headshot kill with a pistol from clear across the level while moving at full speed. Most console FPS players today cut their teeth on games like Halo and Call of Duty, so I can understand why the relevance of the former pillars of the genre's design is lost on them. But I just don't think the overall relevance of Duke Nukem Forever, a game whose foundation seems to have been built with these pillars in the center, would suffer for it. If anything, it should be more relevant for having veered from the overwhelmingly popular style of play that has permeated all subgenres of FPS gaming in favor of the less popular classic style that suits it best.
I understand that the vast majority of people playing shooters today love the way they play, and couldn't imagine playing them in any other fashion. But there are a lot of us out there that lament the death of the classic style shooter, and have been waiting patiently for years for anything to attach our hopes to. Timeplitters 4 was the last great hope, and an entire community took a near terminal blow when it met a grizzly Haze based death. This new Duke Nukem doesn't need to be relevant to be relevant to us, all I needed to see was the fact that you can move and shoot without being penalized for it in the form of decreased accuracy and I was on board. This may mean the impact of it's failure would be amplified a bit, but I just can't keep staring down the same goddamn red dot sight in every game and continue to have fun."
If you really want to play a game that is the lizard to cheating's Geico, I'd grab The Orange Box for the 360. You can cheatslap Half-Life 2 until your'e sufficiently satisfied, then turn to Portal and run its amazing physics through the wringer. Boot up the "place portals anywhere" code and understand why PC gamers have more fun."