They said "it couldn't be done". Some even said "it shouldn't be done". Cries of "Blasphemy" echoed through the empty halls of the Polymer wing of the Duke Community Institute.
Laughing into the face of indifference, Team Misfit, forged in adversity, embarked on a vision of what Hollywood Holocaust could have looked like if computers had more RAM and per-pixel lighting back in the mid 90's...A bold revision of what could have been. This is the result. Remastered with next-generation assets, new areas and featuring a cast of millions of polygons, HHR will thrill you, chill you and possibly even fulfill you.
It’s Hollywood Holocaust, but not as we know it.
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Hollywood Holocaust Rethinked
By Team Misfit
Laughing into the face of indifference, Team Misfit, forged in adversity, embarked on a vision of what Hollywood Holocaust could have looked like if computers had more RAM and per-pixel lighting back in the mid 90's...A bold revision of what could have been. This is the result. Remastered with next-generation assets, new areas and featuring a cast of millions of polygons, HHR will thrill you, chill you and possibly even fulfil you. It’s Hollywood Holocaust, but not as we know it.
Submachine
By Ledsbourne
Duke is visiting a brand new Earth Defence Forces facility that is still partly under construction. The main focus of this massive structure is harvesting, processing and research of green crystals used in shrinker (which are called Terratin crystals) and their unique capabilities. Being the world's most reknowned expert on shrinker usage, Duke is to inspect the laboratories and mines... However, as he is about to descent, a strange explosion happens - indicating that he will have some more serious job to do here!
Betting On Duke
Duke Nukem 3D first hit the world stage on January 29th 1996, and took on an unenviable task - trying to be a notable, stand-out FPS in the era of DOOM, Blood, other 2.5D shooters and, later that same year, Quake. All these years later, it remains one of Duke's best outings and whilst new games since have not had the same impact, we've gotten a better glimpse in that time at what Duke Nukem is, what it could be, and particularly last year, what it could have been.
Duke Nukem's irreverent humour helped him make a huge splash in the FPS personality field
Forever Chewing Bubbles
Fans have already been doing remarkable work with the released build of Duke Nukem Forever dating back to 2001, and other Duke Nukem titles like Endangered Species or DN3D: Reloaded have also been in the minds of modders and may yield similarly impressive restoration efforts as time goes on. One thing remains certain - even after all these years, we can still bet on Duke.
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Full Version 6 commentsHollywood Holocaust is a proof-of-concept level to see how far you can push EDuke32 to make a more modern version of the classic Duke Nukem 3D game level...
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Sorry it took so long but here is a link to some more maps I made for this HHR.
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why did you reduce the number of levels in chapter 1? will chapters 2 and 3 be revealed
It was meant originally as a technology demonstrator. Later we decided to add more content to give it additional interest. There was no plan to do any more episodes.
Since then, Mark, the mapper, has done a version of the second level.
You can find it here: Forums.duke4.net
Reaction from the fan community was not positive so no further plans exist to extend the project.
The mod was made with the Polymer renderer in EDuke32. The renderer was never finished or optimised and thus the mod suffers from a variety of performance and presentation issues.
At the time we were under the impression that we could not use either Unreal or Unity due to copyright concerns. This was later revealed to not be an issue.
We decided not to go forward with the rest of the first episode, though our mapper, Mark, did do a version of Red Light District, which is available from Duke4.net: Forums.duke4.net
It's "rethought" not "rethinked"
Normally yes, here, no.
When I try to run the version of eDuke provided by the download, I am told that "this app can't run on your PC." I use Windows 8.1 and eDuke otherwise works fine.
Thats odd. No one else has reported that issue. Have you run eduke32 levels before using the OpenGL "Polymer" renderer that eduke32 is using? If you could post the full text of your eduke32.log file it might help me figure out your problem. Also, some people have other Duke Nukem games and mods including Steam, World tour, DukePlus etc... Do not install this HHR project folder inside any of them. Make sure it is a completely standalone folder.
Yeah it's a standalone folder. I fixed it though: I run a 32-bit system, so I simply copied the latest eDuke exe for 32-bit over to the HHR folder and it works just fine. Thanks for replying and thanks even more for HHR.
Thank you!