In this mod of Duke Nukem 3D, Duke has a large variety of weapons and gadgets that upgrade as he uses them. As you progress through the game, you will encounter more powerful monsters to match your increased firepower. Based on the popular Duke Plus mod, War of Attrition incorporates many of the same features (including improved monster AI, bot allies, mirrored levels, damage effects, and more). Attrition also comes with over 100 high quality fan made levels and several game modes. Addictive with lots of replay value, Attrition showcases some of the best levels ever made for Duke 3D, adding new gameplay but keeping the essence of the original game intact.
I can't believe this mod has a rating under 10, its incredible and really adds a simple effective system to Duke Nukem. I played through the arena-type missions and had a friggin' blast. Never has Duke Nukem or any game recently been that enjoyable. The installation is hassle free (unlike the other Duke Nukem mods) and runs efficiently well and smooth. I'll be playing this mod for months maybe even years to come.
10/10 easy...
The talented author, DeeperThought, worked hard and managed to produce a Mod that will ensure an insane replay value for the original Duke 3D levels as well as for the user-made levels. In this Mod, with different and better game mechanics, one can re-experience the original levels from 3DR as well as the user-made ones.
The Highscore Challenge allows the user to play virtually limitless or until the difficulty becomes too unbearable because, in this Mod, things do get tougher later on (but the player's weapons level up as well).
Even if at times it may seem very hard on the higher difficulties, you will always have something to help you out...be it a powerful and upgraded gadget, a similarly powerful weapon or weapons or even one of the precious nukes. I speak from experience since I managed to reach pretty high score numbers.
This Mod makes most of your gadgets much more useful as they are upgraded. This is a very wise move.
The War of Attrition gamemode consists of a series of arenas in which you have to defeat all enemy waves. Each wave must be tackled more or less in a different way as you storm through the arena trying to stock up on more gear. In this mode, Duke will be in possession of a potent radar that shows the location of the nearest enemy.
The Mod almost never crashed nor froze during my playthroughs.
All in all, the Mod provides an addicting and interesting experience and keeps you coming back for more and more onslaught.
THIS mod in my opinion surpass both duke plus and original duke 3d in all way, very entertainment and fun,vast variety of enemy and well perfect designed maps,latest version very stable, you come to point you can't stop playing,I recommend this one to all duke fan 10\10
If nothing else, this mod gives you the opportunity to play some very high quality user maps. Again and again (not to mention the original maps.) The leveling system combined with the large pool of maps, which if they appear more than once, appear in a different order, thereby forcing you to utilize different strategies based on your strengths and weaknesses each time you play them. Worth at least a few playthroughs.
Really fun and well-made mod.
i've played this mod for a couple of months now and i am really amazed by this mods features.
i love the weapon level ups the most gives a real drive to use the lesser weapons more and i even use the freeze thrower more as it has a significant role in dukes arsenal.
the only problem i found in this mod is that the levels are flipped...not much of a problem until you have to read messages that are also been reversed but still its a little problem that can easily over looked.
the original 4 missions are playable and this mod adds 2 more mission packs full of exciting levels which oddly start you off with nothing but a pistol.
anyway this mod deserves a perfect score and will get one from me
This is the ultimate rogue-like/lite for Duke fans or just old-school shooter fans in general. Some people play time waster games on their phones, I do this.
Creative, fun gameplay and great replay value.
I really enjoy the upgrade and level system, it implements a better sense of progress into the original levels, it really changes the way you play them.
However, things can get a bit chaotic at later levels, around level 17. A great percentage of the monsters will become mini-bosses, that Blue Newbeast or Dukebots, and whenever you encounter enemies, you can expect a mess of **** happening at the same time, specially if you've purchased the "slain enemies become allies" perk. It just becomes a huge mess of shots everywhere, but I actually somewhat enjoy it, as it makes the game much more satisfying to play, imo.
Either way, it's a great mod.
Super Mod!