When, three years later, 3D Realms released Duke Nukem 3D, a tongue-in-cheek science fiction shooter based on Ken Silverman's technologically similar Build engine, id Software had nearly finished Quake, its next-generation game, which mirrored Dooms success for the remainder of the 1990s and significantly reduced interest in its predecessor.

Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter computer game developed by 3D Realms and published by GT Interactive Software.

It is a sequel to the platform games Duke Nukem and Duke Nukem II published by Apogee.

Duke Nukem 3D features the adventures of the titular macho Duke Nukem ( voiced by Jon St. John ), who fights against an alien invasion on Earth.

Along with Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, Duke Nukem 3D is considered responsible for popularizing first-person shooters.

After fifteen years in development hell, a direct sequel was released called Duke Nukem Forever.

As a first-person shooter, the gameplay of Duke Nukem 3D involves moving through levels presented from the protagonist's point of view, shooting enemies on the way.

The environment of Duke Nukem 3D is highly destructible and interactive ; most props can be destroyed by the player.

Duke Nukem 3D features multiplayer.

Duke Nukem 3D did not support the TCP / IP client / server model, instead basing its network play on the IPX LAN, modem or serial cable.

Duke Nukem 3D players often either battled modem-to-modem, using the IPX network utility Kali or the Total Entertainment Network ( TEN ) online pay service.

Duke Nukem 3D has been ported to run on modern Microsoft Windows variants including Windows XP and Windows 7.

Duke Nukem 3D is set on Earth " sometime in the early 21st century ".

The levels of Duke Nukem 3D take the player outdoors and indoors through rendered street scenes, military bases, deserts, a flooded city, space stations, moon bases and a Japanese restaurant.

The introduction establishes that the game picks up right after the events of Duke Nukem II, with Duke returning to Earth in his space cruiser.

Various spin-offs and modifications to the original Duke Nukem 3D were produced in the following years of the game's initial launch.

* Plutonium PAK / Atomic Edition: The Atomic Edition of Duke Nukem 3D was released in November 1996, and contained the original 3 episode game as well as a new eleven-level fourth episode.

The Plutonium PAK was also released as an upgrade package to convert the original release of Duke Nukem 3D ( v1. 3d ) to the new Atomic Edition ( v1. 4, later patched to v1. 5 ).

The Total Entertainment Network featured hundreds of Duke 3D players online at any given time and players had to pay a monthly fee.

The last major game to make use of the Duke Nukem 3D source code was TNT Team's WWII GI in 1999.

Its programmer, Matthew Saettler, obtained permission from 3D Realms to expand the gameplay enhancements done on WWII GI to Duke Nukem 3D.

Wiederhold was later hired by 3D Realms to work on the sequel Duke Nukem Forever.

The add-on was unofficial but was included in an official compilation called Duke Nukem: Kill-A-Ton Collection through business deals with 3D Realms.

Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown ( titled simply Duke Nukem in Europe ), the PlayStation version, contains all three original episodes, plus a new one, Plug ' n ' Pray, which includes six extra levels and a secret level, the latter which was also included in the PC version.

Television roles included the recurring role of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk in five of the six episodes of The Six Wives of Henry VIII ( 1970 ), the villainous Nasca in Thames Television's Aztec-themed drama The Feathered Serpent ( 1976 – 78 ), a guest starring spot in the comedy series The Goodies in the episode " The Baddies ", as well as episodes of Paul Temple, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Doomwatch, The Persuaders !, A Family at War, Coronation Street, Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Colditz, Play for Today, Z-Cars, Special Branch, Sutherland's Law, The Sweeney, Jason King, Survivors, Crown Court, Angels, Warship, Van der Valk, Space: 1999, The Onedin Line, All Creatures Great and Small, Only When I Laugh ( Series 2, Total Episode # 9 ), Nanny, Minder, and the first episode of Inspector Morse in January 1987.

* Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown

His notable music compositions are used in titles such as Dungeon Keeper 2, Populous: The Beginning, Warhammer: Dark Omen, Wing Commander amiga version, Duke Nukem 3D Total Meltdown, and he has since had sound design credits in games such as the Develop Magazine Audio Accomplishment nominated Race Driver: GRID, Develop Magazine Best art and sound nominated Sudeki, Shox, Formula One, and Theme Park World-which won a BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards award in 2000 for ' best sound in a video game '.

* Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown-Duke Nukem

* Duke Caribbean: Life's A Beach: This is an authorized add-on developed by Sunstorm Interactive.

* Duke Nukem ( GT Interactive ) ( 1999 )

Focused on casual consumer games sold through mass-merchants like Target and Wal-Mart, WizardWorks was best known for publishing the Deer Hunter series of video games developed by Sunstorm Interactive but also made expansion packs for games like Doom and Duke Nukem 3D and developed / published other titles.

* Duke Assault: A further authorized add-on containing over 1500 levels for Duke Nukem 3D.

Total Annihilation ( 1997 ) was the first real-time strategy game to utilize true 3D units, terrain, and physics in both rendering and in gameplay.

For instance, the missiles in Total Annihilation travel in real-time in simulated 3D space, and they can miss their target by passing over or under it.

The creators of XTA, a mod for Total Annihilation independently developed the open source 3D graphics Spring game engine.

Also, the Total Annihilation 3D ( TA3D ) project was begun in the summer of 2006.

In February 2007, he began to make appearances for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, on Spike TV, siding with Team 3D as their cousin in their ongoing battle against The Latin American Xchange.

* Total Annihilation, and its unofficial 3D open-source variant Spring, both include plasma cannon in the place of most tank, infantry, ship and artillery guns.

The team wrestled as the Dudley Boyz until joining Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where due to WWE owning the rights to their names they became known as Brother Ray and Brother Devon of Team 3D ( named after their finishing move the Dudley Death Drop ).

On September 21, 2005, it was announced that Bubba and D-Von ( now under the names Brother Ray and Brother Devon, respectively ) had signed multi-year contracts with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( TNA ), as Team 3D.

When the player's army meets an enemy army, a 3D real-time tactical battle is started, which represents the other half of gameplay in Rome: Total War.

The televised programmes contained no reference to the origin of the software powering the 3D visuals, due to the BBC's rules against product placement ; however Rome: Total War makers The Creative Assembly were named in the credits of the show with a specific mention of them providing the game engine.

Under the previous percentage system, only Wolfenstein 3D ever received 100 % ( actually a 10 / 10 but converted to 100 % when printed in review score summaries in later issues ), while the next closest, 98 %, were given to Deus Ex, Falcon 4. 0, Half-Life, System Shock 2, Total Annihilation, and Unreal.

Although the former Dudleys attempted to fight WWE for ownership, they were unsuccessful before their debut in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( TNA ) and instead took the monikers of " Brother Ray " ( Bubba Ray ) and " Brother Devon " ( D-Von ), combining under the new name " Team 3D ".

* Total Eclipse ( 1988 video game ) is a video game released in 1988 and set in an Egyptian pyramid, using the early 3D graphics engine Freescape

On January 4, 2010, The Nasty Boys made an appearance on Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's television show, TNA Impact !, starting a feud with Team 3D.

On January 4, 2010, The Nasty Boys made an appearance on Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's television show, TNA Impact !, starting a feud with Team 3D.

On August 8, 2010, the team made an appearance at Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's ECW reunion show, Hardcore Justice, assaulting Team 3D and Joel Gertner after a match.

At least 3 companies sold Vérité boards: the Creative Labs 3D Blaster PCI, the Sierra Screamin ' 3D, the Canopus Total 3D, and the Intergraph Reactor ( later renamed Intense 3D 100 ).