A "Bulletstorm" relaunch was announced during The Game Awards called "Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition." The biggest surprise was the appearance of "Duke Nukem" as a playable character.
"Bulletstorm" was released in 2011 and was developed for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. The sci-fi shooting game was one of EA's most promising game during its time, however, the game became a victim of bad publicity. "The increase in rapes can be attributed in large part to the playing out of [sexual] scenes in video games," as reported by FOX news and was later debunked by John Walker from RockPaperShotgun by analyzing all the sources of the allegations by FOX but the damage has been done and the sales of "Bulletstorm" already plummeted. "Games may cause violent people to be more violent, or the may cause violent people to be less violent." And we certainly don't have enough evidence to be drawing conclusions about sexual violence, according to the article.
"Duke Nukem" on the other hand is another story. "Duke Nukem" is one of the original bad boys of video games. "Duke Nukem" is comprised of four games for the main series, another four for the spin-offs and seven portable games. It was in 1998 when "Duke Nukem: Time to Kill" was released for the original PlayStation that the character's true bad boy personality was expressed. Duke Nukem has its share of success until the release of the much anticipated "Duke Nukem Forever" which was highly criticized due to the game's outdated and aging design, the game was dubbed as a very big disappointment by most critics.
Guns, violence, attitude and lots of gore is a fair description of "Duke Nukem" in "Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition." Gearbox's decision to put one of the Badass protagonists in one of their badass games could either be a very good move or a very bad one, who knows, two negatives still equals to positive.
