Apparently at some point Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, the Australian maniac behind the excellent Zero Punctuation reviews, was approached to write a script for Duke Nukem Forever when it was still with 3D Realms.
He had the idea of the game taking the piss a bit more, where Duke is essentially a more obvious 90's action hero parody with some much needed irony. Sadly 3D Realms wasn't too keen on this idea and turned him into the misogynistic idiot the game desperately tries to pass off as genuine.
All we can do now is imagine how amazing a Yahtzee penned Duke Nukem game could have been. And hope someone finds the audition script.
You can read the rest of the story on escapistmagazine.com. For some reason I can't post links.
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