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Duke Nukem Forever Duke's Fully Loaded Package

PC
Duke Nukem Forever Duke's Fully Loaded Package
EVGA6/14/2011

Twelve years of development hell, and they gave it a graphics card. The Duke Nukem Forever Duke's Fully Loaded Package for PC is one of the most gloriously excessive collector's editions ever conceived, centered around a limited edition EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Duke Nukem graphics card. Yes, a branded GPU.

Alongside the card, you get the full version of the game, "The History, Legacy and Legend of Duke Nukem Forever" art book, a limited edition mousepad, and a custom Duke Nukem "Radioactive" belt buckle. The belt buckle alone belongs in a museum of gaming hubris, a wearable tribute to the King that took over a decade to show up. The art book chronicles one of the industry's most infamous development sagas, turning a running joke into a coffee table artifact.

And that graphics card, even though it's long since been surpassed technologically, is a piece of PC hardware history with Duke's face on it. There is nothing subtle about this package, and that's entirely the point. Duke Nukem Forever was never going to win Game of the Year, but the Fully Loaded Package captured the absurd, self-aware bravado that made Duke a legend in the first place.