This game is not a good boomer shooter throwback.
It is also not a good shooter from the cover shooter era.
It is also not a very pissing-around simulator, as much as it really wants to be.
It is not good at anything, honestly.
Duke Nukem Forever, as released, is like if a team of developers tried to make an HD remake of a game that was never finished in a mad rush for no reason. It is a genuinely miserable experience, even for the purposes of making fun of it. And, worst of all, a cutscene in "The Duke Dome" consistently trapped me in a wall of construction assets. I physically could not keep playing this game.

Fucking abysmal.