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Duke Nukem: Land of the Babes for PlayStation 1
Duke Nukem: Land of the Babes for PlayStation 1 sends Duke to a devastated future where alien occupiers control Earth. The women of the Unified Babe Resistance summon him with a time machine. You follow Duke from behind through bases, flooded buildings and guarded installations. Along the way you shoot Pig Cops and mutated apes, find passages and help prisoners escape. The exaggerated hero, crude jokes and violent encounters set the tone of this action game.
The objectives demand more than eliminating every enemy. You restore power, move objects, swim through tunnels and climb ladders or continue hanging from ledges. A laser weapon, shotgun or grenade launcher gives each encounter a different range. The Stealth Generator sends captive women to safety; hitting an enemy instead makes that target almost invisible. Training lets you practise movement and shooting. Finding secret places and special objects can unlock extra cheats and blooper videos.
You play the campaign alone; DukeMatch lets two people fight each other on a split screen. Connect two controllers to the same console, without a Multitap or Link Cable. A standard digital controller works, while DualShock adds optional analogue control and vibration. You can save at the end of a completed level, using one free block on a PlayStation memory card in slot 1. You therefore cannot save any chosen moment midway through a mission. Settings are saved together with progress.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 1 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Duke Nukem: Land of the Babes for PlayStation 1 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Duke Nukem: Land of the Babes
n-Space made Duke Nukem: Land of the Babes as a sequel to its PlayStation game Time to Kill. It appeared in 2000, having previously been announced as Planet of the Babes. That earlier title consequently still appears in previews and the original press release. The finished game retained the third-person view, Duke's offhand comments and the combination of shooting and exploration. It became a new adventure for PlayStation, not an adaptation of Duke Nukem 3D on PC.
The developers used the future setting for objectives with clear intermediate steps. Their own walkthrough describes restoring a generator, using a mirror with a laser beam and reaching another room through flooded corridors. The environment is therefore more than scenery for a gunfight. The story links the resistance fighters, their time machine and the enemy Silverback to that route. Scenes between events show why Duke must reach the next location and whom he is trying to help.
Publicity also emphasised new weapons, training and the Ego meter that fits Duke's personality. The arsenal gained, among other things, a torpedo launcher for underwater combat and a sniper rifle. Hidden objects unlock bloopers, letting the game poke fun at its own action-hero story. Land of the Babes thus follows Time to Kill, but replaces the tour of historical eras with a connected rescue mission in an occupied future. The PC entries follow a different gameplay structure.
Similar games for PlayStation 1
Duke Nukem: Time to Kill for PlayStation 1 uses the same visible hero, alien enemies and mixture of shooting and working out routes. There you travel through places including the Wild West and ancient Rome, with weapons matching an era. Land of the Babes builds a rescue story in the future and gives you equipment such as the Stealth Generator to send prisoners away. Both have separate competitive battles for two people on a split screen.
Tomb Raider for PlayStation 1, like Land of the Babes, asks you to climb ledges, swim through water and find a switch in the right place. Lara explores ancient tombs for the pieces of the Scion. Duke travels through an occupied future, with more gunfights and explicit rescue objectives along the way. They share the need to read a three-dimensional route; their atmosphere differs through Duke's crude humour, strange weapons and alien opponents.
Apocalypse for PlayStation 1 combines futuristic gunfights with jumping and a hero who regularly comments on events. You control Trey Kincaid there and can aim independently of movement. Land of the Babes follows Duke more closely from behind and more often asks you to climb, swim or operate equipment to complete an objective. Both have plenty of action, but Duke interrupts it more often to find a passage, free a prisoner or solve an environmental puzzle.
Fighting Force 2 for PlayStation 1 shares the behind-the-hero perspective and the exploration of guarded buildings. Hawk Manson alternates shooting with punches and kicks on a mission against cloning experiments. Duke places more emphasis on alien weapons, watery areas and exaggerated jokes. Both reward investigating a room before moving on. Fighting Force 2 remains a single-player adventure; Land of the Babes also has DukeMatch for two opponents on the same console.
Doom for PlayStation 1 shares heavy weapons, secret rooms and enemies that are not ordinary humans. Its view comes through the marine's eyes, without the climbing and swimming routes around a visible character. Land of the Babes links its battles to rescue objectives and short story scenes. Multiplayer also differs: DukeMatch divides one screen between two opponents, whereas Doom needs two consoles connected by Link Cable. That Doom setup can also provide cooperation; Duke's campaign is played alone.
