Because it hearkens back to early 90s when big buff white guys with sunglasses who spat out one-liners was cool.

Yeah that's what I wanted to say but I had trouble thinking of the right words because my intelligence department is out bangin chicks

Last Saturday we had our annual company Christmas party. It was a lot of fun as usual but it featured one special surprise. It turns out that several people had been secretly working late nights and into the wee hours of the morning preparing a special video for those at the party. They created a short teaser for Duke Nukem Forever.

After seeing the teaser we thought it was something we should share with all of you and while it's just a teaser, rest assured more is coming.

Tomorrow, Wednesday the 19th, around noon CST, we will release the first teaser trailer from Duke Nukem Forever. To tide you over until then, there has been a screen shot taken from the teaser and posted in our forums. Check it out here.

Thank you for being fans of the game and for your continued patience.

We'd like to thank the people on the team that worked so hard to create this teaser and the friends of 3DR that helped create it (Jeremy Soule and Julian Soule, Frank Bry, Jason Evigan and of course, Jon St. John).

UPDATE: Here is an update that George Broussard made online this evening:

    Guys just to manage expectations...

    This is a teaser. It's not a full blown trailer like the 2001 trailer (but something like that is coming). I tried to be clear about that in the message board post, so just bear in mind that it's a teaser

    Enjoy.

Well for one thing:
I kinda feel like these people, these several people who felt the need to work late nights and into the early morning, they probably could have been using their time to, say, work on the actual game. Focus some of that hard work and determination on, y'know, that game that's a wee bit behind schedule.

Also, its kind of weird that they'd go through all that just for a party video, especially when the attendees would probably realize it looks shittier than what they've actually been working on. And then release it to the public, when you know the public already thinks of you either as a joke or are expecting this game to be the second coming, then claim it wasn't really meant for public consumption when everyone's like "Yeah, that pretty much sucked."

Then again, I'm not in the business, so what do I know? This seems like it could very well be a perfectly viable business strategy and not at all doomed to failure!

In conclusion: The reason people are hating on it is because the development team doesn't seem to know what its doing at all.

I think they made a lot of progress, but they started it over after seeing half life 1? Or something like that. I have high hopes for this game, look at the success of Prey, finishing that game also took like 10 years and it's pretty good actually.

And the death thing eliminated any and all challenge to the game.

I can't say I'm pissed off, since it was something, but I am a bit disappointing that it was only a teaser. I mean, did they actually expect a measly teaser to make people happy after 10 years of waiting? The fact that they couldn't make a trailer for us shows how little progress they've made.