A couple of weeks ago, 2K Games and Gearbox Software brought the infamous Duke Nukem Forever playable demo to Australian shores. At a public event at Brisbane's Mana Bar, Aussie gamers we offered the same opportunity as the attendee's of Septmber's PAX Prime expo in Seattle -- to actually play the game that has been cooking for 14 long years.

AusGamers were there of course and you may have already read our interview with Gearbox Software's Randy Pitchford and Steve Gibson. So this is a little belated, however since there's been an absolute void of the traditional trailers and screenshots from the game since it's latest resurrection (that one still of Duke with the hogs head is still all that we have), we wanted to share our own impressions for those that didn't get the chance to check it out themselves.

Read on for our first-look hands-on with the elusive Duke Nukem Forever