>>besides the usual first person attributes such as running, jumping, strafing. what other abilities are you going to give duke example guns akimbo, climb a rope etc;.

Duke will have several "moves" beyond the typical run, jump, climb ladder. We'll reveal them later, but there are 3-4 planned that I can think of beyond duck/duck-jump and they should add the fun of levels and getting around in them.

>>what sort of style will DNF's multiplayer levels be in? none of the Half-Life, SiN, UT, or quake mp levels were too exiting. is there a chance that we will be seing some mp levels in the extraordinary style of Duke3d? those were the best. although i do like the idea that SiN and UT had of a level on a moving train, although neither pulled it off too well.

Every map designer on the game is a very good deathmatcher. They know what makes a fun map, and I have full faith in their design abilities. Beyond that the DNF levels will all be interesting real "places" with wome sort of hook. No crate warehouses or non-descript, generic, boring places to fight.

Haven't we all seen enough of that?

The best, most original DM map I've seen in 2 years was DM_Morphius in UT. Too bad most professional levels arne't like that.

A general rule for a bad DM level is: If you can't describe it by one key feature and have everyone know what it is, it should be redone. What's all this DM5 crap? I wanna say "Hey, let's play the movie theater level, or the strip club". That's far better.