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Many games within the industry have the player control either a slim/athletic character or huge muscle man. Not often we see the Average man,
In Duke nukem, we play as a Male who has a sleazy overbearing masculine attitude portrayed through key identities like; his idiolect, his attitudes and feelings towards females. The fact he is a cold blooded killer. This is a characteristic often involved with male lead roles in games that we do not see in female lead roles. In exemption to games such as such as ' Many games within the industry have the player control either a slim/athletic character or huge muscle man. Not often we see the Average man, In Duke Nukem, we play as a Male who has a sleazy overbearing masculine attitude portrayed through key identities like; his idiolect, his attitudes and feelings towards females. The fact he is a cold blooded killer. This is a characteristic often involved with male lead roles in games, and not within female lead roles. There are games exempt from this like 'American McGee's Alice' The dark tale of Alice In Wonderland, although in this game, Alice is still not portrayed as a cold blooded killer, unlike Duke Nukem and other characters with the same characteristics such as Niko from GTA4 and James Earl Cash, featured in the famous game 'Manhunt'. There are games that feature female lead roles who do kill, like male charcters, but for a reason. This is conveyed through examples like 'Resident Evil 4 and 5' Where the lead characters are police, and 'Metroid Prime' in which the feamle kills creatures, not humans, to 'survive'.

There is always going to be contraversy surrounding the representation of females and males within gaming. With males being over masculine, and females, over feminine, and unlike most women in the real world. In resolution, games were designed to be surreal, as almost an escape from reality. Which is why it shouldn't be media inflicted that both male and female characteristics are over exargerated, as in most cases without these characteristics, the game wouldn't have the same appeal to target demographic like in the case of Duke Nukem.