Watch here for better quality: https://youtu.be/-1-DNRxgkgY Was the previous level too uneventful for you? Don't worry, this level has a lot of action in it. We wake up on a platform in front of a giant demon skull. The skull opens its mouth revealing The Dead Queen. She tells us we're the first to survive the curse of her dark forest. She calls us a chosen one. She needs her help, but before she allows us to rule by her side, she will give us challenge to complete. We're taken to an arena where we must defeat hundreds of enemies to light the four statues to earn her trust. Once we complete the challenge, The Dead Queen is impressed and so we must venture back to the skull to discuss a deal.

Watch here for better quality: https://youtu.be/MbIOhGj1IAw For this year's opening warm up, I'm going to be playing the very first 7smoke Tennis project. 7smoke used to do these custom campaign mods for Serious Sam Fusion until they stopped after 2018. Each map would be designed in order of a Tennis match from each participating member until the campaign was finished. We begin in a dark location that looks like it would belong in a Slenderman game. We're tasked with finding a statue of a Dead Queen. When we find it, The Dead Queen chooses us and so we must return it to ashes by finding a hidden weapon and killing a certain Kleer corresponding to the health bar that spawns with it. Once we kill it, we go to find The Dead Queen's statue then we're taken to a place unknown.

Watch here for better quality: https://youtu.be/h1VcMIE37gI Everything's come full circle now. Our war against these aliens began in Hollywood and now it ends in Hollywood. We face a literal uphill battle to face a final showdown against the Cycloid Incinerator at the famous Hollywood sign. Once he's dead, Duke roasts the bastards testicles on an open fire. The Aliens are finally defeated and hopefully we won't see them again for many years. Fun fact: Legend has it if you bring a romantic date to the Hollywood sign, a curse will be set upon you making sure either one or both of you suffer a fatal accident.

Watch here for better quality: https://youtu.be/DwFJk31brMQ And now we return to the good ol' U.S. of A. San Francisco may be a sanctuary for illegal aliens, but we're not going to let it become a sanctuary for Evil Aliens. They've already destroyed the Golden Gate Bridge and taken over Fort Point. They're not going to get away with that.

Watch here for better quality: https://youtu.be/rnA8GSeg9B8 With three levels to go, our next stop is in France. While we're killing aliens, we might as well pour ourselves a glass of fine wine.

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Watch here for better quality: https://youtu.be/OPCvElSycCY And now we are at Rome's famous colosseum for a showdown against a Battlelord and a lot of aliens above and below the arena.

Watch here for better quality: https://youtu.be/Ac605Ot_Kn0 Our next destination brings us to Egypt. The pyramids, the tombs, the traps, the fifth element, we deal with it all here and also the return of my most hated enemy, the Protector Drone. This isn't Duke Nukem's first time in Egypt...well, chronologically by canon it is, but there have been other games before World Tour's release where Duke Nukem fought The Aliens in Egypt. The first was in Duke Nukem Advance and the second was in Duke Nukem: Critical Mass. Also, it just wouldn't be a new episode of Duke 3D without a special cameo appearance by some action movie hero or video game protagonist that also lost the fight against The Aliens and since we're in Egypt, we have the corpse of Serious Sam himself or rather his original First Encounter design where he was basically a Duke Nukem ripoff wearing a white tanktop with the serious bomb logo. Good riddance to that design.

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Watch here for better quality: https://youtu.be/LTJCn45a1W4 Almost done with this chapter.

Watch here for better quality: https://youtu.be/QJjzTRSlcZ0 Ah, the UK, the only place on Earth where the sun never sets. We can get a good look at Big Ben Clock Tower and the London Eye Ferris Wheel in the background. We begin on a theater stage where our players are set. Time for the aliens to experience a Shakespearean tragedy, one where everyone dies at the end...except for the hero of course. This level also features Dr. Who phonebooth travel as well as a showdown against the Cycloid Emperor inside the Palace of Westminster where the UK's government works.

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Watch here for better quality: https://youtu.be/GfRUWFpZOnQ Vaughn needs some advice on how to be a successful Bandit King. Everyone around camp gives their own advice, but none of it is what he's looking for. He decides to go on a journey to find himself, but first, he wants us to go back into Helios one last time to fetch his artifact of power, which turns out to be a pair of Hyperion brand briefs. And so Borderlands 2 comes to a close at long last. Saints Row 3 will resume at a later time. The Summer of Sam is approaching and I've got two projects left to complete. I'll be taking another break from our adventures on Pandora and I'll return for more vault hunting when I've settled how I'm gonna tackle Tales From the Borderlands.

Watch here for better quality: https://youtu.be/mlZc8PiSauc Brick wants to give Mordecai a gift for staying sober for a year. He wants us to track down Hector's remaining lieutenants, kill them, and take their rifle parts so that Brick can use them to make a new sniper rifle for Mordecai. There's even parts left over to make a beautiful new gold tier sniper rifle for us.

Watch here for better quality: https://youtu.be/rG_ZGhbQTEs Vaughn reveals that he left Handsome Jack's diamond pony Butt Stallion behind after his clan was driven out of Helios and so he needs a team to rescue her. We meet up with Brick who's here punch some Loaders and Tiny Tina who wants to take Butt Stallion back to camp. Butt Stallion has been very depressed and immobile since Jack died, but Tiny Tina's love is what fills her with joy. Now that Butt Stallion is back at camp, you can now feed her Eridium and she'll spit out guns, maybe even a rare one.

Watch here for better quality: https://youtu.be/ulPcBTEJp80 With a cure finally made, we're now officially immune to the paradise gas. The downside is Tannis can't mass produce the stuff in time so no one else is immune yet and Hector has already started gassing Pandora. We make our way through the lower levels of Sanctuary removing vines tangled up in the gears and then make our way to Marcus' armory. As we make our way to the center of town, we learn that Mordecai is gonna be okay. We face Hector in a showdown and Lilith teleports in to lend a hand. Once Hector is weakened, we try to take the Vault Key from him, but he unleashes incredible power. Lilith has a plan, but she's going to need Eridium; a lot more than she's ever used in her life. Luckily, Crazy Earl's old residence still has all the Eridium we ever gave to him in exchange for all those SDUs. Hector tells Lilith that the map within the Vault Key leads to power unimaginable and that he's fused with it and Sanctuary. Lilith uses all her power to blow up Sanctuary and kill Hector for good. We lost our home and we lost the Vault Key. Lilith shares with everyone what she learned from Hector about the Vault Key. We'll need to find that Vault Key then build a spaceship to search the surrounding planets. We're also gonna need some new Vault Hunters to recruit as well. In a post-credit scene, we see that the Vault Key is still on Pandora in the middle of nowhere. And that's the end of the story, but we have three more side jobs to do and forget the raid boss.

Watch here for better quality: https://youtu.be/b6BXmopcjTc Our next stop brings us to Soviet Russia. With the way Putin is running things, it might as well be Soviet Russia all over again. The Aliens have taken over a missile base and knowing how Russia's nuclear weapons are more numerous and powerful than ours, we can't let them have it. Ah, vodka bottles everywhere, but not a drop to drink. At least we get a new incinerator weapon to play with and it's very effective against all weaker enemies. We'll be grillin' tonight. Also, Overlords have become common enemies now.

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Watch here for better quality: https://youtu.be/sSM8FuRnGEg Now we take a blood sample from Mordecai. As we head into the mines again and reach Dr. Cassius' lab, we learn from Vaughn a story about how a group of Dahl miners ended up trapped after a cave-in. We reach the labs and Hector unleashes gas within the facility. We go through venting the gas until we reach the center of Cassius' operation. The blood sample we obtained was ruined so we'll have to get an entirely new one from Cassius himself who reveals that he's been mutated. After a boss fight, we take Cassius' blood sample and have analyzed so that Tannis can synthesize a cure. Before we head onto the final mission, we collect some ECHO logs about Hector and his mining coalition. Apparently they were the lost miners trapped in a cave-in. They were promised paradise and Dahl gave them crappy jobs mining on Pandora. When they found alien artifacts, Dahl promised them promotions and pay raises. Instead, Dahl collapsed the mines on top of them while they were celebrating then sealed the mines leaving Hector and his men for dead. It was Dr. Cassius who found them years later.

Watch here for better quality: https://youtu.be/xQxLb7MJ7jk Mordecai can wait just a little bit longer. We meet up with Claptrap who sounds different. If you're wondering why, it's because David Eddings was replaced by Jim Foronda following a public falling-out between Eddings and Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford. Anyway, Claptrap has an idea to rebuild Pandora's economy with a new currency called BECHO Wafers. I can't wait to see this crash and burn. He even goes so far as to burn bridges towards the Crimson Lance before seeing things through. A couple things: NEVER burn bridges before you see success through to the end. Also, the world of Cryptocurrencies is full of scams.

Watch here for better quality: https://youtu.be/LkXp5bxRKFA So after the death of The Alien Queen, The Aliens challenge Duke Nukem to one last battle around the friggin' world. Our first stop is Amsterdam. Why start here of all places? What's so special about Amsterdam anyway? Well, it's the Marijuana capital of the world; the one place where Marijuana is 100% legal and they put it in their coffee. Duke gets high while battling aliens. The soundtrack also starts off with a banger that sounds like an homage to the theme of the first Duke Nukem 3D level. We also encounter a new enemy type, the Firefly Trooper. They evade attacks by shrinking to the size of a firefly and then grow back to normal when they're ready to attack. They use flamethrowers and launch lava puddles. When they die, they may explode, but they'll leave behind ammo for a new weapon we'll get soon.

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Watch here for better quality: https://youtu.be/Oc3QyIXiM-4 We check up on Mordecai and he's badly infected. Dr. Cassius says he can cure him we if we get him a blood sample. That can wait though as we have more side jobs to do. First, Dr. Zed wants to make another cure this time out of stronger mutant parts. It still doesn't go well, but it does have Tannis take a romantic interest in Dr. Zed. Next, Vaughn wants to try bandit recruitment again. We are to lead a small group of bandits into battle against Sand Worm Queens. Only we survive. Lastly, Lilith wants us to go into Helios Fallen to destroy a prototype Angel Chamber found deep within. Tannis would rather we preserve it so we can learn more about Sirens. Unfortunately, we have to destroy because the New Pandora Army has made their way in and we can't let them make use of any of the technology in the place. We do upload whatever Siren data is left behind to Tannis before we get to smashing machinery, but not before dealing with some Angel Guard Loaders.

Watch here for better quality: https://youtu.be/laCUbHGXYVM And so all the old levels are finished and we'll soon start the new levels. We'll see where the World Tour part of Duke Nukem 3D: World Tour finally comes in.