Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project is a platform game developed by ARUSH Games and released in 2003 by Apogee Software, featuring the adventures of Duke Nukem.
Manhattan Project is not a direct sequel to the earlier Duke games, but a side-story: the game features Duke Nukem, this time fighting Mech Morphix, a mad scientist who is using the radioactive GLOPP slime to mutate creatures into deadly enemies, and in the process take over Manhattan island, New York City. These enemies include alligators, Fem-Mechs (female android mutants), and the Pig-cops from Duke Nukem 3D.
The game is a 2D side-scroller, but backgrounds and characters are fully 3D-rendered, giving the illusion of depth.
Before the release of Manhattan Project, rumours on the internet about the long-promised Duke 4 game, Duke Nukem Forever, spoke about an abandoned Duke platform game by 3D Realms (the original developers of the Duke games). When Manhattan Project was first shown to the public, many believed that this was the abandoned platformer, which has since been denied: Manhattan Project is an original game, and not part of the main Duke game series.
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