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=== Setting ===
''Duke Nukem 3D'' is set on Earth "sometime in the early 21st century".<ref name="3drealms"/> The levels of ''Duke Nukem 3D'' take players outdoors and indoors through rendered street scenes, military bases, [[desert]]s, a flooded city, [[space station]]s, [[Moon]] bases, and a [[Japanese cuisine|Japanese]] restaurant.

The game contains several humorous references to pop culture. Some of Duke's lines are drawn from movies such as ''[[Aliens (film)|Aliens]]'', ''[[Dirty Harry]]'', ''[[Evil Dead II]]'',<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Dukespeak |magazine=[[Electronic Gaming Monthly]] |issue=103|publisher=[[Ziff Davis]]|date=February 1998|page=12}}</ref> ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]'',<ref name="stuff gaming greats"/> ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'', ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', and ''[[They Live]]'';<ref name="stuff gaming greats"/> the captured women saying "Kill me" is a reference to ''Aliens''. Players will encounter corpses of famous characters such as [[Luke Skywalker]], [[Indiana Jones (character)|Indiana Jones]], [[Snake Plissken]], [[Doomguy|the protagonist]] of ''[[Doom (series)|Doom]]'', and a smashed [[T-800]]. In the first episode, players navigate a tunnel in the wall of a prison cell hidden behind a poster, just like in ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]''. During the second episode, players can see a [[Monolith (Space Odyssey)|Monolith]] (from ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'') on the Moon and use it as a teleport to complete the level.