Duke was funny, but SoF is disturbing. Even more disturbing is that few seem to realise how blurred the line between animation and reality is getting. SoF uses a new and innovative technology to create realistic response to being shot. If someone is hit in the head, the game detects this and the figure spasms sickeningly before falling to the ground. If someone is hit in the torso their stomach spews intestines and kidneys.
Figures can have limbs blown off, complete with projecting bones and gushing blood.
Each mutilation is accompanied by chilling, agonizing screams and thrashing death animations. This isn't a cartoon anymore. It's as close to reality as the game's designers could produce with current technology. It's not exaggerated and it's not meant to be funny. Several years before Duke Nukem a company produced a game the entire goal of which was to run people down with a car.