{"id":102307,"date":"2019-10-22T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/it_looks_like_duke_nukem_3d_20th_anniversary_world_tour_has_added_a_switch_date"},"modified":"2019-10-22T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T15:40:00","slug":"it-looks-like-duke-nukem-3d-20th-anniversary-world-tour-has-added-a-switch-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/22\/it-looks-like-duke-nukem-3d-20th-anniversary-world-tour-has-added-a-switch-date\/","title":{"rendered":"It Looks Like Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour Has Added A Switch Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/48ba401e0afb4\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/48ba401e0afb4\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Duke\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/48ba401e0afb4\/duke.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/48ba401e0afb4\/duke.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Duke\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Ah, companies must <em>love<\/em> the Entertainment Software Rating Board. Frequently the source of pre-announcement leaks, it seems they&#8217;ve struck once again with a rating and summary for Gearbox Publishing&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/duke_nukem_3d_20th_anniversary_world_tour\">Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour<\/a><\/strong>, the 2016 version of the Duke&#8217;s first 3D outing.<\/p>\n<p>While still officially unannounced, this rating pretty-much guarantees the Switch port&#8217;s existence and following on from his appearance in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/bulletstorm_duke_of_switch_edition\">Bulletstorm: Duke of Switch Edition<\/a><\/strong>, it makes sense to see the original 1996 FPS outing for the foul-mouthed protagonist arrive on Switch as well.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8217;20th Anniversary World Tour&#8217; version of the game contains the original four episodes, plus an extra one made by the original designers. It also saw a return of the original composer and Jon St. John, Duke&#8217;s original voice actor. When the PS4 version was reviewed on our sister site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/reviews\/ps4\/duke_nukem_3d_20th_anniversary_world_tour\" class=\"external\">Push Square<\/a>, the gist was that you probably had to be there back in the day to <em>really<\/em> enjoy the Duke&#8217;s original adventure these days, but with FPS stalwarts like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/turok\">Turok<\/a><\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/doom\"><strong>DOOM<\/strong><\/a> now on Switch (and with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/video_doom_64_scrubs_up_pretty_nicely_it_turns_out\"><strong>DOOM 64<\/strong> on the way<\/a>), Duke Nukem is more than welcome to join the growing ranks of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/feature_best_nintendo_switch_fps_games\">First-Person Shooters on Switch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esrb.org\/ratings\/36576\/Duke+Nukem+3D%3A+20th+Anniversary+World+Tour\/\">summary penned by the ESRB<\/a> provides a chuckle as it details the Duke&#8217;s exploits in a factually-correct manner. &#8220;Firefights are accompanied by realistic gunfire, large explosions, and blood-splatter effects.&#8221; Check. &#8220;Enemies occasionally break apart into bloody fragments as they are killed.&#8221; Sounds about right. &#8220;The game includes some sexual\/suggestive material.&#8221; What do you mean <em>some<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you excited to relive the old days with the guns-out, unreconstructed Duke? Let us know with a little comment in the usual place.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, companies must love the Entertainment Software Rating Board. Frequently the source of pre-announcement leaks, it seems they&#8217;ve struck once again with a rating and summary for Gearbox Publishing&#8217;s Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour, the 2016 version of the Duke&#8217;s first 3D outing. While still officially unannounced, this rating pretty-much guarantees the Switch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}