{"id":102310,"date":"2019-10-22T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/video_doom_64_scrubs_up_pretty_nicely_it_turns_out"},"modified":"2019-10-22T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T14:45:00","slug":"video-doom-64-scrubs-up-pretty-nicely-it-turns-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/22\/video-doom-64-scrubs-up-pretty-nicely-it-turns-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: DOOM 64 Scrubs Up Pretty Nicely, It Turns Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e17fa0477e426\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e17fa0477e426\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e17fa0477e426\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mtvHGrPyJw8?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/doom_eternal\">DOOM Eternal<\/a><\/strong> has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/doom_eternal_has_been_delayed_and_the_switch_version_is_the_most_heavily_affected\">delayed until next year<\/a>, but the fact that you can get a free copy of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/doom_64\">DOOM 64<\/a><\/strong> when you pre-order has taken the sting out of the news a <em>little<\/em> bit.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re now getting the chance to see how this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/doom_64\">N64 classic<\/a> scrubs up on modern hardware, and the answer is: <em>pretty good.<\/em> The short trailer above shows that the 2D sprites have retained that slightly fuzzy look, but the whole package is a big improvement on the rather soupy original (which we played using an RF connection, if you can believe that).<\/p>\n<p>DOOM 64 launches alongside DOOM Eternal on PS4, Xbox One and PC on March 20th, 2020. As has been previously reported, the Switch version will be coming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/doom_eternal_has_been_delayed_and_the_switch_version_is_the_most_heavily_affected\">&#8220;at a later date&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mtvHGrPyJw8?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] DOOM Eternal has been delayed until next year, but the fact that you can get a free copy of DOOM 64 when you pre-order has taken the sting out of the news a little bit. We&#8217;re now getting the chance to see how this N64 classic scrubs up on modern hardware, and the [&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-102310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102310","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=102310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}