Ah, companies must love the Entertainment Software Rating Board. Frequently the source of pre-announcement leaks, it seems they've struck once again with a rating and summary for Gearbox Publishing's Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour, the 2016 version of the Duke's first 3D outing.
While still officially unannounced, this rating pretty-much guarantees the Switch port's existence and following on from his appearance in Bulletstorm: Duke of Switch Edition, it makes sense to see the original 1996 FPS outing for the foul-mouthed protagonist arrive on Switch as well.
The '20th Anniversary World Tour' 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's original voice actor. When the PS4 version was reviewed on our sister site Push Square, the gist was that you probably had to be there back in the day to really enjoy the Duke's original adventure these days, but with FPS stalwarts like Turok and DOOM now on Switch (and with DOOM 64 on the way), Duke Nukem is more than welcome to join the growing ranks of First-Person Shooters on Switch.
If nothing else, the summary penned by the ESRB provides a chuckle as it details the Duke's exploits in a factually-correct manner. "Firefights are accompanied by realistic gunfire, large explosions, and blood-splatter effects." Check. "Enemies occasionally break apart into bloody fragments as they are killed." Sounds about right. "The game includes some sexual/suggestive material." What do you mean some?
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.
[source esrb.org, via nintendoeverything.com]
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Hopefully, it will be better than the classic Doom ports.
Oh, how I wish they included the N64 version of Duke. Despite the censor ship issues, I dug it's re-worked level design and sprite changes.
This is pretty cool, but knowing Gearbox, this will be an expensive download.
World Tour version tho, not Megaton. This means better visuals and new exclusive levels, but none of the classic expansion packs which is a bummer since Duke In D.C. was pretty rad.
I did enjoy this back in the day when the original came out, and even pointed out to some of my friends that Duke had a couple side scrolling games that came out before when they thought it was Duke’s first game.
Now missing Bioshock!
Wish 2K would release the collection on the Switch.
@tourjeff As somebody who Platinumed the first game on PS4, and have beaten 2 and Infinite, I would love to have the games on the go.
If they do port the games onto the Switch, I wonder how it would run. The games did have noticeable framerate drops when combat happened and a bunch of effects occurred on screen, but it was far from unplayable.
Damn !
Megaton Edition was running like a charm on Vita, it should be great.
It's a definite maybe if it's £20
@nancywhaite2019
This is a nintendo site
I prefer the vastly superiour duke nukem 3D megaton collection for the vita and ps3. But sadly the devs lost the rights to that collection and it was delisted. Fortunatelly it’s still installed safe and sound on my ps3 and psvita.
@nancywhaite2019
How much RAM do I need to download ?
@darkswabber
couldn't you just redownload them ?
Or are they gone gone ?
Like PT gone ?
Great news. I was hoping we’d get this after Bulletstorm.
Hail to the king, baby!
Available in 2035! (You know that's the truth.)
"Come get some"
@KitsuneNight I think they’re gone, not sure. But I did it just in case. I wish the megaton collection got a physical version though.
Duke walks up to arcade machine of himself
"Don't have time to play with myself..."
Duke Nukem 3D had so many good gags
"It's time to Kick Ass and chew Bubble Gum, I'm all outta gum"
Maybe the game will be ready in time for its 35th anniversary.
please be multiplayer, me and a few friends would be all over this
I love Duke! Gimme, gimme...
But new levels would be much better
I hope no prince wins his lawsuit against the game.
Surprised no one came in here with inflammatory rhetoric about Duke's content.
But Duke, Doomslayer, Mario, Zelda, Final Fantasy... This is THE generation to own a Nintendo console. I feel so N64 child levels of giddy.
I played one of the originals and it was prettt bad, as most fps games were back then.
YES!!! A classic with all the trimmings!
Physical edition, please!
While the game was broken up into levels, this was one of the first times where I felt that I was playing an "open world" game due to some of its locations and the interactive/destructible environments.
@StableInvadeel There's a spam bot in here...
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Duke made his switch debut long before bulletstorm he is in Rad Rodgers
YES!! hope it’s the original uncut version
"Suck on my boomstick"
Duke Nukem 3D was such a great game for the time it came out.
Hey sure why not, Only played it 2.000+ hours when I was a young lad.
I remember Duke Nukem: A Time to Kill on the PS1. It was a 3rd person game and I didn't hate it. It would be cool to see that one come back.
The only way I really enjoyed these games was not having to worry about health or ammo, so without cheat codes, I think I'll pass.
I really enjoyed Bullet Storm, well worth the money. If Duke Nukem 3D holds up, then I'm buying.
It's great to have classic Duke Nukem 3D in its purist form.
My Childhood favorite on the go!
I love Duke Nukem and always will. Will definitely pick it up at a good price. It is funny though how pretty much all the quotes in this comment section are quotes Duke actually lifted from films (Evil Dead 2, They Live etc).
Not megaton edition tho
@BionicDodo Isn't that pretty much ALL of Duke Nukem's repertoire, though? I haven't played any of the later games, but every single time I've seen people quoting the Duke, they were actually (mis)quoting Ash.
I'm so damn old that I remember when Duke Nukem used to be a side scrolling platformer haha. Amazed they never went back to his roots and made a new side scroller.
Hail to the king.
@dewokkel I'm surprised how low priced Doom 1,2 and 3 were, but that were Bethesda.
@SpacedDuck https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem:_Manhattan_Project
Did you miss this one?
it will be great to have those retro classics on the switch. The switch turning out to be one of a kind system by far.
Yes a Duke Nukem remake of the original Duke Nukem 3D would be awesome on Switch. Heck it would be even better if we got the chance to play the 2D original Duke Nukem for the Switch too.
Oh dear god yes I'm excited! I was there back during the Saturn and PS1 days kicking ass and chewing bubble gum
I actually contacted you Nintendo Life (and GoNintendo) back on September 27 about this but you obviously thought it wasn't newsworthy. GoNintendo were the only ones to post this news but no one else picked up the story and it went over everyone's heads.
I Have only one thing i want now on the Switch
The Orange Box ,oh my god ,its will be perfect !
Duke3D with raytracing would be good... 🤔
Hope it's a physical release too
@AstralSoul13 And am all out of gum!
If this comes to Switch, I’m selling off my PS4 port. Duke Nukem on the go sounds really good right about now. (Also- when the heck is Ion Fury coming to Switch?)
YES!! Awesome! I was 18 when I played it for the first time and...."20th Anniversary"... I'm old...
So what happened?
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