
It opened with what looks to be the initial customization phase of your playable Inkling and their “buddy,” which appears to be a Salmonid – prominently featured as enemies in Splatoon 2’s Salmon Run mode. The Splatoon 3 announcement trailer gave us our first look at the upcoming game. More interestingly, though, we were treated to a sneak peek at Splatoon 3’s single player campaign, titled Return of the Mammalians. Here, we got a look at more Turf War gameplay, featuring all-new superpowered special attacks. Splatoon 3 made a welcome return during the SeptemNintendo Direct presentation. Hopefully, this second appearance means that the ball is now rolling on regular information drops and we’ll see increasing amounts of the game as we go into the next year.

However, we still didn’t get a concrete release date. Nintendo said after the game’s announcement that it wanted to release more info about Splatoon 3 before the end of 2021 and, indeed, it made a second appearance during the September 23 Nintendo Direct, where some new info was detailed. So it’s possible we could also see a late Spring to early Summer release date for Splatoon 3 in 2022. Splatoon and Splatoon 2 had worldwide release dates of May 2015 and July 2017 respectively. Splatoon 3 is slated for release in 2022, but a more concrete date hasn’t been given as of yet. We expect Splatoon 3 to include the same kind of feature set in regards to its modes, and it may have a few new tricks of its own to show off as well. This was later joined by the Octo Expansion DLC, a massive and challenging single-player mode loaded with extra missions and boss fights. Splatoon 2 bolstered the series’ available modes even further with Salmon Run, a co-operative horde mode where players work together to fight AI-controlled waves of enemies. There’s a story that familiarizes players with various weapon types while providing obstacle courses to traverse (and unique enemies to fight). Each game boasts other substantive single and multiplayer modes. Rounds typically last for three minutes, making each match a frantic scramble as the music intensifies towards the end.Ĥv4 multiplayer isn’t the only card up Splatoon’s sleeve, however. On the other hand, your opponent’s ink will slow you down drastically as well as damage you over time. Players can freely swim through their own team’s ink for faster traversal and surprise attacks. Turf War is great, fast-paced fun as each team battles to claim as much of the map as possible while also keeping opponents at bay. Splatoon 3, judging by the trailer, looks like it will be adding a few more to the pile, with a huge bow taking center stage that looks like a ton of fun to mess around with. From the rapid-firing Splattershots to a literal giant paint roller, each weapon comes with its own build of sub-weapons and powerful special weapons. Splatoon’s got quite a fun assortment of weapons, as well.

Keeping with Nintendo’s family-friendly vibe, weapons in Splatoon fire colored ink as opposed to bullets, and can be used to cover the map as per the objective, or to temporarily incapacitate your opponents.

This is achieved via the player’s loadout of weapons. Its flagship multiplayer mode, Turf War, tasks two teams of four players to cover as much of the map as possible with their team’s ink. This feature ties heavily into Splatoon’s gameplay.
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The series focuses largely on multiplayer battles between Inklings – adorable humanoid characters that have the ability to transform into squids to swim through colored ink. Splatoon 3 will be the latest instalment in the series, dating back to its first entry on the Wii U in 2015 and followed up with Splatoon 2 for Nintendo Switch in 2017. Splatoon is good, wholesome, chaotic fun (Image credit: Nintendo)

