Splatoon 3’s release date has been set for 9th September 2022, Nintendo has announced, endlessly pleasing fans of the US cop comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine in the process. Check out the gameplay reveal trailer, showing off some Turf War gameplay and new weapons.
As you can see, there’s plenty of what Splatoon has always done ink-redibly well, with the mix of arena control through painting the arena and head-to-head third person shooter combat. There’s several bombastic weapons in the trailer, and new supers like a mech walker and wicked looking drones.
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Splatoon 3 was announced back in February 2021, with a target release for this summer, and progress has seemingly been going quite well. Going off all the trailers and mode reveals we’ve seen so far, it looks like it’s going to truly surpass Splatoon 2 in a lot of ways.
Speaking of which, longtime fans of Nintendo’s paint shooter series were a bit confused in the last couple days when an update was pushed live for the Splatoon 2 limited time demo. Why would Nintendo update this? Why have people still got it installed? Nobody knows, but there didn’t seem to be any meaningful changes outside of the version number.
Oh, but Nintendo are making the single player Octo Expansion for Splatoon 2 free as part of Nintendo Switch Online – Expansion Pack.
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— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) April 22, 2022
Let’s look back at our Splatoon 2 review, where I wrote:
“A fairly straightforward sequel to one of the Wii U’s best games, Splatoon 2’s unique take on the online multiplayer shooter is as fresh as ever on Switch. Nintendo still have one foot in the past with online functionality, stubbornly sticking to their (paint) guns when they should be learning from others, but these flaws are easily covered up once you get into a game. At its heart, Splatoon 2 is a second helping of one of the most inventive shooters of the last decade.”
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