Here’s everything we know about the sequel to the cult favourite Wii U shooter for Nintendo Switch. Read the latest rumours on the Splatoon 2 gameplay, price and pre-orders, and UK launch date.
Splatoon 2 was one of the games that Nintendo revealed during its January Nintendo Switch Presentation, unveiling a trailer and giving some fans and press the chance to try the game out.
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The sequel to the popular Wii U multiplayer shooter is still a few months off, but here’s everything we know so far about the game, including its release date, price, and gameplay features.
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Latest update: Switch owners can now download the Splatoon 2 beta ahead of the start of the Global Testfire event in late March – read more .
Nintendo hasn’t yet announced a specific release date for the game beyond the broad ‘summer 2017’ window, so we don’t know exactly when to expect the game. We’ll update this as soon as we hear more specific news.
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Like other major Switch games, we expect Splatoon 2 to have an RRP of £59.99, and indeed that’s the price at which retailers have begun offering pre-orders.
You can already claim the game from Amazon and Game , and we expect more stores to follow suit and begin taking pre-orders before too long.
From what we’ve seen so far, anyone who’s played the first Splatoon should find the sequel very familiar. For the uninitiated, it’s an online multiplayer arena shooter, but instead of shooting bullets, you shoot coloured ink. You use this to both attack enemies and cover the walls and floor, giving you space to swim through as a squid (you’re an ‘inkling’, and can transform into a squid at will), and the winning team is the one that covers the most of the map.
