Splatoon 3 preview: Competitive sharpshooter with bucketloads of promise

Paint the town yellow (or purple, depending on which team you’re on)

Splatoon 3 is an upcoming competitive third-person shooter fron Nintendo that’s scheduled for release on 9 September 2022 for Nintendo Switch consoles.

Players will compete in teams in a family-friendly third-person shooter with a number of different game modes, including “Turf War”, which sees players compete in a four vs four arena match to cover the most ground with their coloured ink.

A single-player mode is also returning and will be titled “Return of the Mammalians” as well as a cooperative game mode called “Salmon Run”, among other new features. We were given a hands-on demo of Splatoon 3’s various game modes to see for ourselves.

With some noticeable upgrades and improvements, Splatoon 3 is set to provide more of the same paint-spraying action and if you want to try out the game for yourself, a demo will be available to download and start playing from 25 August 2022, with a world premiere “Splatfest” event taking place on 27 August, between 9am and 9pm BST.

For our full preview of Splatoon 3, read the rest of our article below.