Splatoon

Also known as Splatoon 1, Splatoon for Wii U

2015 third-person shooter video game for the Wii U featuring squids

Game data

Metacritic 81

Released: 2015-05-29
User rating: 4.16 / 5
Genres: Shooter, Action
Platforms: Wii U
ESRB: Everyone 10+

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81Critic score · 14 ratings

81User score · 154 ratings

Splatoon is primarily a team-based third-person shooter which is playable by up to eight players in 4-vs-4 matches, although the game also features a single-player campaign. Players control characters called Inklings, wich can change between human form and squid form. Transforming into a squid allows players to swim through ink of their own color, even up walls and through grates, hiding from the enemy and replenishing their ink supply in the process.

Released: 2015
Genres: Shooter, Platform
Platforms: Wii U
Game modes: Single player, Co-operative
Franchise: Splatoon
Developer: Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No.2
Publisher: Nintendo

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Key facts

Developer: Nintendo EAD
Publisher: Nintendo
Directors: Yusuke Amano Tsubasa Sakaguchi
Producer: Hisashi Nogami
Programmer: Shintaro Sato
Artist: Seita Inoue
Composers: Toru Minegishi Shiho Fujii
Series: Splatoon
Platform: Wii U
Release: JP : 28 May 2015 NA : 29 May 2015 EU : 29 May 2015 AU : 30 May 2015
Genre: Third-person shooter
Modes: Single-player , multiplayer

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Wikidata facts

Official website: gamesites.nintendo.com.au/splatoon
Image: EB Games Expo 2015 - Splatoon.JPG

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Commons category: Splatoon (video game)
title: スプラトゥーン
publication date: 2015-05-30
social media followers: 15500
hashtag: Splatoon
units sold: 4950000
review score: 77/100

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Splatoon is a 2015 third-person shooter video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii U. The game centers around player-controlled Inklings—squid-like lifeforms that can transform between bipdeal humanoid and cephalopodic forms at will. The game centers on a variety of four-on-four online multiplayer game modes that sees Inklings use a variety of weapons that can produce and shoot ink while in their humanoid forms or tread and hide in surfaces covered in their own ink while in their cephalopodic forms. It also includes a dedicated single-player story campaign.

Splatoon was developed by a young group of employees at Nintendo's Entertainment Analysis & Development division, and originated from a competitive multiplayer ink-based territory control game, which was later expanded to include squid and the ability to swim through ink. The concept was created by lead programmer Shintaro Sato, who had previously worked on games in the Animal Crossing franchise.