It's here you'll really unleash your abilities such as painting walls to climb them for a better view of the action, swimming with serious speed to another side of the level (provided it's covered in your paint color), or popping out of the ink to surprise unsuspecting enemies. Playing over the Internet also is rewarding, as you'll unlock new environments, weapons, and gear for your Inklings. If you can pardon the pun, you should get your feet wet by playing the single-player game against an evil octopus army, but the real fun begins when you go head to head with someone beside you, via split screen, or against online friends in the up to four-on-four battle areas. You'll need to pop balloons when they show up, find new places to hide or to use as a vantage point to peg off enemies, and ensure you're covering as much of the world in your dedicated color - all while the other guys are doing the same. The controls take a bit of getting used to, especially on the Wii U GamePad, but before you know it you'll be running around creatively designed levels - with a lot of verticality - as you and your teammates tackle enemy Inklings using all sorts of paint-spraying weapons, such as machine guns, bombs, turrets, and more. It might not be perfect, but it's a blast to play, especially with friends beside you or online, and it's a 'must-have' title for Nintendo Wii U owners with a penchant for combat. Splatoon isn't only the first new franchise from Nintendo in a long while, it's also really, really fun. Though not mandatory, the game also supports Nintendo's amiibo characters - physical action-figure-like toys - which add new gear, challenges, and abilities to your character (Inkling Boy, Inkling Girl and Inkling Squid) - when placed on the Wii U GamePad.

You can take on the game's artificial intelligence (A.I.) in a solo campaign, playing against someone beside you on the same TV, or fighting online against other humans in up to four-on-four battles. You're tasked with painting a level your particular color, as well as popping balloons, targeting enemy Inklings, painting walls (which lets you climb them), and choosing the right time and place to change from humanoid to squid form, which temporarily makes you vulnerable as you submerge yourself in ink to suck up more ammunition. You get to choose what kind of Inkling you want to be, along with which weapon to wield. SPLATOON is a third-person action game for the Nintendo Wii U that lets you use paint as a weapon in solo or team-based matches.

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