'Splatoon 2' Release Date, News: Spectator Mode and More Announced
One of the latest and most exciting additions to the highly anticipated shooter game, "Splatoon 2," is the Spectator mode, which Nintendo revealed on Twitter.
In announcing the brand-new mode, "Private Battle Spectator View is a new feature allowing up to two non-players to spectate a Private Battle."
The new "Splatoon 2" mode allows players to take part in a battle on the field not as one of the fighters, but as a photographer who captures the action.
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As explained in the tweet, the new "Splatoon 2" Spectator mode is only accessible in Private Matches. Players who are watching the match can trade places with the fighters as well.
Apart from the Spectator mode, it was also revealed that "Splatoon 2" will feature a brand-new stage called the Musselforge Fitness or the Barnacles Sports Club.
This new location is an indoor gymnasium where players can train and sweat it out. Inklings can get their fitness fix with the rock-climbing walls, swimming pool and treadmills.
More information about "Splatoon 2" was also revealed by producer Hisashi Nogmai during his sit-down interview with the Japanese publication, 4Gamer (translation by Nintendo Everything).
On the whole, Nintendo plans for the sequel's campaign to be the same length as the original. As for the stages, three new ones were featured in the trailer. The studio plans to add stages in "Splatoon 2" from the original but with added elements.
On the gear side of things, the developer will offer more variations of a certain weapon to keep it fresh and for players to enjoy their weapon of choice in various forms.
"Splatoon 2" will also catch up with the real world when it comes to gear and style. While some will carry over from the original, much of the sequel's gear content will be new including the sneakers that Inklings get to rock while in the battle.
Since "Splatoon 2" takes a couple of years after the original, where music was hardly a thing for the folks of the squid world, things will be very different on that front now.
