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Splatoon 2

Splatoon 2 is a 2017 third-person shooter game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is the second entry in the Splatoon series as the direct sequel to Splatoon (2015). As with the previous installment, Splatoon 2 consists of online multiplayer (player versus player and player versus environment) game modes alongside a…

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Genre
Third-person shooter
Publisher
Nintendo
Artists
Seita Inoue · Kotomi Jin · Mariko Tachibana · Yuki Hamada
Composers
Toru Minegishi · Ryō Nagamatsu · Shiho Fujii
Designer
Terumasa Kato
Developer
Nintendo EPD[a]

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Splatoon 2

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Splatoon 2

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related to Development · 20
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related to Accolades · 15
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related to Sales · 14
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related to Promotion · 12
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related to Gameplay · 10
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related to Sequel · 7
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related to External links · 6
Splatoon 2 → Archived June, IMDb, MobyGamesSplatoon, Official, Splatoon, Wayback Machine

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Splatoon 2ArtistsSeita Inoue1.00infobox
Splatoon 2ArtistsKotomi Jin1.00infobox
Splatoon 2ArtistsMariko Tachibana1.00infobox
Splatoon 2ArtistsYuki Hamada1.00infobox
Splatoon 2ComposersToru Minegishi1.00infobox
Splatoon 2ComposersRyō Nagamatsu1.00infobox
Splatoon 2ComposersShiho Fujii1.00infobox
Splatoon 2DesignerTerumasa Kato1.00infobox
Splatoon 2DeveloperNintendo EPD[a]1.00infobox
Splatoon 2DirectorsYusuke Amano1.00infobox
Splatoon 2DirectorsSeita Inoue1.00infobox
Splatoon 2DirectorsShintaro Sato1.00infobox
Splatoon 2GenreThird-person shooter1.00infobox
Splatoon 2ModesSingle-player, multiplayer1.00infobox
Splatoon 2PlatformNintendo Switch1.00infobox
Splatoon 2ProducerHisashi Nogami1.00infobox
Splatoon 2ProgrammersShintaro Sato1.00infobox
Splatoon 2ProgrammersYosuke Morimoto1.00infobox
Splatoon 2ProgrammersTakuya Kobayashi1.00infobox
Splatoon 2ProgrammersKazuhide Ueda1.00infobox
Splatoon 2PublisherNintendo1.00infobox
Splatoon 2ReleaseJuly 21, 20171.00infobox
Splatoon 2SeriesSplatoon1.00infobox
Splatoon 2is a2017 third-person shooter game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch0.90text
Splatoon 2is athird-person shooter with a focus on online multiplayer in which players control humanoid cephalopods0.90text

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