The free-to-play hero shooter Marvel Rivals has made fairly a splash because it landed on PS5, Xbox Series and PC earlier this month — like, a ten million gamers in its first three days-sized splash — and now, because the live-service title gears up for its first festive interval, an upcoming new sport mode has our Nintendo radars a-beeping.
You see, as famous by our buddies over at Push Square, the soon-to-be-added ‘Jeff’s Winter Splash Festival’ (arriving on twentieth December) bears a putting resemblance to Nintendo’s squid-based shooter, Splatoon. This sport mode swaps out the standard PvP taking pictures and therapeutic for a Turf War colour-spreading goal, the place opposing groups will use the cute Strategist’s spray talents to color the encircling space. The workforce with essentially the most floor lined, wins. Ring any bells?
Combine this with the truth that Jeff’s ‘Hide and Seek’ means lets him swim by means of the bottom á la Inkling and you have got a reasonably familiar-looking gameplay loop. Also, “Splash Festival“? Hmm, the Splatfests would really like a phrase…
Despite the apparent comparisons to Splatoon (and, extra typically, to Overwatch), we at Nintendo Life have truly been having a reasonably good time with Marvel Rivals to this point — yep, we typically play consoles aside from the Switch. We cannot think about for one second that the brand new sport mode will rival Splatoon by way of depth — heck, Square Enix’s Foamstars dared tread remotely on Splatlands turf and look the place that acquired them — however our fingers are crossed that this hero shooter would possibly make the ‘Switch 2’ line-up someday.
