
Splatoon has been a critical and commercial success for Nintendo, and has introduced an entire generation of players to the concept of an online, team-based shooter. In fact, it has turned so many heads that even PC gamers - the chaps who live and breathe this kind of game - are paying tribute in their own unique way.
A team of modders have created Splatoon in Valve's popular Team Fortress 2 shooter. There's an authentic replication of the Port Mackerel map, and the gameplay has been carried across with impressive faithfulness to the original. Players ink portions of the map with their weapons and can even morph into squids. It's a little more crude than Splatoon visually, but it shows the power and adaptability of the Team Fortress 2 engine - and the resourcefulness of the PC modding community.
The catch here is that some assets from the original game are used, which is something that Nintendo normally frowns upon. There's a good chance that this particular mod could get taken down quite quickly, but there's nothing to stop the people behind it from creating new assets and keeping the core concept intact.
Personally speaking though, we'd much rather play the original. How about you?
[source eurogamer.net]
Comments 37
That was pretty cool to watch, though I'd stick with the original.
Looks really crappy to me after playing the real thing. Gotta give em a nod though for the effort. I will take the real thing over this though
Splatoon is not a fps. This video shows that. Cool to see people do this though. But I'll stick to the original too.
That was crazy lol. It will most likely be taken down for sure.
How long till Nintendo forces this to be removed I wonder? I mean to actually use assets of Splatoon to make the mod is seriously looking for trouble.
As always, an article packed with Nintendo pride by @Damo, much like the GTA 5 one. It was worth a few chuckles, though.
As I always said, the first step is imitating a Nintendo IP on another console by modding a game; the final step is actually admitting you want a Nintendo console.
@FragRed It is very hard to take down a mod completely and if they are not making money on it, it will be even harder.
@AlexSora89 but if you can imitate what is on the console to get what you want... why do you still want the console?
Looks awful IMO. Though I guess it's smart not to put much effort into this, since it'll most likely be taken down soon anyway.
Say, this reminds me. I really should be playing Splatoon right now.
It was also recreated with the blob guns in Portal 2.
I guess it's a fun technical challenge and its a testament to Splatoon's freshness (pun intended) that people are trying to emulate it in TF2 and Minecraft but seriously, just go play the real thing.
@Folkloner The real thing to a lot of them would be $300 plus tax.
Are you guys gonna report on the creepy sounds before/after the boss fights? It's pretty popular among the community.
wow pretty cool
Quite depressing.
Yeah...I think I'll just stick with the real thing.
Men turning into squids, that is the silliest thing I've seen all day. Then again the day is still young.
I wonder how long it'll take for someone to mod the gels from Portal 2 into this map.
@ikki5 The real thing would also be actually good, instead of that.
@ultraraichu
Need to be out-sillied? No need to search any further.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lXkL7a7r4Q
Off topic, but, what happened to splat zones? I was pretty frustrated last night with tower control being the only rank match. I mean, it was like taking a junkies drugs and suddenly flushing it down the toilet. WTF!!!
Nothing against tower control, but, it does seem like the one mode that may need voice chat. Can you imagine the person on the tower doing recon - "two Incoming 3 o'clock". Otherwise, the only strategy I could think of was to murder everyone as fast as possible. After an hour we only got one knockout victory and we won the majority of the matches because I was racking up 20 splats a game. Anyways, after a short stint, I longed to equip the jet squelcher and control splat zones from the shadows.
I don't believe nintendo will take it down, it is so easy to mod and recreate it in gmod and tf2, it'll just come right back up like nothing. There already has been several recreates for various games that nobody has touched.
This is great. More exposure for Splatoon can only be a good thing.
the mine craft version looked a lot better
Lol, what?! That's one of the worst mods I've ever seen. Really, one shot fills a whole square? Even the Minecraft Splatoon mod was better at this.
This looked awful. Sorry. 3/10
Looks crazy but a good exposure for Splatoon. I don't think Nintendo need to worry or be aggresive about these mods, after all, they only serve as a crappy Splatoon.
No, just no. I'll give em a thumbs up for effort but it looks like crap. Squares filled with one shot, squids hit detection on colors is off, trying to mix cartoon style with another style etc. etc.
Wow, it's always impressive to see what people can do with mods. I bet Nintendo will try to take this down, even though it gives Splatoon more exposure.
just to show how amazing Splatoon acctually is
@FragRed There are already plenty of nintendo mods on tf2. I wouldn't worry about it.
Awesome!
Emperor from Star Wars: "You want this? Don't you? (Hand on a copy of Splatoon) I can feel the hate swelling in you now. Take your mods, try to replicate the amazing originality of Splatoon like Minecraft modders, and your journey to the dark side will be complete!"
Lol, I was just telling someone that as far as Splatoon goes I haven't had this much in an online game of this nature since Team Fortress 2. This is awesome!
@R_Champ That made me chuckle. Thanks ^^
Aww. That's a really cute tribute.
lol, video is taken down
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