Metroid Dread is actual, and it’s coming to the switch

At its E3 2021 Nintendo Direct presentation, Nintendo discovered a new entry in the Metroid series: Metroid Dread. It’s set to launch on October eighth of this year for $59.99.

In a quick however movement-packed trailer, protagonist Samus Aran faced off towards a large and terrifying white robot that chased her for the duration of the level. The game appeared to play further to the 3DS sport Metroid: Samus Returns — but it’s clearly an immediate sequel to the game Boy increase title Metroid Fusion from 2002, where Samus similarly needed to avoid the terrifying SA-X.

Right here, Samus will have some interesting skills to assist her get round. Proper from the get-move, she’ll be able to slide through small passages. She can activate a cloaking tool named the Phantom Cloak to assist her evade detection, and there’s a brand new tool referred to as a Spider Magnet that lets in her to climb up positive walls and ceilings. Producer Sakamoto Yoshio indicates off a number of the new features in the video below.

At the same time as it’s a 2d platformer recreation, it seems to have a number of 3-D sequences as properly — you could watch Nintendo’s Treehouse group play thru a portion of the game at the stop of the corporation’s Nintendo Direct video, the agency is supplying more details in “Dread reviews,” the first of which you may read right here.

Nintendo also shared that the business enterprise continues to be at paintings on Metroid top four, which become first discovered for Nintendo transfer in a short video in June 2017 — yes, four years ago. That recreation is probably still some distance out from launch, because it turned into rebooted in January 2019. As a part of that declaration, Nintendo stated that it had positioned retro Studios, the builders of the authentic Metroid high trilogy, back at the helm.