Switch version Starlink: Battle for Atlas gets Star Fox as a playable character

Starlink: Battle For Atlas gets Star Fox as a playable character in the Nintendo Switch version. Furthermore, new gameplay footage of the upcoming space shooter has been shown and the release date has been announced: October 16, 2018.

The announcement was made at Ubisoft’s E3 press conference. Shigeru Miyamoto was there to receive a miniature of Fox’s ship to mark the announcement. Those miniatures are also how players can assemble their ships. By connecting the different parts together and then holding them against a special piece of hardware, they get the same ship parts in the game. This mechanism was revealed by Ubisoft last year and resembles the one from Skylanders.

Starlink: Battle For Atlas is set in a galaxy 400 light-years from Earth, in a galaxy where an evil race of aliens is targeting humanity. The game is being developed by Ubisoft Toronto, the studio behind Splinter Cell: Blacklist. The game is out for the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.