Pikmin 3 To Have Four Different Control Schemes

Ishaan Sahdev

Published: May 17, 2013 08:02 am

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Pikmin 3 will feature a number control schemes, Nintendo announced via a Nintendo Direct presentation this morning. These are:

Wii U GamePad in conjunction with TV
Wii Remote Plus and Nunchuk
Wii U GamePad for off-TV play
Wii Remote Plus and Nunchuck w/ GamePad

In that last mode, the Wii U GamePad will act as a second screen in addition to your TV.

New to the game are three new playable characters—Alph, Brittany and Charlie, who recruit the Pikmin creatures to help them gather fruit. Returning with the seeds of this fruit will help save their home planet, Koppai.

You’ll be able to divide tasks up between the three characters and explore separate areas of the same map using different groups of Pikmin.

Pikmin 3 will be released on August 4th in North America and July 26th in Europe.

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Ishaan Sahdev

Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as a professional manga editor. These days, his day job has nothing to do with games, but the two inform each other nonetheless.