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E3 2016: Nintendo Wows With Zelda: Breath of the Wild trailer

Nintendo stole the show at E3 2016, as it revealed a stunning trailer for the new Zelda game, which is called Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

The video shows off the openworld gameplay we’ve been promised, with sweeping, magical landscapes with grassy plains, mountains and mysterious, tropical beaches.

This is a, literally, soaring game. The camera pans over stone pyramids and through desert gorges and then Link flies past in a hang glider.

There are also lots of new gameplay elements, as Nintendo has ramped up the roleplaying aspects of Zelda. Link has a mount and he can climb, scaling trees and towers, as well as stopping to light a fire for a spot of cooking. He can also hunt and fish and fell trees to make bridges.

Breath of the Wild looks like a Studio Ghibli film made into a game, it’s that epic and magical, with the music swelling over the most gorgeous graphics.

Watch the trailer over and over again, right here:

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Chella Ramanan

Chella hails from the UK and joined Gameindustry.com around the year 2000. It was so many moons ago, she can't quite remember. Back then, the only women you saw in the games industry were in bikinis and vertiginous heels at trade shows - oh how times have changed, kind of. Chella started as a humble reviewer, but soon became our European Correspondent and keeps us on top of industry happenings across the Pond. She tends to like the weird Japanese games we've never heard of, so that's good for making us look all-encompassing and stuff. Chella does like games, so don't be fooled by the copious amount of columns devoted to bemoaning the lack of variety in the industry. When she's not surfing (the sea, not the internet) or camping up mountains, Chella likes a good action RPG (especially if it's sci-fi), anything with a good narrative and like we said, the weirder the better. She's also a regular in the GiN Lounge, but that's just because we like her accent.