Fortnite The Battle Royal
In the crowded battle royale genre, Fortnite Battle Royale stands out by ditching the conventional, drab military simulation vibe in favour of brilliant colours and an outstanding, freeform building system unlike anything else in competitive multiplayer games. As its name suggests, Fortnite Battle Royale fits so neatly into the battle royale genre that blossomed last year that the simple description sounds as mundane as it gets: Up to 100 players are thrown onto a large, shrinking battlefield with the goal of gathering weapons and belongings in order to be the last person or team standing. However, it can't be confused for any other game because the vehicle you're skydiving from is a flying party bus — a wonderful change of pace from a drab military plane — and the spot you land is a large, vibrantly coloured island, rather than a genuine countryside surrounded by a terrible storm.
Thankfully, unlike other battle royale games like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, where an unlucky circle can make getting out of the encroaching circle nearly impossible, Fortnite's map is small enough (in comparison to PUBG's) that you have a low chance of being killed by the collapsing border even if you have to run across the entire island to reach the safety of the randomly centred eye of the storm.
There are several large and different cities on the island, each with its own architectural style, such as a pleasant residential neighbourhood with residences, a vast office centre with skyscrapers, or a retail mall with an outdoor mall. Each city is full of vibrant colours, and the terrain as a whole has hundreds of structures with randomly spawning loot in the form of weaponry, bombs, and healing items.
So, what exactly is Fortnite? Epic Games built Fortnite as a third-person, cooperative survival game in which players work together to gather resources and build structures to protect against hordes of zombie opponents. That version, which is now available as a standalone game called Fortnite Save the World, is still available, though it isn't very good. When the battle royale genre took off in early 2017, Epic repurposed its survival game's fundamental ideas into a new game: Fortnite Battle Royale, a separate, free-to-play game that feels like the perfect home for Save the World's quirky elements.
By design, inventory management in Fortnite Battle Royale is quite simple. You must balance your gun arsenal with your need for healing or explosives to cope with opposing constructions because you only have five slots. It's a clever constraint that forced me to keep a mental shopping list of exactly what I needed as I walked around the island, resisting the urge to buy anything additional. With such specific prerequisites, each chest had the possibility of revealing the weapons I was looking for. In Fortnite, you can mix and match weapons, so even if that chest doesn't contain exactly what you're looking for, you'll never feel helpless in a fight.
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