Late game fort-building is also the area you simply can’t bluff your way through as a beginner. It adds an extra layer to combat, where skilful construction can give someone the edge over a more accurate opponent with a better gun. The late game is generally fought in a bunch of cobbled-together forts, and that’s absolutely as great as it sounds. This is where Fortnite: Battle Royale’s building system comes into its own. It’s tense but is it also enjoyable? Mechanically satisfying? I’m not so sure it is. Usually in PUBG it’s eight people laying prone in a field, moving glacially slowly until one ends up accidentally army-crawling over another, and everyone’s reluctantly forced to open fire. The last five minutes in a battle royale game can be a little hit and miss. Winner: PUBG PUBG vs Fortnite Battle Royale – The late game As a platform for the action it works very well, but there’s just no sense of place or atmosphere. It’s a bit Minecraft, a bit Dead Rising, a bit – gags – Agents of Mayhem, even. It feels like somewhere I’ve visited before in numerous fairly forgettable games. And now Miramar, the second PUBG map, somehow dwarfs it, offering a welcome colour palette swap, some camper vans, and yet more darkly picturesque abandoned towns to pick through for AKM scopes.įortnite’s map, as I’ve mentioned, doesn’t do it for me. It says a lot about how expertly designed that map is that it sustained gaming’s biggest community for almost a year, without any other maps in the rotation. It feels so real after you’ve spent a bit of time there, it’s a vast expanse that mixes huge open plains with claustrophobic dilapidated towns, ripe with potential dangers. PUBG’s original map Erangel is an incredible place. PUBG vs Fortnite Battle Royale – The maps Jumping 9ft in the air and shooting a man with your purple assault rifle isn’t tense in the same way that a frying-pan standoff between two chaps in their pants outside a petrol station is.
Perhaps above all, it’s created by being grounded so closely in reality. It’s created by having everything drawn out – the space, the gunfights, the time until the zone shrinks. Tension’s created by prolonged, unbearable silences in PUBG. If you can hear a gunshot, the shooter is probably within aim. It’s disconcertingly cheery facade is the polar opposite of PUBG’s grim Eastern Bloc realism.įortnite: Battle Royale is tense, though, because its map is small and combat breaks out frequently. To my eyes Fortnite: Battle Royale has to work that bit harder to achieve tension because it’s seemingly played on an island from the Teletubbies universe and populated by refugees from Team Fortress 2. If you didn’t care about that tumbling number, or feel the ever-increasing value of your own survival, the whole endeavour wouldn’t work.īoth games manage to create this, using quite different methods. The gradual stake-raising that builds up each round as more and more hapless fools check out early and the total number of survivors tumbles. It’s the prevailing tension that makes crouching by a tree for five minutes fun. Tension is the crystallised essence of this genre.
But then I actually played it and found that, in truth, it’s a closer fight between the two than I’d expected. I’d played PUBG, alone and with friends, since early last year and saw no reason to explore Epic’s Pixar-tinged upstart with its building mechanics.
#PUBG VS FORTNITE FULL#
Full disclosure, before writing this article I was a PUBG man.
#PUBG VS FORTNITE MODS#
Here in early 2018 PUBG vs Fortnite is gaming’s mods vs rockers you’re one or the other. Epic saved the game from fading into obscurity by adapting PUBG’s Battle Royale-style gameplay into a free-to-play game. The second was Epic’s adaptation of its own game, Fortnite, which was initially overshadowed by other shooters when it first launched.
#PUBG VS FORTNITE MOVIE#
Based loosely on Kinji Fukasaku’s 2000 movie Battle Royale, the game sees you take part in a 100-player online deathmatch on a giant island. First came PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, a title that quickly developed into the most popular game on Steam.
A new genre has stomped its way through the crowd to become a modern-day phenomenon.
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