Fortnite Battle Royale - Review

 

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back to the channel today I am reviewing

fortnight battle royale for the ps4

fortnight is an online game developed by

Epic Games the game has three different

game modes fortnight save-the-world

fortnight creative and fortnight Battle

Royale for the purposes of this review

I'll be focusing on the battle royale

mode so what is battle royale basically

100 players get matched together then

you're all in a flying battle bus and

you have to skydive then glide onto the

map the only thing you have at the start

is a pickaxe to smash up buildings if

you want any weapons or health packs you

have to find them and that's where the

game gets interesting the start of each

match is just a mad rush to find a

decent gun before someone else does and

finds you because unarmed you're

basically gonna die when you kill an

opponent they drop all of their items

but you can only carry six items

yourself in your inventory so it's about

managing your resources and taking the

things you absolutely need the map

shrinks in size at regular intervals as

the storm slowly surrounds the gameplay

area the reason this is implemented is

it because it keeps the match within a

certain time limit otherwise these games

could go on forever

so it's a hundred-person free-for-all on

an ever-shrinking map where you'll

eventually be forced into a very small

space to fight it out to the death with

the other players and the last person

standing at the end is the winner so

it's a very simple premise and that is

the reason it's so popular but it's not

just combat you can use you can also

build originally fortnight was a game

designed as a base building game where

you'd have to withstand waves of enemy

hordes and fortify your base to survive

the game they've taken this element of

the game and added it to the battle

royale and it gives a different

dimension to battle royale I mean it's

not for everyone and it can get very

annoying when you're trying to shoot

someone and they just build about a

hundred walls around them but it does

make the combat and the interaction with

other players more complex and very

you can bunker up or fortify a building

where you think the storm will end and

wait for enemy players to come flooding

in the storm isn't always that

predictable so the general building

strategy that I've seen while playing is

usually used for quick defense in

firefights or building a small shed so

you can heal yourself because when you

heal it takes a number of seconds and

you can't shoot during that process so

you need a little bit of time or you're

free from danger so that's the basic

game loop if you die you can just jump

into another match and play with another

one of the millions of other players

that are playing full night worldwide so

you're never going to run out of matches

to play that is another reason why this

is so popular because there's nothing

worse than just being on in an online

game with no players waiting in a lobby

so that yo the fact that so many people

play this makes it more popular the game

is also free to download and own and

it's free to play online as in you don't

need a paid subscription online pass to

play against other players personally I

think that's a formula other games

should adopt as it maximizes the player

base and it makes everyone feel included

and everyone can play it and you know in

the end they're going to make money from

that so it is free to own the game and

play the game so how do these developers

make money out of it well you've got

virtual currency and battle passes

basically everything in the game that's

cosmetic like skins or emote ease is

purchasable with VC virtual currency as

in the Battle Pass which is $7.99 the

battle pass is like a paid subscription

that lasts as long as the current game

season once the season you're playing

finishes your battle pass expires the

Bao pass basically gives you cosmetic

rewards for completing certain tasks and

milestones during the current season

these cosmetics you keep forever but you

can only earn these ones during the

current season although you can buy some

of the items in the store using VC later

on so be aware if you buy a battle pass

it won't last you forever only for the

duration of the current season if you

want it for the next season you'll have

to buy it again and pay

so it's like a time-sensitive

subscription service in a way the amount

of skins and cosmetics is very

impressive and they've done a lot of

work with official brands like the NFL

like Star Wars like other things to name

a few honestly I don't mind

microtransactions when they're in free

games because the developers have got to

make money somehow and they're giving

you a game for free so to charge you for

cosmetics and bow passes I think that's

absolutely fine everything you do in the

game will make you level up the higher

the level the more rewards that you're

going to gain the game map is

well-designed and it's very colorful

buried with lots of little sneaky places

to build you know find a place to have a

bunker lots of open towns where all of

the action kicks off wide open country

sides

you've got boats you can ride in and

it's got a rocket launcher attached

which is awesome there are also zip

lines if you need to get out somewhere

fast or just get out and get out of the

storm

very quickly the variety of guns is

pretty good and they're all color-coded

based on their effectiveness so if you

find a legendary weapon near the end of

the game you just upped your chances of

winning the round the guns are the

overall they feel great the controls

they're very smooth very sensitive very

responsive the analog sticks feel just

about right the sensitivity it's all on

point

playing solo is great fun but personally

my favorite mode was battle royale duos

where you and a friend can take 50 other

duo's on in a world map and it's

playable and local split-screen

so it's fantastic for a great couch

co-op session basically each battle is

what you make it if you want to be super

aggressive head to the towns find a

gunner and take out as many people as

you can as quickly as possible

it's risky but the rewards are higher as

you can pick out the best weapons and if

you manage to take down some key players

early on all the better for you or you

can go down the slow and quiet approach

you can land in the countryside slowly

go from quiet location to quiet location

build up your weapons your resources and

pick people off in a stealthy way you

can even hide in the trash and jump out

when other players least expect it it's

a bit of a trolli way of doing it but

you know sometimes in games you don't

have the best weapons you just got

make the most of it and in the end it's

about winning winning at all costs you

really have to be aware of your

surroundings as there's a hundred

players out there and so if there's a

lot of variation in playstyle so you

can't just apply the same principles to

everybody that's why each match is so

much fun because it's the variety and

it's the unpredictability so unless

you've been living under a rock for

three years you've obviously heard about

fortnight I joined the battle bus a

little late but why is the game so

popular and played by millions worldwide

well the game is free to own it's free

to play online and even if you don't own

an online pass you can still play so it

means everyone who owns a ps4 can play

it with friends online and it's

inclusive and it's a great experience

the controls are easy to learn is simple

to master it's a lot of fun it's very

addictive and you can just keep jumping

into game after game every time you die

basically it's the gameplay loop that

keeps you playing longer than you

probably would along with the battle

past the fear of missing out element

because when you buy a battle pass

you're gonna play this game a lot

because you put the money in so you want

to make the most of it and it makes

sense it's a good way of luring people

in making them play for longer than they

would so overall it's just a very

well-thought-out game mode that appeals

to everyone it can be played by everyone

and even people who are rubbish like me

can still win the odd match from time to

time graphically the game it's very

child friendly very colorful vibrant

smooth around the edges and it's just

very nice visually obviously it's an

online game so you will get a lag as

peoples signals dip in and out because

you've got a nine you've got a hundred

people in a map so you're gonna have

variable internet speeds but you know

this is an online gaming this is just a

part of it until everyone's got

superfast wired fibre this is how it is

you just have to live with it and hope

it doesn't lead to you dying down the

stretch for some like glitchy moment the

menus they're very simple very bold very

very clear to use it's easy to navigate

you know they've done a good job without

simplifying all the kind of menu systems

the sound on the whole is very good the

map doesn't really have much ambience

but the way the sound is managed in

terms of distance with gunshots and

noises is very good you know you can

hear things in a distance from

erections so it kind of helps you know

when things are kicking off also the

guns sound grave they're very loud very

strong they've really overplayed them

and it just makes it more more of a

cartoony style of gun but there really

is satisfying to use you also have the

option to voice chat with other players

but you can turn that off if if you find

that stuff annoying overall sound wise

good it's good I can't fault it ok so

what's good and what's bad what's good

the game is free to own and free to play

online for everybody the battle royale

game loop it's so addictive and every

match is a different kind of experience

the split-screen couch co-op mode is an

excellent feature and I'm so glad they

added it overall it's a fun

family-friendly experience as a game

everyone can play and contribute there's

no surefire way of winning a match so

over time you're going to learn

different techniques and that's why the

matches become so interesting because

you're always learning and you're always

developing what's bad about all parties

do expire at the end of the season so

you have to repurchase it periodically

but the game is free so it's not a

negative necessarily but just be aware

buying a battle pass it won't last you

forever and all and finally I'm not sure

the building aspect for four-night

really suits battle royale mode but it

is there if you want to use it I mean

for me it can be frustrating but once

you figure out how the builders work you

can play around it I'm not a big builder

in the game I do like building games but

Battle Royale I just want to kill

everyone

so builders are special kinds of enemies

in this game and you've got to kind of

adapt your approach to them because it's

not just shoot shoot kill you've got to

kind of think about it more

strategically so is it a bad point I

don't know it's it's annoying but it's

it's just part of the process ok so what

is the verdict fortnight is a lot of fun

I I didn't think I'd enjoy it which is

the reason it took me so long to play

this game but within about 30 minutes of

playing it with a friend I was hooked my

friend was hooked and you know our

reservations just went away the format

of battle royale perfectly suits this

game it's the main reason people know

about fortnight let's be honest

originally it was a survival building

game which they're still working on but

now when you say fortnight everybody

just thinks Battle Royale

you have to say well done to the

developers because ever since for

tonight became a battle royale game is

just absolutely blown up it's very

enjoyable addictive it's full of variety

different possibilities and I enjoy it

lots of people play it a lot of people

enjoy it and it's just it's just a bit

of fun really so my score for tonight

battle royale is 9 out of 10 it's a

really enjoyable game every match is

different don't get me wrong some

matches are a bit boring some matches

you'd be wandering around and there's no

one there but eventually you'll find

someone but on the whole I found the

match is really enjoyable ok that was

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