Fortnite: Battle Royale Review

pczone.co.uk:

Alright survivors Nerdy Dwarf here and I’m ready to tell you to buckle up, jump out of a flying bus and use your metal umbrella to parachute down before shooting your buddies. No seriously.

Fortnite is the new (kind of) game released by award winning Epic Games, known for their gears of war and unreal series, though it has already been released technically as a build and survive story mode game, due to become free early next year, the PVP mode has been made a free standalone download, and that is what we are here to talk about.

All players, PC, PS4 and Xbox One can now get battle royale mode without paying a single penny, where you alone will stand among up to 99 other players, to be the sole survivor.

Now I should mention there is also a squad mode, where you can team with a maximum of 3 other friends or randomers, giving you a better chance of survival relying on others to both have your back and revive you.

At the time of writing this there is no customisation but we hope to see some in the future, so you do start with a rather generic character, however this is a small variety of them, so you’re not going to be left looking identical to everyone else.

So let’s take you through a battle, from the beginning, including the good, the bad, and the downright weird. From the moment matchmaking is complete, (which admittedly may take some time, the servers are not that great, but they work) you start off in this small social hub, just to give people a chance to spawn in, or render, or run around hitting others with oversized pick axes and dance, which is most likely, but more on that later.

After a brief countdown you all pile on to a jet powered bus, which I’m still trying to figure out is either a school or prison bus, with