Fortnite Review - 2024
Editor's Note: This review takes a fresh look at Fortnite in 2024, replacing our previous review from 2018 . You can read more about our review policies and philosophy here .
It’s wild to think about how much of gaming culture over the last decade has been defined, at least in part, by Fortnite. This is a game that began humbly before expanding wildly into a juggernaut of an online sandbox, where somehow Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender can crash a sports car into a Stormtrooper outpost before popping out and shooting Family Guy’s Peter Griffin with a neon assault rifle and then gliding away on a Cacodemon from Doom. But despite the absurdity of that sentence, Fortnite isn’t just a collection of branded cardboard cutouts scattered throughout a cartoony island: It’s managed to grow to this level because it’s also an enduringly fun battle royale shooter, and its momentum has been built on by season after season of updates that go all-out to pull you back in right when you thought you were done.
Whether you’re playing in Fortnite’s signature mode that allows you and up to 99 others to mine resources and then magically build structures like ramps and walls for cover on the fly, or the more traditional building-free battle royale mode that’s all about smooth moving, punchy shooting, and fun vehicles, its bounty of extra objectives, smattering of NPCs and named locations, and in-game missions set it a cut above other games in the genre. Each match starts even before the Battle Bus drops you from the sky, as you pick out a quest from dozens of different missions and objectives that infuse each of the roughly 15-minute rounds with extra purpose and direction. Maybe you want to take care of some daily missions to jump a few levels ahead in your battle pass, or maybe you want to find a specific NPC like Centurion, who can help you in battle by either selling you powerful weapons and healing items or squadding up with you to help stack up some eliminations and chase the
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