More Battle Royales Should Take The Hunger Games Model

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The battle royale genre is all the rage, with almost every big studio wanting to cash in on the craze. Most video game players have heard about Fortnite, Apex Legends, or Call of Duty: Warzone, which have all been extremely successful but barely scratch the surface of the genre. Some studios have added battle royale modes to popular titles in other genres, like Nuclear Winter in Fallout 76 and Red Death in Civilization 6, while more companies have tried to enter the genre with full-fledged battle royale games. It is safe to say that this craze has not died down, but it may be in need of a big shakeup.

The majority of popular battle royales go for the same type of gameplay: players board some sort of flying vehicle and are deposited around a decently sized map to search for loot while fighting other players as the boundaries shrink. This gameplay loop has proven successful, but too much of a good thing is not good. A battle royale in the style of The Hunger Games, a series that helped inspire some of the genre's earliest entries, could make waves.

Fortnite's Split-Screen Should Be Applied to Other Battle Royales

In 2012, the first Hunger Games movie took the world by storm, drawing people in with its unique dystopian world and cast of characters. Gamers also took notice of this series and modded a version of The Hunger Games into Minecraft. Thus, Minecraft Survival Games was born, and a lot of players instantly fell in love with the concept. As of now, it is one of the few battle royale modes that sticks to the rules laid out in The Hunger Games, and more games should follow suit.

The Hunger Games starts every competitor around the same spot in the center of the map, and a large cornucopia of items sits in the middle of this