Sega's Hyenas Looks Like Another Tired Battle Royale Experiment
Sega recently unveiled Hyenas, an upcoming 15 player PvEvP FPS thought to be part of the ‘super game’ project that emerged a while ago. The general consensus around Hyenas is that it probably shouldn’t have bothered. Super game? This thing barely looks like a good game. It looks like it has been dreamed up in a focus group, with zero artistic involvement, generated entirely by demographic preferences, spreadsheets, pie charts, and a mindless lust to wade in on a highly profitable genre with no thought on how to make a success of it.
In the reveal of the game over at IGN, it’s compared to Hunt: Showdown and Apex Legends. Creative director Charlie Bewsher compares it to Warzone and Fortnite. It all feels more like Hyper Scape. IGN have looked for the good in the game, trying to find a unique way to translate it to their readers - I get it. After watching the trailer, it felt like it had stolen Prey’s gameplay ideas, Saints Row’s humour, and XDefiant’s art style. It doesn’t do justice to either of the two former, and XDefiant… yeah, that’s probably its level.
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The creative director, the person who should be ensuring the game feels unique and compelling, should have us all worried. Genre aside, Fortnite and Warzone are nothing alike. Fortnite is colourful, crossover-dependent, bouncy, quick, and more of an arcade shooter with sliding, mantling, building, and dances. Warzone is a drab and realistic military shooter with a focus on tactics and precision. The only thing connecting them is they both make a metric fuckton of money, and the comparison should be a huge telltale sign that Hyenas is engineered for profit. Thankfully for fans of comeuppances, karma,
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