What parents need to know about Fortnite
(Pocket-lint) — If you’ve not heard of Fortnite you likely don’t have children of-a-certain-age. It’s a super-popular shooting game for kids that's long been drawing fire from mainstream media for being violent, addictive and rage-inducing in children.
Fortnite has been around for a while now, and can be played on pretty much every single platform under the sun. The main game used to focus on a Save The World mode where you attack and shoot enemies with weapons and build defences.
However, it’s the online multiplayer Battle Royale mode that is almost exclusively played by youngsters. Similar to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, although with a younger age rating, this pits up to 100 players against each while a storm cloud closes in until the remaining players are forced into exhilarating showdowns.
Along with the usual advice for parents to play games with their children, and keep games in shared family rooms, here’s a look at what parents need to know about the game to keep it healthy for their children.
A good place to start is with the age rating information. In the UK the Video Standards council rate Fortnite as PEGI 12 for frequent scenes of mild violence. This means that it is illegal for anyone under the age of 12 to purchase the game for themselves.
The VSC states why it gave the game a 12 rating. «Violence consists of you using whatever weapons you can find or make to fend off the monsters of the Storm and save the survivors. Damage is dealt by numbers and life bars and monsters disappear in a purple flash when defeated.»
In the US, the ESRB gave Fortnite a Teen rating. This equates to those 13 years and older. Similar to the PEGI rating, it highlights that «players use guns, swords, and grenades to fight
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