![]() ![]() The main Fortnite game for Mac and PC is a paid game that’s based on building forts and fighting off zombies, but if we’re being honest, almost no one plays it in comparison. In essence, you drop out of a bus floating in the sky and fight 99 other players to the death until only one is left standing. This is a game where the slightest hesitation or dawdling equates to death.įortnite: Battle Royale, if you haven’t heard, is a free-to-play survival game that builds off ideas in both the 2000 film Battle Royale and The Hunger Games book and films. We’ve seen this kind of things with Minecraft and Hearthstone, of course, but Fortnite is a different beast entirely. Playing it feels a little like looking into the future: a future where resource-hogging, action-heavy games on desktops and consoles share living space on smartphones with barely a change in experience. (Thanks to a spat between Sony and Microsoft, you currently have to deal with separate queues for PS4 or Xbox.) And yes, that means all at the same time. ![]() It’s exciting enough that we can play a game on our phones at the height of its popularity on Mac, PC, Xbox One, and PS4, but also because Fortnite allows us to play against players on those systems from our handheld devices. It’s hard to overemphasize how bold this release is. Only a comparatively small group of players currently have access, but what I’ve seen so far suggests that Epic wouldn’t have to do much to fling open the gates to the wider public. It hasn’t even been a fortnight since we learned thatįortnite: Battle Royale, Epic Games’ wildly popular multiplayer survival shooter, would be coming to iOS, and yet now it’s already on my iPhone and iPad, running far more smoothly than I’d expect from a freshly-minted beta.
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