You know how the old saying goes: whenever there’s a good idea, beat it into the ground and make everyone completely and utterly jaded by it. That’s beginning to be the case with battle royale games with the likes of Fortnite and PUBG anchoring the throne and many imitators struggling to find space.
Both of those games, however, aren’t quite in the traditional AAA sphere: the big boys who dominate E3 each and every year. With Call of Duty and Battlefield both adopting battle royale for their newest instalments, EA and Activision have been reticent to spill the beans. Not even a single bean, really: there’s been an eerie lack of info for both visions of battle royale with their releases looming.
Now, however, with Battlfield V lifting the lid with a long look at what it’s all about with the This Is Battlefield promotional video and Black Ops 4 having a cover story with Game Informer (who always seem to grab these huge stories as exclusives), we have our best guess as to what to expect yet.
Battlefield’s battle royale will be called Firestorm and not developed by DICE. It will support 64 players (the Battlefield standard) with 16 teams of four, which is basically squads. It won’t be available in the game at launch and will instead be coming down the pipeline, almost as if they only just recently started working on it to be on-trend or something.
Meanwhile, Black Ops 4’s battle royale, named Blackout, will support 80 players, which surprisingly pips Battlefield. It’s odd considering that Battlefield is known for grand scale and Call of Duty is known for more close-quarters combat. Blackout will also feature AI zombies, as well as the largest map seen in a Call of Duty game to date. Another leg up on Battlefield is that Blackout will be available with Black Ops 4 on day one.
Of course, these are just numbers and details: what really matters is how they will both play. With the massive production budgets behind both of these projects and marketing that probably costs more than the entire income of a county in the UK, they will be played no matter what. Me? I will still probably be getting humiliated by children on Fortnite, to tell the truth.
Source: ScreenRant
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