Thoughts on upcoming game: Fortnite

Created on Thursday, 15 December 2011 00:11

Category: Gaming News


Fortnite Thoughts



Fortnite is the recently announced game from Epic studios. The game was inspired by Minecraft but with a greater emphasis on building structures. And fighting of waves of zombies.

As Epic described it themselves “an expansive original world that invites players to be creative, resourceful and collaborative by day and defend their prized fortress by night”.

 


The basic premise of the game is from the trailer and what information has been released. Fortnite has a day and night cycle. The day giving players time to salvage parts from the existing world even so far as blowing up generated buildings with dynamite to salvage metal, signs and other such scrap.

BigC’s Demolition Service at your disposal

 

 

And partner in crime Claire’s 100% Kleptomaniac Discount Service


Also noted during the day time there was a small creature they called a thief. So it could be assumed that during the day while you are primarily safe there will still be nuisances to hinder your gathering.

n0x Made flesh that or it’s a mutant blueberry.


You and friends (if present) then proceed to build a freeform structure that will act as your defense against the onslaught of zombies through the night. From the video the freeform structure could be seen taking place. The gatherable scraps include generators, lights, fences, poles, glass and various other types of metal sheets for walls

 

Generator working (for a second atleast) and what in the top-left  hand corner appears to be Mac in an Asian hat  or an ugly lampshade.

 

Come the night time one of the characters proceeds to close the gate while another struggles to get the generator running, as the encroaching horde of skeletons fall upon the fortified structure.
 

Generator not working. And some rather hungry dinner guests. Is that a Viking in the window? (Frenz is this really the time to be wearing your Conan the Barbarian outfit).

 

 

Fortnite guest starring Paris Hilton.


As for the game itself as a multiplayer. Whether specific game modes will exist or not is unknown. But in one case the game appears it will contain a persistent world that might possibly be randomly generated much like its Minecraft inspired concept.


-Geo