Greene then went to Daybreak Games where he helped that publisher build its own Battlegrounds mode for H1Z1 called King of the Kill.Īfter all of that experience, Battlegrounds is the purest expression of the last-player-standing genre yet, and that has attracted a massive audience. I’ve even called it the most important shooter since Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare due to its broad appeal.
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PlayerUnknown had worked on the Battlegrounds mod that spun off from the zombie Arma mod DayZ. Along with developer Bluehole, Greene released PUBG (as many call it) earlier this year. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is the reigning champ of the last-player-standing space, and that makes sense because it is the first standalone release from the person who helped establish this game mode in the first place, Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene. Now that we understand the genre, let’s look more closely at the games themselves: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
That element of chance makes players want to gamble and keep going even when the odds are against them. That also creates a “just one more match” loop that is a difficult to break out of. You don’t know if the way you’re heading into the circle will have 15 people that spot you immediately or no one at all. You never know if the next house you loot or person you kill will have your favorite weapon or a rare sniper rifle. Individual fights or team battles will require you to hone your precision with a mouse, but all the moments between are just as much about chance. The Hunger Games books and films built on that concept and brought it into the mainstream in the United States. All the games in the last-player-standing genre tinker with the Battle Royale/Hunger Games formula in one way or another.īeneath that surface, though, these games are about skill and luck. If this sounds familiar, it’s probably because you read or watched Battle Royale, a Japanese book and film about a group of students who are stuck on an island and are forced to kill each other until only one person is left. To keep people from camping in one place, these games often corral players in safe zones that get smaller and smaller over time until a handful of people are fighting in a space the size of a couple of houses. Typically, these drop you on an island or a similar map with up to 200 other people (player count varies with each game), and then it is a mad scramble to collect weapons, armor, and resources to maximize your chances of coming out of any gunfight alive.
This a genre that’s all about ensuring you are the final survivor in a fight to the death with dozens of other people. These games are popular, but what exactly are they? Well, they are last-player-standing shooters.
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