Fortnite: Battle Royale (PC, PS4 & Xbox One) is also a topic in the infamous internet show “Honest Trailer.” Hardly any game or movie gets a good review. But Fortnite can only be trolled in the PvE mode.
“Honest Trailers” is an internet show that mercilessly takes movies and games head-on and, as a counterpoint to the usual praise-filled PR blabber, makes an “honest statement.” This often ends up in a pretty heavy critique when bad movies like “Transformers” or controversial games like “Battlefront 2” are presented with all their flaws.
However, there are also titles that come off well and only receive mild ridicule or even praise. This recently happened with the Honest Trailer for Monster Hunter World and continues with Fortnite.
PvE? Nobody plays that!
The trailer starts with almost 2 minutes of explanation about Fortnite. Specifically about the PvE mode “Save the World,” which according to the trailer “has been in Early Access since the Stone Age.”
After the speaker lists numerous features of the PvE mode with his usual cool “Awesome Voice” and eventually tries to explain the complex upgrades, he suddenly cuts off and says: “Just kidding, nobody plays this mode!”
A nasty jab at the game’s development, which was originally not focused on PvP at all. Since Battle Royale has become so successful, more and more resources are funneled into this mode and not into PvE anymore.
The lightest version of a murderous game show!
Instead of the PvE mode, the rest of the trailer revolves around the far more popular PvP mode Battle Royale. It is described as a truly “lighthearted version of a murderous game show” and you don’t need to “be a member of a separatist militia to succeed in it.”
A reference to the significantly more complex gameplay of PUBG, in which you have to enhance weapons and approach more tactically. However, the “classic PUBG tactic” would also work. That is, hiding in a corner and camping for the entire match.
Well copied and for free
Fortnite has to put up with some mockery. After all, Epic shamelessly borrowed and copied from the competition PUBG. But regardless of whether one likes the gameplay or prefers PUBG: the price of $0 is hard to beat!
The guy who always shoots you first!
In the end, the trailer introduces a few special types you often encounter in Fortnite. Among them are:
- A complete noob who shows up at the shootout with a pickaxe
- The guy who thinks he has the perfect plan (by building a huge staircase and falling to his death)
- The guy who thinks he has the perfect hiding spot (as a bush on a sidewalk)
- The guy who always shoots you first
- Extremely angry, screaming kids
- Guys who just want to show off their cool towers on Facebook
We have embedded the video with the Honest Trailer here for you. Stay tuned until the end and don’t miss the reference to Guardians of the Galaxy 2: “I’m Mary Poppins y’all!”
