The founder of the “Battle Royal” genre is now creating his own game as Playerunknown’s Battleground.
Brendan Greene has made a name for himself as the founder of the “Battle Royale” mode for the games “Arma” and “DayZ“. Over a year ago, the then-President of SOE, John Smedley, hired him to establish this mode for the zombie game H1Z1 as a “tournament-and-fun” mode. It turned out quite well.
Now he is getting his own game thanks to the Tera creators Bluehole. There he is supposed to implement and design his vision of chaotic Battle Royale from the ground up: “Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds” is intended to be an open-world PvP game.
Battle Royale provides “bloody-exciting” hours
The principles of “Battle Royale” are based on a Japanese novel where a class of students is supposed to kill each other until only one survives. Each receives a weapon or another item, and then the “island” where they fight each other shrinks through death zones until only one survives. We here in the West know the principle from the films and books about “The Hunger Games – the Tributes of Panem.”
But the whole thing is not only exciting in the cinema, but also provides varied matches on the computer with changing strategies, loyalties, and sudden changes in the situation. It’s about gaining an advantage with weapons and supplies, which can be lost at any time due to that one “lucky shot.” Once you are dead, you are out, and the great items you have collected will not help anymore.
When does the beta of Playerunknown’s Battleground start? What will it cost?
The new game from Greene is being developed on the Unreal Engine. The priority is initially a PC version. However, one can also envision a launch for Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
Towards the end of 2016, a beta with a small player pool is planned. Anyone interested in participating in the tests should keep an eye out over social media like Facebook or Twitter . The first wave of alpha invites has just gone out in the last few hours.
The game will probably follow a subscription model, but a specific contribution has not yet been determined. We have already shared the first images of character art in the article. There is not much more information about the game in its current development stage. But we will keep an eye on it.
