Bluehole, the creators behind the MMORPG TERA, have announced a new PvP game based on the Battle Royale principle. The special part: The founder of this mode, Brendan Greene, takes a leading role.
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds will take place on a remote, expansive island and allow for up to 64 players who must gradually track down and eliminate each other. Tools like weapons, vehicles, and supplies are limited and can be found on the map over the course of the game. The zone will gradually shrink, forcing players to confront each other eventually. Those who die are out. The last one standing wins. In the upcoming shooter, there is a strong emphasis on dynamic battlefields, where the combat system and player tactics come fully into play.
What’s behind Battle Royale
- What is Battle Royale? This is the same principle as the filmed Japanese novel “Battle Royale,” in which schoolchildren kill each other until only one is left alive (which is supposed to criticize the ruthlessly eliminating school system in Japan).
- The game mode resembles the successful film series “The Hunger Games,” which should be familiar to most, featuring Jennifer Lawrence in the lead role.
- Who is Brendan Greene? He is the creator of the so-called “Battle Royale” mods, which are popular in DayZ, Arma 3, and H1Z1. In the communities, he is known primarily as Playerunknown. It has always been his dream to turn this mode into a standalone game dedicated solely to it (and now he even gets his name on it…):
I have always wanted to create a standalone game – based on the mod – that I created for the ARMA series. Collaborating with Bluehole allows me to fully express my creativity and gain the necessary resources to realize my vision. We have a great development team here, and our goal is to create a realistic open-world experience with deep gameplay and combat mechanics.
By the way, for the graphics, they are using Unreal Engine 4, which the developers at Bluehole are already familiar with and should present the open-world survival multiplayer in the best light. The game is currently in development for PC. There is still no release date for Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, but it is said it will not be free-to-play.
Did you know? Even in Ark: Survival Evolved, you can clearly see influences of the “last-man-standing principle” in the “Survival of the Fittest” spinoff. And The Culling attempts to mix in with a very brutal variant of Battle Royale in the trending genre.
