The Fortnite Battle Royale game has been a worldwide success: we explain what it is, what are the possible game modes and why everyone loves to play Fortnite.
With around 40 million people playing it every month, Fortnite is definitely a candidate to be one of the most played video games ever. If you’ve heard of it, it’s because, launched in 2017 by Epic Games (and developed together with People Can Fly ), Fortnite has reached hundreds of millions of people , thrilling not only the classic “video game nerds”, but people with the most varied interests. .
If you want to know more about Fortnite , all you have to do is dedicate the next five minutes to reading this article.
- How to play Fortnite
- Fortnite Battle Royale
- Fortnite Save the World
- The secret of Fortnite’s success
How to play Fortnite
Fortnite is a “shooter” game , that is one of those in which you practically have to shoot everything that moves on the screen, but it has been developed in two totally different modes:
- “Battle royal”
- “Save the world”
Both modes require the player to always be connected to the internet, because as we will explain shortly, Fortnite is played together with many other people at the same time .
Fortnite Battle Royale
The Fortnite Battle Royale mode is the most successful . The game starts on a kind of flying bus, from which 100 players are catapulted to a desert island. As soon as you land, you will only have a pickaxe at your disposal, with which you will have to build a shelter, obtain weapons, ammunition and medicine kits, and possibly create traps for the opponents. You won’t be able to take many weapons with you, but you will buy them as you find them on the island or as you kill another player.
The aim of the game is to take out all the other 99 avatars on the island and remain the only ones alive! As time passes, the game reduces the area of the island you can be in (with a storm you must escape from), thus forcing players to meet and collide. As gory as Fortnite may seem, in truth, it is a game where it is more important to stay alive than to kill your opponents . Not only, therefore, you will have to take care to get weapons, but above all you will have to think about defending yourself and having a strategy to stay alive as long as possible, on an island where everyone fights against everyone.
Fortnite Save the World
The Save the world how Fortnite has a totally different approach. In this case, you don’t play 100 free-for-all, but up to a maximum of 4 people at a time who will have to work together to achieve a single goal.
Save the World is set in a post-apocalyptic era , where the few surviving people have to defend themselves from aliens. The 4 players will then have to build structures, prepare for attacks and defend themselves, in order to protect the few humans left on Earth.
The secret of Fortnite’s success
There are several reasons why this game has been so successful . First of all, Fortnite is free , even if the customization of the characters and avatars only happens in exchange for money. Its free, however, is not enough to explain this huge following, also because there are millions of free games, but only very few are downloaded by millions of people like Fortnite.
Another important factor is that this game was developed and released for a myriad of platforms , you can play it on:
- Play station;
- Xbox;
- Nintendo;
- PC;
- iPhone (while the version for Android phones is about to be launched).
Its being multi-platform has certainly helped its spread, but even this element alone would not be enough to explain its success. The greatness of this game probably lies in the combination of these factors with others properly belonging to the videogame. It should also not be forgotten that the online game can be accessed by participants from all nations: Fortnite is seen by many players as an opportunity to create social relationships with other users, to get to know each other and even to improve English by exchanging messages in the game’s chat !
Fortnite is an atypical shooter . Not only do you shoot, but you have to build, have a survival strategy , create traps etc. The game, therefore, shows great flexibility, combined with simplicity that attracts both beginners and real videogame professionals. Its malleability is also shown in the size of the playing field. The island you are thrown on is huge and totally buildable, leaving you plenty of room for maneuver. Plus, it’s all combined with eye-catching graphics, which many have rightly associated with cartoons. Finally, the developers themselves have not been stopping to bask in success, but have cyclically released (and continue to release) updates with new tests and new difficulties, for those who want to try their hand at Fortnite. On a weekly basis, for example, new challenges are introduced which, if overcome, will entitle you to stars, useful for obtaining certain items.
