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So what exactly is Fortnite?
Fortnite is an online video game and game platform developed by Epic Games and released in 2017. The game was originally just Fortnite: Save the World, a PVE (Player-versus-environment) co-op experience, however due to the battle royale genre having a boom in popularity at the time with games such as Player Unknowns Battleground (Also known as P.U.B.G) seeing massive success. Epic Games decided they would take a crack at their own Battle Royale using Fortnite: Save the World as a template and created Fortnite: Battle Royale, which ended up becoming a global phenomenon, drawing more than 125 million players in less than a year and earning hundreds of millions of dollars per month. As a whole, Fortnite has generated over $40 billion in total revenue to date!
What is there to do in Fortnite?
There is a plethora of things to do in Fortnite. Most notably are the aforementioned Battle Royale and Save the World modes (however, Save the World is a pay-to-play mode). But even if shooters are not your cup of tea, there are still other modes, such as Fortnite Festival (a rhythm game), Lego Fortnite Odyssey (open world survival), Rocket Racing (a racing game) and many more! And there are even thousands of user-made experiences for you to try out.
Game modes
Battle Royale
Fortnie Battle Royale is a player-versus-player game for up to 100 players, allowing you to play alone, with a duo, a trio or a squad. At the start of the game, you drop from the "Battle Bus" that will go from one side of the map to another. And then you loot up with weapons, items and materials while eliminating other players. Over the course of the game, "The Storm", where players take damage and get eliminated if they stay there too long, shrinks around the map, pushing all the players closer together and resulting in more player encounters until the last player or team is alive. Alongside the main Battle Royale mode, there are three additional modes: Zero Build, which removes the building element Fortnite is known for and, in exchange, each player receives 50 rechargeable overshields, Reload, a more condensed map with only up to 40 players that allows players to respawn after dying for a set amount of time, and OG which revisits the classic chapter 1 map and lootpool.
Fortnite Festival
Fortnite Festival is a rhythm game consisting of three modes, the most popular being "Main Stage", where players can play hit songs and original tracks made by Epic Games themselves, each day having up to 40 different songs to choose from. There are four unique instruments: Lead, Bass, Drums and Vocals. There is also the "Battle Stage" where sixteen players fight over who can get the highest score whilst trying to sabotage each other's performance until only one player remains. On the "Jam Stage", players work together to make remixes using different instruments of different songs.
Lego Fortnite
Lego Fortnite is a platform for Lego-based games. Including games such as Odyssey, which is a survival sandbox game, sharing similarities with games such as Minecraft, where players play as Lego Minifig versions of their skins. Players can build various structures and craft weapons and items to fend off the many enemies. Brick Life is a social-based game designed as a child-friendly version of Grand Theft Auto where players can hang out and complete tasks like working at a pizza place. And there's Lego Expeditions, a co-op action-adventure mode where up to four players can select a wide selection of hero classes and customise their items to defeat enemies and solve puzzles.
Fortnite: Save the World
Fortnite: Save the World is a player-versus-environment co-op game, with four players working towards a shared objective on different missions while avoiding the damaging effects of the rapidly approaching storm. The players take the role of the commander of the "Homebase", collecting resources, saving survivors in danger and defending their equipment from the "Husks", which are zombie-like creatures that come in various shapes and sizes. Rewards from missions include hero characters, schematics for weapons and traps, and survivors which can all be leveled up through experience.
Fortnite Ballistic
Fortnite Ballistic is a five-versus-five, first-person, round-based tactical shooter, much like Counter-strike and Valorant, where one team has to plant and protect a rift device whilst it charges; the other team must eliminate them and defuse the device in time before it explodes. Between each round there is a "buy phase" where players are able to buy in-game weapons and gear using the currency they earned in the previous rounds.
Rocket Racing
Rocket Racing is a racing game that serves as a spin-off to Rocket League where players race against each other, gaining speed boosts from boost-pads and by drifting, as well as having the ability to jump and race vertically on the wall whilst you avoid the many obstacles of each course.
Fortnite Creative
Fortnite Creative is a sandbox mode where players are given complete freedom to spawn any item or structure from Battle Royal on their very own island and can create and upload games such as battle arenas, race courses or platforming maps. It also supports Unreal Editor for Fortnite, giving players even more freedom to edit their world using Fortnite's assets. Allowing you to even create custom Fall Guys and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games for all players to enjoy.
