The only answer I can come up with is that it’s hideous. The genre seems to have already peaked with Epic’s 800-pound gorilla, so if H1Z1 is only just now releasing in full, what makes it unique?
( H1Z1’s maximum player count supposedly exceeds a hundred, though I’ve yet to be in a match where that happens.) Players must stay within a constantly-shrinking safe zone, which is a mechanic that keeps the pace of the match steady even as the herd thins.Īlthough the genre has only been a pop culture fixation for a year or so, the market is already so oversaturated that Cliffy B, one of the most prolific game designers on the planet, bankrupted his company by hastily jumping on the bandwagon.
And given the shoddy state that H1Z1 is still in, the delay doesn’t seem to have paid off.įor those unfamiliar, a battle royale game drops a hundred players onto a massive map, with the simple rule that the last person standing wins. If the idea behind this game was ever novel, developer Daybreak seems to have missed an opportunity by keeping it in early access for so long. I won’t even pretend that I wasn’t spending every second of H1Z1 daydreaming about playing a version of it that’s smoother and more pleasant to look at. This fact offers little consolation in 2018, however, when the title has only just now limped its way to a full release and the genre has already been dominated by Fortnite and Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds - two considerably better games. Having originally popped up in alpha over three years ago, H1Z1 can technically claim to be the first battle royale game.
WTF Incentivizing cosmetic rewards in a game with zero visual panache. LOW The game is ugly to the point of being difficult to read. HIGH The usual thrill of placing high among such a large group of players.
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