PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds owes its modest genius to its simple rules. Together with a maximum of 99 others, you jump from an airplane above a large, delimited area. Once you have landed, you must quickly search for firearms that can be randomly generated in buildings. The game area - indicated by a blue circle - gradually shrinks in the direction of a white circle marked on the card, so that all players are driven towards each other. You, or your team, must be the last to win. That is easier said than done.
PUBG's rules involve many tactical issues in an organic way. In this way, players often avoid the houses whose doors are open. A player can then make a nice fall by deliberately closing all the doors behind him. A player dyed in the wool does not kick in anymore, because he takes all the position of the circle, the route of the plane and the broken window on the first floor of the red house on the left in the risk analysis. In PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds a good position often proves to be more decisive than your mikkunsten and information about the location of your opponents is more valuable than a telescope sight.
Nerve-wracking
The tension in PUBG builds up, after an early peak, to a nerve-wracking climax. In the beginning you run into the nearest building, hoping to load a pistol half a second earlier and shoot the competitor next to you. If you survive the first few minutes, a quieter period follows. You spend a lot of time on the 30-minute rounds of equipment search - in houses, on the still warm bodies of your victims and the periodically falling red boxes with special loot - and pull the white circle before the blue circle catches you up. If that happens, your health will gradually return. In the beginning, the damage is not so bad, but as the circle shrinks further, a stay outside the blue circle is dead after just a few seconds.
If you have the courage to approach a red Care Package, you can always count on action. When you are robbing such a box or when you hear footsteps unexpectedly, the blood already freezes in your veins, but that tension does not fall in the deafening heartbeat as soon as you reach the top ten. You will not be the first to wake up the whole house with a triumphant roar when you see the words 'Winner Chicken Dinner'.
1.0, but not finished
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has made huge progress during a relatively short period in Early Access - developers of DayZ, are you watching? - but the 1.0 indication that the game is now wearing is not entirely deserved. The game is indeed much smoother than a few months ago and the hilly desert landscape of Miramar is a good contrast to the maritime climate of the island of Erangel. On the other hand there are several bugs that have been known for some time and an initial phase that suffers from connection problems. Do not be surprised if you run behind a wall to seek cover and a load of hail still finds your body. The cause has been established, but an official release prior to the lucrative Christmas days obviously weighed heavier.
The sound quality in PUBG is excellent if you judge the sounds individually. The sound also distorts in a realistic way depending on the distance and the environment in which the bulkhead is unloaded. However, the positioning of the sound is utterly miserable. Shots in the view of the player are usually correct, but outside of them there is only left, right and back. Whether someone is running above or below you in a building is all gambling. Even more disturbing is that sound even falls away when the source runs in front of you. Being able to hear where your opponent is located is crucial in a game like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Brak directional sound is then difficult to cope with in a 1.0 version.
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is a source of anecdotes, as well as unexpected and spectacular firefights and nail-biting decouplings. The deceptively simple game concept organically leads to a wide range of strategies and situations to apply them. As a developer PUBG Corp. however, a few months extra had spent cleaning away the mistakes, the right knitting of the connection problems and improving the sound, the game was even better.
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is now available for PC and Xbox One, where it can be played with Xbox Game Preview. The review is based on the PC version. For the time being, stay far away from the Xbox One version, which suffers from performance problems.
Conclusion
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is not inferior to the hype. The shooter alternates periods of subcutaneous tension with sizzling explosions of violence that let you come back for more. The simple rules of the game invite profound tactical considerations, whether you play alone or in a team. However, bugs, connection problems and broke positional sound betray the unfinished status of the game.
➕ Inimitable exciting battle to be the last to survive, excellent balance between thinking and shooting, each jar is different
➖ Bugs, connection problems during the initial moments, sound system below par
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