Fornite
There is only one way to survive the Fortnite analysis. We have to recruit a group of survivors, prepare our refuge and fight, wave after wave, with the monsters that come out at night. Only the best strategists will survive ... until the next attack.
Before starting the analysis of Fortnite we felt like in a John Carpenter movie. Those action-packed tapes in which the protagonists prepare for the siege of the criminals (in Assault on the police station of the 13th district) or of the monsters, in Ghosts of Mars. Because that is precisely what we have to do in the game: prepare our shelter and our weapons, to survive the waves of monsters that arrive at night.
Epic Games had already flirted with this idea in the Gears of War horde mode, but Fortnite is much more complex. In fact, it can be a bit overwhelming at first because of the number of options it offers. The argument is simple: a storm ravages the Earth, destroys most of the population and makes the monsters go out every night to kill the survivors. And our job is to make sure they do not get it.
Crafteo, construction and defense
And now is when things get complicated. We have a peak to destroy the elements of the scenario and thus get resources (wood, pieces of metal, stone or mechanical elements) with which to build defenses, strengthen our base and create traps. The center of the fort must be an anti-storm shield, which increases its area of influence with each level; So to speak, it is the "safe zone" in which the survivors will take refuge.
The construction system is quite complete: we can place pieces of wall, floors, ceilings or stairs, in three different materials, and then edit them so that they have specific forms (like doors or windows). And once we have placed the structure, we set up the traps; there are no decorative elements, it is simply about protecting ourselves and surviving. And all structures are destructible, regardless of the material they are made from.
Once the night falls and the monsters attack, the walls and palisades of spikes will not be enough to retain them, and we will have to show that we are as skilled with a weapon in our hands as with the pick and shovel. What awaits us is the traditional gameplay of a "shooter" in the third person, agile and exciting. As it is a survival situation, we will have to manage the ammunition with care, build our weapons from planes and prepare to lose them with the use.
There are two types of missions in the game: those of exploration, in different zones that are opened in the map, and those of improvement and defense in which we return to the main base. With the resources we obtain in the first ones, we can face the "upgrades" of our fort, but the truth is that the development does not vary too much. Each new scenario proposes variations on this defense either from the base or from the ATLAS, which are energy devices that are scattered around the map.
Heroes, survivors and defenders
Fortnite allows us to select our hero, with four available classes (soldier, ninja, constructor and globetrotter) and a complex tree of improvements. And we can also recruit defenders and survivors. These characters, organized in squads, will come to lend us a hand with our mission, or go out to fulfill orders on their own, as in Metal Gear Solid V. In turn, each of them (common to legendary) can improve with the Experience and change your arsenal ... As we said before, so many options can be overwhelming.
Luckily, we are not alone to save the world. Fortnite is an online cooperative multiplayer game. There is no single player campaign "to use", but progress requires that we connect to the network and look for surviving partners. At first, building a refuge among several may seem a little chaotic, but the truth is that it is quite fun. In addition, the collaboration between four allows us to explore the scenarios more quickly, and makes the confrontations much easier.
Characters and scenarios have an animated style, very much in line with what we have seen in Overwatch or in Team Fortress 2, which stands out for the size of the maps. His sense of humor reminds us of another game from the same team, Bulletsorm Full Clip Edition, but it lacks detail and the animations are not great either. We have played it on PS4 PRO and there were even some problems with the fluidity of the game. The sound section is not to throw rockets either: the music that goes completely unnoticed and the voices are scarce and in English, although this does not affect the experience.
There are many games in Fortnite: the shootings are frantic (as you would expect from a development of Epic Games) and the construction of our headquarters has "stung" us. But the progress in the exploration missions has seemed repetitive, and technically it is a bit short. At the beginning we were excited about the idea of preparing our strength and resisting -as in the Carpenter movies- but once we have played several missions, the development has become mechanical. Mind you, that does not mean that it is short -not much less- nor that it lacks depth.
ASSESSMENT
Fortnite is an ambitious proposal that combines very different genres (from strategy to "shooter") and gives us great moments. However, the mechanics become repetitive after a few hours of play, and technically it is not up to the level of other studio productions.
The best
The balance between "crafteo", construction, shootings and strategy
Worst
It becomes repetitive and sometimes so many options are overwhelming.
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