![]() Instead of starting out with an avatar that’s only distinguishable by its skin or whether it can perform a prepubescent dance move, now there are four classes. Even the cartoonish art style will remind you of Fortnite’s similarly colourful aesthetic.īut spend a couple of hours in its company and you soon realise Realm has far more in common with Paladins: Champions of the Realm (the game in which Realm originated as a BR mode) and a more traditional MMO. There are chests to open, guns and loot to equip and a shrinking eye that periodically forces players into a smaller and smaller arena. 100 players launch from a wooden blimp and skydive down into one huge, open map. Realm Royale rewards skill, map awareness and tactical prowess as much as any of its contemporaries, but balances that by offering more ways to empower you as a player (especially if you’re a little less experienced with this kind of game). It’s an addictive roll of the dice for some, but an utter bore for others. Because BR games can be the most frustrating experiences: spending 15 minutes looking for the right gun, only to have someone snipe you from a distance and force you right back to the start of the cycle. Now in its Beta phase on Nintendo Switch (and every other platform for that matter), Realm has been slowly evolving its core systems in order to keep the mechanics that set it apart from Fortnite - easily the biggest BR draw on Nintendo’s current-gen hardware - while trying to make the whole experience more enjoyable. ![]() Its time in the sun came last summer, and while its player base dwindled to Anthem levels, publisher and developer Hi-Rez Studios wasn’t ready to give up so easily. Usually when a BR title stumbles into obscurity - or experiences a brief 15 minutes of popularity - they tend to stay gone. Plenty of games have attempted to grab a piece of this lucrative pie over the last couple of years, but for every Fortnite, PUBG and Apex Legends there are countless others that have failed to capture that same zeitgeist. ![]() In 2019, few genres are quite as fickle and difficult to predict as battle royale. ![]()
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