Middle: Playing dress-up with gear jumping your motorcycle off a cliff shooting the shit with your friends over voice chat.
Beginning: goofing off on the spawn island streaking like meteors toward the ground a mad, bloody dash for a gun, any gun. Whatever that secret formula is, PUBG mixed it up in a lab, poured it into an Early Access beaker, and it fucking exploded.Įvan Lahti: It's one of the few multiplayer shooters with a sense of pacing. The premise seems simple, but we've seen both BR modes (like Ark: Survival of the Fittest) and standalone BR games (The Culling) fizzle out, so there's clearly more to it than just dropping 100 players on a map and letting them shoot each other. It can't be denied that H1Z1 (formerly King of the Kill) was a massive hit, with millions of copies sold and a playerbase keeping it at the top of the Steam charts for months, but PUBG truly took the genre into the mainstream, attracting scores of players who had never set foot in battle royale before. Chris Livingston: PUBG aimed for the sweet spot between the intimidating complexity of Arma and the arcade-like action of H1Z1, and hit the mark pretty much dead on.
