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Fortnite: A Game Played By Hundred Millions


Mon 29 Jul 2019 | 01:52 PM
Ahmed Yasser

Fortnite is an online video game developed by Epic Games and released in 2017; it became a global success and is currently played by millions of gaming fans worldwide. The game has three versions Fortnite: Save the World, Fortnite Battle Royale and Fortnite Creative.

*Fortnite: Save the World

This version involves a player versus environment game, with four players cooperating towards a common goal. The game is set after a fluke storm appears across Earth, causing 98% of the population to disappear and the survivors to be attacked by Zombies. The players take the role of commanders of home base shelters, collecting resources, saving survivors and defending equipment that help to either collect data on the storm or to push back the storm.

*Fortnite Battle Royale (most popular version):

This version received the most mainstream success among the versions. The game involves a player-versus-player Battle Royale for up to 100 players, allowing one to play alone, in a duo, or in a squad (usually consisting of three or four players). Weaponless players airdrop from a "Battle Bus" that crosses the game's map. When they land, they must search for weapons, items, resources, and even vehicles while trying to stay alive and attack other players, eliminating them.

*Fortnite Creative

A sandbox game mode where players are given complete freedom to create anything they want on an island, such as; battle arenas, race courses, platforming challenges and more. Epic Games reviews some of the most popular creations from Creative and rotate these into the Battle Royale map in an area called "The Block".

While the first two games have been successful for Epic Games, Fortnite Battle Royale became a resounding success, drawing in more than 125 million players in less than a year and earning hundreds of millions of dollars per month.