Battle Royale blends the survival, exploration and scavenging elements of a survival game with last man standing gameplay. The name for the genre is taken from the 2000 Japanese film
Battle Royale, which presents a similar theme of a last-man-standing competition in a shrinking play zone. Kinji Fukasaku's movie has influenced Brendan Greene who, despite having no experience in the game development at all, has tried his luck with
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds.
What has started as a small
ARMA mode, is not only breaking records left and right, but also kickstarted the gaming niche into hyper-drive.
Call of Duty: Black Ops IV and this year's
Battlefield will both reportedly feature the Battle Royale modes (and one won't even have a normal single player campaign [shame on you, Activision]), and according to creative director at Ubisoft Montreal's
Assassins Creed III and
Far Cry 4, the trend won't stop anytime soon.
"
Battle Royale is not a game type, it’s a game mode, like death match. It’s easy to build on top of virtually any shooter you already have. It’ll be shipping by default CoD and BF and every other online shooter within a year," Alex Hutchinson wrote on Twitter. It's hard to not agree with the Co-Founder of Typhoon Studios, as even Cliff "Cliffy B" Bleszinski is trying his luck with Battle Royale in
Radical Heights after
LawBreakers' ultimate failure.
It's clear that we should expect to see a lot of announcements regarding the additional PUBG-like gameplay modes at this year's E3 in Los Angeles. What would you say about Doom 2: Battle Royale, Red Dead Redemption 2: Battle Royale, or Tom Clancy's The Division 2: Battle Royale? Considering that the popularity of the so-called companion apps has raised and died relatively quickly, the Battle Royale mania should end soon, too - the name of the game is Last-PUBG-Standing, after all.