Players use all manner of weapons, from shotguns and sniper rifles, to axes and plastic flamingos to attack each other, with nothing in the way of blood, guts or gore being shown. Though Fortnite may be a game about killing people, there's actually less in the way of violence here than you may think. With the game making no effort to pit you against players of a similar level of experience, getting good at Fortnite is a question of sheer persistence, and gritting your teeth through many an early death. As an online only game, with nothing in the way of a tutorial, and nothing to explain what you're actually supposed to be doing - yet alone what you can do in terms of base building - finding your footing in Fortnite is tricky to say the least. How easy is Fortnite: Battle Royale to pick up and play? 'Solo' lets you go it on your own, hoping to outlast 99 other players, 'Duos' sees you facing off against other pairs of players as each team tries to be the last one standing, 'Squad' is the same, but with up to four players, while 50 vs 50 sees the 100 players splitting off into two huge 50 man teams, encouraging a style of play that's much more co-operative. While the Battle Royale mode may be the only game in town here, it does come in four different flavours. With the play space available shrinking every few minutes, the game forces you to stay in the eye of the storm, in turn ensuring that as the numbers dwindle, players are never too far apart. Although the map itself may be huge, the game triggers a giant storm only a few minutes in, which gradually closes in on the island, shutting the outer limits off. Only the multiplayer battle royale mode is available to play for free.Įssentially a third person shooter, only on a much larger scale, the Battle Royale mode is basically a question of survival, as you take on a hundred players to try and make sure you're the last one left. While Fortnite does have a single player/co-op mode, called 'Save the World', it's currently only available as what's known as an 'early access' paid add on, where players can choose to pay to unlock the mode, knowing they're essentially buying into a pre-release version.

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