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by Andrew Yoon, Jul 12, 2012 11:30am PDTEpic Games' Fortnite will be the company's first game to take advantage of Unreal Engine 4. Debuted at the Spike TV Video Game Awards, the cartoony action title is being described as "a co-op sandbox survival game," with building at the core of the game.
"Everything you find allows you to build and improve your structure," producer Tanya Jessen told an audience at a Comic-Con panel.
Given that no current console can run Unreal Engine 4, the game will be exclusive to PC. According to The Verge, Epic's Cliff Bleszinski told the audience: "This is a PC designed game, shipping exclusively on the PC."
Fortnite will be available in 2013.
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Epic Games' Fortnite will be the company's first game to take advantage of Unreal Engine 4. And, it's exclusive to PC.
Epic Games' Fortnite will be the company's first game to take advantage of Unreal Engine 4. And, it's exclusive to PC. : Shacknews
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- It has the potential to Brink itself, to drown the game in customizable items that ultimately coalesce into a meaningless mishmash. To avoid this, they must focus on item balance, but then the microtransaction potential threatens to disturb the balance even further, if they decide to cross that line. When asked if the game was going to be free-to-play, Tanya Jessen said to Joystiq, "We're actually not talking about that right now; we're going to figure it out, and we're going to do what's best." Whatever that means.
- They're pitching this as "something for everybody", with a mix of co-op combat, tower defense, Minecraft-esque construction, and open-worldiness. They can't really expect to perfect ALL of those facets, can they? I'm really only interested in first-person combat, and there's not much chance of them nailing that, seeing how they haven't done any since UT3 (and even then, UT3 lost much of the charm that was in UT2004).
- They're pitching the ultra-colorful style as "a fresh change of pace", but it's really just the polar opposite of Gears grey with tons of bloom. I'm not digging the style; it's too goofy and self-deprecating to take seriously, and not whimsy enough to laugh along with.
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