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Epic Games announce melee battle royale RumbleverseIt looks very Fortnite-y
It looks very Fortnite-y
So, Rumbleverse is a free-to-play, 40-player battle to the death. There are no guns, it’s pretty much all melee (though you can throw stuff at people, if you want), and you run around collecting items and power-ups that give you abilities.
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I’ve missed an incredibly important fact already, and that is that the game’s setting (arena, map, whatever you wanna call it) is named Grapital City. I don’t know if I hate that or not. Disappointingly, I didn’t see any grappling hooks.
In the preview, something that stood out was that the areas you drop into on the map change each time. Grapital City is a pretty big map, but each match will choose a portion of it for you to play on, rather than set you free on the whole thing. It should stop players from getting too comfortable and dropping at the same spots all the time, which is something I feel other battle royales could play with more.
There’s a lot of verticality, with players able to infinitely climb the sides of buildings, and use ground pound-style moves to take out enemies below. Ultimately, it looks pretty fun, kinda like a melee version of Fortnite. Though I have to say, I’m really not a fan of its art style - but hey, this is absolutely not a game aimed at me anyways.
Rumbleverse arrives on the Epic Games Store, as well as the PlayStations and Xboxes on February 8th, 2022. It’ll support cross-platform play and progression too, so you can jump in with pals regardless of what they’re playing on, and maintain progression across platforms.
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