Blackout 4 Blackout feels like he's going to kill the Battle Royale trend

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It's a strange feeling to charge a year Call of Duty free for the first time and not have a campaign to start. Instead, there is a series of vignettes of "specialists" of characters to which elements of light stories are attached; Black Ops 4 is Blackout, its sprawling Battle Royale mode.

After playing a good part of Blackout in the beta, and then some superficial matches this morning, I have already come to a conclusion.

This looks like the beginning of the end of the Battle Royale trend.

To be clear, this is do not because I think Blackout is bad. The opposite, in fact. I think Blackout is very, very good, and probably the most designed Battle Royale title for me, because I always have liked Call of Duty fight and prefer it to the tastes of PUBG and Fortnite. Using it in a mode like this on a sprawling map like this is fantastic, and I can not wait to play a ton of Blackout in the future.

So what do I mean?

Blackout has the feeling that he is about to evacuate the rest of the oxygen from the room when it comes to the Battle Royale trend. As if this would be the last major entry in the genre with real meaning, we will then address what the "next thing" is quite early here.

Here's how I see the Battle Royale genre:

• PUBG has been declining for a long time now, unable to keep pace with Fortnite. Since the gameplay is more like Blackout, it will be the hardest hit and its declines will only accelerate.
• Fortnite is still hugely popular, but it looks like it has peaked and is about to embark on a very busy fall release season, while the rest of the year has been almost entirely devoted at its end. He can always be the League of Legends of the royal battle genre, but her true glory days may be behind her.
• Enter PUBG and Fortnite, most of the other newcomers from Battle Royale, from small studios, were excluded from the market. Some have niches that will never get fat, others were killed on the spot (remember that a week of Radical heights?) It does not make sense to continue to develop and publish BR games for these studios, now that AAA players involve them.
• Given the relative lack of buzz that I see around me Battlefield V, I do not think his BR mode will produce as much impact when it arrives, since the BF games have always been high, and the number of players on the big cards remains high. .
• Some other AAA games may try, but I do not see how, Red Dead Royale or something is becoming a must-have item on the scene.

That leaves Blackout, who, I think, will find a solid base of players and will be played frequently for at least most of the year until the next edition. CODeven though Activision says they will support Blackout after that.

But the fact is that, with the release of Blackout, all major players are in fixed positions and there is not much room in the genre to continue to grow. If Blackout is successful, it will probably be at the expense of existing staples players, PUBG or Fortnite. If it is not, then all that concerns the decline of BR, which I just said, is amplified.

This is a less extreme version of how Overwatch arrived, created the trend of hero shooting games by himself, then had almost no real competition. Everyone gave up trying and then moved on to Battle Royale, leaving Overwatch to own the space alone (although he also suffers the passage to BR). Here we have more major players, at least three, but we have the impression that we are in the same part of the cycle. It seems unwise that too many other games are trying to compete with monsters like Call of Duty and FortniteSo we will probably move on in the future, although I can not predict what it is for now.

I think Blackout is going to be a success and propel Black Ops 4 sales even higher than they would otherwise be. But with regard to the genre as a whole, with such an important competitor arriving on the scene, the end seems more or less close to a future competition or innovation in the field. I may be wrong, but that's certainly how I feel.

Follow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Read my new detective science fiction novel Herokiller, now available in print and online. I have also written The trilogy born of the earth.

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It's a strange feeling to charge a year Call of Duty free for the first time and not have a campaign to start. Instead, there is a series of vignettes of "specialists" of characters to which elements of light stories are attached; Black Ops 4 is Blackout, its sprawling Battle Royale mode.

After playing a good part of Blackout in the beta, and then some superficial matches this morning, I have already come to a conclusion.

This looks like the beginning of the end of the Battle Royale trend.

To be clear, this is do not because I think Blackout is bad. The opposite, in fact. I think Blackout is very, very good, and probably the most designed Battle Royale title for me, because I always have liked Call of Duty fight and prefer it to the tastes of PUBG and Fortnite. Using it in a mode like this on a sprawling map like this is fantastic, and I can not wait to play a ton of Blackout in the future.

So what do I mean?

Blackout has the feeling that he is about to evacuate the rest of the oxygen from the room when it comes to the Battle Royale trend. As if this would be the last major entry in the genre with real meaning, we will then address what the "next thing" is quite early here.

Here's how I see the Battle Royale genre:

• PUBG has been declining for a long time now, unable to keep pace with Fortnite. Since the gameplay is more like Blackout, it will be the hardest hit and its declines will only accelerate.
• Fortnite is still hugely popular, but it looks like it has peaked and is about to embark on a very busy fall release season, while the rest of the year has been almost entirely devoted at its end. He can always be the League of Legends of the royal battle genre, but her true glory days may be behind her.
• Enter PUBG and Fortnite, most of the other newcomers from Battle Royale, from small studios, were excluded from the market. Some have niches that will never get fat, others were killed on the spot (remember that a week of Radical heights?) It does not make sense to continue to develop and publish BR games for these studios, now that AAA players involve them.
• Given the relative lack of buzz that I see around me Battlefield V, I do not think his BR mode will produce as much impact when it arrives, since the BF games have always been high, and the number of players on the big cards remains high. .
• Some other AAA games may try, but I do not see how, Red Dead Royale or something is becoming a must-have item on the scene.

That leaves Blackout, who, I think, will find a solid base of players and will be played frequently for at least most of the year until the next edition. CODeven though Activision says they will support Blackout after that.

But the fact is that, with the release of Blackout, all major players are in fixed positions and there is not much room in the genre to continue to grow. If Blackout is successful, it will probably be at the expense of existing staples players, PUBG or Fortnite. If it is not, then all that concerns the decline of BR, which I just said, is amplified.

This is a less extreme version of how Overwatch arrived, created the trend of hero shooting games by himself, then had almost no real competition. Everyone gave up trying and then moved on to Battle Royale, leaving Overwatch to own the space alone (although he also suffers the passage to BR). Here we have more major players, at least three, but we have the impression that we are in the same part of the cycle. It seems unwise that too many other games are trying to compete with monsters like Call of Duty and FortniteSo we will probably move on in the future, although I can not predict what it is for now.

I think Blackout is going to be a success and propel Black Ops 4 sales even higher than they would otherwise be. But with regard to the genre as a whole, with such an important competitor arriving on the scene, the end seems more or less close to a future competition or innovation in the field. I may be wrong, but that's certainly how I feel.

Follow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Read my new detective science fiction novel Herokiller, now available in print and online. I have also written The trilogy born of the earth.