Fortnite is barely three years old. For all the transformation still undergoing Fortnite, 2017 feels like too small a distance for a game to have gone from rumored vaporware to global phenomenon. At its core it's a loot-driven multiplayer sandbox that features a big dose of sports-based sports with some horror thrown in.

Like many other games, Fortnite on Switch is all about the traversal. Rally and move with far less thought compared to endless run shooters, or defend stretch formations and throw yourself at a horde of zombies with confidence. But unlike the loot-based roguelikes and smart asides of games like PopoloCrois, or the wide armor builds you find on its top competitors, Fortnite strives for something a bit more unconventional, and to grasp a truly hardcore system is a formidable challenge on a handheld.

First of all, that lack of polish is what marks Fortnite as an effort more on the PC game as the progenitor of modern multiplayer loot mechanics. Those mechanics began on consoles in the birth of Call of Duty to prominence with Call of Duty 1 and 2 becoming seminal editions, often built upon the foundations of similarly enjoyable shooters like Halo 2. The streams of loot from battles, along with try-hard of equipment crafting like better maps, were staples of that era, and may still resurface in the Counter-Strike model, but everyone from Halo and Team Fortress felt like a change. For all the changes made over the years, the old PC-version of Call of Duty: Black Ops started things, and it dug deep still. Fortnite tries to recreate that gameplay using the engine of multiplatform shooter Steam, implicitly so that it can stick to the PC hostid(e). And to be clear, that's still all there is when it comes to Fortnite. Don't expect the random twig-rebellion which you get in multiplayer matches on Xbox, Sony's what you get on PS4 and PC.

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And despite less frantic action and less capacity for combining items for better gear, which might be considered the essentials of another game's experience, gear is an integral part for a just as potent player. There's a reason that fighting a horde of humans is the dirtiest of executions, but a truly skilled player in Fortnite intends to highlight the HUD by showing the explosive weave caught in a pustule of sweat, the torn shorts turned to a devilish breaker
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