Review By The Walrus: Player Unknown Battlegrounds

[Dulfite]

SvennoJ said:

Dulfite said:

Well, it does offer team mode, which I'm a part of, but even that doesn't disregard the other things that make this unique. THere is no respawn, which is the truly unique thing, so if you want to wait for your team to finish you can keep communicating with them despite being dead and try to help if you see something, or you can move on and not help. But I believe most play it solo.

Never heard of counterstrike? The unique thing is you do not have to wait. Jump right into the next match since the userbase is so huge. Not having to wait until the match finishes is a huge plus. All those one life games in the past were lobby based. You could back out, but then have to find a new round that's about to start or wait for that to finish. Basically you respawn on a new map, it's actually not that different from respawning in death match except that everyone else starts fresh too instead of having players already walking around with big weapons and camping spawn spots.

It's the ultimate non comittal game, where you failures are instantly erased and you can hit the restart button anytime. It works for the Battle royale genre, in any other genre it would be frowned upon. It basically behaves like a massive online single player game. Yet by using onther players instead of bots, the game gets that much more interesting. (And the hype helps ofcourse) That would be an good experiment, replace the other players with AI and see if anyone notices, keep refining AI until people can't tell anymore. Void-kampff test for game AI.

Never played counterstrike! My reviews are always from my own experience, but then again whose isn't? No one has played every game. I supposed "unique" was a bad word. I should have said "mostly unique" or "not often used," though it is unique from my experience. Still, despite that word, I still gave it an overall bad (story based) or ok (non story based) review.