Categories:Fallout 76 Sep-22-2019 PST

Two very different takes on battle royale:Fallout 76 and Fall Guys:

When battle royale games first emerged into the popular consciousness in the summer of 2017, people figured that PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds was a fad. When Fortnite started to gain steam a few months later it started to look more like a genre all its own.


Now that we’ve got Auto Chess, Tetris 99, and Apex Legends, we know that battle royale can look like just about anything. And no two games at E3 made that more clear than Fallout 76, with its new battle royale mode Nuclear Winter, and Fall Guys, an adorable BR physics-based fight for survival.



Fallout 76’s battle royale mode exactly what you’d expect. It’s the PUBG model with a couple of Fallout accents, and it’s a lot of fun. As it turns out, throwing a bunch of players together on an island with random loot is a really good formula. The game is full of ridiculous moments.


In one game, I threw myself in front of an enemy team so that my buddy could escape with his nuclear codes in hopes of annihilating one section of the map with a warhead. For what it’s worth, he didn’t get to launch the missile. Instead, he got murdered a couple of minutes later by a team that was rampaging around the map in power armor. My poor teammate honestly never stood a chance, but the match was hilarious anyway.


The Fallout tweaks, like the nukes and power armor or other Fallout 76 Weapons, are a fun twist. They can occasionally give your games a sense of scale that few other battle royale games have achieved. But they probably aren’t enough to get you to start playing Fallout 76 for the mode if you didn’t enjoy the game already.