Fortnite is no longer just a game: it’s a full-blown multi-genre platform, and Epic Games will realise its vision later this week with the release of three new “experiences” within the uber-popular Battle Royale. Announced as part of last night’s Big Bang event, the new titles will include LEGO Fortnite, Rocket Racing, and Fortnite Festival.
LEGO Fortnite will launch first, on 7th December. This is being described as the “ultimate survival crafting LEGO adventure”, and it’ll apparently feature “vast open worlds”. You can check out a brief teaser trailer below, although it doesn’t give too much away. This sounds a little bit like Minecraft in terms of gameplay, but we’ll need to await more details to know for sure.
It’ll be followed on 8th December by a Rocket League-inspired racing experience, developed by Psyonix. Rocket Racing has been rumoured for a while, and we’re expecting something similar to Mario Kart or Disney Speedstorm. A debut trailer will showcase during The Game Awards later this week, and presumably you’ll be able to play the mode immediately after the show.
And then on 9th December, Epic Games has been keeping Rock Band developer Harmonix busy with Fortnite Festival. This will see you form a band with friends, where you’ll be able to perform hit songs by artists like The Weeknd, who will feature heavily in the game’s first season. We imagine there’ll be various crossovers with different bands as the mode matures.
The key thing to takeaway here is that, while all three games are being billed as standalone experiences, they’ll be playable exclusively within Fortnite. This is ultimately the game’s final form: a transition from popular Battle Royale to full-blown platform. Epic Games wants you to play Fortnite forever, and it plans to hold your attention with a variety of different full-game experiences that span multiple genres.
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You’d think it may need a rebrand at some point, then, but that’s a risky move!
I imagine then that all the separate games will have to exist within the Fortnite SKU, thus no individual trophy campaigns? Or will they at least be able to class each game as DLC so they can add them?
@thefourfoldroot1 They could technically do Trophies, but they never even bothered adding them to Battle Royale, so I doubt they will.
This all looks insane. Between Fortnite, LEGO Fortnite, Rocket Racing, Fortnite Festival, Dreamlight Valley and Speedstorm, I’ll never have time to play anything else 😂
@Ennui I think the one good thing about Fortnite is that’s quite easy to get into. Unlike some live service games, you can pretty much pick it up any time you like.
That Rocket Racing game is tempting. I have enough to play atm though.
Now if they added a first person dungeon crawler experience or something along those lines I'd be all over it.
LEGO Fortnite, now that's a money magnet if ever there was one.
I wonder now if we have a generation who now spell 2 week period as Fortnite rather then Fortnight... another example of modern language changes.
@ItsBritneyB_tch
I’m splitting my time now between playing Speedstorm and waiting in the queue for Fortnite. I thought Lego would be a skin or area in battle Royale, don’t think I have time for a Lego Minecraft game. Not sure about the racing but probably not as I get crushed in multiplayer playing Speedstorm so I just stick with the single player which I’m guessing there will be little of in Fortnite. I’ve been waiting nearly 10 years for a new Mario Kart, hopefully next year on Switch 2.
@get2sammyb “ that’s quite easy to get into “
Took me 9 hours to get into the live event yesterday, currently looking at a 30 minute queue on my screen at 9AM on a Sunday morning. 😝
“Fortnite - The game that’s easy to get into, but difficult to get in to” 🤪
@kyleforrester87 “ rebrand at some point “
Maybe Elon will buy it and call it X. 😂
Still would never touch this game, lol.
They should do a Fortnite Call of Duty
@sorteddan
They did. It’s called Fortnite.
@koverby
With how gaudy the skins are now I’d call modern Call of Duty “Fortnite with blood”
@get2sammyb This is factually inaccurate. For starters, there's never been a good GAAS title considering they're all built on anti-consumer predatory practices no self respecting gamer would ever in good conscious recommend. Secondly, as with any game that draws attention to the twitch/no-lifer crowd, for anyone to get into an older game they're going to struggle immensely. They're immediately at a disadvantage and in most cases will quickly abandon the game, and since it's a GAAS, rightfully so. There's never been a single good GAAS, and definitely never one worth supporting.
Call me when they do a Fortnite Treasure Island Dizzy.
Until then Fortnite can get in the sea.
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