You and three other players, whether in your own party or randomly assigned via matchmaking, will be locked in a car and set loose to battle all the other teams of four one player drives, collecting power-ups and weapons/ammo via glowing icons dotted around the map, while the other players shoot at any other vehicles in the vicinity. But the crowning achievement of H1Z1, the thing that really sets it apart from PUBG and Fortnite, is Auto Royale. It’s not simply about playing the same survival game, with the only options being to play it solo or as part of a duo/team there is the Combat Zone mode, in which you’ll fight on a smaller map with pre-selected weapons (more on that in a moment) and with respawns, which effectively allows you to practice before heading into the game proper. Where H1Z1 differentiates itself from the competition is through its various game modes. And guess what? You don’t actually have to shell out any money for H1Z1 now, as it has gone free-to-play. I enjoyed the thrill of the hunt, especially when the sirens blared as the gas was released once more, the thunderous musical tones booming through my headphones before once again resuming the stark silence of this abandoned, fictional corner of the world. Yet somehow, I found myself enjoying the game the more I played. I mean, when I first started playing, I realised just how similar it was to PUBG, in its tone and realistic visual style only H1Z1’s shooting didn’t feel as weighty and impactful, and I didn’t feel as exposed and nervous as I did when playing PUBG. If you’re like me, you’ll be rolling your eyes so hard you can see your brain, wondering why anyone would buy this. Sounds very familiar, right? The only real differences are that you choose your parachuting position on the map while in the pregame staging area, instead of doing it on-the-fly (pun intended) from a plane and instead of the blue circle of electricity or whatever it is, you’re chased by a cloud of poisonous gas. You parachute down onto a map filled with buildings and various other things, loot them for weapons and other supplies, then fight or creep your way into the randomly-placed circular safe zone, which decreases in size every time it moves. If you hadn’t guessed already, H1Z1 is the latest addition to the ever-growing battle royale genre (although is it technically the latest, since it’s been around in one form or another since 2015?) and quite frankly, it’s difficult to separate it from PUBG.
Here we are then, in early 2018 and H1Z1 has finally emerged from the cloud of toxic gas (that might make sense to you soon, if you haven’t played the game yet) of Early Access. After a while, it was (presumably) clear the two H1Z1 games just weren’t going to fit together under the same banner, and so Daybreak decided to simply rebrand its King of the Hill game as H1Z1 meanwhile Just Survive dropped the H1Z1 moniker altogether. Once his consultancy ended, Greene went to Bluehole and the rest, as they say, is history.
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Seriously though, Greene’s original battle royale mod for Arma 2 had garnered interest from H1Z1’s publisher, leading them to licence the idea for its King of the Hill version of the game. I don’t think many know of that one, it’s a bit niche. Daybreak Game Company even brought on Brendan Greene as a consultant, who you might know as the creator of some little-known survival shooter called PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. It began its Early Access journey back in 2015, but a year later it had been split into two games: H1Z1: King of the Hill and H1Z1: Just Survive, with quite different gameplay mechanics.
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