Halo
Imagine… That there is a studio consisting of over 700 people with over two billion kroner in development budget that released a hotly anticipated big game whose multiplayer portion was designed as a live service, without live service ingredients. It took several weeks after the premiere for 343 Industries to update their crash to games with a (barely working) XP system and that fans have now abandoned the multiplayer part of Halo Infinite is not the least bit tricky. And this whole little concentrated disaster makes me sad. Imagine if 343 had the good taste to develop a Battle Royale mode from the start. 150 gun-hungry Spartans would jump out of a Pelican over a ring world drenched in Halo-like variety and once on the ground it would naturally be about being left alone. Loot. Shoot. Survive. In many ways Halo feels completely obvious for the particular Battle Royale setup and that it has not yet been developed is the ultimate proof that 343 lacks the knowledge required to fit in among Call of Dutys and Fortnites… I want to jump down on The Halo ring without a parachute, in the role of a genetically enhanced super soldier, team up with three fellow players and thunder across Bungie’s vast plains in a Warthog against 146 other players.
Quake
Think Quake III but revamped and laid out as a Battle Royale game. Quake: Battle Arena. Big course, of course, where 50 players drop in at the same time and then loot Railguns and Rockets to wear down the opposition and stand alone towards the end. I imagine myself playing as that eye with two legs from Q3 and that Rocket Jumps and Quad Damage become a given part of every match.
Wreckfest
I look forward to playing racing titles that in the future will include Battle Royale modes and one of those that I think would work best is spelled Wreckfest by Finnish Flatout developers Bugbear. Imagine a huge track where it’s all about getting from A to B during a really long race. The challenge, of course, lies in getting to the finish line first with a sufficiently complete car, which of course includes being forced to both avoid attacks from opponents but also handing out some of your own pacifiers to push away opposition and avoid risking large fuel leaks.
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Battlefield
That Swedish Dice still hasn’t taken the full step and thrown in a Battle Royale mode (minus the Portal variants, I mean now) in Battlefield… Can’t understand. The reluctance here feels as short-sighted as the reasoning used by 343 Industries in response to why Halo Infinte lacks a Battle Royale mode; “We want to do something original and not just copy others”. What someone should tell, here, to 343 as well as to Dice is that 90%% of their current and most popular game modes today were invented by someone else and then borrowed into Halo and Battlefield respectively. You really don’t have to reinvent the wheel every time. Sometimes it’s enough to just do what the fans want most.
Destiny
The PvP mode is really not the best, even though Bungie is the world’s best in “correct” feel in weapons and movement. But what if they put a year of uninterrupted development on a Destiny Battle Royale, as a tie-in track and as an exclusive title for the Playstation 5 (since they are of course now owned by Sony). 100 ferocious bounty hunters descended on The Last City and fought over who can stand alone.
Medal of Honor
I would like to see a Battle Royale mode in an upcoming Medal of Honor where the games took place in western France in 1945. Of course 100 paratroopers would jump out of a Hercules to land behind half blown barns and quaint little villages to with French, German, American and British World War II weapons battle over who is left standing alone, in the final circle.
Kill zone
Imagine that every other match takes place on Vekta and all players are UCN soldiers while every other match takes place on Helghan where everyone plays as fearsome Helghast soldiers. I want two maps that act as perfect contrasts to each other. One dark brown shitty, sooty and horrible while the other is run down with futuristic fancy architecture and blooming cherry trees. I want lots of space, 200 players per match and the best looking animations in the action genre.
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Time splitters
We know that the tough guys at Embracers (and by extension of course Free Radical) have been working on a new Timesplitters for several years now and I doubt it will not be faithful to the original recipe, but! I hope it will also include a Battle Royale mode where 100 players jump onto a massively enlarged version of the “Ice Station” to battle it out until only one is left standing – As the victor.
Crysis
Imagine a map the same size as Al Mazra (Warzone 2.0) where half is made up of sun-drenched South Sea beaches, turquoise blue water and palm trees while the other half is a sort of variant of the city in Crysis 3, where nature has sort of taken over and climbed in through the windows , roofs, cracks and nooks and crannies. Across this world jump 100 Nano Suit equipped players and instead of Call of Duty: Warzone’s focus on Perks and Loadouts, everything here would be about clever use of Nano abilities and loot weapons. I want to thunder up along the coastline in an inflatable boat, activate the “Maximum cloak”, throw myself into the water and swim ashore. Once there, I want to throw grenades several hundred meters, activate “Maximum power”, knock over a parked Hummer as protection and from there put a few bumps in the back of an opponent’s chest.
Doom
I really love Doom (2016). Love it. I was never that fond of Doom Returnal and the multiplayer portions of both of those games flopped. And considering that Id Software, which was once the best in the world at multiplayer, has evidently lost its glow and spark regarding PvP, maybe it would be a good time to try something completely different than symmetrical deathmatch and asymmetrical demon hunting? I’m thinking 100 Doom Slayers who all enter Hell via each Portal and then just slaughter each other with chainsaws and double-barreled shotguns. I want slaughter, blood, entrails, teeth, skin, hair and vicious mass death in abundance, please.
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