Epic Finally Does Something Interesting With Fortnite

Epic is known for making dude heavy games. Gears of War, Bulletstorm, and Unreal Tournament don’t exactly scream “classy”, but they’ve done well. That fifteen year old pryo-maniac art style that has propped up their titles must be wearing thin because tonight at the Spike VGAs, a trailer hit for their new game Fortnite. It looks significantly different from anything they’ve done recently.

Clearly Epic doesn’t understand what a “fortnight” is, or they’ve just decided to run with the weakest pun ever. Very little can be taken from the trailer. It’s good to see colors other than brown and the stylized character design looks to have a certain charm. Scavenging and building forts seem like core mechanics and apparently at night monsters come out. Building things to hid in because monsters come out at night sounds like the nutshell description of Minecraft. Notch needs to call his lawyers.

Here’s the trailer!