Battle Royale Competition Too Stiff
This leads us to Radical Heights’ biggest issue: the game simply isn’t appealing enough to lure players away from the genre’s two leading giants.
Fortnite and PUBG are absolutely killing it right now, but frighteningly for their future competition, they don’t even necessarily feel as though they’ve reached their zenith in terms of popularity. PUBG’s numbers have wobbled a little recently, but there’s a growing Chinese audience, and the game is yet to debut on PS4 – which we expect it probably will at some point.
As for Epic’s Fortnite, well, it continues to smash records and defy expectations again and again. There seems to be no ceiling to that game’s stratospheric success. Fortnite is Radical Heights’ closest rival in terms of the audience it’s trying to capture and the design aesthetic it attempts to put a spin on. But why on earth would you abandon a thriving community and the promise of Epic’s commitment to improving an already excellent game moving forward? There’s nothing that would convince me Boss Key Productions, fresh from its recent failure attempting to carbon copy “hero shooters” with Lawbreakers, can possibly topple Fortnite with Radical Heights. And so far, it looks every bit the poor relation.
