Best Battle Royale Games, Ranked
3. Blackout
Where PUBG feels like a more clunky military shooter, Blackout comes out the gates with the classic twitch-based Call of Duty action at the forefront of the experience. In a matter of games, you’ll be busy sliding across the floor, picking up weapons, and hopping into a vehicle to get inside the circle.
For anyone remotely familiar with Call of Duty, there’s a lot to like about Blackout. Its map features iconic locations from previous games, contains a handful of easter eggs, and the gunplay feels as tight and responsive as ever.
It’s not just the gunplay that feels so familiar. The climbing, sliding and general navigation of the world feels fast and fluid, something which can’t be said about PUBG. Simply put, if you’re looking for a battle royale experience that feels and looks like its running on current generation hardware, Blackout’s where you want to look.
Blackout also throws in additional character missions that task players with meeting certain goals or requirements with a particular character in order to unlock another. It’s a neat little way to give you something else to work toward, outside of simply winning the game, which adds a nice amount of replayability to proceedings.
Blackout is a fantastic military battle royale game, offering more fluid and fast-paced, first-person action that PUBG simply cannot live up to. Its character missions grant you something else to work toward, and Call of Duty fans will love the callbacks that its map offers. It does cost to play, though, so that’s something to keep in mind.
