H1Z1 Review Guide

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H1Z1 is another one of those Battle Royale/Hunger Games games, where players parachute onto an island and try to kill everyone else while keeping themselves alive. The game releases a toxic gas that will kill all players not in a green safe zone.

Gameplay-wise, it's a 3rd person shooter with the ability to shift to 1st person zoom. You land with a parachute on some random part of the island. You start empty handed and you go around picking up weapons, first aid kits and crafting materials to make stuff. You can use vehicles to get to specific locations faster.

Conclusion, I don't really enjoy the PUBG/H1Z1 games. I believe the fuss is all about the sudden meteoric rise of the Battle Royale games. There is purportedly a large number of players in this game but if you were to ask me, I'd hypothesize that most of the accounts are all botted and it's a marketing scheme to generate hype. I'd say that the numbers are way over the normal limits and it's puzzling to see that H1Z1 did not manage to garner any success while PUBG sky-rocketed into the stratosphere with over a million players at once. H1Z1 only has around 20,000+ on its free weekend vs 2,000,000 for PUBG. Someone is botting.

Note: H1Z1 is made by Daybreak Games (originally Sony Entertainment Online). It's now owned by Columbus Nova, an investment firm that also owns Fiverr, Rabb.it, Chat Republic Games, Rhapsody. It is part of the Renova Group, one of the largest Russian strategic investors in the metallurgical, oil, machine engineering, mining, chemical, construction, housing, utilities and financial sectors. The Renova Group is primarily active in Russia, the C.I.S. states, Switzerland, South Africa and the United States. Its major assets include participation in the oil company TNK-BP and in aluminum producer RUSAL. Its owner is Viktor Veselberg, a Russian who is close to Moscow's Kremlin.

PROS

PROS
1. It's based off an Interesting Concept
Battle Royale was originally a Japanese move where delinquent students were made to wear explosive collars and forced to kill one another on a remote island. The lone victor would be allowed to go home.

CONS

CONS
1. Map is Way Too Big
I know that you have over 100 players at once. But not being able to interact

2. Perma-death
You know how other FPS games have respawns? This is because perma-death is boring. Who would really want to be bad at this game and wait forever until the next game, unless it's a botted computer?

3. Boring Weaponry
If you played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Simple spray-and-pray guns are so boring.

SUGGESTIONS

1. Make the Hunger Games
I would play it if you made a super dangerous map with technological marvels, mutated beasts and Districts. Also, I want to play as the "director", I want to turn on/off the spectacular environments like the spinning washing machine in the movie.