Darwin Project, a new battle royale game with spectator and director modes, will soon be officially releasing on PC, Xbox One, and PS4. The popularity of the battle royale genre has seen multiple franchises both new and old trying their hands at what games like Fortnite and PUBG perfected over the past few years, with each new developer bringing in small tweaks and changes to try and make their experience unique.
Darwin Project has been on Steam Early Access and the Xbox Game Pass service since March of 2018. Unlike some battle royale games which usually feature multiplayer maps filled with up to fifty or a hundred players, Darwin Project’s television-themed battle royale sees only ten characters fighting against each other at a time, with an eleventh acting as the round’s Director. Players start off with only an ax and a bow and must harvest resources and craft items while also eliminating other players and watching out for environmental hazards like becoming too cold.
Although originally slated to only appear on PC and Xbox, a new announcement trailer for Darwin Project recently posted to YouTube has revealed the game will also be coming to the PS4 when the battle royale’s full version, which will feature new in-game items such as rocket-powered wings and grapple hooks, releases in January 2020. The uniqueness of the game’s Director mode, which allows one singular player the power to decide match-altering things like which areas close and when to drop a nuclear bomb, is only one of the many reasons Darwin Project has proved popular enough to bring to a third system.
Another equally interesting feature of Darwin Project is the game’s spectator mode, which allows players to both view and vote on the current match at hand. Since the game’s main plot is centered around a dystopian future where the actual process of the battle royale match is viewed as entertainment, those acting as spectators can place bets on the surviving players, vote on which environmental difficulties to throw at them, and fly freely around the environment as a drone camera.
Although some players may be getting burnt out on the battle royale genre, Darwin Project seems to offer a much more personal take on the multiplayer experience than others do. While the game’s angular, cartoonish art style is undeniable reminiscent of other popular Twitch games like Fortnite, the inclusion of asymmetrical multiplayer functions like Director and Spectator mode as well as the emphasis on elemental survival are enough to make Darwin Project feel like a fresh experience, and developer Scavengers Studio is surely hoping PS4 fans will feel the same way when the game releases next month.
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