You're not bored of the Battle Royale genre just yet, right? No matter what your answer to that question is, Ubisoft has decided to throw its own take on the concept into the mix with Hyper Scape. This free-to-play 100-player online FPS is another battle for first place and it's coming to PlayStation 4 in the near future, but you can check out the game in action right now over on Twitch. The game has immediately gone into a closed beta phase over on PC, which means that various streamers are already doing some of the marketing for Ubisoft.
This appears to be a Battle Royale game which focuses heavily on futuristic tech and verticality throughout the city of Neo Arcadia. You'll start each match with just a melee weapon, with guns procured on-site and landmarks housing the most sought after loot. Hacks act as perks and grant certain skills designed around offence, defence, and movement -- two can be held at any one time as well as the same number of weapons. Hyper Scape appears to stick to the tried and true formula of a successful Battle Royale title, bar its interesting inclusion of Hacks, but it's the fast-paced combat and navigation which really seems to set this one apart.
A PS4 release date isn't known just yet, but we're definitely looking forward to checking it out. What do you make of Hyper Scape? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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As the resident Battle Royale expert here at Push Square, I quite like the look of this.
It looks pretty fun, I was watching some gameplay just now. Presumably itโll be free to play?
I've read it's more of a streamlined BR game which I'd be fine with. Too often these games over complicate themselves.
Hopefully they won't do cross platform with PC.
Ubisoft making a battle royale has to be the most generic and predictable game ever.
@Octane Just wait until they find out MOBAs are big in China ๐๐
Looks good hopefully this and valorant come to console this year, only thing I dislike about this game is it seems to be based in a city and everything looks the same
Got an invite to the closed beta but sadly I donโt have a gaming pc. I signed up before I knew the closed beta was just pc.
It looks kind of good, but i already have my BR quota filled with Apex. I don't think i need yet another BR game...
@get2sammyb its Ubisoft so i wouldn't count on it although they could implement the store from Ghost Recon Breakpoint to make their money. Im not saying they should but it wouldn't be an Ubisoft game without them doing something wrong
@get2sammyb @Danloaded It is free-to-play.
@LiamCroft fair enough but im still expecting a breakpoint store lol
I was interested but then I realised
FPS ๐คฎ
Wasn't there a roller derby F2P game also. Back at E3
Great if this is your thing. I also always wonder if anyone actually use all these fancy new mechanics and powers - or if just degrades to run and shoot ๐ค
Unless someone puts RayMan up on Kickstarter, not getting a new one for a while.
So many battle royale games , same concept different look. I would like a BR game where its just Players v NCP. Bring players together, unite, and focus on team working. That would be great ^_^
The movement looks really fun and "freeing"...maybe I'll finally have a replacement for LawBreakers? Probably not, but I like what they're bringing to the table. Hopefully it tastes as good as it looks. So...when's dinner time? :B
Ubisoft has become the most boring and predictable studio making games today. Their games are well made for sure, but it just seems they're content with just following trends and boiling all of their games down to the same formula.
Battlefield: Bad Company: Bad Royale
Destructible environments.
Got a camper in a building? Blow it up.
Someone have cover and you dont? Blow it up.
In a tank? Blow it up.
Blow up the battle royale genre, with dice's Battlefield: Bad Company: Bad Royale.
This is the only battle royale game I'd be excited about.
@Danloaded @LiamCroft @get2sammyb to be honest I assumed it from the "Teen" rating.
I'm glad publishers are betting money on non-18/M-rated games again, but at the same time it's hard not to notice those tend to be F2P multiplayer things, cause they know kids are a huge market share, and they know how to get them hooked on them.
On the other hand, it tamed my cynicism a bit seeing so many cartoony games in the PS5 reveal, and in general Sony going back to R&C and Activision to the 'coot.
I hope next gen will see the revival of genres and styles that have been ignored lately, and that it will truly host every type of the game we've seen since the beginning of the industry ๐
TL;DR = Fortnite set a huge precedent ahahahah
Great... more BR games...
So rather than give us a new Splinter Cell, Ubisoft are jumping on the Battle Royale bandwagon? I am going to pass on this. I am not interested in BR in any game.
The games mechanics are great been playing it on PC
What with Fortnite, isn't this the equivalant of releasing a new social media platform that is similar to Facebook? People are far too entrenched in the existing to bother even trying the new one.
Am i the only one who thinks this is a clone of Apex Legends?
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