Red Dead Redemption 2 Doesn’t Rule Battle Royale Out

With the amazing success battle royale games like Fortnite and PUBG have achieved, more and more titles are getting interested in the genre, and shooter behemoths like Call of Duty and Battlefield are joining the party soon.

With the amazing success battle royale games like Fortnite and PUBG have achieved, more and more titles are getting interested in the genre, and shooter behemoths like Call of Duty and Battlefield are joining the party soon.

Other games could do the same move in the future and, among them, we could even find Red Dead Redemption 2. Publisher Take-Two Interactive doesn’t rule this out as, according to CEO Strauss Zelnick, they have already done it in the past.

“We’ve used battle royale mechanics before. I wouldn’t rule it out, but any mechanic you use would want to be in service of the core entertainment experience and would be consumer-focused,” Zelnick told Games Daily.

“It wouldn’t be driven by revenue focus in our view. And if one is overly derivative of another’s success, you pretty much guarantee you’re not going to have your own success, because no one is looking for a clone of Fortnite. I wish we had Fortnite — we don’t — so wishing we had Fortnite is not going to help me.”

“That doesn’t mean you wouldn’t use a mechanic that’s in other games. We’re certainly not averse to using something created by someone else in service of a good experience in our own games.

So there are moments when you might choose to be derivative for some small portion of a game, but I think there’s a lot of emphasis on questions that have been posed more pointedly by some which is, ‘Hey, look at Fortnite, shouldn’t everything you do be some example of Fortnite?’ The answer is absolutely not. If we turned an upcoming release into a sad, diluted version of Fortnite, I can assure you it would fail, in addition to being embarrassing [for the brand].”

Then, should this happen, don’t worry: Red Dead Redemption 2 is never going to be a battle royale game, even though it could end up receiving a specific mod to join the business. It’s releasing October 26, 2018 so we’ll learn more about that quite soon, hopefully.

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