Today we are talking about Survive.com (weird name for a game) or Survival Battle Royale (as bland as you can get, not to be confused with Battle Royale Survival, which is also pretty bad). This game is a rather cheap Fortnite Rip-Off attempt, which nowadays can't be downloaded from Steam anymore. Interestingly enough this didn't happen because the servers had shut down or the game was purposely removed from the market place, but instead because the developer broke the download option on Steam and was too incompetent to ever get it fixed and abandoned the project instead. I have heard of many reasons why games have failed, but this is a new one...
Survive.com is a 30 player Battle Royale game, which stole the UI and character models from an early version of Fortnite (it is practically 1:1 copy). One might even say, that they generally took a lot of inspiration from Fortnite (There is for example dancing characters on the loading screen, which is probably one of the best parts of the game). The visual style might be very similar, but the visuals of Survive.com are much more muddy and, outside of the main part of the map, lack a lot of detail. The gunplay is also noticeably inferior to Fortnite and rather lackluster (At least Survive.com didn't attempt to copy the building aspect of Fortnite). Something unique about the game is the fact, that you start the game by dropping out of a small one person plane and land via a Jetpack. This Jetpack remains part of the equipment and has a fuel bar, that needs to be refilled in order to fly around again. Players don't only start with Jetpack already equipped, but also with all weapons already present in the inventory at the start of a match (Sniper, Shotgun, Pistol, SMG, Melee axe and grenades). So looting isn't really a part of the game and players immediately get into killing each other (I don't have any evidence, but it looks to me like most players were also Bots in this game, and they for the most part behaved rather braindead).
The previously mentioned main part of the map consists of a small American town, an airport and a street block of larger apartment buildings. The sections actually don't look so bad and could have been part of an interesting map. The developers however left them pretty disjointed and didn't bother to really connect them. Everything else on the map is rather hideous and very low effort (ground looks super muddy and monochrome, a lot of trees are half sunk into the environment, no objects anywhere outside of the center part of the map). It looks like they started to design the map and just gave up in the middle of the process and released it as is. There is also an additional 3v3 Team Deathmatch mode, which plays on an extra map (an abandoned walled parking lot). This is actually not a bad idea, but for some reason the game mode is time-limited to 2mins, which is ridiculously short.
Result:
Survive.com showed some potential in the decently designed street blocks and the idea of having Jetpacks and all weapons present at the start of a BR match. The execution however killed this game. Not only was the developer too incompetent to allow players to download his game, but hideous visuals, ripped off elements, lackluster gunplay and retarded Bots left much to be desired. I don't think Survive.com could have ever been a great title, but it at least had the potential for mediocrity.
3.5/10
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