Fortnite is a video game developed by the Epic Games company.
Fortnite is the name of a video game created by Epic Games , an American company. It was presented in 2017 and has various game modes that have the same engine.
One of the Fortnite game modes is Fortnite: Save the world (or, in English, Fortnite: Save the world ). In this case, it is an option that is part of the open world and survival genre where up to four players, cooperating with each other, have to face beings similar to zombies .
Fortnite: Battle Royale , meanwhile, is a battle royale alternative that brings together up to a hundred players on an island . The objective is to become the last survivor of the place, which makes it essential to avoid or eliminate the other participants.
The history of Fortnite
It should be noted that the story of Fortnite begins with the development of a lethal storm that covers the entire planet Earth , causing almost all of humanity to disappear. The few survivors, in this setting, are besieged by zombie-like creatures.
Thanks to its enormous popularity, Fortnite became one of the biggest successes in the video game industry. The creation of Epic Games already exceeds 250 million players and generated nearly $3 billion in profits for the company in 2018 , for example.
It is important to mention that Fortnite is a product that can be played for free. However, this video game offers numerous additional resources that must be purchased and that lead users to spend money .
Other Epic Games games
Although this game is the biggest success in recent times for Epic Games, this company already had a track record truly worth highlighting. It was founded by Tim Sweeney in 1991 and since then they have released titles such as Unreal , a series of first-person shooter games, and Gears of War , a third-person adventure and strategy series that is published exclusively on Xbox and PC.
On the other hand, one of the pillars of the company is its well-known game engine called Unreal Engine , which was presented with the game Unreal in 1998 and has evolved to include Fortnite itself in its fourth installment. While the engine's first objective was to offer an environment suitable for first-person shooter games, over the years it has grown to the point of allowing the dozens of developers who use it to bring to life all their creations, from racing titles to RPGs, through fighting and platforms.
It is possible to play Fortnite for free.
The success of Fortnite
Since its launch in 2017, Fortnite managed to be on everyone's lips in a very short time, since it became the trendy title, the one that everyone wanted to try because they knew someone who was already hooked and couldn't put it down. One of the keys to its popularity was the excellent idea of publishing it on all the most important platforms of the moment and adding others over time. When looking at the list, it is difficult to imagine that there is any device or operating system on which it is not possible to install Fortnite: Microsoft Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One (both S and X), Xbox Series S, Nintendo Switch, iOS and Android .
At the end of 2020, it received an update to take advantage of some of the functions of the Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles, which in addition to being more powerful than their predecessors allow for new experiences. Among the list of improvements is an increase in resolution to reach 4K at 60 frames per second ( FPS ), more advanced physics, reduced loading times and much more precise vibrations thanks to the Playstation 5 controller.