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and welcome to, "This is Now".
Last week,
Activision released their mobile version
of Call of Duty,
and it has absolutely smashed expectations
by racking up 100 million downloads
in its first week alone.
This means that CoD Mobile
had the biggest mobile game launch ever,
beating out Mario Kart Tour,
which has set the record last week
with 90 million downloads.
Battle Royale games have
taken over the gaming industry
in the past couple of years,
and that is mostly thanks to PUB-G.
Now it feels like every game has some sort
of Battle Royale mode,
and it's not hard to figure out why.
These games bring in millions,
and millions of dollars a day.
- [Matt] Civilization
has a Battle Royale mode,
and to be fair,
it's pretty cool though.
- Civ?
Originally, PUB-G was built as a mod,
and was inspired directly
by a Japanese film
titled, "Battle Royale."
Where people were transported
to a secluded island
and forced to battle to the death, which,
yeah, sounds familiar.
Fortnite had actually been in development
for years before PUB-G,
but it was a very different game
compared to what it is today.
- [Matt] And to be fair,
you could say that about
every season of Fortnite,
but yeah.
- Yeah, it always seems
like a very different game
whenever I see over Austin's
shoulder playing it.
Instead it was a survival PBE game,
drawing comparisons of
Minecraft meeting Left 4 Dead,
where players gather
resources to build weapons,
and traps against monsters.
After seeing the success of PUB-G,
Epic Games shifted their
focus and turn around
a Battle Royale mode in just two months,
which is just kind of insane.
- [Matt] It is such a
quick turnaround time.
- It is, especially if
we're playing catch-up
and considering where Fortnite is now
compared to Pub-G,
it was a good move on them
tt was a 100% a great move on them.
But actually, the real winner here
is Tencent Games,
and that's because Tencent owns all three,
or at least, part of all three.
Tencent, which is based out of China,
is actually the largest
gaming company in the world.
So large in fact that they
own stakes in Activision,
as well as PUB-g's parent company Bluehole
and a whopping up 40% of Epic Games.
Oh and they also own these
not so known titles like,
League of Legends,
Clash of Clans and Clash Royale,
just to name a few.
So regardless of which
game you're playing,
Tencent is making money.
And a lot of it.
Prior to all of this for the last decade,
Call of Duty was the king of online FPS.
Last year they released
their Battle Royale mode,
Black Out to Black Ops 4.
And while it have a
pretty positive launch,
it has come nowhere near
close to putting a dent
in PUB-G and Fortnite's
share of the genre.
But with the launch of
Call of Duty Mobile,
it looks as if that's all about to change.
So how does Call of Duty hold
up to PUB-G and Fortnite?
Let's find out.
So the first game I'm
gonna play is Fortnite,
because of course,
but this is a game that I actually
don't really play that much, at all,
let alone on the mobile version.
So I'm kinda curious to see how it plays.
Combat controls, aim
anywhere, tap to fire.
I mean obviously, this is a mobile game,
so all the controls are
going to be on the screen.
But I think with Fortnite,
you actually do have the
ability to use a controller
and also play with people
on other platforms.
I will say the main reason why
I don't like the shooters on phones,
is mainly because it's very easy
to lose my stick placement,
as much as that sounds
like an excuse for dying.
Snipers are my favorite thing in shooters.
I'm surprisingly good at them.
Maybe not in Fortnite but
I'm really good at them.
Is that person?
Oh god.
(humming)
I'm surprisingly good at them.
Suffice to say, I don't think
I'm getting a kill today.
So Fortnite, I'm not good at it
and I probably didn't put
the game through its paces
especially to see if it's really
a worthy experience on mobile,
but as far as the pure technical's of it,
like how it looked
frame-rate wise and all that,
it definitely performed well.
Controls, just like
with any mobile shooter,
it's gonna be something to get used to
if you haven't really
played many mobile shooters,
but I think as far as
I can tell it's fine.
Now PUB-G have actually
played on PC before,
I haven't played a crazy amount,
but I've definitely played
it more than Fortnite.
So I should preference, I
actually did play PUB-G Mobile
for the first time last night,
and in my first game I
got a chicken dinner,
but then people on Twitter
shot me back down to earth
and told me that the first
couple of games are with bots.
So where Fortnite is a
direct port onto mobile
and the console and PC versions
are pretty much the same
And you can actually cross play with them,
on that game.
PUB-G Mobile is not a direct Port,
it's actually just a pretty much,
completely new game under the hood
which is really impressive.
- [Matt] Is it better
or worse than Fortnite?
- I think it's better
than Fortnite because,
again,
I think the gameplay is
just a little more direct.
It's literally just people, and that's it.
There's no building or anything so,
no inhibitors to get in the
way of you getting the kill.
It's pretty much just you
and being able to strafe,
hide in buildings.
Get your aim on point,
it's really up to you
really to get all this,
I don't wanna to call it cheating,
but building is definitely another aspect
that complicates things in the gameplay.
Violence is not the answer.
Oh God, uh-huh, uh-oh,
oh God, oh God, oh God.
Okay, maybe violence
is the answer.
(gun rounds firing)
Okay I knocked him out, we good.
I will say controls versus Fortnite,
it's very easy,
again, for my thumb to drift.
It's not as bad I think with Fortnite
and I think it was just the particular
control mode that I selected
in the settings that helps.
It's not bad, I think playing
with bots again is the great
call here for the first couple of games.
You definitely need to get over
that learning curve for sure.
So, you know Fortnite's popular on mobile
and other devices as well.
We know PUB-G is also
still fairly popular,
but why is Call of Duty the new thing?
Why is this with 100
million downloads, right?
- 100 million.
- 100 million.
- [Matt] Well I mean probably over
100 million at this point.
- At this point, yeah.
That statistic's probably
what like a week old?
- Yeah.
- That's crazy.
So it's actually important to note that
Call of Duty has its
own Battle Royale mode,
but if I'm real, I don't care about that
because I care about
nostalgia, and back in the day
all I did was play
Team Deathmatch, Search
and Destroy and Domination,
which just so happens to be in this game.
Now having all of these
different game modes,
is what sets it apart
from PUB-G, and Fortnite.
It kind of makes the gaming experience
a little smaller scale.
You don't have huge maps to
go by at least in these modes.
In fact, these maps are straight
from the console version.
They look fairly similar,
this was from CoD 4.
Now what this means, is
that you can play games,
that are only a few minutes long,
you don't have to sit
there for matches that are
30 minutes at a time, which
I think for mobile experience
actually does play a little better.
Now full disclosure, I have been playing
Call of Duty for the past week so
I've had enough time to fine-tune
the controls and all that.
So, I might be a little
biased in saying that
this is my favorite game of the three.
But you know what? I like
having these smaller matches.
I think it really makes
the biggest difference
in playing these online shooters.
I don't have to sit here on my phone
and commit myself to 30 minutes at a time.
This is this proper bite size matches.
I mean CoD 4 costs like
60 bucks back in the day.
This is a free-to-play game,
and of course you can spend
money and do all that,
I haven't spent a single Cent on the game
and it feels like a true online FPS.
Now being on this boat,
it is great to know
that this game has a bunch of maps on it,
it's not just one map that you're playing
multiple game modes in.
They have
quite a handful of maps on here,
which is great, and they
are the Legacy maps of
Call of Duty.
I think it's very clear that Call of Duty
is the best one out of the three.
Maybe I'm biased, you
can totally say that,
but I think for a mobile experience
Call of Duty is the best one.
The shorter game types are great.
The fact that you have
multiple Game types is great,
having different maps
or variety is awesome.
I think I enjoy it a lot more,
and I think that pretty much speaks to
why it is the most popular of the three.
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