Apex Legends can become the Fortnite Killer, EA’s new Battle Royale game broke Fortnite record by achieving 10 Million players in 72 hours. Fortnite took weeks to achieve the figure. It clearly indicates players are enjoying Apex Legends a lot and bored with current games.
Apex Legends was launched on February 4 with a slow start. Suddenly the game popularity spikes sky high. Within the period of 72 hours, the successfully gathered millions of players which is just the beginning.
The Battle Royale genre is already popular due to PUBG and Fortnite. Gamers are spending hours in the games, both the games offer two different kinds of variations where the first one is straight forward the last man standing game, while Fortnite brings a cartoonish graphical element to make things funnier.
Apex Legends is lot ma ore similar but with a twist. The battle royale popularity helped the game a lot to get the mark of millions in such less time. However both games target a different kind of audience, but still it, can be a matter of worrying for makers of Fortnite.
Apex Legends is available for PC, PS4 and Xbox One.