Battle Royale Goes to Chernobyl
Focus Interactive, publisher of The Surge, Vampyr, and this year’s Call of Cthulhu game, announced a new battle royale titled developed by Ukrainian developer Vostok Games called Fear The Wolves, and it looks like it’s very literal player-versus-environment mechanics and atmosphere will set it apart from the competition.
At first glance, it looks like any other battle royale, with 100 players dropping into a forested wasteland and scavenging weapons to take down their opponents with. Except, that wasteland is post-fallout Chernobyl, and some of the opponents are literal wolves. A press release reads “Wolves are the first of our mutants to be revealed,” implying that other dangerous, nuclear-powered foes will be roaming the wilds, “roaming in packs and picking off stragglers.” So far, so horrifying. Players will have to scavenge from the conventional air drops and weapon caches around the map, but “radioactive areas” is where things get interesting, as “reality begins to break down.” The adrenaline from sprinting will stop you from taking damage, but gas masks and hazmat suits will be necessary to navigate the more dangerous areas as a match goes on.
Ultimately, players make their way to an extraction point, where an assumedly teensy-tiny helicopter that only accepts one passenger awaits the rounds victor. Players can also win by taking out all of their opponents, as is tradition. 
Overall, the game’s miserable, survival-horror-esque atmosphere looks somewhat refreshing in contrast to its predecessors, feeling more like Metro: Battle Royale than PUBG’s Counter-Strike feel, or whatever the hell Fortnite is.
Fear The Wolves is out later this year on PC, with a console version coming sometime in 2019.
What do you think? Will you be giving Fear the Wolves a shot? Let us know in the comments! And be sure to check out our coverage on Avalanche studios’ new title, and the Hitman 2 announcement!