Apex Legends is a new free to play game that is bound to set the world on fire! It’s high time you try it!
Let’s find out some more trivia and factsa about this new game.
- Apex Legends is a free-to-play battle royale video game
- It is developed by Respawn Entertainment
- It was published by Electronic Arts
- Apex Legends is set in the same universe as the Titanfall duology
- The game was revealed and released in a surprise announcement on the same day on 4 February 2019
- It is available for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4
- Apex Legends is a battle royale game borrowing concepts of the hero shooter
- It takes place 30 years after the events of Titanfall 2
- The players are grouped into squads of three
- They play against other squads in up to 60 player matches
- They scour the game map for weapons, ammo, and other equipment as to be last team standing
- Unique to Apex, players that are downed by opponents can be respawned back into the game if their squadmates take certain actions
- This must be within a short period of time after the player is killed
- Each player selects from a Legend character that possess unique skills and abilities
- It can be customized in appearance
- At launch, the game featured eight Legends
- They were Bloodhound, a technilogical tracker
- Gibraltar, a shielded fortress
- Lifeline, a combat medic
- Pathfinder, a forward scout
- Wraith, an interdimensional skirmisher
- Bangalore, a professional soldier
- Caustic, a toxic trapper
- Mirage, a holographic trickster
- Caustic and Mirage must be purchased through in-game currency
- The Titans of Titanfall are not present in Apex Legends
- Their acrobatic gameplay features, thought, are mirrored in Apex, including vaulting, sliding, and jumping long distances
- Apex Legends is free- to- play
- It is supported through microtransactions which can be used to buy in- game currency
- This currency is usable to purchasing new Legend characters
- Apex Packs (the game’s version of loot boxes with randomized cosmetic items that have no gameplay impact)
- Battle passes which reward players with new seasonal cosmetic items by completing in-game challenges
- Respawn Entertainment had previously created both Titanfall (2014) and its sequel Titanfall 2 (2016)
- It was an independent studio
- Electronic Arts supported the publishing of these titles
- In 2017 it was acquired by Respawn
- Both Titanfall games had been critically praised and had strong player followings
- They did not achieve appreciable sales metrics
- Respawn wanted to pursue a game that would take advantage of the potential revenues in free to play games
- They came up with the concept of Apex
- Putting the bulk of the studio’s effort to make an initial strong release
- EA has skepticism in this approach and considering it risky
- The success of Fortnite Battle Royale showed that such approaches were possible
- Respawn kept the development of Apex Legends as a secret until its announcement
- That was a unique move for EA
- They wanted players to try the game rather than to rely on marketing and other pre- release promotional content
- Apex Legends is inspired by several shooters of the last decade
- Bungie’s Halo and Destiny which incorporated engaging combat systems with an evolving narrative
- Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege which demonstrated the use of unique classes to dynamically change an otherwise simple formula
- Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch for refining the hero shooter concept
- Prior to launch, there were plans to implement cross- platform play into Apex Legends in the future
- While this is planned, cross- progress and cross- purchases are not possible due to hardware limitations
- They would also eventually like Apex Legends to come to iOS, Android and Nintendo Switch, though it is not currently planned
- The game has received a mostly positive reception since launch
- In just under eight hours, the game surpassed 1,000,000 unique players
