Apex Legends by RESPAWN is a battle royal similar to Fortnite. Pitting sixty players against each other with only up to three winning, it’s a high stake high-risk game that in many ways can be considered a survival horror game in its own way.

RESPAWN released Titanfall 2 in 2016 to critical acclaim, but commercial failure. Having an action-packed and original campaign and a small but dedicated multiplayer scene,Titanfall 2 was criminally underplayed, and currently boasting a meager 2000 concurrent players.

Since Titanfall’s release, fans have been scared since EA’s purchase of RESPAWN Entertainment, and EA’s bad reputation for buying then slaughtering beloved studios.Then the concept of a free to play battle royal with loot boxes under EA was spelling out a disaster. Luckily it wasn’t a disaster, it was a miracle with over ten million players in under 72 hours and no ad campaign leading up to release something about Apex is captivating crowds or maybe it’s just because it’s free.

RESPAWN made the most creative and innovative battle royals in years, using a new revive system whereby picking up a banner from a dead teammate you can go to a revive station and use that to bring them back to life(your teammates can revive you likewise).

“It’s a lot more forgiving especially with the banners and stuff but even if your teammate dies completely you can still get them back in the game and I just think that it’s more forgiving to the players,” Jude Hinojosa said.

Alongside the new banner revive system, Apex has implemented a new way to launch squads from the starting jet.At the beginning of the game when leaving the jet, you will have a randomly selected member of your team controlling where the team will go but at any time a member of the team may choose to divert from the route the leader takes.

These systems have contributed to a fresh and unique experience in the battle royale genre and it’s no surprise that they have achieved staggering player counts within the first few weeks.With EA funding Apex’s monetary situation is bound to be doing well.