For every triple-A title that promises cutting-edge graphics and action-packed set-pieces, there are games that have functioned a bit…differently. It’s not they deviate too far from the norm but there are those few gameplay features that are so strange and at times, so absurd, that you wonder how they were greenlit. Some worked and others didn’t – let’s go over 15 such games here.
Fortnite: Battle Royale
Epic Games’ Fortnite may have seemed like a cartoonish zombie defense game but Fortnite: Battle Royale is another pot of Battle Royale insanity altogether. Rocket riding – which saw players fire rockets and surf on them to rain death from above – was only the beginning. From there, the game incorporated guided missiles, shopping carts as pseudo-vehicles, a game mode that lets players become Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet and so much more.
