Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (or PUBG for short) is a game based on war and conflict between 30-100 people per session. The game is a first-person shooter where you start the game inside of an airplane. You choose on the map where you want to drop and parachute to where you alone playing solo or with your team. Once landed, you must very quickly start looting the zone because if someone else is with you it’s a battle to the death. Over the past two weeks, I've played a great ordeal of this game and came to know the map solely from looking at the terrain instead of the maps landmarks. Both from geological structures but also the colors, height and terrain monuments. For instance, the two images below are one of the map, and one of a player parachuting below into a city. Before I tell you, if you don't already know where he is trying to land, I want you to try and guess based off the map and land marks that the second image shows you.
This game shows examples of many of these landmarks which make it very easy to navigate, especially for inexperienced players. Even for players such as myself, I could say to my team: “Hey I’m heading over the wheat field now” and the team would know exactly where I’m going.
By investigating a more in depth perspective of what I interpret about the game, I will try and decipher what is happening in the greater scheme of things. Players are prisoners sentenced to death and the only escape is to fight against other players in a world that has been contaminated with radio activity. Since you play in an abandoned world where no people live and everything is left in place, you would assume natural or nuclear war is coming or has come. Perhaps the blue zone is what everyone was warned about and are fleeing for safety. The people running the games are millionaires that watch from afar and place bids on players for their own greed and fun. |
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