PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds: Second Mobile App Announced

It seems that there will be officialPlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds apps releasing in China. 

The first is the official adaptation of the base game that we reported earlier. The second is a project called Army Attack. This second app seems to focus more on vehicular combat – ships and helicopters – and actually has relatively little to do with the PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds PC/Xbox One game. So far as we can tell, the only association the two share is the use of the PUBG name. Army Attack is even being produced by another developer, Timi Studio. There’s no release date or additional details available for that second app at this time. 

As for the original mobile adaptation, now called Battlefield, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is still set to be turned into a mobile app that will aim to replicate the original game. Here’s an early teaser for that app that we’re sure doesn’t misrepresent the game’s final visuals or gameplay in any way:

Chinese internet company Tencent officially confirmed they are developing the mobile app via a press release on their website (which Polygon has since translated). The gist of this announcement is that Tencent intends to deliver a mobile version of PUBG that retains the spirit and mechanics of the original game. If you’re suddenly wondering how a company could possibly turn a 100 player battle royale experience into a mobile app…then we’d like to direct your attention to the surprisingly lucrative market of mobile knockoffs. Some of those third-party mobile games are simply inspired by PUBG. Others are entirely derivative. 

The one thing that all of them have in common is that they are exclusively available in China. That appears to be the case with this upcoming official adaptation of PUBG. Tencent has not indicated that they have any plans to bring this mobile version of PUBG to the West, but most analysts are predicting that such a move is almost inevitable at this point given the size of the game’s market. 

As it stands, there is no release date available for this adaptation in any market. 

Tencent’s role in this adaptation is raising a few eyebrows amongst the PUBG community given that Tencent recently led the charge to have PUBG banned in China until it was updated to reflect “socialist core values, Chinese traditional culture and moral rules.” At this time, there has been no word regarding what kind of changes will be implemented in order to make the game more culturally sensitive. Some have speculated that Tencent’s disapproval may have been part of the company’s larger plan to acquire the exclusive rights to publish PUBG in China. 

Considering that some of the mobile PUBG knock-offs released thus far have done a fairly decent job of replicating the game – minus the cumbersome addition of touch controls – there is a chance that this mobile version of the game might not be quite as bad as you might imagine it would be. 

Source

http://denofgeek.com/us/games/playerunknowns-battlegrounds/269303/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-second-mobile-app-announced