Darwin Project vs H1Z1: King of the Kill
Darwin Project
Darwin Project is an early access, third-person battle royale game that combines the game show-theme from The Culling with the unique art style which made Fortnite Battle Royale so easily recognizable. Unlike most battle royale games where you'll have to compete against 99 other players to survive, this game only has 10 players, including yourself. However, the game spices things up with a ton of challenges, much like those featured in the Hunger Games, that are designed to push you to your limits.Not to mention, the game adds a nice tracking mechanism. Players in the game show will leave clues when they pass by an area and you can use those very clues to determine where your prey is heading to or hiding in. There are plenty of fun power-ups that you can collect, including temporary invisibility. Although you can't craft new weapons, the bow and shovel that you get can be upgraded to increase their deadliness.
Best yet, you can also play as the Director of the entire game show. As the Director, your goal is not to survive but to hype things up enough for the crowd to go wild. You are managing an exciting game show, after all. With feedback from the audience, you can decide which zones to drop a nuke on or which zone to freeze over, or even when to drop a "care package" for the participants to fight over.
Darwin Project manages to breathe new life into the slowly-stagnating battle royale genre. It is definitely a fun, thrilling and unique competitive MMO - one that fans of battle royale would just love to play.
H1Z1: King of the Kill
H1Z1: King of the Kill is a competitive, battle royale-styled MMOTPS game set in a post-apocalyptic world where everyone's fair game as you scavenge for supplies and materials to gain the upper hand. Gameplay-wise, the game is pretty fast-paced and intense especially when the map shrunk to a relatively small area, but of course, to be a pro, you'll need to put in the effort and the commitment to improve. Newcomers might find the skill ceiling a bit high though so you can expect to be fodder for quite sometime until you are familiar with the few maps available and know which stuff are hazards and which aren't.The shooting mechanics in this game is pretty arcade-like I suppose - it's the hit-or-miss type without the chance of getting glancing blows, and there might be a few weapons that might need adjusting - shotguns for example - but it's still okay overall. However, if you are to compare this game with another battle royale game like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), you'll find this game seriously lacking.
So, if you've got the cash to buy either H1Z1: King of the Kill or PUBG, we'd actually recommend getting PUBG since the game has a ton of players right now and you won't need to wait too long to get into a game. Not to mention, PUBG does have a lot of stuff that's better than H1Z1. But if you like having lots of skins or if you have a lower end PC, then H1Z1: King of the Kill might be your best bet.