Battle Royale Games

[A Black Falcon]

On the subject of 'FPS', PUBG supports either first or third person modes, but you can't switch during the game; it's an option in the main menu and you only play against people also in first or third person, depending. Fortnite and Radical Heights are third-person games. They're as much or more third-person shooters than they are first person.

Also, while collecting weapons is a big part of all FPSes, it's a bit different in these games because of the massive scale of the map -- each is a huge amount of space, with lots of buildings, towns, hills, and more. PUBG has two maps that are 8x8km, and one that's 4x4km. That smaller size is about the scale of the Fornite Battle Royale map, but it's still pretty big. Getting weapons and stuff might take time, if you don't start in a good place, and with the permadeath system there are high stakes. So the loot-collection element, while yes, common to the genre, feels a bit different in these games... though sure, that might be more because of the permadeath than anything.

The first point is how all FPSes work, the plane is irrelevant.

I'm not sure what you mean here, I've never seen anything like the 'choose your starting point by jumping from the plane' thing in another shooter.

Is this really a genre, or is it really just a battle mode type, soon to be expected in every FPS multiplayer mode?

It's a new subgenre or game type, which one I guess probably depends on who you ask. It definitely requires its own map(s), since they're so different from the kind of map you see in other FPSes, and at least some of its own game mechanics, though. Of the games I mentioned, PUBG and Radical Heights are battle royale-only. Fortnite has two modes, the free battle royale mode and the players-versus-ai defense mode. That latter mode was developed first, but never caught on at all, and Fortnite seemed to be going nowhere... until they decided to copy PUBG and added in the battle royale mode, which quickly exploded and now Fortnite Battle Royale is one of the most popular games today. The "main" PvE mode' still going nowhere in popularity though, I think. And H1Z1's battle royale mode started out as a separate mode in a game originally not designed for it, but now has been spun off into a separate battle royale-only title.

So yeah, it's kind of just a mode, but most of the games are stand-alone.