Garena Free Fire

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Free Fire
Genre(s): Battle Royale Platform(s): Android iOS Release Date: December 8th, 2017 Engine: Unity Publisher(s): Garena Country: Singapore

Garena Free Fire (also known as Free Fire) is a battle royale game developed by 111 Dots Studio and published by Garena for Android and iOS on August 23, 2017.

It became the most downloaded mobile game globally in 2019.^{[citation needed]}

Gameplay

A battle royale match consists of up to 50 players parachuting onto an island in search of weapons and equipment to kill the other players. Players are free to choose their starting position and take weapons and supplies to extend their battle life.

Why It Is Not Free To Fire

1. It's yet another PUBG clone that is condensed to fit into your phone.
   • In fact, the game was initially developed as a free-to-play clone of PUBG specifically aimed for Southeast Asian market, as Garena provided online services for several PC games under Tencent's portfolio. After Tencent acquired a considerable amount of share from PUBG developer Krafton and published the mobile version of PUBG themselves, Garena decided to expand the brand as a mobile alternative to PUBG.
   • Some parts of the map are cloned from PUBG or Fortnite.
2. Despite using Unity, the graphics are notorious for how awful and ugly they are, and are on par with some late Nintendo 64 or early GameCube and PlayStation 2 games. Ironically, there are a plethora of games released for both systems with even better graphics.
   • The developers claim that they can't add fancy graphics like PUBG Mobile, because they wanted the game to be playable on low-end Android devices, so at least it's excusable.
3. Horrible human models, they don't even have emotion, they don't even blink their eyes and they seem to have no soul, this is obvious from the attack animation and you will see that the humans' faces are plastic and hard.
4. Free Fire decided to implement not only one, but several different features that will enhance the power of your characters if you are willing to pay real money. While you can get some for free in events, the best skins, characters, and pets all sit behind a paywall to force you to spend real money to get stronger.
   • Because of this, some online marketplaces are stormed by user accounts for sale containing these paid features.
5. The gameplay is abysmal, especially if you have a duel with another player as you just stand in a place and tap the shoot button.
   • The guns in this game have no gun recoil and bullet spread, meaning the accuracy is 100% accurate.
   • The aim assist in this game is so strong you don't even have to try to aim, but on the other hand, due to how strong the aim assist is, it can be extremely hard to aim at long distances because the aim assist somehow will move the reticle apart from the objective, and it just gets much worse when you're using a sniper rifle.
   • When you kill an opponent, he can take a few seconds to react to being killed!
6. The game, just like Mario Kart Tour, especially lower ranked levels, is full of bots.
7. Like Fortnite, because of the game's popularity, Garena then started milking it in an attempt to pander towards the country where the game was popular.
8. Free Fire apparently copies other battle royale games' events. For instance, the PUBG Mobile x McLaren collab, which added the 570S as one of the vehicle skins. So, Free Fire added the P1 as one of the vehicle skins too (which looks like a stock model for a 2015 shovelware mobile racing game in any way). And don't forget one too, McLaren even made a bespoke car for the game called the MCL-FF.
9. When you get off the plane, you land with a skateboard instead of a glider or a parachute which is a cheap way to be cool with the kids.

Redeeming Qualities

1. The controls are responsive, at least.
2. So much collaborations has been done with Free Fire since 2020. Ranging from Cristiano Ronaldo, Street Fighter, Money Heist, to even One Punch Man. Recently, they've done a Venom: Let There Be Carnage crossover, following Fortnite's attempt of adding the Carnage skin into the Chapter 2 Season 8 Battle Pass roster.
3. An optimized version called Free Fire MAX, was released. It featured graphic optimizations like water reflections, vegetation effects, a map creator, sound overhauls, full 360 degree view of the main menu, and a "cross-version" multiplayer, meaning you can still play online with the original version even with people who have installed the MAX version.

Reception

Many users, mostly from Spanish-speaking countries and several Asian countries like Vietnam have heavily panned this game due to the aforementioned problems. ^{[citation needed]}

The game, however, achieved immense commercial success. It earned approximately 182 million downloads in 2018 and grossed $19 million in monthly revenues, making it one of Garena's most profitable games to date.

Trivia

1. It's currently one of the most popular battle royale games (alongside PUBG, Fortnite and Call of Duty), prominently in third world countries like Latin America, Arabic-speaking countries, India and Southeast Asia (especially Indonesia and Vietnam).
   • Speaking of Vietnam, the game is heavily mocked by Vietnamese netizens because of the toxic (and underaged) player base and the bizarre in-game logic.
2. It has a player base incredibly similar to Call of Duty, consisting of boys and girls of all ages who appear to have no experience in playing video games.
3. It was the fourth most downloaded game on the Google Play Store in the fourth quarter of 2018, and the fourth most downloaded game worldwide in 2018 on iOS and the Google Play Store together.
4. It received an award for "The Best Popular Vote Game" by Google Play Store in 2019, despite being a generic and low-quality Battle Royale.
5. It contributed to the rise of sales of phone grips in which you stick a phone in order to make it more comfortable in the hands when playing the game, with some units having buttons in them for gameplay. These grips are marketed as "Free Fire controllers" in some countries.

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