Splitgate has this year's Triple-A

Call of Duty Vanguard still feels like a typical Call of Duty game despite its innovation attempts. Battlefield 2042, despite its gripping marketing, is an peasant cake that lacks some important ingredients. Hallo Infinite, despite its amazing multiplayer gameplay, had a twilight progress system while starting the headlines.

In a year in which some of the biggest names in the ego shooter genre did not make it to make the Sweet spot by promising too much or just dropping the ball for certain aspects, a shooter has undermined and shown that sticking to the basics for a great game. This game is split gate.

Before I continue this love letter to the debut match of 1047, there are a few things I should clarify. Taking into account all aspects of modern gaming graphics, soundtracks, content, artistic direction, storytelling and everything else, what nowadays at award ceremony gets its own category — is not the best game this year.

Second, in recent months, I played a lot less Split gate than in the summer due to the latest influx of new games and big updates — Call of Duty War zone, Halo Infinite, FIFA 22 and Fora Horizon 5 sucking on most of the time I have at the moment.

Split gate is not my most played game this year, but it has earned my biggest respect. His initial simplicity during the summer, when it came to the market on the console, and the great popularity, which it acquired thereby taught many of this year's big live service multiplayer games a valuable lesson — one that some of them (With a view to you, Battlefield 2042) would probably have been more accurate.

In a competitive FPS genre, which goes down in Battle Passes, progress systems, cosmetics, crossovers, in-game events and sophisticated communities, Split gate has shown that the gameplay is still king.

Yes, Split gate is not quite free from some above, but it was its addictive, satisfactory, simple gameplay that shot the game number in this summer when it came to consoles, and became the biggest surprise package of the year. It even succeeded in juggling this simplicity with a sufficiently high skill upper limit and a decent ranking mode to operate both casual players and high-ranking FPS players.

The game may have lost popularity since then, but it still continues with a strong community. Yes, Split gate will gradually turn into something much greater, which is filled with content to soothe modern players.

The point, however, is that the 1047 placed gameplay is above all and proves that well-developed arena shooter still have a place on the market today — even if they are not equipped with the whole frills of Triple-A rivals.

The success of 1047 with Split gate should not only be a sign of encouragement for smaller developers who wish to stand out their competitive FPS games similarly, but also be a valuable lesson for the established studios and publishers. With so many FPS games that suffer from their bigger better philosophy, the simple but satisfactory split gate stands out as one of my favorite games of the year 2021.