Out of all the three new modes introduced in Chapter 5, Fortnite Festival is easily the best, as a fan of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band games. The gameplay is almost identical to Rock Band, but tweaked for playing on a keyboard, which I think is a benefit. Guitar controller support is supposed to be coming soon from what I heard. The song selections are also great, with a wide variety of genres. And even a few original songs are in there too. The drawback though is that they're all on rotation, but can be purchased permanently in the item shop for relatively cheap, and if one person owns it, everyone can play it, which is much better than how DLC songs were handled in Rock Band 4.

Although I think my biggest disappointment in Festival is the lack of motion capture, which really gave the GH/RB games a lot of it's charm (and hilarity with mods). This may have been done to save space which is respectable, but it's such a huge missed opportunity. Regardless of that, it's still a pretty good mode, even if imo it's not as good as the GH/RB games.

Reviewed on Mar 07, 2024


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