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I got sick playing battle royale game Rules of Survival

First-person mode in NetEase’s PUBG clone is hardcore… but maybe too hardcore for me

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This loading screen is about as much Terminator as you get in NetEase’s Terminator 2 game, known as Rules of Survival in the West. (Picture: NetEase)
Xinmei Shen
This article originally appeared on ABACUS

There’s a lot of battle royale games on mobile in China.

First I played PUBG Mobile. Then I played, uh, a different PUBG Mobile. Then it was on to NetEase’s Knives Out. And now I tried NetEase’s other (but still very similar) battle royale game, Rules of Survival.

The game boasts 200 million players worldwide. In China it’s known as Terminator 2, an odd tie-in with the 1991 James Cameron film given that, well, doesn’t seem to have much to do with Terminator at all. There are a few futuristic planes, the word “Skynet” is seen in a couple of places, and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character appears in a couple of splash screens, but that’s it.
This loading screen is about as much Terminator as you get in NetEase’s Terminator 2 game, known as Rules of Survival in the West. (Picture: NetEase)
This loading screen is about as much Terminator as you get in NetEase’s Terminator 2 game, known as Rules of Survival in the West. (Picture: NetEase)
Anyway, back to the game. Honestly, most of these mobile battle royale games are pretty similar. The maps are rearranged but all have the same basic design, most of the weapons are similar… there are differences, but they’re not super obvious. So I tried to spice things up a bit by turning on first-person mode. (It’s worth pointing out that this is not exclusive to Rules of Survival: It debuted in PUBG Mobile in June.)

That was a bad idea.

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