Gala Games and Epic Games have partnered to introduce the first game featuring NFTs to the Epic Games world.

GRIT coming to the Epic Games Store

GRIT is an upcoming western-themed battle royale game that features NFTs, and it's coming to the Epic Games store for the masses. Gala Games and Epic Games announced this at the Galaverse convention yesterday. This is going to be the first game featuring NFTs in the Epic Games store, which is used every day by millions of gamers across the world. Hell, I use it nearly daily.

My first reaction was... "That's awesome!" but then I started looking at the game... It looks not great and hasn't had any updates since its delay to the launch in January. Hmm... Interesting that they could secure a partnership with Epic Games even though there is no playable game yet. Seems like someone shelled out some money or something. Battle royale games are huge, and a western one seems like a great idea.

The issues I see here are mostly to do with the fact that there has been no activity on their Twitter account since January. The pre-launch gameplay access has been delayed with no indication of when it will be available. The NFT horses that they claimed were very rare and airdropped to attendees were just reused Unity assets. Oh yeah, and the gameplay looks horrible.

Gameplay of Grit! pic.twitter.com/uaBiGU4bss

— brycent 🚀 (@brycent_) June 6, 2022

For being a game that Epic Games is attaching their name to and launching to the masses... It looks like it was designed by some random Fiverr graphics designer. You'd think that if you want people to take your western battle royale with NFT horses that it would look at least decent. I'm no graphics designer or anything like that, but I'd bet that anyone with any level of skill could have done better with the design.

The "gameplay" footage is literally a guy spinning in circles in s building and firing a couple shots at the wall. Not exactly inspiring a lot of faith in what the actual gameplay will look like. Even looking at the game on the early access Steam page, the videos are pretty terrible. It's a great concept but man they could have spent a little more money on better graphics.

There's not even any shading! No shadows, movements look super awkward, the horses look like they're gliding instead of galloping, and the animations look very clunky. Not exactly what I'd expect from the same place that Fortnite launched.

It honestly looks like a couple newbie game designers tried to make a Read Dead Redemption style battle royale. I can't imagine how much was actually spent on the design of this game, and how much money they've made before the launch. It almost reminds me of the whole Pixelmon thing where they made like $70 million and released garbage.

If you want to inspire some hype and enthusiasm in people that might actually play your game... Spend some money and make it look good. Release some actual gameplay. Don't just buy premade models from Unreal Engine, mint them as NFTs, and send them to people. That's just a really shitty way to introduce someone to your game that's supposedly "insane in the membrane".

Look, I didn't write this article to do nothing but shit all over this upcoming game. I just find it a little funny that they want people to take this seriously as the first game on their platform featuring NFTs. The other side of that is they don't really hammer home the "Why" behind having NFT assets in the game.

They pretty much just said to show people that they can own the assets in the game. That's great but you can do that without NFTs in a way. The only difference is, you can't resell your in-game assets across different marketplaces. Just because the assets are built on blockchain, doesn't mean they're much different than existing in game assets.

Why not put Gods Unchained on the Epic Game store? It's been out for a long time and would catch the attention of a lot of people that have played games like Hearthstone. It would be able to show the power of owning your assets with an already-proven title. All I'm saying is... Blockchain and NFT games need to be introduced to the wider gamer audience in a better manner. This is not the way. It just looks like a joke.

Who got bored and whipped this game up on their old shitty laptop?

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