As soon as you are in, you'll be able to get any Fortnite account you've already set up  good price either on Epic Games or on PC, Xbox, Switch or PlayStation (in case you don't have one already, you'll have to sign up, which is absolutely free, but in addition time-consuming). The game works cross-platform (apart from with PlayStation) so it's possible, in theory, play on your own Android cellphone against console players -- though, considering the compromised controller setup, this is not likely to end well.

Fortnite works exactly the identical manner on Android as it does on iOS apparatus -- through an initially confusing array of onscreen virtual controls. Movement is through a circular"joystick" in the bottom left, and that works fine until you are in the heat of battle and forget where it is in relation to your thumb, leaving your character stranded and exposed for a few precious milliseconds.

There aresmaller icons for jumping, firing the gun and selecting a product, which are sensibly placed, but a bit fiddly for people with small displays and large digits.Thankfully, there are plenty of helpful aids for touchscreen users, including autorun and also an autofire option, which will automtically trigger your current weapon when there is another player in your sights. You also become visual prompts if there's a treasure chest nearby, or when there are gunshots or footsteps on your vicinity, making up marginally for your included spatial movement.

The game runs easily on our evaluation telephones, a Galaxy S8, with no lag or juddering, even at the more demanding 50/50 manner where you got two giant teams battling it out in the same area with a lot of  maplestory mobile mesos onscreen shooting and explosions. Playing for an hour or so so does drain the battery rather significantly though, and some users have reported problems with the handset heating up, which isn't something we experienced.