In a final duel, Thanos killed me in Fortnite's new game mode inspired by 'Avengers Infinity War' - and I loved it
Thanos has three main powers:
I played a couple of quick games on Tuesday morning. Thanos made an appearance in both of them.
I died to the storm in the first game, not realizing how quickly it moves in this new mode, and how much faster it'll kill you than in the regular game.
Before I got to the safe zone, though, I saw someone had activated the Infinity Gauntlet and started wiping out other players (as seen above).
In my second game, I knocked off a couple of opponents early in the match, stayed out of the storm, and stayed safe as Thanos ripped my opponents to shreds from a distance. There's one bit of good news: Once the Gauntlet is claimed, Thanos will always appear on your map, so you'll know where you can (or can't) hide.
I didn't actually see Thanos with my own eyes until the very end of my second match, when he jumped into the massive crater where I was hiding — the area known as Dusty Divot — and pulverized the third-place player nearby.
As Thanos recovered his health, I took my shot: I threw a Port-A-Fort grenade at him, which created a fort around him. He burst out of it, looking for me.
Finally, I had my shot at Thanos. And I took it.
...It was over relatively quickly.
I got him with several shots to the head with my burst assault rifle, and jumped around him as he punched and whiffed the air many times, but eventually, a couple of punches knocked me out for good, and I was defeated. Still, I found myself laughing: because even in death, I had become a child of Thanos.
Overall, I found the new limited-time Infinity Gauntlet game mode in Fortnite to be a blast.
Since the safe zone is set from the start of the game, and the storm moves relatively quickly, each of these matches are pleasantly short. And if someone finds the Infinity Gauntlet — which they will — it's easy to keep tabs on Thanos' location, as well as his health levels. And so, it generally feels like a quicker version of the Battle Royale mode, with Thanos as a hard-t0-kill wildcard. And if you kill that one player, you can wield the Infinity Gauntlet and assume those awesome powers yourself.
The Infinity Gauntlet games are fun but quick, which is a good thing since it's so easy to be overwhelmed by Thanos — not to mention the 90+ other players on the map.
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