Awarded gamesGames of the Year Division

Award for excellenceApex Legends

General Description

Title Apex Legends
Release 2019/2/5
Price free-to-play
Platform PlayStation®4 / Xbox One / Origin(PC)
Distributor Electronic Arts Inc.
Publisher Electronic Arts Inc.
Developer Respawn Entertainment, LLC
URL  https://www.ea.com/ja-jp/games/apex-legends
Copyright © 2019 Electronic Arts Inc. EA, the EA logo, Respawn, the Respawn logo, and Apex Legends are trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc.

Reason

Choose characters with different abilities. Your strategy depends on with whom to make up a team. Interest in winning out by making use of team’s strength and fun and speedy battles. Besides, this free-to-play game offers enhanced functions such as a game system that allows a player to bring a rebirth of a defeated friend only once and an assistant function that calls enemy, weapons, places, etc. by just pushing a button. The game won the award because it receives supports from many users including FPS beginners as an unprecedented battle royal game. That is why the game won the award.

Work Introdution

Apex Legends is a free-to-play battle royal shooting game. The world of “Apex Legend” is same as that of Titanfall®.  The game is characterized by unique characters, team play consisting of three players in a group, and innovative mechanics, and brings a new wind to the battle royal genre. The game provides Respawn Beacon, which brings a rebirth of a defeated friend only once, the Ping Communication system, which allows the player to call out enemies, weapons, places, etc. by just pushing a button, and the Intelligent Inventory System, which automatically bear suitable weapons when the player picks up a gear or equipment.

After sudden release on Feb. 5, 2019, Season 1 “Wild Frontier” on March 20 and Season 2 “Battle Charge” on July 3 were released, and the game has been evolving and provides the best experience to players.

Comment of the game producer

I am Drew McCoy, Project Lead of Apex Legends. On behalf of everyone Respawn entertainment, we thank you ever so much.

We are honored to recognize like this. Our goal when developing the game was taking our decades of experience crafting type, engaging first person multiplayer games and bring to Battle royal genre, in a way no one had ever seen or played before. We had no idea if the crazy experience is going to work but your pouring support, appreciation has been absolutely amazing for us, especially our players form Japan. We have been thrilled and humbled about huge support from all of you in Japan

For the develop of Apex Legends there are a lot of challenges and hurdles we had to overcome. And recognize like this, is awesome validation for the team incredibly hard work.

We thank you for playing and enjoying Apex Legends, and I cannot wait to show you all the great stuff we have coming of the game in the future.

Enjoy the rest f show, and I will see you in the arena.

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