Fortnite Vs. PUBG - Which Game Is Better?

1. Victory Screens/Does Victory Feel Earned?

Okay, so here's the thing: The actual ending of both games - the culmination, the fanfare, the denouement - is terrible. Both games throw up what feels like a first-pass victory screen that flat-out tells you either "Victory Royale!" or "Winner winner, chicken dinner!" with nothing else, before you immediately realise the only recourse is to play again.

There's very little visual payoff outside of indulging in your own feeling of celebration, and considering the genre is predicated on "Who can survive?/What will you do?!", actually getting there can feel pretty off-putting, like the destination wasn't worth the climb.

Granted, the climb is the game, and it's here where everything converges into my final point: Does winning a game of PUBG or Fortnite feel earned?

In both cases, yes, but where Fortnite trades on power-ups, makeshift fortresses and legendary weapons, PUBG boils all that down to base gameplay. You can up your chances of surviving in a shootout with a better armour stat or a bullet-deflecting frying pan strapped to your back, but a headshot is a headshot.

Play PUBG well, retreat and strike where necessary, and that sense of reward will directly pay off your primal cortex. Those were your reaction times, your happenstance finding of the right weapon and your ability to line up the final shot to snatch victory from the one-in-thousands chance of defeat.

There's nothing else like it, and although technical hiccups continue to get in the way, PUBG is the better game than Fortnite - it just needs more time to iron out any remaining technical kinks.

Winner: PUBG

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Overall Winner: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds with 7 points, to Fortnite, with 3.