With cross-console and online compatibility, players can squad up with up to three other band members. You can customize your avatar and instrument choose between vocals, guitar, bass, keys or drums and select songs by artists ranging from Olivia Rodrigo to Nine Inch Nails. In Fortnite Festival, players can choose between the “jam” mode (more on that later) and the main stage, where they’ll recognize that classic “note highway” format - notes corresponding with buttons fly across the screen like a rock ‘n’ roll treadmill. Those games dominated the late 2000s, but game publishers basically stopped investing in the concept after Activision’s 2015 entry, Guitar Hero Live, fell flat.
Developed in tandem with Epic subsidiary Harmonix, the game revives the once-popular, long-thought-dead rhythm genre, which spawned blockbuster hits like Dance Dance Revolution, Guitar Hero and Rock Band. It’s the very real Fortnite Festival, Epic’s new, free music video game built inside the world of Fortnite. The Weeknd is doing a Fortnite dance as you shred Queens of the Stone Age’s “Go With the Flow” on an Xbox controller.
