One of the hidden gems of The Game Awards' premieres was the first look at Thunder Tier One - an intriguing, top-down strategy shooter created by PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' head of action and gunplay, Pawel Smolewski.
While shooters in both first and third-person have proved popular in 2020, top-down shooters are certainly something of a niche genre. However, what started as a passion project for Smolewski soon grew into a full-blown idea with a number of colleagues jumping aboard to help develop Thunder Tier One in their spare time. But after taking some time to focus on PUBG, Smolewski is back working on the game - but this time he has the help of PUBG Corp's parent company, Krafton.
As you'd expect for someone so involved in PUBG, Smolewski has applied a lot of his experience behind the scenes of the battle royale to Thunder Tier One. But, the games have a symbiotic relationship, and Thunder Tier One has actually worked as a test bed for a number of PUBG gameplay changes in the past.
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