Cliff Notes – Fortnite’s Power Rangers live action trailer is easily its best one ever
- The new Fortnite season, Chapter 6: Season 4, features a live-action trailer that creatively blends nostalgia for the original Power Rangers series with modern effects, generating significant fan excitement.
- Despite prior leaks revealing the Power Rangers’ inclusion, the trailer’s engaging presentation has been well-received, with many fans calling it one of the best gaming trailers ever.
- The upcoming season will include skins for the original Power Rangers and hints at a crossover with Halo, suggesting further collaborations in the future.
Fortnite’s Power Rangers live action trailer is easily its best one ever
We don’t even particularly care about Power Rangers but this trailer’s a lot of fun (Epic Games/YouTube)
The newest Fortnite season kicks off this week and will feature collaborations with the Power Rangers and Halo.
It’s often difficult to get excited about new Fortnite crossovers, not because there’s too many of them (a game with Batman, Darth Vader, and Goku in it would’ve sounded impossible a decade ago) but because they”re always leaked out weeks in advance by dataminers.
As such, fans often know who will pop up in the next season before Epic Games says anything official. The most recent example being the Power Rangers, with reliable Fortnite dataminers claiming skins based on the original 90s TV show would arrive as part of the next season.
So, how can Epic Games generate hype for something everybody already knows about (other than doing a better job of hiding unannounced content in the game’s files)?The answer: a really good and genuinely fun live action trailer.
Earlier today, the Fortnite YouTube channel uploaded a trailer for Fortnite Chapter 6: Season 4, subtitled Shock ‘N Awesome, which begins this Thursday on August 7 and looks to involve the island being invaded by alien bugs.
We’d have thought Ellen Ripley would be the one called in to help with that one, but she’s already a skin in Fortnite, so the Power Rangers have been picked instead.
Their arrival suddenly causes the animated cinematic to shift to live action and the trailer essentially turns into a fight scene from the original show.
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Aside from it having the same aspect ratio and grainy film quality, the rangers themselves are in actual suits and the bugs are reimagined as the kind of dopey looking ‘just guys in suits’ monsters you’d see in the show. The same goes for Fortnite characters like Peely (the sentient banana).
The special effects are more modern, such as the red ranger summoning a minigun, but anyone with nostalgia for the 90s show will be suckered in, especially since a rendition of the Power Rangers theme song plays throughout.
Early responses from fans on YouTube are very positive, with more than a few describing it as one of the best trailers Fortnite has ever done, if not one of the best gaming trailers ever.
The trailer doesn’t indicate what sort of cosmetics will be available in the new season, but according to dataminers like ShiinaBR, it will include skins for the red, blue, black, yellow, and pink rangers.
The ending graphic features the green ranger so he’s undoubtedly a skin as well, plus what is clearly a spartan from Halo, corroborating leaks that Xbox’s shooter series will be crossing over this season too.
This wouldn’t be the first time, since Master Chief was added as a Fortnite skin back in 2020. Since it wasn’t exclusive Xbox content, it was weird at the time to see Master Chief appear on PlayStation and Nintendo formats.
It’s not so bizarre now thanks to Microsoft’s multiplatform push, with heavily rumoured plans for Halo games appearing on PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2.
Why Fortnite is adding more Halo now is a mystery, but it may hint at a reveal at Gamescom in a few weeks – perhaps the long rumoured, multiformat remake of the original Halo: Combat Evolved.
We better get to play as that Megazord in the background too (Epic Games/YouTube)
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