Most battle royale games play fairly similarly. You wind up on an island, search for the best guns and try to make it out on top. But what if there are no guns? Battle royales with an emphasis on melee combat like Naraka: Bladepoint and the upcoming Rumbleverse (and arguably Fall Guys) are evolving the trend popularized by Fortnite and PUBG with smaller maps, fewer players and more direct combat where camping isn't an option. Bladepoint in particular is an interesting one because its roster is set up more like a fighting game, each character with unique skills instead of having thousands of different skins that use the same weapons and animations. After two arena fighters it looks like that's the direction My Hero Academia is heading with its next game.

Weekly Shonen Jump announced that Bandai Namco are working on My Hero Academia Ultra Rumble, a free-to-play, team-based 24-player battle royale game with heroes and villains from the series battling for survival. Unlike Bamco's small-scale JoJo battle royale that was only released in Japanese arcades, this one's coming to PC, Switch, PS4 and Xbox One. 

Maybe Shueisha saw how Epic gave Naruto & friends guns and were somehow OK with that but Deku and the rest of Class 1-A getting tooled up is completely out of the question. Either way it sounds like an interesting prospect, so long as it doesn't end up a trainwreck like Jump Force.

Do you guys think a MHA battle royale could work? Or should Bamco stick with arena fighters? Could melee battle royales become the next big trend in gaming? Let us know below!