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Overwatch 2 is a hero shooter, where players are split into two teams and select a "hero" from a roster of over 40 characters.Characters are organized into a "damage" class, responsible for offensive efforts; a "support" class, responsible for healing and buffing; and a "tank" class, responsible for creating space for their team.
Prior to Overwatch ' s release, Blizzard released the cinematic teasers We Are Overwatch and Are You With Us?, which featured voice-overs of the game's characters. [‡ 3] [‡ 4] In the latter, Winston briefly summarizes the Omnic Crisis and recall of Overwatch. [9] Blizzard released their first of the original four animated shorts, Recall, in ...
Overwatch characters as they appear in the Zero Hour cinematic trailer (2019) As part of the original game's announcement, Blizzard released an animated "cinematic trailer" for Overwatch on November 7, 2014. [63] [64] They would repeat this to announce Overwatch 2, releasing the Zero Hour cinematic trailer in 2019. [65]
The series premiered on July 6, 2023, with the release of the first episode, "Dawn". [15] It was released ahead of Overwatch 2 ' s "Invasion" update, which is set to introduce player versus player (PvP) modes and release in August 2023.
Overwatch originally featured 12 characters at its November 2014 BlizzCon convention announcement, [6] but expanded to 21 by the next year's convention. [7] The game is character-driven, and reviewers noted Overwatch 's emphasis on the individual differences between characters in the same role (e.g., between two snipers) as a departure from dominant class-based shooter paradigms.
The sequel Overwatch 2 was released in October 2022, and will continue the seasonal events. According to Kaplan, while the game will be a sequel, they want to allow all content from the first Overwatch to be brought forward into Overwatch 2 , requiring them to slow down new content development for the original game, particularly new heroes and ...
Like its predecessor, Overwatch 2 will lack a traditional story mode but story components will be disseminated to players via transmedia methods, [24] such as a fictional letter written by Kiriko's mother. [25] [26] On September 20, 2022, Blizzard released a trailer for Overwatch 2, featuring a short animated origin story centered on Kiriko's ...
Overwatch (retroactively referred to as Overwatch 1 [b]) was a 2016 multiplayer first-person shooter video game by Blizzard Entertainment.The game was first released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in May 2016 and Nintendo Switch in October 2019, with cross-platform play supported across all platforms.