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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.
Overwatch achieved a high level of popularity as an esport in South Korea, with the first game surpassing League of Legends and topping gaming cafés in the country in terms of player count. [41] The game also influenced the creation of an esports tournament in the region, under the brand name " APEX ", which operated until January 2018.
Following The Last Bastion, Blizzard continued to release animated cinematic shorts; the release of these shorts often coincided with new character additions to Overwatch, and the shorts often premiered at gaming conventions such as BlizzCon, Gamescom, or TwitchCon. [8] [13] On November 1, 2019, at that year's BlizzCon event, Zero Hour premiered.
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.
Genji , a player character in the video games Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm; Genji, a character from the Pokémon series; Genji Midorikawa, a character from Smile PreCure! Hikaru Genji, the main character of the 11th-century Japanese text The Tale of Genji; Kaoru Genji, is a fictional character in The Tale of Genji