Which brings us to the main confusion – what, actually, is Overwatch 2? A pseudo-expansion pack? A full-blown sequel? Now completely detached from its PvE, story-based offerings, which remain mostly mysterious and certainly unfinished, it’s taking the role of a particularly large patch. It strikes me as likely to leave OW2 in an odd place, as friendly and enticing as ever, but immediately setting you in rigid roles once in-game, and unlikely to attract the players that made it so popular in the first place. Those games are far more suited to hyper-competitive gameplay and stylings, built from the ground up to be so.
#OVERWATCH 2 REDESIGNS PROFESSIONAL#
An inevitable one perhaps, given the game is already molded around professional play – you can’t ever put the meta back in the bottle – but I’m not sure why I would pick Overwatch over Valorant, or League of Legends, or Dota 2. A shift towards the Dotas and League of Legends that always felt like a bigger influence on Overwatch than the oft-compared Team Fortress 2.įor a game that was, for a long time, the FPS haven of the casual player, it feels an odd decision. If you’re an adept, long-time Overwatch player with a small group of friends you rotate with or even aspirations of professional play, this is obviously titanic. The biggest change is the move from 6v6 to 5v5, featuring two damage, two support, and a tank. It isn’t 2016, this gameplay isn’t revolutionary.
You jump on a cart or a point, you wait for the objective to complete, you have frenetic, fast-paced battles with colorful characters inside well-developed, beautiful maps. Jumping into a closed alpha of Overwatch 2’s tweaked gameplay does not have the same appeal as, late in 2015, getting our first hands-on of Overwatch. However, as Blizzard once put it, times change. Overwatch 2, then, needs and wants and is trying to do it all again – big hype, new heroes, a limited beta on the horizon. Blizzard’s now years-long battle with itself to treat employees right rather than have mass firing rounds, to treat women right rather than be hit by lawsuits and global hatred. The absolute dearth of story content and a big focus on events and their loot boxes and skins. The endless wait for the Overwatch League to take off, which some would argue is ongoing. A development team that had just failed to make the Next Big Thing – Blizzard’s much-rumored Titan MMO – created a story about a team of heroes having hope in the face of darkness and, whoops, made the only game that mattered for months on end. Characters custom-made by the kings of surface-level appeal to create a massive fandom. Overwatch was a triumph – a new mixture of previous genres that took over gaming.
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