Overwatch Review

Overwatch is the first Shooter developed by Blizzard Entertainment. Some rumors say, that this game includes the rests what should be the game called Titan. The open-beta had more than 9.5 Mio players. The questions is, are this battle’s still great and what will you get for your money?

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Overwatch offers a lot. This game includes situations that quickly vary, surprising team-actions and fast paced battles. In contrast to Paragon, which includes a lot of MOBA-elements, is Overwatch a classic online-shooter that focuses on teamplay. Two teams with up to six players fighting against each other in this game. Great is that this game allows players to change the character before the match starts. It is also possible to change the character in the middle of the match for a few times. This is very important to react on the enemies choose and also to react tactically on the current situation in the match. This feature offers a lot of dynamic. This feature is so important in this game that the developers choose to not release the game as a free2play-game. We think that this game only XBoxOne_3P_PAX16_SOLDIER76works well because players have access to all 21 characters all the time. We noticed very quickly that because of the high number of characters  and their different skills we could play a high number of different matches.

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We think that the best way to describe Overwatch is to compare it with Team Fortress 2, but player do not choose between different character classes. In Overwatch, every one of this 21 characters belongs to one of the four different groups with different responsibilities. There are for example supporters that are helping their team with shields, speed boosts or healing. You also can play tanks which can take more hits than other characters. There are also some defensive heroes. These are for example snipers. Reaper, Genji or Tracer are more offensive heroes which are very useful if you want to attack the other team directly. Every heroes has his own strengths and weaknesses OW_0412016_3P_XB1_REINHARDTwhich you have to get to know. This could take a lot of time, because there are a lot of them but it let you become a much stronger player if you know skills of this heroes.

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Because of this high number of different heroes teamplay become very important. You have to talk to your teammates so that your team is able to choose a great mix of heroes to win the match. We can confirm, that this game has a great matching-system which offers really great matches that are very balanced even if your team do not choose a good mix of heroes to focus on a great teamplay.

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What we also love is that the matchmaking-system also allows you to have a lot of fun with this game even if you play the game online alone. But we think that you will have the most fun if you play Overwatch with your friends. This allows you to choose the right mix of heroes, to find the right tactics, to use different deflections XboxOne_3P_PAX16_ZENYATTAand coordinations.

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What we also love is the game’s concept, design, balancing and the abilities of each hero. We also love it that you have to play everyone of these 21 heroes differently and unique at the same time. We do not want to tell you much more about the heroes at this point. We think it is a lot of fun to find out, what each hero’s talents are. We also love that each hero has his own background story. Unfortunately, this stories are not well presented in this game. These are only told by some digital comics, texts on websites and some short animated short films.

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Unfortunately, compared to Battleborn it is not possible to upgrade or to customize each hero’s skills. All characters have just a few skills that are very useful. It is possible to earn in every match experience points that give you for every level you get up a lootbox and emblems. Every lootbox includes four items like gamer-icons, skins, emotes, sprays, claims, victory poses and intros that shows some highlights. These items do not help you to be a better player or upgrade your hero. If you get something that you already have you get instead of this some credits. With this credits you can buy some other stuff. There are 10 different skins for XboxOne_3P_PAX16_ZARYA2each of this 21 heroes. Some of them are the standard skin in just other colors. Some changes the characters look much clearer.

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On the one hand we can say that we love the game’s design, gameplay-speed, the balancing and the mechanics. On the other hand we have to say that we wished Overwatch would offer more maps and gameplay-modes. You can fight on 12 different in four different modes. Unfortunately, a lot of the game’s maps are very static and boring but we can also say that the most maps are very well designed. It is only in just a few maps possible to shot on things are to push them away. There are only on the Volskaya Industries map some moving platforms that offers a little bit more dynamical battles. But we like XBoxOne_1P_PAX16_SOLDIER76the maps design. They are not symmetric and offer a lot of different attack and defend possibilities and also alternate ways to move forward if you are targeted by a sniper.

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Like we said before, we wished this game would offer more maps with more than 4 different gameplay modes. You can play on three maps assault, on three maps control, on six maps escort or a gameplay-mode that is a mix of assault and control. We wished Blizzard would include also other different classic modes like capture the flag or domination. This game also do not include a single-player or a story-based campaign or co-op-mode. XboxOne_3P_PAX16_MCCREE2Unfortunately, this game also not support Clan-Matches or a system that helps you to organize them. What we like is that this game offers a spectre mode.

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We can confirm, that this game did not include a lot of content but because of the high number of different heroes each match we played was different to the last one. We had a lot of fun to test this game a can also confirm that because of the high variety of matches we did not miss much more maps or modes for a long time. We hope that Blizzrad will keep their promises XboxOne_3P_PAX16_TRACERand add more modes, heroes and maps FOR FREE in feature. We want to confirm that this game is not a MOBA-Shooter. This game offers high speed battles with a huge number of different heroes that focuses on a great online teamplay. We think that this game is because of his simplicity spectacular. Blizzard released a game that is very dynamic, great balanced, with a great character-design and their individual skills. A great shooter in a great cartoon-design with a phenomenal soundesign. If you play this game with you friends you can have a fantastic online multiplayer-shooter experience. But we had also a lot of fun by playing the game alone. We loved it that we could turn to end of the match completely to win it in the last second of the battle. Overwatch’s 21 different heroes with their individual skills ensure that this game get not boring instead of the low number of different gameplay-modes. We can confirm that Overwatch is a very well made online-shooter for players that like to play and work with their team. Well done Blizzard.

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