Overwatch: 2016 Overview
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Overwatch: 2016 Overview

2016 year overview of Overwatch

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Overwatch; Activision Blizzard's new game takes the world by storm, easily becoming one of the most popular selling games as well as one of the most played games on sites such as YouTube and Twitch.tv. You can't go anywhere without seeing something related to Overwatch the past 8 months since it was released in May of 2016. From the cool characters to the fun of playing a shooting game to the social aspect of it; It's one of the better games that has come out in the last few years.

Overview:

Overwatch is a team based shooter, based on multiple character type "classes" that each class is a particular character. Each character has each own move-set and weapons. It is quite similar to the already popular game 'Team Fortress 2' that came out in 2007. However, Overwatch, being a newer game, has a lot more into it than 'Team Fortress 2' does. When this review goes live at the end of 2016, there are 23 different "Heroes"/characters that you can play as in Overwatch. Each with it's own mechanics and such. They are divided into either: Offense, Defense, Tank, or Support specializations.

Heroes:

(source: http://overwatch.gamepedia.com/Heroes)

Offense


Genji

McCree

Pharah

Reaper

Soldier: 76

Sombra

Tracer

Defense


Bastion

Hanzo

Junkrat

Mei

Torbjörn

Widowmaker

Tank


D.Va

Reinhardt

Roadhog

Winston

Zarya

Support


Ana

Lúcio

Mercy

Symmetra

Zenyatta

Where The Game is Going:

The game is going very strong and I think the game is heading in a very good direction. The game is showing many demographics and it was just revealed that the games cover character, Tracer, was revealed as being gay. This is a huge deal for video games. A huge game with a gay character being on the cover? It's brought up a bunch of controversy. But I think it's a good thing that Activsion Blizzard is going out there and doing what they can to give the character stories and giving them an identity to relate to people in the world, giving them role models and such.

Review:

The game is done very well, as expected from the company. They are constantly updating, every week in fact. They are keeping up with new characters and events constantly, which they have added 3 new events since launch and 2 new characters and even new maps.

Each new character, being Ana and Sombra, were both unique compared to the other classes that were already in the game that it made it even more dynamic.

In my opinion the game is perfect for what it should be for 2016. Going forward I will be doing more reviews for this game in the future to keep this more updated and changing the score as it goes on, adds new characters, maps, ect.

Result for 2016:

10/10

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