Available on: PS4 Xbox One PC
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Reviews
- GameinformerGameinformer"Overwatch doesn’t have a campaign or any single-player/offline aspects worthy of note, but its profound ability to provide drastically different experiences with each hero ensures that fresh explorations and hours of renewed enjoyment are a single tap away. Concern regarding content offerings grow when a multiplayer-only experience arrives, but Overwatch’s laser focus on providing a polished arena where every game tells its own tale provides many hours of entertainment. In addition, Blizzard is not dividing the community or locking characters behind paywalls, as all future maps and characters will be free. Overwatch is an amazing experience. It’s fresh and consistently fun, with matches that are great in random groups, but astonishingly good when played with friends. Blizzard has taken its masterful art of polishing and perfection to the team shooter, and things will never be the same." 10/10 ~Gaminformer
- IGNIGN"Overwatch is an incredible achievement in multiplayer shooter design. It bobs and weaves almost perfectly between being the quick-fix adrenaline hit you might want after a long day of work, and the thoughtful, strategic multiplayer experience that becomes the center of evening-long binges with friends. It might not have the most exhaustive list of maps and modes, but it provides nearly endless opportunities for exhilarating, coordinated play, and when you’re the one at the center of it, it feels like nothing else." 9.4/10 ~IGN
- PluggedinPluggedin"Since this is a shooter, it's only smart to wonder just how messy all of Overwatch's first-person pull-a-trigger play gets. On one hand, there's little to no blood or gore on display. The bombs, explosive traps, laser zaps and bullet-riddlings can feel realistically destructive as they flash and boom, but they don't crumble the environment. And when a character dies, he disappears and is simply marked by a floating red skull. On the other hand, the firefights can get intensely frenetic. Attacks can fly in from any direction. Gameplay is smooth and intuitive, but if you aren't well-positioned or elusive in your movements, you can find yourself extinguished and sent back to the starting gate in the blink of an eye. Some of the female characters sport skintight outfits and fulsome curves, making them come off as sensual—in a cartoon sort of way. But one of the advantages of not having a story mode is the fact that there's no language or sexual innuendo to deal with—other than what might come from the mouths of your real-life teammates, of course. And that leads me back to reemphasizing the fact that this is an online-only game, with all the ups and downs that go along with playing along with unknown others." ~Pluggedin
