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RELEASE
TBC
DEVELOPER
Blizzard Entertainment
PUBLISHER
In-house
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The toughest battle I fought while playing Overwatch 2 was trying to figure out why it’s a sequel. Blizzard’s follow up to its 2016 team-based hero shooter doesn’t make substantial enough changes to the game that you can still play today. It’s too familiar, and that only heightens the current game’s issues.
If you, like me, have played Overwatch since its inception, you can track the progress of the game by memory alone. What started as an ambitious, goofy shooter for people who don’t play traditional FPS games like Call of Duty and Battlefield has slowly turned into a game that keeps dialling up its lethality to mirror its competitors. So much has changed since 2016, and a lot of it comes from how Overwatch skewered the idea of what FPS games could be.
