Overwatch 2 Sounds Like Full-Priced DLC

The follow-up to the hit hero-based shooter Overwatch has recently been announced by Blizzard , which has its millions of fans buzzing with anticipation and talks as to what fun new additions the game will contain. It's already been announced that Overwatch 2 will add to the already vast lineup of heroes, kicking things off with at least one new charac

But then 2020 became...Well, 2020. With the pandemic, I made some concessions and accepted that Blizzard would probably hold off on releasing Overwatch 2 until 2021. By that time, the game would be even more polished and ready to take the gaming world by storm once ag


While the Orbiters in these shots seem easy to eliminate (the Tracer player on Route 66 guns down multiple of these bots with just a few shots), Performance Issues their role is not clear and could be more objective-focused. ( All this said, it's nice to see these two maps brought back for Overwatch


One shot of the Puller (aka the Wraith) takes place in what appears to be a development space meant for working with various 3D models made for the game. As the camera dollies in front of the Wraith, a few stationary models glide into view; a T-posing Tracer, a large tanker, some pots and pans, and — most curiously — a torso-less


After all, Activision has a reputation as the company that likes to drive its games into the ground with constant releases. It released so many Guitar Hero games that it practically salted the Earth when it comes to the rhythm genre. It's also easy to remember that Bungie was originally said to have a ten-year plan for Destiny until Destiny 2 went into production. Considering their public break-up with Activision earlier this year, it's plausible that Activision had a hand in pushing the former Halo developer into coming up with a sequel to drive fans over to the next g


COD is one of the few game series left that get away with an annual release schedule. Every fall like clockwork a new COD comes out and sells like hotcakes. Activision likely loves the profits it makes from this FPS franchise, and it wouldn't be shocking if it thinks they can do the same thing with Overwat


Well, it turns out I was wrong. Quite wrong. It now looks like Overwatch 2 won't be out until 2022 at the earliest, which likely means regular vanilla Overwatch won't see any significant updates for over a year. And that's a very bad thing when it comes to maintaining a stable fanbase for your multiplayer shoo


In the video, Blizzard offers many details for the Breacher, a new Null Sector enemy that lumbers towards an objective point and, if allowed to reach its destination, explodes. Blizzard refers to this Omnic as an "objective un


Considering we could potentially see the addition of a new Omnic hero, Tekhartha Mondatta (speculation which we base off nothing but our own desires), we might as well get the return of the stage in which he's so prominently featured as a statue, Ne


The tank-like Artillery unit is already an intimidating adversary based on how Blizzard describes it in the BlizzConline video. It's a four-legged monster of an Omnic that can rain a barrage of small missiles and fire a charged-up duo of large rockets. There's little need to make this a more intimidating advers


Yet, the Ruins and Lighthouse portions of Illios also produce some fun battles, as they offer a diversity of higher and ground-level areas, as well as pits, obstructions, and other elements to shake things


I do appreciate the fact that all regular Overwatch players will have access to the new content regardless of whether or not they buy Overwatch 2 (with the exception of the singleplayer modes.) So at least they're not going to split the playerbase. But is anyone going to be around when that happens? Does Overwatch have enough cultural cachet to survive such a long draught of substantial content? Or will 2022 be the year that Overwatch is officially declared dead and buried as all its fans have long since moved


As we all know, Blizzard is owned by Activision. And if there's any company that loves putting out sequel after sequel, it's Activision. We still get a new Call Of Duty game every single year, which is insane since that means we're going on 16 years straight of COD sequels. But that method hasn't worked for other games. This strategy almost killed the Tony Hawk franchise and did kill the Guitar Hero franchise. In fact, it pretty much snuffed out the entire plastic instrument sub-genre of rhythm ga


There are a few other Omnics in these same two colors; Elite Grunts, Jumpers, and Orbiters are red, while older Null Sector bots, like Nullifiers, Skirmishers, and the classic B73-NS "Bastion" units, all appear in purple. There's no clear delineation between these two colors, and the Breachers in the concept art images could be just early concepts. But it's also possible these color differences could indicate rankings or timeline jumps in Overwatch 2's narrat