Overwatch (2016)

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  1. nibbersummoner
    May 25, 2017
    0
    i rather eat a dog **** , get aids from an indian and get cancer rather than playing this game, outright terrible. another **** and catered game for casuals and 12 year olds. **** you blizzard and your policies
  2. AxelrodG
    May 29, 2017
    0
    An experiment to gauge the depths of humanity's stupidity. It went horribly right.

    Shallow gameplay + repetitive, poorly designed maps + incompetent matchmaker + vastly unbalanced characters = "Sign me up!" to a lot of people, apparently.
  3. Nianiouchka
    Jun 4, 2017
    0
    After one year, I still feel like I paid too much for this game.

    • One new game mode : Capture the Flag, and it hasn't been optimised or balanced for capturing the flag compared to regular Quick Play. They simply droped a flag on the map. • Two new maps : Eichenwalde and Oasis. The other additions were already existing KOTH maps with different lightings ( like Illios during sun set )    After one year, I still feel like I paid too much for this game.

    • One new game mode : Capture the Flag, and it hasn't been optimised or balanced for capturing the flag compared to regular Quick Play. They simply droped a flag on the map.
    • Two new maps : Eichenwalde and Oasis. The other additions were already existing KOTH maps with different lightings ( like Illios during sun set ) or three tiny maps that were salavaged assets of previous maps for game modes that less than 25% of players use.
    • Three new characters : Including one that is 90% transparent in the lore departement even compared to the rest of the characters, and the three of them are yet to be balanced right.
    • No advancement concerning lore yet : One can wonder how long it will take to know even just half of the story.

    Maybe it will be full enough to be worth its price in 10 years.

    • The dev team is filtering the feedbacks and only answering to the complains they choose to aknowledge. For everything else, this is simply censoring. They play nice in videos where they say that the game belongs to he player base and thank you in messages, but that's where it stops when money's involved.
    • Their events are getting bigger each time and more impossible to complete either by playing or by paying. It's supposed to be gambling, but this is steadily leaning more towards only loosing. No win card. They had a systmey and keep changing it to milk their players of every dollar they can.

    If you want to buy this game, I heavily suggest that you wait for it to be on sale, and never spend a single penny on loot boxes. It's not worth it, and this supports Blizzard into filtering communication with the community.    … Expand
  4. Ahmon
    Sep 11, 2017
    0
    Polished garbage. Game has no balance to speak of and continues to get worse each patch. New heroes are released at a snail's pace. Maps are completely unbalanced. Patches are always focused on profit over player enjoyment. Developers have zero game sense. No story, no single player. Anything interesting is patched out eventually.
  5. Primpy
    Jun 27, 2017
    0
    Overrated as **** I wouldn't recommend anyone play this overpriced, overhyped crap. Oh, I guess we know what the "over" from Overwatch stands for! **** this game.
  6. bigblaccbepis
    Jul 28, 2017
    0
    The overwhelming thiccness of tracer's booty is just so exasperating that makes my bepis explode with b. The overwhelming thiccness of tracer's booty is just so exasperating that makes my bepis explode with b.The overwhelming thiccness of tracer's booty is just so exasperating that makes my bepis explode with b. The overwhelming thiccness of tracer's booty is just so exasperating thatThe overwhelming thiccness of tracer's booty is just so exasperating that makes my bepis explode with b. The overwhelming thiccness of tracer's booty is just so exasperating that makes my bepis explode with b.The overwhelming thiccness of tracer's booty is just so exasperating that makes my bepis explode with b. The overwhelming thiccness of tracer's booty is just so exasperating that makes my bepis explode with b. It reminds me of Sir Patrick Stewart's depiction of black slavery in the Emoji Movie, 10/10, good job big boys.… Expand
  7. BrankoBama
    Jul 31, 2017
    0
    The Overwatch team sucks at fixing clear issues with the game, the community is toxic, the competitive system is bad, and the maps are awful. The only good things I see are the events, and some of the game modes. Overall it is not a fun game, and i do not recommend you waste your money.
  8. SFimcmhiocT326
    Aug 13, 2017
    0
    Why do everyone love this game so much?? Am I the only one who ****ING hates it? That game is just a sack of ****, It's so much loved, this pile this sh!thole is just another simple shooter. What's so special? I played it 5 hours and I kept trying to like it but I failed. It's plain garbage.
    CoD atleast had co-op mode. And weapon costumization. Battlefield on the other hand had vehicles,    Why do everyone love this game so much?? Am I the only one who ****ING hates it? That game is just a sack of ****, It's so much loved, this pile this sh!thole is just another simple shooter. What's so special? I played it 5 hours and I kept trying to like it but I failed. It's plain garbage.
    CoD atleast had co-op mode. And weapon costumization. Battlefield on the other hand had vehicles, and very huge maps.
    F    … Expand
  9. dlc101
    Aug 22, 2017
    0
    To be honest initially this game WAS fun to play.
    However that is no longer true.
    The problems, well the game is limited, essentially there is very little variance between the game modes at all. Although they are initially fun, they pretty much play the same. Maps are limited, very limited. Ok you need a strangle point but after 10 times it gets a little repetitive. As for the actual    To be honest initially this game WAS fun to play.
    However that is no longer true.
    The problems, well the game is limited, essentially there is very little variance between the game modes at all. Although they are initially fun, they pretty much play the same. Maps are limited, very limited. Ok you need a strangle point but after 10 times it gets a little repetitive. As for the actual gameplay, not much skill required, it's pretty much like moving from snooker to pool. Very difficult to miss unless you are trying to miss. Also it's pretty annoying suddenly dying at 100% health for no particular reason.
    Next is the social element, to be honest most players that I am on the same team with tends to be less competent then the computer at the easiest setting. Additionally I tend to report at least one player every time I play, players refuse to actually realise what the game is about i.e. teamplay instead follow their own agenda and let the teammates die horribly. Also those players who cannot play at all and blame other people on their team.
    To be honest the game has potential like TF2 in the early days before it became free to play and became as appealing as a crack whore with crabs.
    The main difference between this and TF2 is that TF2 has more variety, but unfortunately this game just cannot manage the competitive element. As well as the classes being completely unbalanced and team members not wanting to participate as a team.

    To be honest I am waiting for Unreal Tournament 4, at least the bots would be a challenge!    … Expand
  10. yomisimie
    Aug 27, 2017
    0
    Nope, just nope. MOBA with guns. Just like a MOBA, totally unbalanced. Have a tank with 600 HP? Die in 3 seconds because... i don't know, i really don't know. Played half a match? Have some lag. For these graphics i expected a lot more performance, totally dissapointed. Go back to Warcraft Blizzard... Also the "journalists" rating is waaay more than it deserves, I mean 100??
  11. ReptNoR
    Sep 4, 2017
    0
    1 year ago this game was fun, but now it's full of retarded russian kids. The comunity if this game is very toxic.
    Unbalanced characters, bad matchmaking on competitive...
    please don't buy it, it is a scam!!!
  12. Tired0ftheBS
    Sep 7, 2017
    0
    $60 game with lootboxes.
    Exploits the sick. takes away content. stolen character designs galore and a thick viscous coating of racism to boot where no character born outside of america can speak with chinging, chonging, and clicking in their speech.
    trash is trash
    will most likely succeed anyway because noone cares about ruining things for themselves
  13. not_in_the_mood
    Sep 7, 2017
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Worst game I've ever played. Matchmaking: sucks, Player base: toxic, Heros: unbalanced or have been nerfed to the point of garbage, Ranking system: worse than rocket league. I don't even care anymore **** overwatch.… Expand
  14. tonrar2634
    Sep 14, 2017
    0
    PARENT WARNING!! If you are reading this before deciding to purchase, you need to know that Overwatch is no longer just a kids' game. Due to its popularity with younger children, it has become a preferred arena for online hate speech "trolls" of all ages who login to abuse players including children with the worst racist, misogynist, bullying comments that you would never want yourPARENT WARNING!! If you are reading this before deciding to purchase, you need to know that Overwatch is no longer just a kids' game. Due to its popularity with younger children, it has become a preferred arena for online hate speech "trolls" of all ages who login to abuse players including children with the worst racist, misogynist, bullying comments that you would never want your children to see. There is a reporting feature in the game, but BLIZZARD has a reputation for not punishing these predators so they continue to proliferate. Don't take my word for it, search yourself and you'll find countless stories about this problem including acknowledgements from BLIZZARD. Please be careful.… Expand
  15. limonlord
    Oct 6, 2017
    0
    Actually, overwatch is the worst game blizzard have ever made and it demonstrates how their studio decided to concentrate on fulfilling demands of casual players and kids instead of competitive and hardcore players to gain more revenue. I've played 3 competetive seasons by now and i'm definetely not planning to return anytime soon. I regret that i've spend so much time in this overhypedActually, overwatch is the worst game blizzard have ever made and it demonstrates how their studio decided to concentrate on fulfilling demands of casual players and kids instead of competitive and hardcore players to gain more revenue. I've played 3 competetive seasons by now and i'm definetely not planning to return anytime soon. I regret that i've spend so much time in this overhyped "cybersportive game"

    Pros:
    1) Good optimisation? (not sure)
    2) Presence of some kind of lore and lore-connected content (Overwatch doesn't have real complete lore, plot or story it just has few articles on each hero's bio and some comics and shorts; even DOTA2 technically has better story implementation, although it doesn't have official short movies)

    Cons:
    1) Overwatch team prioritise money over content making. Instead of adding new heroes more often than once in 3-4 months and new DIFFERENT (not "slightly different maps with other textures") maps, new mechanics and rules they just create completely useless, boring and repetitive "events" which usually introduce one casual gamemode and pile of dreadful cosmetic items (most of them have really bad quality) to make kids more excited and sexually aroused than normally.
    2) Overwatch team completely ignores game bugs and balance issues. For the AAA game overwatch has too many issues with that, which are not fixed or fixed partially after a huge period of time.
    3) Overwatch team totally ignores feedback from competitive players. Moreover, blizzard community office tries to pretend to be responsive by making dev's diaries and organising drama on their forums.
    4) Overwatch is just boring to watch and play. Blizzard just did a really bad job trying to develop Team Fortress's genre by adding heroes. Every game is the same, teamfights are won by those who charged their ults first and in the remaining time teams are just standing near objectives behind shields or cover (of they're flanking) and charging their ults again. That's it. I don't see any reason why i should explain why watching cybersport matches is dreadful (same picks, same spicks, same strategies).
    5) Competitive gamemode and low skill cap. Even thought this game costs about 40$, the game is filled with inadequate whiners, leavers, complete noobs. I dare say that i enjoyed playing competitive dota, cs:go, RTS's and so on much more than competitive overwatch.

    I could go on and review each specific issue with this game and each of blizzard's failures, but generally i said what i wanted to say. This game has no future in pro scene, unless blizzard will change their course and start to actually work on their game. This game just deserves online of 100k people on each platform, not more. Just don't buy it and wait until they'll make this game cost 20$ or free and add other microtransactions (apart from lootboxes).    … Expand
  16. Sickler
    Oct 9, 2017
    0
    Are you looking for a game where you will make a difference? Where you will contribute to a 6 man team and feel a sense of accomplishment? Then find something different to play. This game is nothing but toxic players, where every player wont contribute to the team effort. Enjoy countless games with no healer or not tanks. Enjoy countless games where no one will switch characters. Enjoy aAre you looking for a game where you will make a difference? Where you will contribute to a 6 man team and feel a sense of accomplishment? Then find something different to play. This game is nothing but toxic players, where every player wont contribute to the team effort. Enjoy countless games with no healer or not tanks. Enjoy countless games where no one will switch characters. Enjoy a game where if you win a bunch of games, it will >per the developers< put you in sub par team to lose. The only people who enjoy this game are 6 man pre-planned teams. Otherwise you are left frustrated as you lose hundreds of skill rating points per night and are forced to play with only people who no longer care about their rating and are willing to quit or not contribute. Thus losing game after game as they it is stated that no one win all the team in X skill rating...all the way up to gold. Go play any other game, tetris, Metroid, Mario brothers, just about any other game has a better since of accomplishment then this.… Expand
  17. diggre318
    Oct 21, 2017
    0
    thanks for encouraging loot boxes or loot crates.
    ever since Diablo 3's always online marketplace, I knew this company had such terrible ideas to rip their customers off.

    The game is chopped into bits to sell more of this stuff.
    While their base games have quality art in them, ugh just rather support smaller or indie companies.
  18. LtZero
    Oct 27, 2017
    0
    Simulador de stress em todo os sentidos. Tanto no gameplay enjoativo e repetitivo tanto com os jogadores do seu time que mas atrapalha do que ajuda fora que o jogo possui milhões de jogadores mas você leva mais de 5 minutos pra achar uma partida em jogo rápido pode não parecer muito mas e, o competitivo nem se fala totalmente quebrado, desequilibrado e cheio de trol e todos saem sem nenhumSimulador de stress em todo os sentidos. Tanto no gameplay enjoativo e repetitivo tanto com os jogadores do seu time que mas atrapalha do que ajuda fora que o jogo possui milhões de jogadores mas você leva mais de 5 minutos pra achar uma partida em jogo rápido pode não parecer muito mas e, o competitivo nem se fala totalmente quebrado, desequilibrado e cheio de trol e todos saem sem nenhum tipo de punição. Não vale o preço exitem jogos melhores de graça Paladins e TF2 muito superiores. Overwatch lançou em 2016 e durou 1 ano hoje 28/10/2017 a grande maioria dos jogadores abandonarão o game e o considera morto… Expand
  19. Agrowitcher
    Jan 27, 2021
    0
    I loved overwatch so mush. But blizzar broke this game. Bored, only 2 2 2 setup, terrible matchmakng. Only 3 cnew chars for whole year! And now Overwatch 2. For what? Burn in hell JEFF
  20. Med1a
    Nov 23, 2017
    0
    Подбор соперников ужасен,баланс чуть выше среднего,огромное количество тролей на рейтинге 3000-3500+ ,поддержка игроков со стороны разроботчиков безполезная.
    Итог 1/10
  21. ZIPPING4M3R
    Jul 6, 2020
    0
    This game copied off of Team Fortress 2's work, just changed it up a bit so nobody would notice.
  22. Parzival235
    Nov 17, 2017
    0
    This game is complete garbage. You can't have any fun unless you have no life and devote all your time to this game alone. I just want to play a fun, slightly competitive game, with friends, but for me it turns into a horrible experience where I am spending most of my time waiting to play again. So overall the main problem is the matchmaking. Half the time your team is a bunch of apesThis game is complete garbage. You can't have any fun unless you have no life and devote all your time to this game alone. I just want to play a fun, slightly competitive game, with friends, but for me it turns into a horrible experience where I am spending most of my time waiting to play again. So overall the main problem is the matchmaking. Half the time your team is a bunch of apes hitting their controllers on the ground while the opposing team is a highly trained force of real soldiers carrying out detailed battle formations and easily destroying your chance of winning. There were times that I had to carry my team as Zenyatta, A HEALER, I had gold elims at the end with 3. There are so many more things wrong with this game but mainly it is the not being able to play part that has led me to quit playing.… Expand
  23. RedruM121
    Nov 21, 2017
    0
    Poorlly balanced game with dev that keeps nerf/buff heroes with no logical sense( they are like hey we have 16 **** damage hereoes??? better buff some of them, and we only have 4 **** healers??? better nerf them) no wonder the ranked people pick 5 dps out of 6 players making for some poorlly balanced games... And the rankeds themself are simply attrocious unbalanced unfair and mostlyPoorlly balanced game with dev that keeps nerf/buff heroes with no logical sense( they are like hey we have 16 **** damage hereoes??? better buff some of them, and we only have 4 **** healers??? better nerf them) no wonder the ranked people pick 5 dps out of 6 players making for some poorlly balanced games... And the rankeds themself are simply attrocious unbalanced unfair and mostly people that have ranks that they don deserve just so the lower ranks arent full, you will always find people with 60/70% win ratio put with people that have 20% win ratio but the same rank and they are 90% leavers...… Expand
  24. STRoGGrus
    Oct 12, 2018
    0
    Вот такая вот чудесная игра, в которую в некоторые моменты просто не получается играть. Очередь 9000 человек, когда доходит до 1000 - выкидывает и все заново. Более отвратительного отношения к игрокам я не могу припомнить вообще ни в одной игре.
    Есть множество способов решить эту проблему, так или иначе. Но выбор разработчиков - издеваться и плевать на игроков. И это платная игра. Не F2P.    Вот такая вот чудесная игра, в которую в некоторые моменты просто не получается играть. Очередь 9000 человек, когда доходит до 1000 - выкидывает и все заново. Более отвратительного отношения к игрокам я не могу припомнить вообще ни в одной игре.
    Есть множество способов решить эту проблему, так или иначе. Но выбор разработчиков - издеваться и плевать на игроков. И это платная игра. Не F2P.
  25. mrq02
    Feb 24, 2018
    0
    I have observed worse matchmaking systems, probably, but I can't be 100% sure as this one is pretty garbage.
  26. Seriousrevweiw
    Nov 28, 2017
    0
    Game is gay cause Tracer is GAY! This game supports North Korea causeof war elements! lolololololollollolololoololiolololollololollololollololollolollololollolololollololololollolololollololollolololololollololollolololollololollololololollololollo
  27. holyshootdude
    Dec 17, 2017
    0
    First of all, the game itself is super unbalanced and the arcade modes are awful most of the time. Why can't we just have every game mode avaliable all the time like the old CoD's? Anyways, with that being said, I just finished a 4 hour session of comp to drop about 200 sr in total, with getting at least 2 gold and 1 silver medal on average for myself, I main supports and I was ranked platFirst of all, the game itself is super unbalanced and the arcade modes are awful most of the time. Why can't we just have every game mode avaliable all the time like the old CoD's? Anyways, with that being said, I just finished a 4 hour session of comp to drop about 200 sr in total, with getting at least 2 gold and 1 silver medal on average for myself, I main supports and I was ranked plat but now I'm back at gold levels, but they let me keep the plat emblem which makes me feel a little better, and I play in the NA servers. Let's recap on some of the things that happened: My friend got made fun of for having a mexican accent, someone died because I was zenyatta and couldn't get over to then fast enough and spammed "I need healing" the entire game, someone threw because I didn't rez them and I got specifically singled out for losing because I played support, someone begged me to go tank because I'm "bad at support" so I changed and then someone completely different got angry at me for switching because he wasn't getting healed and some one admitted that "dude, I'll be honest, I am so stoned rn" and I had the new Star Wars spoiled. Also no one talks about how weirded out people are by roleplayers, they make my friends and I uncomfortable. Can't you make your own servers to keep that kind of stuff private in? I'm going back to playing modded Diablo 2, forget this.… Expand
  28. iLIAVCH
    Dec 25, 2017
    0
    Before playing this game, you expect to see something unusual.You expect to see a game at 91 points scores on the metacritic.But dreams are shattered about reality, and the **** does not meet expectations.
    In fact, it comes out like a usual Free-to-Play Shooter MOBA with doubtful balance. Laure promised - a pair of poor quality comics and short films. But the publisher requires a full    Before playing this game, you expect to see something unusual.You expect to see a game at 91 points scores on the metacritic.But dreams are shattered about reality, and the **** does not meet expectations.
    In fact, it comes out like a usual Free-to-Play Shooter MOBA with doubtful balance. Laure promised - a pair of poor quality comics and short films. But the publisher requires a full price for the game. And Blizzard needs all your money so DISCOUNTS ARE RARITY. F*ck this game!    … Expand
  29. VampireIdle
    Jan 24, 2018
    0
    I originally pre-ordered the Game and have been playing since Beta.

    I am sad to give this Game such a Low Score as I had my hopes up high for this FPS. Blizzard is generally a company with excellent Games and outstanding quality, however Overwatch is no such thing. Originally Overwatch was a first person MOBA Game that required team play and team communication to win. With    I originally pre-ordered the Game and have been playing since Beta.

    I am sad to give this Game such a Low Score as I had my hopes up high for this FPS.

    Blizzard is generally a company with excellent Games and outstanding quality, however Overwatch is no such thing.

    Originally Overwatch was a first person MOBA Game that required team play and team communication to win. With different Heroes being good at different Things in their own Way. This used to be its Soul, which sadly has been completely destroyed.

    Quick Play is now just a mode for you to try out heroes and get lucky. Arcade surprisingly is where people actually try and win, because each third win will get you a lootbox, for up to 3 Lootboxes.

    Competitive Mode is completely destroyed, thanks to smurfs and Boosters. You can go and google "overwatch boosting" and find millions of people that boost you up to any rank you want via their smurf accounts. This is especially frustrating when you try and want to get better in the game by ranking up. To explain this a little bit better this is the current state:
    Grandmasters & Master cant connect to anybody that isnt within 500SR Range, however if they make a new account they can play with anybody they want and stomp any SR below them.

    This Game does not require team play anymore, thanks to heroes being nerfed to either being unplayable or buffed to do the max dps possible (yes even the medics). Whats the point in taking Widowmaker a defense hero on defense? If Ana the medic sniper can do more Damage.

    The Game is not only incredibly unbalanced it is also rather unfair, especially when it comes to matchmaking.

    As long as smurfes arent banned from the Game the Competitive Mode will never work correctly.

    It seems Overwatchs Priority lays on one thing and one thing only, Lootboxes & Money. As they showed recently by adding a new currency you can only get by paying real money. Microstransactions in a 60€ Game is absolutely disgusting.

    So is Overwatch recommandable? Not at all, Overwatch has lost its Soul and its Charm. The Developer Team has been arguing within development and it shows its lack of love towards the game. Heroes have been completely rehauled making the game even more unbalanced then it was before.

    If it doesnt speak in Dollar Signs Overwatch does not care what you have to say. When they say they listen to the community, they mean we listen to the 1 percent of streamers and League players.

    When Mercy first got her complete revamp there was a 200+ page thread of people being against it, but nothing.

    The Team of Overwatch has completely gone off track and using it just to get money. Do not buy the game and dont support such greed!    … Expand
  30. jugadorhardcore
    Mar 6, 2018
    0
    extremly overrated. This IS NOT a GOTY. It just a good game. The scoreds from the critic are a joke.
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#3 Best PC Game of 2016
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#1 Most Discussed PC Game of 2016
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#13 Most Shared PC Game of 2016

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91

Universal acclaim - based on 64 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 62 out of 64
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 64
  3. Negative: 0 out of 64
  1. Trusted Reviews
    Apr 20, 2018
    90
    Overwatch remains one of the most compelling and experimental shooters in the world right now. Blizzard Entertainment’s commitment to innovative new heroes, modes and responding to community feedback is unparalleled – and a treat to watch. Like World of Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo before it, Blizzard has crafted something that will undoubtedly be around for years to come.
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  2. GRYOnline.pl
    May 5, 2017
    95
    I'm certain that Overwatch will bring dozens of hours of fun to all lovers of dynamic online shooters. Focusing on one type of gameplay and an enormous attention to detail generated an excellent game. You have to appreciate the developers' sincerity when discussing doubts and problems with the community. Blizzard has done it again. You should see for yourself why so many players have fallen under Overwatch's spell.
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  3. GameGrin
    Dec 8, 2016
    95
    Overwatch is a punch to the face for multiplayer shooters. It mingles quick-fix, objective-based gameplay with a deep tactical core and intelligent meta, forming a game that is simply perfect in short bites and thoroughly satisfying to play for hours on end.
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