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  1. Dec 13, 2019
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    Я специально создал аккаунт здесь что-би написать этот отзыв. НИКОГДА СЛИШИТЕ НИКОГДА НЕ ПОКУПАЙТЕ ЭТО ДЕРЬМО. Нервов не останьте уже через 2-3 месяца. Эта игра выводи из себя как никая другая, из-за очень токсичного комюнити. Токсичной сравнима с дотой, и то в дота комюнити будет лучше чем в этом куске дерьма.Я специально создал аккаунт здесь что-би написать этот отзыв. НИКОГДА СЛИШИТЕ НИКОГДА НЕ ПОКУПАЙТЕ ЭТО ДЕРЬМО. Нервов не останьте уже через 2-3 месяца. Эта игра выводи из себя как никая другая, из-за очень токсичного комюнити. Токсичной сравнима с дотой, и то в дота комюнити будет лучше чем в этом куске дерьма.
  2. Feb 25, 2020
    0
    Со своей политикой близзард разрушает игры. Не ругайтесь не критикуйте. Может вообще не общаться в игре?
  3. Jan 13, 2020
    0
    I made an account just for this review I am so ph u cking pissed off.
    Remember when the game first came out, and it was fun as hell?
    And then they added all these BS characters, and nerfed all the fun ones to oblivion. Now you can't go a single ph u cking match without seeing a Doomfist, Moira, or Baguette. Quit pandering to the competetive crowd and try to have fun FOR ONCE Blizzard,
    I made an account just for this review I am so ph u cking pissed off.
    Remember when the game first came out, and it was fun as hell?
    And then they added all these BS characters, and nerfed all the fun ones to oblivion.
    Now you can't go a single ph u cking match without seeing a Doomfist, Moira, or Baguette.
    Quit pandering to the competetive crowd and try to have fun FOR ONCE Blizzard, please.

    Also I guess metacritic can't handle those nasty curse words, it hurts their feelings :(
    (ph u ck you)
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  4. Jan 25, 2020
    0
    Thx Jeff for die this game!
    The ranked game system is probably the worst I have ever played with
  5. Feb 23, 2020
    0
    Its been four years and nothing has changed except a few maps I could've made myself in a shorter amount of time and a few heroes. I honestly thought this might have been a good game when I bought it but they got their money and stopped giving a **** Not to mention they've brought the plague of forced role check into it. Now I have to wait 8 mins for a ****ty tank and healer that doesn'tIts been four years and nothing has changed except a few maps I could've made myself in a shorter amount of time and a few heroes. I honestly thought this might have been a good game when I bought it but they got their money and stopped giving a **** Not to mention they've brought the plague of forced role check into it. Now I have to wait 8 mins for a ****ty tank and healer that doesn't know what they're doing. However if I tank, or heal I usually have to carry the DPS anyways ontop of my other role. Which in turn forces you to play the "meta" role because they're aren't actually any team dynamics outside of who does more damage or who can hitscan. Expand
  6. Feb 1, 2020
    0
    Warcraft 3 reforged. Игра сломавшая мнение о метелице всё объясняет"За моего отца"
  7. Mar 9, 2020
    0
    There is no balance in the game! What happened to Blizzard? It's all style over substance now.
    You either lose by a huge margin or you win by a margin, the middle is not!!!!!!
  8. Feb 1, 2020
    0
    всратое однообразное дерьмо, которое хайпануло у школьниках на попах и порно пародиях. Типичный современный высер от помойных близзард
  9. Feb 2, 2020
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    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. They turned what was a amazing game and the best FPS game on the market into a steaming cash grab with severely declining Export viewership, this is important because they sold out the games quality and their fanbase's experience for the overwatch league, role queue, hero pool, the reworking which is in truth the deletion and demolition of despised hero's that the Devs have a bias against or to entertain the bias of the community, have been demolished to the point where many hero's kits literally don't make sense gameplay wise, the games now a complete Trainwreck that isn't worth buying.

    Dogshxt game development team and company, dogshxt game.

    Avoid everything blizzard at all cost and don't buy anything from blizzard, ever.
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  10. Oct 5, 2022
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    Joke game, joke players, joke streamers, joke esports. Joke 75 characters requirement.
  11. Feb 6, 2020
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    Blizzard is nothing doing about there toxic community, do yourself a favor and dont buy this game
  12. Feb 6, 2020
    0
    **** game with **** anti cheat they don't care about the game hackers every game you need to wait between 1 to two hours just to join a game and be against a **** kid who took his parents money to buy hacks **** game, **** tf2 copy paste game OVER**** developers you should just kill this **** game and end your career as a developer and every year the same Christmas,Halloween,lunar year**** game with **** anti cheat they don't care about the game hackers every game you need to wait between 1 to two hours just to join a game and be against a **** kid who took his parents money to buy hacks **** game, **** tf2 copy paste game OVER**** developers you should just kill this **** game and end your career as a developer and every year the same Christmas,Halloween,lunar year game modes overall a **** game with a **** team. Expand
  13. Feb 8, 2020
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    A Blizzard cancelou a transmissão brasileira (e de outros países) da Overwatch League, trocou a plataforma de transmissão gringa, não dá satisfação de como serão os drops. Total descaso com a comunidade.
  14. Feb 22, 2020
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    Worsest balance ever and ever. More of it. It you playing solo or with mate this game will give you team lower that your level (unlike the enemy team) and its not quite often ITS REGULAR. So you will be a bronze for ages and its no ways out for solo or triple.
    The rating system is so dumb that it is based only on gold medals. Your teamplay values nothing. Its does not matter how many
    Worsest balance ever and ever. More of it. It you playing solo or with mate this game will give you team lower that your level (unlike the enemy team) and its not quite often ITS REGULAR. So you will be a bronze for ages and its no ways out for solo or triple.
    The rating system is so dumb that it is based only on gold medals. Your teamplay values nothing. Its does not matter how many times your Ana stops enemy Reinhard and save the team. Only your gold medals..... Is this game requires teamplay? I dont think so.

    Disappointment of the year and this game fully dead from the beginning.
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  15. Feb 29, 2020
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    Overwatch has a roster of great characters (and I mean them as characters, not heroes to play as and against), is very good-looking, allows to create custom game modes and has a feature to give players something to do while waiting for their queue. However, its other aspects heavily outweight that. Yes, so heavily that it's worth 0 to me.

    Regarding balance, Blizzard cares only about
    Overwatch has a roster of great characters (and I mean them as characters, not heroes to play as and against), is very good-looking, allows to create custom game modes and has a feature to give players something to do while waiting for their queue. However, its other aspects heavily outweight that. Yes, so heavily that it's worth 0 to me.

    Regarding balance, Blizzard cares only about balancing the game for Overwatch league which works out okay for grandmaster players but is pretty much a "screw you" for the remaining 99% of the players. Of course screw them, it's OWL that brings in money, not players. That, or whoever is responsible for balancing has IQ far below average. For instance, Brigitte, one of the support heroes, was forced into F tier for the majority of the players in August 2019 and was only getting weaker since then. And how would you like a sniper that can't be countered because Blizzard was dumb enough to give her ways to counter her counters, removing any weaknesses a sniper is supposed to have so the only actual way to "counter" her is to win a sniper duel against her? And of course she oneshots non-tanks and deals very heavy damage to tanks.

    Ranked play is full of throwers. Good luck getting anywhere when you constantly lose matches because your teammates decide to not let you win. But I guess it's an issue every team game will have. Anyways, if you want a competent team you'll have a much better chance of getting it in casual play.

    Not that it would matter since matchmaking is terrible. It literally forces 50% winrate. You steamroll, then get steamrolled, then steamroll again, then get steamrolled again, and so on. Sometimes comes in packs of two to three.

    I started playing Overwatch almost two years after its release and missed out how it was promoted by Blizzard and how it was in the beginning but I heard a lot about it being a game where you can play any role an will still be able to contribute to your team even if your aim is bad because there are heroes that aren't heavily reliant on it. Well, good luck playing support when you are a free kill for any flanker or diver. Brigitte was released as a protector for her fellow supports but she's resting on the bottom of the trash bin so it's back to free kills. And good luck playing tank when you get annihilated in a second. Barriers help with that. Or used to because Blizzard has been actively trashing barrier tanks and now two out of three are outright unplayable. Healing also helps with that but healers get nerfed. Not to mention that Blizzard is thinking of implementing a limit of one tank per team. Sure, tanks got some buffs to compensate. Some tiny tiny buffs that don't stop them from dying at a moment's notice. And damage heroes are just op as hell.

    Sadly, Blizzard hasn't been about gamers making games for gamers for a long time already. And current state of Overwatch along with epic fail with Warcraft 3: Refunded actually makes me worried for the fate of Diablo IV and Overwatch 2.
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  16. Mar 17, 2020
    0
    It made my butthole ichy I dont like that game, bad with. really bad poop players
  17. Mar 27, 2020
    0
    Literally the worst developers when it comes to nerfing characters. Tracer's blink regens too quick, mei reloads too quick, zarya regens her bubble too quick and charges too fast. Moira can literally get her ultimate in 30 seconds of the game. Worst **** developers and whoever made Tracer and Mei can go kill themself
  18. May 14, 2021
    0
    The game frequently fails to launch on startup. When it does decide to launch, I experience frame drops and stutter for the first 10 minutes of gameplay. This means that my first game when I boot is often unplayable. These issues combined with the toxic community and the lack of a serious competitive meta means this game is not enjoyable at all to play. Please don't buy Overwatch 2 as itThe game frequently fails to launch on startup. When it does decide to launch, I experience frame drops and stutter for the first 10 minutes of gameplay. This means that my first game when I boot is often unplayable. These issues combined with the toxic community and the lack of a serious competitive meta means this game is not enjoyable at all to play. Please don't buy Overwatch 2 as it means continuing to support awful design and gameplay decisions. Expand
  19. Apr 9, 2020
    0
    If you are reading this is a really in depth review of this terribly designed and balanced game so please read it if you're interested in getting this game. I have played over 500 hours of overwatch, I used to have fun back then but now there are characters like doom, sombra, sigma, brigitte and moira that ruin the enjoyment of the game. These characters have a really low skill gap, areIf you are reading this is a really in depth review of this terribly designed and balanced game so please read it if you're interested in getting this game. I have played over 500 hours of overwatch, I used to have fun back then but now there are characters like doom, sombra, sigma, brigitte and moira that ruin the enjoyment of the game. These characters have a really low skill gap, are broken in they way they where designed and even some of them are op like doom that fits in both of these category.'s. Back then the only characters that where considered op and unfun to play agaisnt where sym, bastion and widowmaker and they still are which is the worst part. Sometimes items thrown, projectiles and even bullets dissapear from the air when you die which makes it really stupid. One example of a badly made hitbox is genji's dash since the body has a hurtbox and where you started the dash has a hurtbox and other animations that require you to activatelike genjis deflect, orisa's fortify, mccree flashbang, reaper wraith, tracers entire kit of ability's have a start up timer that the game doesn't tell you or show you so while you're starting these ability's they don't work for half a second and the game even lies to you on replay's that you did not use any ability's. doom fist and his entire kit has stupid hitboxes that make no sense, when Moira is locked on into you while damaging the tether stays for a second while you break the tether that's placed on you with a wall, sombras hack which is a really stupid and unfair ability continues to do the animation and ends up hacking you even when you shoot her (which disables the hacking process) and it continues even when you try to break it with a wall like Moira's damage tether, widow maker is just unfun to play against IF the widow is decent with her since she camps back lines with heals and his team because she's a sniper and she has the ability to one shot almost all of the DPS and the healers, so you have to always hug walls against her and someone has to end up dealing with her even do allot of widow maker players are toxic and get pocketed by a healer. doom can one shot any DPS and/or healer and run away since his whole kit gives him allot of mobility, damage and gives him shields with is like extra health, Brigitte requires no skill to play even do she stuns you, hits you through anything but walls and can push you away when fighting her. There's allot more but it would take me too much time to say, but what I'm trying to say is: This game is badly balanced, terribly designed including the maps, the game is filled with toxic players and if someone throws on comp your whole team loses and reporting that person afterwards doesn't do anything but give you a "Thank you for you report" note which makes comp is the worst game mode in the game. Honestly I would not recommend anyone this game to anyone and I have put so many hours into it just to "Get good" to just feel angry and depressed whenever I die and lose on this game, even do when i win I don't feel anything. Expand
  20. Apr 25, 2020
    0
    Division by zero. The complexity of a puzzle is welcome when you can achieve control over pieces of the puzzle. This game goes too far where it should not be going.
    1.The game expands and amplifies all the problems that are impossible to control making it addictive and unbelievably unfun. Even pro-scene can't achieve proper team synergy after months of scrims, what could you say about
    Division by zero. The complexity of a puzzle is welcome when you can achieve control over pieces of the puzzle. This game goes too far where it should not be going.
    1.The game expands and amplifies all the problems that are impossible to control making it addictive and unbelievably unfun. Even pro-scene can't achieve proper team synergy after months of scrims, what could you say about ranked gameplay of random people?
    2.The game stresses the limits of poorly designed netcode too far. Because of complexity of hero interactions Blizzard has sacrificed important gameplay mechanics. First of all they butchered movement acceleration which is needed for aiming to be consistent and rewarding. Heroes in this game can crouch-spam and strafe-spam. Playing a dps hero in this game at high enough levels is incredibly stressful, you never know if you can be consistent today or tomorrow. Assembling a consistent team is also almost impossible. Because if only 2 players of the team take dps-role and if they are locked into that role - that means that consistency of 6 people team might be largely dependent on consistency of their aim, especially at higher tiers(this is only dps example, don't get me started on complexity of classes interactions and consistency of execution, it's just horribly overcomplex, it's like dota salt squared. in dota you at least can gather a team and can achieve consistent synergy) Now you can imagine what Overwatch pro-scene looks like. Like, in case of this bad design, a team has to have many dps-players, and if needed they should be able to replace each other as needed. But, in that case, how do you develop team synergy if you have so many players? Overwatch as e-sports is divided by zero.
    So I could say, that the game is unfun to play, but fun to watch as e-sports. Except it isn't fun to watch either if we get into bigger picture. With the problems observed above, we can see, that it's very important to increase the consistency of outcomes in tournaments, since there is too much luck involved. Which means, that pro-scene has to play a lot more rounds in a tournament. Like three times more at least? Or we have to dramatically increase all heroes hp, like make it twice more for all heroes and somehow balance it. Tanks are way more consistent in this game on all accounts even in damage output, that's why it's broken by design. If this issue will be addressed, then we can weight outcomes more seriously. But wait! It won't be fun to watch, right?
    It can become an e-sport if the netcode will become godly optimized and/or networking hardware will allow for higher tickrate and proper movement acceleration. In the current state proper Overwatch as an e-sports is GOATS or anything non hitscan, but the community does not want to see that.
    You also have to buy the game while it has microtransactions like a free-to-play game would have. Blizzard were so salty about dota and wanted their own Team Fortress+Dota as quickly as possible, so they even abandoned their project Titan and started to quickly roughly somehow make overwatch with no idea what were they doing exactly anyway. "Let's just use wc3 formula, just let's add a lot of diversity make it all flashy, then we will somehow sort it out."
    Maybe, just maybe, Blizzard was thinking years ahead. But I don't believe that. Game theory does not work that way. I would believe a story about that Overwatch core ideas were created by salesmen who don't even play games or they are really bad and basic at the games, that is why they simply threw away core fps gameplay mechanics without understanding what they are doing. And after a while they have listened to pro players talking about that the game is mechanically unfun, then they listened to devs talking about that it's technically impossible, and then they went 'ok, let's just continue with our marketable rainbow vomit'
    Annd they started to add so many dps classes, so it's now progressively harder to perform consistently in dps-role, the entry level is absurd for dps-role, and probably there will be more balance changes that will shift everything again. Also at some point your main will get nerfed into oblivion - that will happen, that's how balance made by salesmen works. And you will feel betrayed for putting so many hours into playing your favorite hero. It's like taking away the reward you deserve.

    Overly complex, frustratingly hard to track piece. Designed with no other thought than to attract with colors and diversity without any understanding how a competitive fps works. This **** monster can never lift off without a retarded amount of investment, because you can't attract a lot of viewers and players to something that is not even fun to aspire to. Who would aspire for a chance to be a star for only 2 years before massive burnout?
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  21. May 8, 2020
    0
    Free hong kong! Blizzard is a scummy company that doesnt deserve your money
  22. May 10, 2020
    0
    Visuals are for the most part fine, except for the increasing amount of skill effect vomit on screen. Same for audio design, mostly great, but then you have exceptions for skills that almost force you to play the game on mute.

    Unfortunately great visuals and audio design do not make up for the horribly flawed gameplay fundamentals. If you're looking for an FPS game to play, look
    Visuals are for the most part fine, except for the increasing amount of skill effect vomit on screen. Same for audio design, mostly great, but then you have exceptions for skills that almost force you to play the game on mute.

    Unfortunately great visuals and audio design do not make up for the horribly flawed gameplay fundamentals. If you're looking for an FPS game to play, look elsewhere. The easiest heroes to play are the most effective 99% time. High skill cap heroes get countered by braindead heroes that can be operated by a quadraplegic. A-D crouch spam with flawed hitboxes. Maps look great, but most feel terrible to play. Balance changes are slow and based on quickplay instead of competitive play. New heroes are powercreeped and overkitted. One of the worst matchmaking systems in any competitive games. Noticeably decreasing playerbase. Dying esports scene, which is not surprising because Blizzard has been known for a long time to be incompetent in that area.
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  23. Jun 5, 2020
    0
    I remember when i first got this game on ps4 back in season 5, I remember having fun, then the devs buffed and nerfed some stuff at random, and added a bunch of new cancerous tumors into the game. and now I seem to enjoy 1 out of every 100(that's being generous) games because that's usually how many it takes to find a team that actually synergies well and works as a team.

    Now the
    I remember when i first got this game on ps4 back in season 5, I remember having fun, then the devs buffed and nerfed some stuff at random, and added a bunch of new cancerous tumors into the game. and now I seem to enjoy 1 out of every 100(that's being generous) games because that's usually how many it takes to find a team that actually synergies well and works as a team.

    Now the matchmatchmaking is so **** it sometimes won't even let you queue for a game
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  24. Aug 20, 2020
    0
    you know for...............................................................
  25. Jun 17, 2020
    0
    game in ruins. SO MANY twinks and boosters. And the blizzard does ABSOLUTELY nothing with this. Don't buy this game
  26. Jun 18, 2020
    0
    Not fun to play. I have over 2000h on this game and can not recommend it to anyone. It is a **** piece of **** The devs balance the game by adding ass cancer beat the ass cancer. They know there is a problem with everyone wanting to play DPS yet the newest hero they add is another DPS. They acknowledge this just creates a new problem, so what do they do? Limit the champs you can choose inNot fun to play. I have over 2000h on this game and can not recommend it to anyone. It is a **** piece of **** The devs balance the game by adding ass cancer beat the ass cancer. They know there is a problem with everyone wanting to play DPS yet the newest hero they add is another DPS. They acknowledge this just creates a new problem, so what do they do? Limit the champs you can choose in competitive to a handful every week instead of actually balancing their heros. **** THIS. GAME. it is an actual piece of **** I bought an FPS and this game has become a MOBA with all the brain dead cancer they added. The game has become a no aim, no skill game. Every death feels out of your control. I really like hard games. But when you constantly die stunned or by some unbeatable ultimate combo the game does not feel satisfying. The devs are focused on creating an accessible game rather than one that is actually fun to play. They made it so that you can play someone like Reaper, contribute nothing all game, and press Q and get a 6K cause you spotted the moment. When I die in most other FPS at least I can acknowledge I was outsmarted or outplayed. But when you die to stuns and Q pressing, **** that needs zero aim, zero skill, zero hindsight, it just feels bad. The ****tiest thing about this game by far is the hero balance. Instead of balancing all heros to be able to compete with one another, this game became a game of counters. Feels like glorified rock paper scizors. Feels bad popping off and having half the team swap to counter your favorite hero. You can play a counter-swapping **** and do better than most one-tricks and climb the ranks. Which is a shame because I can count the heros that are actually fun to play on one **** hand. On top of all this, you have to wait massive queue times if you want a competitive or qp match as a DPS. 2000h and I am stuck playing QP classic so that I can actually spend time in game. Tie a noose, Jeff. Expand
  27. Jul 30, 2020
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    Now that I have played this game for over ONE year I can say this. The critics are incorrect and more than likely paid off to sell the game faster. The dev team at Blizzard doesn't care about this game. It's been found that the report system is controlled by the community and so does the balance around in the game. When someone get beaten by another character constantly they tend to cryNow that I have played this game for over ONE year I can say this. The critics are incorrect and more than likely paid off to sell the game faster. The dev team at Blizzard doesn't care about this game. It's been found that the report system is controlled by the community and so does the balance around in the game. When someone get beaten by another character constantly they tend to cry on… Expand Expand
  28. May 8, 2021
    0
    Used to play it a LOT when it just came out. Then, after few years so many updates, all there is - is broken game and cheaters. Constant freezes on top hardware. When blizzard sold themselves to activision, they lost everything. They care only about money, and they won't have it from me. Not a cent anymore.
  29. Jun 21, 2020
    0
    have had this game since 2017. It has come to its worse state ever. The competitive system is easily the worst one compared with all other games around. it is incredibly hard to climb out as you are matched very badly with terrible players after a series of wins you get a series of losses where you could have done nothing to prevent it. not even trying to solve the smurfing problem. thehave had this game since 2017. It has come to its worse state ever. The competitive system is easily the worst one compared with all other games around. it is incredibly hard to climb out as you are matched very badly with terrible players after a series of wins you get a series of losses where you could have done nothing to prevent it. not even trying to solve the smurfing problem. the community is terrible if you ever complain that someone is not doing their job you get silenced or suspended. balance changes are always in the wrong direction nerfing heroes that are good instead of buffing heroes that were nerfed into oblivion. But at the beginning of every video released by the dev team, you will get a bunch of excuses so that's nice Expand
  30. Jun 2, 2021
    0
    Great game visualy but not much beyond graphics, gameplay boring since its all based on chaos, point and click while fly all over the place, even with teamwork, its all chaos based. Unbalanced ultimates, unbalanced abilities, unbalanced roles.
    Knowing all game progress is "how many lootboxes you got" and all lootboxes are paid for real money, I cannot recommand this game, you are better
    Great game visualy but not much beyond graphics, gameplay boring since its all based on chaos, point and click while fly all over the place, even with teamwork, its all chaos based. Unbalanced ultimates, unbalanced abilities, unbalanced roles.
    Knowing all game progress is "how many lootboxes you got" and all lootboxes are paid for real money, I cannot recommand this game, you are better off playing pretty much 99.99% of other shooter games since they do not try to manipulate you into buying casino machine cosmetics.
    0/10. Blizzard created a minimal game, while doing many bad things such as banning people for supporting human rights, falsely advertizing warcraft 3 reforged as having new cinematics, ignoring fans when it comes to diablo not being played only on phone and many many other terrible things which is insulting againts their fanbase. So yes, even if you ignore that the game was created by Blizzzard, it is still zero out of ten due to the nature of casino as the only progress you can have in the game. And you are way better off buying games from other companies that respect you, since most games nowdays are made as first person shooter, you have many options to choose from, and many better companies to go with.
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Metascore
91

Universal acclaim - based on 64 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 62 out of 64
  2. Negative: 0 out of 64
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.