Overwatch

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1.4

Overwhelming dislike- based on 3886 Ratings

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  1. sheppard90
    Jan 15, 2023
    4
    At first, the gameplay changes felt good. 5v5 instead of 6v6, less CC, new game mode and new maps, a bunch of new heroes...

    Then, the battle pass annoyed me. Even though I bought the Watchpoint Pack with extra OW coins, what I got was dismal at best, especially compared to Fortnite's battle pass at the time. The store is extremely greedy, and the 2000 coins I had from the pack weren't    At first, the gameplay changes felt good. 5v5 instead of 6v6, less CC, new game mode and new maps, a bunch of new heroes...

    Then, the battle pass annoyed me. Even though I bought the Watchpoint Pack with extra OW coins, what I got was dismal at best, especially compared to Fortnite's battle pass at the time. The store is extremely greedy, and the 2000 coins I had from the pack weren't enough to buy one single legendary skin pack. They have always priced 2200 coins or so...

    Then this new game mode "push" got boring pretty fast since it's pretty difficult to do a come-back in this mode. As I played the game more and more, It felt more and more like a big patch rather than a sequel. There is no fundamental improvement in the groundwork of the game. Like, the a-d spam is still a thing, the game still over-relies on healers, old maps have the same layouts, and there is no new gameplay mechanic or a new idea or anything. The game lacks the innovation and content to deserve a "2" at the end of its name.    … Expand
  2. AJCk19
    May 28, 2023
    4
    It is 2023, the game still needs to improve on its matchmaking and balancing of characters, while still allowing people to have fun. However it was nice of them to allow players from OW1 to transfer over all of their stuff, plus get a couple of bonuses. It doesn't deserve the 1.6 user score, and it definitely not a 8 out of 10. A 6 or 7 would be fair.

    UPDATE: Welp promises have been    It is 2023, the game still needs to improve on its matchmaking and balancing of characters, while still allowing people to have fun. However it was nice of them to allow players from OW1 to transfer over all of their stuff, plus get a couple of bonuses. It doesn't deserve the 1.6 user score, and it definitely not a 8 out of 10. A 6 or 7 would be fair.

    UPDATE: Welp promises have been broken, pve with rpg elements will not happen. A great game with so much potential, is now slowly dying. Also, why they haven't come back to twitch for esports is beyond me, the youtube exclusive deal was not smart. Originally 6 stars, dropping it to 4.
    I would only recommend to play this game, if you have a large group of friends with similar ranks.    … Expand
  3. Karljj
    Nov 7, 2022
    4
    Same game like the first one + share your phone number with China company Blizzard? A big No!
  4. Eloyjf
    Oct 17, 2022
    4
    -Overwatch 2 is a game without innovation.
    -An idea of ​​replacing six with half a dozen.
    -About F2P? sorry but it doesn't mean much.
    -4.0/10.0-
  5. freshtodhef
    Oct 8, 2022
    4
    Huge fan of the original and was excited to finally play the sequel. This is a massive disappointment from Blizzard. My first few hours are spent playing the same maps as I did in the original. A lot of the heroes are blocked until I pay for them and the servers are a mess. Not sure what happened during development but this game needs serious work if it’s to live up to the originals success.
  6. fdsafdsaafds
    Jan 1, 2023
    4
    The balance team needs to be fired and replaced with a drunk monkey. Genji was a high tier hero who had been bad for 2 years. He was not broken, just finally good. So they gutted him and buffed his counters. They cannot let Genji ever be good because support players can't be expected to learn matchups. A drunk monkey could probably balance the game better than the current balance team.
  7. AlSteiger
    Oct 7, 2022
    4
    If earlier it was my favorite game in which I spent a lot of time with friends, now it just looks like some kind of misunderstanding, with an absolutely inadequate monetization system, when in order to receive the final reward you need to spend more time in the game than on work, or pay more than a new AAA release is worth.

    Accumulating in-game currency just by playing, in order to    If earlier it was my favorite game in which I spent a lot of time with friends, now it just looks like some kind of misunderstanding, with an absolutely inadequate monetization system, when in order to receive the final reward you need to spend more time in the game than on work, or pay more than a new AAA release is worth.

    Accumulating in-game currency just by playing, in order to later buy the skin you like, will no longer work. Just pay, or save crumbs of coins by completing tasks every day during the week, so that at the end of the year you can buy yourself one or two skins, if you're lucky.

    The dynamics of the game have changed a lot, which did not benefit her. Now the game is completely made with a focus on eSports. For regular players who want to have a nice evening with friends, or whose rank in the competitive game is "Gold" or lower, this game is no longer suitable.

    On the plus side, I can say that they managed to preserve the very atmosphere of the old Overwatch. The visual component, music, scenery of the map - everything is still done quite well.

    However, this is not the same old Overwatch that I liked.    … Expand
  8. Haltsu
    Jun 25, 2023
    4
    Overwatch 2 promised a lot of features for the evolving hero shooter. I am sad to say though that Blizzard has missed hugely with OW2. And its sad as the game has excellent potential to be something great.

    Pros: + Heroes still feel fun to play + You need team work to succeed in the game! Cons: - A lot of the promised features are being cut out like the PvE mode. - The upcoming    Overwatch 2 promised a lot of features for the evolving hero shooter. I am sad to say though that Blizzard has missed hugely with OW2. And its sad as the game has excellent potential to be something great.

    Pros:
    + Heroes still feel fun to play
    + You need team work to succeed in the game!

    Cons:

    - A lot of the promised features are being cut out like the PvE mode.
    - The upcoming Story Missions are paid.
    - Some balancing issues.
    - Maps are pretty bad in my opinion.    … Expand
  9. nicerdicer
    Oct 19, 2022
    4
    Great game, as Overwatch. Enough new content and more or less acceptable Battle Pass for new players. Something is definitely wrong with Matchmaking system. Player pools are all mixed and matches are most of the times uneven. For now, Competitive Mode in it's current state is unplayable.
  10. Hokejovy_Svaz
    Dec 10, 2022
    4
    I'm really pissed of. I loved original Overwatch. I spent so much time in that game, had a great moments when I was playing solo or with my brother. I loved and I still do love most of the characters introduced in Overwatch: Tracer, Brigitte, Cassidy (McCree originally), Soldier 76, Winston, Reinhardt, Sombra, Mercy, etc. And even in Overwatch 2 they introduced Kiriko which becameI'm really pissed of. I loved original Overwatch. I spent so much time in that game, had a great moments when I was playing solo or with my brother. I loved and I still do love most of the characters introduced in Overwatch: Tracer, Brigitte, Cassidy (McCree originally), Soldier 76, Winston, Reinhardt, Sombra, Mercy, etc. And even in Overwatch 2 they introduced Kiriko which became instantly one of my favourites.

    It didn't really bother me for this game to be just one big update for the previous one, instead of full sequel. In the end, it's free and there is still going to be (I hope at least) PVE story mode.

    But the way Blizz decided to make monetization system is just unforgivable. They truly f**ked that up. Not only they randomly locked half of the characters in roster for every single person who didn't buy Watchpoint pack, they also completely destroyed progression/rewards system. That involves cosmetics and heroes themselves. New heroes, you can acquire by completing Battle Pass, but the old ones, you have to unlock them by paying with virtual currency. Which ofcourse you can get only by using your credit card. What is it? Is Blizz saying that you can get those coins by playing? Oh, you mean those 60 coins you can get only once in a week by completing weekly challenges? Well go fu** yourselves there in Blizzard with this bullsh**. That'd be Ok if legendary skins for heroes, wouldn't cost 2 000 COINS and BP 1000 COINS!!! ARE YOU OUTTA YOUR MIND?! And Blizz have enough guts for coming on game forums, saying that they are not satsified with this progression/rewards system as well, so that they could say there will be some changes in season 2. Guess what! They didn't change literally anything! F*** YOU!

    The saddest thing about all of this is the fact, that the game itself is still fun, it's still enjoyable, the gameplay is still great. But all the things around all of this is just pure awful bulls**it that never needed to happen. I'm sick and tired of watching these favourite game franchises of mine getting butchered and destroyed by some ass**les in nice outfits who only wishes to suck money out of faithful gamers. I'm sick that I have to leave another great game I used to love for it's wonderful gameplay and characters within really good story and this wonderful universe.

    Great job Blizzard! YOU FU*KED IT ALL UP AGAIN!    … Expand
  11. Kage63
    Oct 9, 2022
    4
    It feels like a clone of OW1 with only a few hero kit tweaks for some. Kiriko is fun as a support hero, Sojurn I could take or leave as a DPS, and Junker Queen felt great as a tank. nothing against the game play itself. It just doesn't feel like a leap forward and more like a patch to OW1. Thats the good.

    What REALLY made me give a negative score, it's the monetization push. Getting    It feels like a clone of OW1 with only a few hero kit tweaks for some. Kiriko is fun as a support hero, Sojurn I could take or leave as a DPS, and Junker Queen felt great as a tank. nothing against the game play itself. It just doesn't feel like a leap forward and more like a patch to OW1. Thats the good.

    What REALLY made me give a negative score, it's the monetization push. Getting greeted with the "Get the premium battlepass" on almost every screen ruined the experience and I immediately uninstalled after a single quick play match. Almost everything is locked behind the premium paid option, where OW1 you could earn everything through in game currency. The lootboxes sucked, but you weren't compelled to buy them as you had ways to earn them just by playing. This felt like they want you to buy passes over and over to get the sprays, emotes, and skins. I might revise this with PVE Story when it comes out. But as it stands right now, it's at best a mediocre F2P clone of Fortnite+OW1. I get the need to fund on going development, but this is not garnering good will back.    … Expand
  12. Richard_dias
    Aug 14, 2023
    4
    If even Blizzard has given up on the game, I don't think anyone else should insist. I thought it was fun when I tried to play and it all looked pretty cool! The matchmaking was kind of messed up, but that's become a standard for Activision Blizzard games. Let this game die already, while someone somewhere may still remember it as a good game.
  13. MetalReview
    Oct 7, 2022
    4
    Thank you blizzard. Deleting one tank role is like fresh air and add more action in game.
    Game plays smoothly.
    One problem and it is log wait to enter the game because of queue, but it's release so it's ok for now. But why we dont need battel pass or this **** thing stop blizzard.
  14. Pavlink89
    Oct 10, 2022
    4
    Few changes in the global plan, blocking the game in certain regions, turbopiggery.
  15. SuperCurry30
    Oct 6, 2022
    4
    Lies, capitalism, regression, rubbish, mess, incomplete, excuses, incompetence, loss of foundation
  16. BaldursThones
    Oct 18, 2022
    4
    They screwed up the ranked system. I was hoping for a rank reset so I could play with my friends. Instead they put everyone at bronze 5, so you can play 7 games with your friends, but once you have won 7 more then everyone is all over the place and now my friends who have played the game too much have to play solo because they are gold and everyone else is bronze 5. I don't understand whyThey screwed up the ranked system. I was hoping for a rank reset so I could play with my friends. Instead they put everyone at bronze 5, so you can play 7 games with your friends, but once you have won 7 more then everyone is all over the place and now my friends who have played the game too much have to play solo because they are gold and everyone else is bronze 5. I don't understand why they put everyone at the bottom rank instead of around silver the vast majority of players can play with each other, and only when you reach platinum do you start getting skill gap problems.
    Blizzard failed.    … Expand
  17. DITRIH
    Oct 16, 2022
    4
    The positives for me: orisa and dumfist reworks.
    Negatives: everything else.
    Character reworks after which some characters are very strong and others have become very weak. Certain other characters simply did not get the required changes, they still exist in another reality with different gameplay ow1. I like playing on tanks, I like the teamwork of two tanks with each other. Now the    The positives for me: orisa and dumfist reworks.
    Negatives: everything else.
    Character reworks after which some characters are very strong and others have become very weak. Certain other characters simply did not get the required changes, they still exist in another reality with different gameplay ow1.
    I like playing on tanks, I like the teamwork of two tanks with each other. Now the tank is only 1.
    I absolutely do not like the new interface, before it was much better. Now even worse than in Paladins. Judging by the interface, they want to port the game to mobile devices.
    The new monetization system is humiliating. P2W battle pass (any paid advantage, even temporary, is a P2W. Kiriko is not just an advantage in the form of a new hero, she is a strong hero. It is advantageous to make strong characters to place them in battle pass. Blizzard tried to hide it by the fact that the new hero will not be available for 2 weeks in the competetive game. So you have to play 3 hours every day for two weeks to somehow try to smooth it out and still get the hero later. That's a P2W).
    I liked the previous gameplay better. The new gameplay is too dynamic, which makes awareness and teamwork between players noticeably less. Usually gameplay now looks like chaos with little to no interaction. Even ranked matches now look like deathmatch. I've noticed that now, at the end of a match, sometimes players who have spent many hours in ow1 don't even realize whether they've won or lost until the game informs them with Victory/Defeat.
    Some new maps are bad in terms of game balance between the two teams.
    I don't like the new lighting on the maps, especially on the kings row and busan. The past lighting was better. The new lighting looks flat and cheap, like a mobile game.
    They changed the interface and lighting on the maps for the sake of mimicking the changes, but they did it poorly..
    The new character icons are designed for a zoomer audience.
    I would have liked to stay in Overwatch 1, but for obvious reasons, Blizzard didn't want to risk leaving the choice to the players understanding the quality of Overwatch 2. I buy a game and was deprived of a choice, Blizzard made the choice instead of me. It was the same with Warcraft. I do not welcome this attitude towards the players. New developers don't value their core audience, now they're targeting fortnite and valorant.
    Also, the game constantly closes without errors. It has been two weeks of communication with technical support. My game still just closes without errors. After 6 days of waiting I get the answer: «Unfortunately, due to a technical problem, all the attachments were removed before I opened your request. Please duplicate it. Thank you in advance!»

    1200 hours and 3600 max rating    … Expand
  18. Yosiris
    Jun 22, 2023
    4
    +
    Nice, modern approach to graphics
    Solid base mechanics, heroes
    Teamplay can make the encounters interesting, tense, emotional

    -
    Overwhelming—heroes, features, visuals, paywalls—feels like a mobile game
    Graphic choices, abrupt animations, poor balance make it hard to aim, play
    A wolf under the sheep's skin—I was blocked after 3 hours of play until SMS-verified, the agenda
  19. DrDoko
    Oct 24, 2022
    4
    If it says anything about the game, I've been playing since 2016, and got my newbie friend to give the game an honest try. He was done with the game after about 3 days of casual non-competitive play at night. Removing previous maps and modes, incredibly steep monetization, and poor balancing has made the game difficult to want to come back to daily, even if you don't play for cosmetics.If it says anything about the game, I've been playing since 2016, and got my newbie friend to give the game an honest try. He was done with the game after about 3 days of casual non-competitive play at night. Removing previous maps and modes, incredibly steep monetization, and poor balancing has made the game difficult to want to come back to daily, even if you don't play for cosmetics.

    'Allowing' me to open my wallet because a 'new bundle' hit the shop doesn't mean the game will be automatically good. The game should be good to start, giving me an incentive to occasionally throw some money towards it.
    Modern Blizzard obviously doesn't understand that part of the relationship, present in F2P monetization.    … Expand
  20. insaner_by
    Oct 5, 2022
    4
    The most GREEDY game developer.
    All they've done in 3 years is the battle pass. No story company, no graphics improvements. Only battle pass and paid heroes.
  21. LeonK317
    Oct 6, 2022
    4
    Gameplay is still great, but monetization system ruined this game for me. Can't recommend.
  22. VovanDe
    Oct 6, 2022
    4
    I’ll try to do this rate as more objective as possible. First of all, overwatch 2 could be better game and I have played 15 hours (I have played OW1 since Feb 2017). What I want to say. I did like 5x5 and especially Junker Queen. I liked new maps and new game mode. I even liked the idea to make ow f2p because it really COULD save overwatch. Battle passes, store. It looks great. But itI’ll try to do this rate as more objective as possible. First of all, overwatch 2 could be better game and I have played 15 hours (I have played OW1 since Feb 2017). What I want to say. I did like 5x5 and especially Junker Queen. I liked new maps and new game mode. I even liked the idea to make ow f2p because it really COULD save overwatch. Battle passes, store. It looks great. But it requires a good (let’s call it monetization grammar) . And OW2 has GREAT problems with it. First of all, there is a lot of donations. EVEN FOR OW1 COSMETICS THAT USED TO BE FREE. You can’t buy ow1 cosmetics for free if you don’t have enough ow1 credits and you can’t even earn them. One of the biggest mistake is heroes in Battle Pass. C’mon Blizzard, you serious? You can say that in Apex, Valorant, LoL etc. you have to buy new characters too but it seems that developers forgot that Overwatch is a game where you HAVE TO change heroes during a match to counter your enemy hero or enemy set-up. No one gives a **** about it’s free access (55 level of 80 seriously). A lot of donations even for casual cosmetics. Even Apex have more options to get some COOL cosmetics for free. They have special currency to get this cosmetics for free. Weekly challenges are not enough (60 per week). Pls blizz, give players an opportunity to get more ow coins and give free premium BO for OW1 owners. Giving ow1 owners a clown skin is HUMILIATING. . And please FOR GOD SAKE, make more servers because it’s impossible to wait whole queue. All I wanna say is I hope that Microsoft will save Bluizzard games from that **** that they are in right now.… Expand
  23. Ungamer
    Oct 6, 2022
    4
    Not much has changed as far as matchmaking goes within Competitive mode. Trolls throughout the lower tiers. An occasional hacker here and there. I'm not confident that the new ranking system is going to judge ones individual performance vs the teams so prepare to be hard stuck like in OW1. I'm about to give up on the game. Disappointed.
  24. supersonico
    Oct 6, 2022
    4
    I don't think I've seen a worse launch.

    The game plays fine enough, buggy and in need of some minor tweaks, but fine. Minus the awful queue times. In general, it's upsetting. I don't think I've ever seen a more soulless update as a long time player. I can't believe they deleted OW1 for this steaming, hot sack of **** and quite frankly predatory monetization. I grinded to try and    I don't think I've seen a worse launch.

    The game plays fine enough, buggy and in need of some minor tweaks, but fine. Minus the awful queue times.

    In general, it's upsetting. I don't think I've ever seen a more soulless update as a long time player. I can't believe they deleted OW1 for this steaming, hot sack of **** and quite frankly predatory monetization.

    I grinded to try and get a skin I wanted for 3,000 coins before the first game shut down, was unsuccessful in meeting my goal, and then see that skin marketed to me on OW2 for $20. So. **** Gross.

    They removed so many good functions (LFG, Loot Boxes, Stay as Team, On fire. etc) and I'm honestly just distraught that they took so much flavor out of the game. Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy the game, but this **** is so greedy. It's not the same game that I played just days ago, it's a sad downgrade.

    Though I highly doubt it, I hope the corporate overlords over at Blizzard HQ listen to their fan base.    … Expand
  25. ebrerian
    Oct 8, 2022
    4
    The fact that you need to play up to 100 GAMES to unlock the entire roster is ridiculous in and of itself, especially when this game started as a full unlocked 24-hero list right off the bat for everyone. The battle pass system is just every other freemium garbage system designed to suck every loose penny out of you. This game would rather beg that you keep playing to unlock characters youThe fact that you need to play up to 100 GAMES to unlock the entire roster is ridiculous in and of itself, especially when this game started as a full unlocked 24-hero list right off the bat for everyone. The battle pass system is just every other freemium garbage system designed to suck every loose penny out of you. This game would rather beg that you keep playing to unlock characters you might think are cool instead of trusting that their game is good enough to justify putting that much time into it.

    5v5 I can take it or leave it. It feels like Blizzard didn't know what to do with Tanks so they just axed a team slot to save queue times. If you've been playing Overwatch for a long time and already have everything unlocked you may or may not like this title. Everyone else should just steer clear. This game asks way too much of new players.    … Expand
  26. akaytunaaa
    Oct 9, 2022
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game is almost the same as the first game. Only the team compositions are different and the interface is different. Not counting maps and character. The game is like an Overwatch update.

    4/10    … Expand
  27. Potap
    Oct 9, 2022
    4
    I will put a higher rating if you return these things
    - 6 heroes
    - access to the choice of any hero
  28. kubbuk
    Oct 9, 2022
    4
    овервотч скоро станет фифой ,по сути игра не плоха если абстрагироваться от 1 части , но это сделать крайне сложно , несмотря на оценку я буду в нее играть
  29. Chaddy12
    Oct 9, 2022
    4
    Force update on overwatch, 5v5 sucks and it’s forced, just a three character update with a stupid battle pass PHONE NUMBER??????? What do you wanna call me?
  30. TetsuSan
    Oct 10, 2022
    4
    This game is a patch. It's derivative of itself somehow and feels like a cynical cash grab to try to boost it's own ratings by artificially inflating how much work is required to fully experience the game. Understandably, the game is free now, which makes sense for a patch so I will say that you get your money's worth, but where the original Overwatch brought something new and exciting toThis game is a patch. It's derivative of itself somehow and feels like a cynical cash grab to try to boost it's own ratings by artificially inflating how much work is required to fully experience the game. Understandably, the game is free now, which makes sense for a patch so I will say that you get your money's worth, but where the original Overwatch brought something new and exciting to the table, this is really just more of the same, but with more work expected of the player for the honor of playing it. Season pass makes sense for a Free Game, but when I already had paid for OW proper, this just feels like a let down that I would have received better had they just iterated on the old one, which is literally all this is. Again, bonus points for being free, but my time is not free, and OW 1 isn't available anymore because everyone knows that shows the nature of this release. Your time could be much better spent elsewhere.… Expand
  31. tyranno_s_hex
    Oct 11, 2022
    4
    I specifically came here after Redditors claimed that negative user scores were invalid (which is insulting to the intelligence of the players, who are not blind to the laziness and greed of Blizzard).
    Overwatch 2 was launched incomplete.
    Weapon Charms were added to the game (good in theory), but they were added lazily, with some pointing out that for one character, the charm sticks out    I specifically came here after Redditors claimed that negative user scores were invalid (which is insulting to the intelligence of the players, who are not blind to the laziness and greed of Blizzard).
    Overwatch 2 was launched incomplete.
    Weapon Charms were added to the game (good in theory), but they were added lazily, with some pointing out that for one character, the charm sticks out of his hand, rather than being incorporated into their weapon.
    At launch I had access to one Weapon Charm which was not interesting enough to use.
    Can you earn more?
    Maybe?
    The Battlepass system they implemented was confusing to understand, even with a tutorial.
    It is much less rewarding (if rewarding at all) than a loot box system; let me be clear, there is a difference to me between "loot boxes" and "paid loot boxes", the latter being debatably unethical, utilizing gambling mechanisms on vulnerable people to take money from them they otherwise would not have spent.
    I have seen many sources point out how expensive it would be to buy cosmetics, including cosmetics that were in OW1; I understand a company has to make money, but this smells of greed.
    The game does let you play as old skins from OW1, if you do not want to play as the OW2 skins, however, the in-game portraits for the character you are playing appears to be OW2, and there is no ability to change it, and at least for a couple characters, I do not like the new designs, and the portraits are distracting (OW2 should allow you to select from more portraits, such as OW1 versions).
    I personally do not like the mode Push as much as old modes.
    Some of the new maps are bland, uninspired, and lack the amazing design of maps from OW1.
    I prefer 6v6 (OW1) to 5v5 (OW2).
    OW2 removes quality of life features from OW1.
    OW2 tweaks little things here and there which make them worse than OW1.
    OW2 downgraded post-game voting and commending, which was a terrible decision.
    If OW1 still existed (Blizzard ultimately broke their promise to maintain OW1 [see the Wikipedia article for Overwatch for source]), I might play it over OW2, but since I have no choice I will play OW2.
    But I notice I am playing OW2 less often than I did OW1, even though it is a brand new game.
    I will do my best to avoid spending any money on OW2, until Blizzard addresses my concerns in this review, as well as countless others I have read in other reviews, on this site and others.
    OW1 was such an amazing game.
    OW2 is a downgrade of OW1, just so Blizzard could try to squeeze more money out of players.    … Expand
  32. MensMartis
    Oct 13, 2022
    4
    At the time I purchased Overwatch 2, I had not played the original game since it first came out and so of course I figured I'd load up the tutorial for a refresher; I was met with an endless loading screen.
    'No matter,' I thought, I could just try the practice range instead; endless loading screen.
    A little frustrated but undeterred, I then go to the vs AI mode since at least I could    At the time I purchased Overwatch 2, I had not played the original game since it first came out and so of course I figured I'd load up the tutorial for a refresher; I was met with an endless loading screen.
    'No matter,' I thought, I could just try the practice range instead; endless loading screen.
    A little frustrated but undeterred, I then go to the vs AI mode since at least I could re-acclimate myself against bots instead of real people. The queue time itself was short but as soon as it had found a game, it just lead to another endless loading screen. This time with a little notification in the bottom left taunting me with '⚠️Error starting game, trying again.'
    Finally, I relented, and went to Quick Play - prepared to have my ass handed to me by teenagers the entire game - but no, what was waiting for me was even worse.
    '⚠️Error starting game, trying again.'

    This is all to say that, for me, Overwatch 2 was not a game. It was a menu and a loading screen.

    Even indie games lovingly crafted by but a single hand can't get away with this level of non-functionality. But from a gratuitous cash-grab sequel from an equally gratuitous AAA developer and publisher like Blizzard Entertainment: it is appalling.

    Edit: I was able to find a way to fix the issue by fiddling with my drivers and repeatedly scanning & repairing my game files so it's at least playable now. My issue with it still stands though as the player community shouldn't have to fix their game for them.
    Anyway, I've updated my score from a 0 to a 4 in light of these developments and since the core game itself is still fun and enjoyable. The problem is that it's not a new game; it just feels like the same Overwatch with a few new faces. I can't - in good faith - give it anything less than a 4 because as I said: the core gameplay of Overwatch is still excellent, but I also can't give it anything more than a 4 because there is nothing new within the game that I feel could justify the '2' in the title.    … Expand
  33. catwithopinions
    Oct 16, 2022
    4
    I was an avid player of Overwatch 1 for five years. I cannot overstate how underwhelming I find Overwatch 2 in comparison to its predecessor.

    Overwatch 1 was a game that relied on a complex fusion of character, strategy, and skill. And this was, for me, its selling point. This is what set it apart from other games. There are many shooters out there, many of which have been more    I was an avid player of Overwatch 1 for five years. I cannot overstate how underwhelming I find Overwatch 2 in comparison to its predecessor.

    Overwatch 1 was a game that relied on a complex fusion of character, strategy, and skill. And this was, for me, its selling point. This is what set it apart from other games. There are many shooters out there, many of which have been more successful than Overwatch 1, but none of them had that same amalgamation of qualities. This set Overwatch up as a very niche game.

    Overwatch 2 is much closer to the other shooters out there. Its focus is on speed and dynamism. This may sound good on paper. In practice, however, it makes the gameplay very samey. Each match is a five minute series of slugfests in which damage is dully traded back and forth until one side suddenly manages to pick off a couple more targets than the other and steamrolls through the engagement. The feeling of strategy is gone. The feeling that a good play on your part could swing the engagement in your favor is gone. It all feels very... random and empty. There's nothing satisfying about winning or frustrating about losing. There's no tension.

    This feeling that something is missing is exacerbated by the changes made to the heroes. They still have their personalities, but the watered down skills make them feel less impactful--less distinct. Heroes feel much more fungible. Unlike Overwatch 1, I haven't felt that my choice of hero has been that meaningful in Overwatch 2. This robs the game of that key component that the unique heroes brought to the original. Now the choice of hero feels more cosmetic than strategic. The heroes have life only in their voicelines. You don't feel anything about them from their gameplay. It feels more like Paladins than Overwatch.

    In fact, the game feels like Paladins in other ways as well. Both games have a large cast of samey heroes to play. Both games often devolve into chaotic brawls with little or no strategy. And both games feel very cheap. In Overwatch 2, everything feels less polished. The new particle effects often look tacky. Some of the new sound effects are weak (e.g. the strange sound that plays every time you get a kill as Hanzo). And the new, sped up Orisa looks like someone is playing a recording on fast forward--it's very much in the uncanny valley.

    The last point I want to touch on is the weird overhaul of the game's UI. The original Overwatch gave the players tons of info about the match. It was easy to track kills, and the post match scoreboard helped you see how you and your teammates had done. Now it's difficult to know who is pulling their weight and who isn't. Matches just show a play of the game and end. There are no endorsements (at least not as they existed in OW1), no voting for best player. The game just rushes you off to another match. It really takes the social aspect out of the game. Win or lose, I always used to type "good game" in the chat at the end and compliment any outstanding players I had noticed. In Overwatch 2, I don't feel any impetus to do this since the matches feel so random and the game ushers you out so quickly.

    There are countless other little points I could bring up, but those are the main failings of the game in my opinion: the general lack of impact in the gameplay and hero selection, the cheap feel of the game, and the minimal social elements. All of these make the game feel like a pale shadow of its predecessor. I feel like Paladins 2 would have been a more apt title.

    Interestingly, I've seen lots of posts from players who like the game better this way, but again, that's probably because the original had a particular niche that it filled (and filled very well), whereas Overwatch 2 is clearly aimed at mass market appeal. I understand why Blizzard would prefer to target a broader audience, but it's disappointing that they would do so by replacing an existing property that had a dedicated niche. It's possible that the new game would grow on me if I played it more. Maybe I'd find more strategy than it initially appears to have. However, at this point I just get so bored when playing it that I can't see myself dedicating enough time to the game for this to happen. I've already uninstalled it as I can never bring myself to actually boot it up anymore. For all Overwatch 1's faults, it was never dull. I cannot say the same about Overwatch 2, and that's a pretty damning weakness for a shooter.

    Overall 4/10. Cannot recommend.    … Expand
  34. metaGONE
    Oct 17, 2022
    4
    I'm digging out my metacritic account just to blast this game.

    90% or more of this game is worse than Overwatch 1. The UI is uglier in general, the scoreboard is ugly, everything is unnecessarily large, bold, or buried. Certain weapons sound and feel like crap after being re-recorded. NO main page chat, no cards, no medals, no match rating, no endorsing the enemy - it's devoid of    I'm digging out my metacritic account just to blast this game.

    90% or more of this game is worse than Overwatch 1. The UI is uglier in general, the scoreboard is ugly, everything is unnecessarily large, bold, or buried. Certain weapons sound and feel like crap after being re-recorded. NO main page chat, no cards, no medals, no match rating, no endorsing the enemy - it's devoid of interaction.

    5v5 is a mess. Fights are now brawls and too chaotic. Either you have one support so they run for their life 24/7 and then never play support again, or you have one tank and there's only so much one tank can do. Tanks also get shafted into being Rein/Orisa/Sigma/DVA since the game isn't really balanced for this new format. Still no DETAILED, WITH NUMBERS skill descriptions on the F1 screen (just wimpy generalizations). People trickle 24/7 or get exposed much more harshly in this new 5v5 format. Achievements still require 4 people or more even though the format is now missing an extra player OR require 1% game type conditions to materialize, not skill.

    You get basically nothing from just playing the game unless you spend money. I'm willing to spend money for some things but NOTHING? And why the f/// are skins like $20? Stop chasing whales and go after plankton. Make skins cheap and everybody will buy them. Right now they get $0 and ill-will from players instead.

    With the role out being beyond disastrous, the only thing good about OW2 is that it's free to start and now supports AMD FSR. The spirit and strategy of it has been destroyed.    … Expand
  35. figbaguette
    Oct 23, 2022
    4
    The game just isnt fun anymore. Blizzard has adopted a control-the-meta mentality which really stagnates the gameplay. OW used to be kooky and wild, now its so streamlined and linear.
  36. Steam7235
    May 20, 2023
    4
    Quite frankly, this is an inferior version of overwatch. The game was a massive disappointment and I lost interest half way through season 2. Previously played every season of overwatch 1, but once this came out I just found it boring in comparison. Tanking was no longer enjoyable, support felt lacklustre, and I never really play damage so can't comment. The game removed any sense ofQuite frankly, this is an inferior version of overwatch. The game was a massive disappointment and I lost interest half way through season 2. Previously played every season of overwatch 1, but once this came out I just found it boring in comparison. Tanking was no longer enjoyable, support felt lacklustre, and I never really play damage so can't comment. The game removed any sense of achievement that overwatch 1 gave, no on fire, portrait borders were gone, ranking up and down was confusing and the surprise of opening a gift every level up no longer existed. They somehow managed to turn the gameplay from feeling like a fun shooter into something that felt like a colourful day job.
    Once I lost interest in the PvP I was biding my time until the PvE mode released as the proposed game looked excellent. Sadly this is no longer coming to the level that they originally promised, and looks to be more of a token gesture so that they don't get sued for false advertising, so I probably won't be returning to overwatch. RIP    … Expand
  37. Hamcos
    Nov 18, 2022
    4
    1. 5v5 is really stupid since none of the hero's from overwatch 1 were made for a 5v5 match up. 2. The prices for skins are atrocious, Like I don't know who at blizzard thought it was a good idea to make the battle pass $10 and then make legendary skins $20 plus tax. Its legit a scam 3. they didnt even release they part of the game that made it new. The PVE isn't even finished and They1. 5v5 is really stupid since none of the hero's from overwatch 1 were made for a 5v5 match up. 2. The prices for skins are atrocious, Like I don't know who at blizzard thought it was a good idea to make the battle pass $10 and then make legendary skins $20 plus tax. Its legit a scam 3. they didnt even release they part of the game that made it new. The PVE isn't even finished and They still insisted on release they game. Like god damn… Expand
  38. Consoleisking
    Nov 24, 2022
    4
    It's really a bad game.
    No sense of progression, alot more cheaters hence forth move to F2P model, unstable servers, still high Latency even on 500/500 mbit home internet. Skins are way overpriced and the grind you need to do is unreal. Missing maps. Scoreboard actually make the game even more toxic than ever before
  39. t00l2
    Nov 30, 2022
    4
    There's something wrong with this game. Obviously it’s not a sequel but rather just a patch but that’s not it. I’m selecting 4 instead of 5 mostly because 4 is red and I wouldn’t like anyone to think that I think it’s average enough to spend time playing it. Anyhow, in no particular order what feels bad is:

    2CP is gone so all my favourite maps like Anubis, Volskaya, Hanamura are gone. New    There's something wrong with this game. Obviously it’s not a sequel but rather just a patch but that’s not it. I’m selecting 4 instead of 5 mostly because 4 is red and I wouldn’t like anyone to think that I think it’s average enough to spend time playing it. Anyhow, in no particular order what feels bad is:

    2CP is gone so all my favourite maps like Anubis, Volskaya, Hanamura are gone. New mode called Push is not something I’m looking to when waiting in queue. And queues… it’s a brand major release with marketing from them but it already takes 10m to find a game. What’s more, I paid for OW1 with a promise that everything else in the game will be free but now OW1 has been deleted from my account and what I have instead is F2P OW2 with battle pass that’s full of useless things, has very few interesting skins, all of them hidden behind absurdly high levels of BP that I won’t be able to do without ruining my real life, so I guess that’s a way of forcing me to pay… which feels sleazy. And now even heroes are behind BP? In a game that’s all about changing heroes mid-game? Where every new hero is OP at a release? Is that basically P2W direction?

    I can literally play Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory from 2003 with my friends but keeping OW1 on my acount and maybe releasing an ability for people to host their own servers? You know, letting people play a game they literally BOUGHT in the first place? We can’t have that at modern Blizzard!

    There’s one less tank so goodbye to my favourite role of being an off-tank. All tanks got buffed of course, and playing as a support feels like being an NPC for DPS to kill without a 2nd tank for peel. Don’t worry though, you can always 100% of the times pick Moira due to her escape abilities until you’re bored to death OR get a new hero Kiriko cause she’s quite mobile as well. Ah yes, she’s behind a paywall for non-OG players so I guess maybe you can’t. Have fun being an NPC. Soon, new tank will release that’s said to not be free for OG players which will make that split of fun even more skewed towards people who pay up, or grind several hours every single day to… let me check notes… ah, be able to pick a hero in a game about picking heroes.

    Games are mostly about you being bored to death while you snowball the other team, or about being perpetually frustrated before finally giving up while it’s the other team who snowballs you. Matchmaker is terrible. I had more equal matches in HotS and that game is on life-support for God’s sake. Paladins, Fortnite, TF2 - in no other game win/loss felt like such a coin flip from a matchmaker.

    The only thing great about this game is art and how polished it is. I just wished all those artists worked on Paladins, not Overwatch; or other genre altogether. It’s such a waste to put such beautiful design in such bad gameplay.

    This is… and it hurts me to say this… but this is *new Blizzard* game.    … Expand
  40. Danrc_100
    Feb 24, 2023
    4
    This "new game" was really a disappointment...

    Ow1 Players: - People who bought OW1 got almost no compensation for being forced to migrate to OW2,They just kept the things they already had in OW1, which was nothing more than the company's obligation to keep those goods, and they gained some characters and some cosmetics (which in my opinion are very few and bad). - OW1 players did not    This "new game" was really a disappointment...

    Ow1 Players:
    - People who bought OW1 got almost no compensation for being forced to migrate to OW2,They just kept the things they already had in OW1, which was nothing more than the company's obligation to keep those goods, and they gained some characters and some cosmetics (which in my opinion are very few and bad).
    - OW1 players did not earn any compensation for the years they had without any new content for the game.
    - Although a player's level is not a very important thing, it is still a player's achievement and taking that away from someone is quite annoying...
    - Almost all the skins that are possible to obtain during the new events are skins that had already been released for a while, so players who already own the skin do not gain anything from the event.

    Battle Pass:
    - Battle Pass is non-renewable (you cannot, through the Battle Pass, earn a way to buy the next Battle Pass)
    - The battle pass appears to have a lot of rewards, but in reality, most of the rewards are just bad, like sprays, weapon accessories, etc.
    - Even those rewards that are considered good have problems, as players who play primarily support and don't play the other two roles (assuming the battle pass has equal number of rewards for both three roles), only 1/3 of those rewards will be considered good for that player, while 2/3 of the rewards will be from roles that the player doesn't even play.
    - The new cosmetics like the weapon charms seem like they were just created to make more money from the game, with no concern as to whether this type of cosmetic fits the type of game OW really is, for example they literally stuck a pendant inside sigma's hand...
    - Summing up with everything mentioned above, although I consider the price acceptable, the fact that most of the rewards are just junk (like icons, sprays, charms, souvenirs, and maybe you could also consider the name cards and voice lines) , and even the ones that are considered good are often for characters you don't even play with. PS: and it is also non-renewable .-.

    Cost benefit:
    - The price of skins is extremely high, also taking into account that if you buy a skin for one character, a different character cannot use it.
    F2P Friendly:
    - The rewards for those who don't spend money in the game are pretty bad, even in events... In the 2022 Halloween event, F2P players only received charms, sprays, voice lines and Battle Pass XP as rewards, basically just useless garbage, making it not even worth trying to collect the rewards or even playing the event more than once or twice to try it out, or even, after collecting the rewards, there was no reason to continue playing the event.
    - Players, per week, can earn up to sixty in-game coins after completing up to eleven specific, boring and annoying challenges (I'm sorry, but I don't want to have to WIN seven games in a row as All Roles and have to play roles that I hate...) . With these coins you can buy different cosmetics, the problem is that they are only sixty coins a week and the cosmetics are very expensive.
    - Bearing in mind that epic skins cost 1000 in-game coins and the legendary ones cost 1900 in-game coins. Doing the math, it would take you 4 months and a week to buy just one epic skin/BP and it would take almost 8 months to buy just ONE legendary skin...

    Competitive:
    - The ranking system is a bit confusing and frustrating (for example, sometimes when my games are going very well and when it comes time to receive my new rank, I remain in exactly the same rank, putting all my effort directly into To The F Garbage...).

    The good things that came with this "new" game...

    - It seems that there are less and less cheaters in the game, and when one appears, we are informed that the player has received his punishment (at least the warnings about the ban are faster than in OW1).
    - The game is still fun when played with friends PS: (almost all games are fun when played with friends, so I don't know if that's really a quality to mention about this game...).
    - New characters for the game PS: (which could also have been released in OW1 if it continued to receive new content).
    - Only 1 tank per team made the game more fun and now we don't have to deal with 2 super hard targets and their infinite barriers (same thing for 2CP)    … Expand
  41. Rezken
    Dec 31, 2022
    4
    Coming from Overwatch1 I played Overwatch 2 for season 1 and quit immeditately after. It feels like the game has been stripped off it's elements which made it a great game from the beginning (e.g. Ranking System, Loot Boxes, 6 vs 6 and, and and). Instead, a useless and absolutely wiorthless Battle Pass has been introduiced of which items 99% have no use. Not worth my time, sorry.
  42. MistahWite
    Apr 15, 2023
    4
    This game is honestly really fun but the matchmaking is so awful it completely ruins it. Every update they claim they fix the matchmaking but then you actually go into the games and see how awful it is. 80% of the games I play are completely one sided on competitive, and if one of your teammates are really underperforming you are essentially guaranteed to lose since this game is extremelyThis game is honestly really fun but the matchmaking is so awful it completely ruins it. Every update they claim they fix the matchmaking but then you actually go into the games and see how awful it is. 80% of the games I play are completely one sided on competitive, and if one of your teammates are really underperforming you are essentially guaranteed to lose since this game is extremely team-based. I cant recommend at all unless you have a ton of friends to play with or are fine with bad matchmaking.… Expand
  43. slimeman321
    May 15, 2023
    4
    this game is just Overwatch 2 but it's free to play and with a lot of micro transactions that are the same price as the original Overwatch game cost so the developers are just trying to get money out of the Players.
  44. Missklang
    Aug 20, 2023
    4
    It used to be such a great game. Overwatch was truly a phenomenon. But someone got greedy and decided that sacrificing the golden goose for immediate profit would somehow not kill it. I give it a 4 out of respect for what it used to be. If you are oblivious to everything that happened, you might even enjoy it a bit.
  45. Dead_Reckon
    Nov 1, 2022
    3
    Overwatch 2 feels like theft. They have taken away a game I purchased & I enjoyed but had issues with and replaced it with a worse version of it. It feels very much like the very same game with some new modes. The "new" skins don't impress, the new maps are fine, but I find myself missing some of the older ones as well. The games UX is worse overall outside of playing (menus &Overwatch 2 feels like theft. They have taken away a game I purchased & I enjoyed but had issues with and replaced it with a worse version of it. It feels very much like the very same game with some new modes. The "new" skins don't impress, the new maps are fine, but I find myself missing some of the older ones as well. The games UX is worse overall outside of playing (menus & whatnot). Some very basic quality of life improvements that have been in games such as TF2 since forever are still missing (looking at you customizable skin loadouts, I want to have a "Halloween" & "Christmas" custom loadout on every character just like I do in TF2). The game plays fine mostly, but it's hard to overlook the lack of improvements in "Overwatch 2". The whole thing feels like a huge disappointment. Everyone else will talk about how bad the new monetization is, you don't need me repeating it. Overall it sucks and if this game's monetization doesn't improve I'll be out & have completely uninstalled the Bnet launcher before the new year. Overwatch was the last Blizzard game I had installed.

    In summation, Overwatch 2 feels like an update, and a bad one at that.    … Expand
  46. FudgeSociety
    Oct 5, 2022
    3
    It's the same as the first game, with features REMOVED

    They removed leveling, and replaced the entire menu UI for one that better suits their new micro transaction model. And on top of all that the community is incredibly toxic. Play comp and watch grown men act like children throwing matches yelling at each other and taking temper tantrums. Incredibly pathetic. It gets a few points for    It's the same as the first game, with features REMOVED

    They removed leveling, and replaced the entire menu UI for one that better suits their new micro transaction model.

    And on top of all that the community is incredibly toxic. Play comp and watch grown men act like children throwing matches yelling at each other and taking temper tantrums. Incredibly pathetic.

    It gets a few points for being free and being an okay game. But really It's not a new game even.    … Expand
  47. PS4_PC_LIFE
    Oct 5, 2022
    3
    The game is incomplete, missing a lot of stuff from the first game, and the 5v5 gimps the game, and the monetization is out of hand, everything needs to be payed fore, should of left the boxes in, at least there was better chance off getting decent skins and whatnot, and the servers are crap, haven't played more then a few games, due to server instability. OW2 is a mess.
  48. kovarniypidor
    Oct 12, 2022
    3
    Game is grate(but buggy!), but monetization and joy of progressing is awful, they have CoD and HS, why not just copy monetization from there?.. Also, I honestly think blizzard pissed in mouth of every OW1 user.
    Still bought battle-pass because I'm blizzard little bEAtch. Sorry brothers and sisters, I let you down.
  49. nomad1326
    Apr 23, 2023
    3
    I was a huge fan of the first Overwatch when the Game Director was Jeff Kaplan. The game had its own taste and was a brilliant fps that taught me a lot in game design. But new chapter is not a new chapter. Its just a try to sell the same game in new box. More than that, Overwatch 2 lost its own style in design and level design became less professional and less organized. But the worstI was a huge fan of the first Overwatch when the Game Director was Jeff Kaplan. The game had its own taste and was a brilliant fps that taught me a lot in game design. But new chapter is not a new chapter. Its just a try to sell the same game in new box. More than that, Overwatch 2 lost its own style in design and level design became less professional and less organized. But the worst thing in the direction of Overwatch is left-wing agenda. You can see everywhere. Beginning from new characters and last with removed compete statistic in the end of the match - developers removed statistic and leaderboard in competitive game.... It was a bad decision, I think. My friends are not going to buy blizzard games due to this agenda.… Expand
  50. Greedus
    Jan 15, 2023
    3
    Making it F2P was a mistake. Calling it a full-fledged sequel is incorrect. We got somewhat refreshed PvP gameplay, but somehow a lot of little details, QoL stuff, matchmaking, monetisation, and progression system got worse. Optimization also got worse in my experience. I still have fun here and there playing this game with friends, but I can't give this "second part" a higher score thanMaking it F2P was a mistake. Calling it a full-fledged sequel is incorrect. We got somewhat refreshed PvP gameplay, but somehow a lot of little details, QoL stuff, matchmaking, monetisation, and progression system got worse. Optimization also got worse in my experience. I still have fun here and there playing this game with friends, but I can't give this "second part" a higher score than 3/10.
    Matchmaking now is very bad, both for QPs and competetive. It's a big topic, so if you want to know more - there are a lot of info on that already in the internet.
    In OG Overwatch you could get 4+ random legendary skins, enough gold to purchase a legendary skin you want, and other items, like sprays, emotions, etc in 8 months worth of play. Now you can only get 1 legendary skin and a few minor items across the battle-pass, completing challenges. And it doesn't matter if that skin is 6 years old, prices are the same. When a weapon charm in real life costs less than that exact charm in game, when it is more efficient to farm gold in WoW to buy items in OW than play OW itself — there should be something wrong in this monetisation policy.
    Recent "event" is also very lazy/poorly done, looks like just to showcase new skins, $20 each.
    My only hope is that PvE content will be worth all these shortcomings we got.    … Expand
  51. Shimmeywill
    Oct 7, 2022
    3
    Same game, poor business model and tiresome gameplay that gets stale quick as there is little new.
  52. Eckythumper
    Oct 10, 2022
    3
    This is not the sequel I wanted. This was not the sequel Blizzard wanted. It's what we have and it's bad. Very bad.
    As a player with nearly 2000 hours in Overwatch 1, if this sequel isn't for me, then who is it for? Almost every tweak they have made has made this game worse - for me.
    Ui rework is uninspired and worse than the original. Sound design is hit and miss. Some weapons feel    This is not the sequel I wanted. This was not the sequel Blizzard wanted. It's what we have and it's bad. Very bad.
    As a player with nearly 2000 hours in Overwatch 1, if this sequel isn't for me, then who is it for? Almost every tweak they have made has made this game worse - for me.
    Ui rework is uninspired and worse than the original.
    Sound design is hit and miss. Some weapons feel 'meatier' but much of the sound just messes together into a cacophony of noise.
    The game has been sped up. Thanks. I hate it. Now, characters feel different to play. Hit registration feels different, aiming feels worse. The increased speed just makes the game feel chaotic and less tactical than the original.
    As a player in the OCE region, I'm ending up more often on servers in Malaysia. WHY? One game I'll get 12 ping, the next game I'll get 140. The inconsistency there throws all semblance of familiarity and muscle memory out the door.

    The monetisation in this game is egregious. I swear this sequel only happened because Blizzard wanted all the money Fortnite was raking in. The trouble is, this game just doesn't have the appeal, the reach or the cross promotional IP support Fortnite has. You earn a pittance from playing. They increased prices across the board and nearly everything that is decent is locked behind a $15 battlepass.
    Gone are the days of being reward simply from playing. Sure, you couldn't target skind directly, but after enough play time, you'd earn currency from duplicates which you could use to purchase the skin you wanted. I had nearly 80K currency from OW1. That's now basically useless.

    TLDR.
    Game is bad.
    Monetisation is terrible. Not as bad as Diablo Immortal.. but how far has Blizzard fallen from their 'Gameplay first' mantra.
    Sound is a mixed bad. I don't like it.
    Servers are bad. Flip a coin as to whether you get a local server.
    I'm genuinely sad I can't log in and play Overwatch 1. I'd much rather be doing that right now.    … Expand
  53. Rodelg9
    Mar 30, 2023
    3
    Este es uno de mis juegos favoritos, tengo más de 2000 horas jugadas en total, lo juego a diario.
  54. Nacos
    Oct 6, 2022
    3
    I don't want to start with the negative, so let's go through the positives. The gameplay is still interesting and quite good, except for killing a good half of all tanks in view of their previous support role. Overwatch is still fun to play, but it's not what it used to be.

    This is not overwatch 2, this is overwatch 1.1, nothing more, absolutely all free content from the game has been    I don't want to start with the negative, so let's go through the positives. The gameplay is still interesting and quite good, except for killing a good half of all tanks in view of their previous support role. Overwatch is still fun to play, but it's not what it used to be.

    This is not overwatch 2, this is overwatch 1.1, nothing more, absolutely all free content from the game has been removed, paid battlepass that does not pay for itself, full-fledged pay to win gameplay, a huge number of extra pop-up notifications during the game, like thanks, requests for healing, etc. .p., which now appear extremely irritably over the allies, backward fonts and an interface that seems to have been copied from the Chinese clone of the first overwatch. No adequate bonuses for the owners of the first part, constant queues, falling servers, incomprehensible lags and friezes. The stroke of enemy and allied characters has been changed so much that it is banal in many situations it is not clear who you are shooting at or who is attacking you from the word at all.

    The game was literally destroyed, everyone now plays "every man for himself", there is practically no teamwork, the game with one tank looks extremely dull and meager, many control skills, like stuns, have been removed.

    This is not just bad, it's disgusting, not only did they take away the first normal part of the game for which I paid money, they also gave out a new crooked game, the main resource for obtaining content in which is donation.

    And where is the main innovation that we were all promised and that we all were waiting for? Yes, I'm talking about the pve component now, it will only be in 2023 and that's not a fact. Strict 3 out of 10 points, it's not even funny, an indie studio could do a hundred times better.    … Expand
  55. Parasolka
    Oct 5, 2022
    3
    Вырезали контейнеры, уровень и нормальное меню. Сделали 5 на 5 из-за чего динамика упала в разы. Играть скучно и бессмысленно по сравнению с первой частью. Разочарован.
    Не Overwatch 2, а Overwatch 1.5
  56. Tcher
    Oct 11, 2022
    3
    It's definitely unfair. i bought Overwatch 1 - Premium finished game but now Blizzard changed it to Overwatch 2 - mobile-like money sucking dullness.
  57. Dima82561
    Oct 6, 2022
    3
    Игра отличная, но… Я не признаю фритуплей и новую систему монетизации где нельзя получать скины и прочее просто играя. Серверы простаивают из-за огромных очередей. Уровней больше нет. Калибровка в соревновательном режиме на теории выглядит шикарно, на практике ужасно. 8 побед и 2 поражения, в прошлом сезоне почти дошёл до золота. Итог: мне дают вторую бронзу.
    Микротранзакций: то, что    Игра отличная, но… Я не признаю фритуплей и новую систему монетизации где нельзя получать скины и прочее просто играя. Серверы простаивают из-за огромных очередей. Уровней больше нет. Калибровка в соревновательном режиме на теории выглядит шикарно, на практике ужасно. 8 побед и 2 поражения, в прошлом сезоне почти дошёл до золота. Итог: мне дают вторую бронзу.
    Микротранзакций: то, что раньше было забавной игрой и серией, теперь отбросило все, что делало игру веселой. Одной из фишек Overwatch были лутбоксы. Да, у лутбоксов были проблемы. Но всё это было бесплатно и рано или поздно желанный скин можна было либо выбить, либо купить. Я лично в Overwatch 1 не задонатив ни копейки к 500 уровню повыбивал большую часть скинов. На Ангела я всё полностью купил.
    Сейчас 3-летний скин стоит около 20 долларов.
    За владение Overwatch 1 вам дается 2 скина которые я никогда не буду использовать. И вы можете мгновенно использовать нового героя "Кирико". Я думаю, что я должен хотя бы получить боевой пропуск бесплатно. Однако вы можете получить премиальную валюту бесплатно, но только 500, что составляет около 5 долларов. Этого недостаточно, чтобы купить боевой пропуск, и это только побуждает вас покупать больше кредитов. Это ужасная механика по краже денег у людей.
    Пожалуйста, перестаньте их защищать. Я видел, как многие люди защищали их в Интернете, говоря, что Overwatch нужно зарабатывать деньги, чтобы выжить.
    Они месяцами ранее выпустили Diablo Emmortal и за первые 3 дня заработали более 100 миллионов долларов.
    Бесплатная игра: с одной стороны это круто как для человека который решит своего друга позвать в игру а он никогда в неё не играл, катки ищутся быстро. Для разработчиков тоже плюс ибо будет онлайн, а дальше вливание и денег в игру.
    Минус тут только один: новая аудитория. Привет читеры, привет ещё больше смурфов, привет неадекватные школьники и привет неадекватное быдло.
    Теперь всё это увеличится в разы.
    Так вот: платная игра - была порогом входа в эту игру. Сейчас же порогом входа остаётся только системные требования игры, хотя и они не помеха сегодня.
    Нету бесплатной игры с адекватной аудиторией.
    Давайте вспомним такие игры как "Warfare", "Valorant", "Dota 2" и "Genshin Impact". В этих играх самое конченное комньюнити. И только попробуйте не согласиться.
    Плюсы игры: геймплей (процесс катки и игра за любого персонажа), графика, звуковое сопровождение и карты.
    Они решили проблему с очередями по ролям, катки находятся очень быстро, разминку не успевал включать.
    На этом всё.
    Игра получает 3/10, либо 2/5.
    Буду ли я продолжать играть? Сука да. Геймплей, графика, звуковое сопровождение с картами забрали моё сердечко и я получил колоссальное удовольствие также как и первый раз в Overwatch 1 играл.
    Жду PvE-режим.    … Expand
  58. Noiza
    May 18, 2023
    3
    The game itself is ok-good. But the policy behind it is terrible.
    OW2 was supposed to be a PvE with PvP game. Then it was PvP with PvE soon. Now they canceled the reason why they made a part two in first place, the PvE mode and the reason why i bought it in the first place.
    I payed for the PvE mode and payed for the PvP mode twice instead.
  59. shhhag
    Oct 17, 2022
    3
    Greed and sloth are the main sins of Blizzard. Overwatch is an amazing game, and new modes plus team size change make it even better. But the lack of new content in "sequel" is tremendous. And after all you can no longer earn cool loot by just playing. You need to pay, and you need to pay much more than in other f2p games.
  60. GuilllasDefas
    Oct 10, 2022
    3
    Pegaram e primeiro jogo e tacaram lutebox super caras, mudaram umas fontes, adicionaram umas sking e chamaram de Overwatch 2. Chamar de segundo jogo é a maior propaganda enganosa que existe
  61. Izoeros
    Oct 9, 2022
    3
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  62. Flickerack
    Mar 30, 2023
    3
    A good core shining through a pile of bad design decisions

    Overwatch 2 cannot be explained without its predecessor. Overwatch 1 was one of the very best multiplayer experiences in terms of accessibility and clear design choices. The multiplayer landscape is littered with games, designed for young players, eagerly waiting to spend countless hours to sharpen their skills. Overwatch 1, led    A good core shining through a pile of bad design decisions

    Overwatch 2 cannot be explained without its predecessor. Overwatch 1 was one of the very best multiplayer experiences in terms of accessibility and clear design choices. The multiplayer landscape is littered with games, designed for young players, eagerly waiting to spend countless hours to sharpen their skills. Overwatch 1, led by Jeff Kaplan, achieved to combine a more mature player base with a high enough skill ceiling for younger players. It did so by following two clear design principles: “fun over balance” and “easy to learn, hard to master”.

    The core of this game was so good, that even now, where none of these principles are kept, it can only leave scars at it, no matter how hard the developers try to destroy it. They introduce tanks, which have unclear abilities and no tank-resembling physique. They implement duplicates of existing heroes and new ones, which skill gap is so huge, that you can’t expect success with less than 10 hours of practice.

    And these decisions or “scars” start to add up, blurring the clear vision of a once great game, leaving only a feeling of hollowness and anger against the incompetence of the new staff. Adding to this, is the utter ridiculous new monetization system, charging players 26$ for one skin for one of the 36 heroes. Even the “Trostpreise” (German for consolation prizes) reach price tags of 10$, consisting of worthless profile pictures, sprays and victory poses. One might ask if there are unlockables, well, if you mean with money, then yes, there are unlockables.

    Last but not least, the wokeness of this game must be addressed. Due to the fact, that Blizzard employees can’t keep their hands off of women, proven by countless controversies, the executives are now trying to paint over their dark past by sending mendacious letters of excuse. These letters consist of posing only black heroes on the cover, cutting away from the Asian e-sport players in their trailers, renaming existing heroes and pushing an all-female agenda (and many more ridiculously small steps). I always liked Overwatch for pushing boundaries, but with this, they are not brave, but instead playing it safe to appeal to a modern audience.

    Since Blizzard tries to be responsible for the Top 5 Worst Rated Games on Metacritic, I must congratulate it to be one step closer to its, now very achievable, goal.    … Expand
  63. staubigerkaktus
    Nov 2, 2022
    3
    Overwatch was once the single greatest pvp game that existed. Overwatch 2 seems just like a cheap cash grab that adds nothing that would justify its advertisement as a new game. The monetization is just RIDICULOUS and it's clear that at least the management at Activision Blizzard doesn't care about quality content and pleasing the community anymore. All of this adds to it just not being asOverwatch was once the single greatest pvp game that existed. Overwatch 2 seems just like a cheap cash grab that adds nothing that would justify its advertisement as a new game. The monetization is just RIDICULOUS and it's clear that at least the management at Activision Blizzard doesn't care about quality content and pleasing the community anymore. All of this adds to it just not being as much fun anymore. INCREDIBLY disappointing because I really, really want to love this game.… Expand
  64. Legitti
    Oct 11, 2022
    3
    It really seems to copy and paste from Overwatch 1 with more bugs and even worst gameplay. Everything is locked away unless you've been playing before.
  65. dolvin
    Jul 12, 2023
    3
    сиквел в геймпленом и графическом плане стал лучше, но изменений как для второй части ой как мало, это было бы отличным глобальным обновлением, но никак не сиквелом. испортило игру и переход на бесплатную основу, овервотч не должен был стать обычным бесплатным онлайн проектом, но это к сожалению случилось.сиквел в геймпленом и графическом плане стал лучше, но изменений как для второй части ой как мало, это было бы отличным глобальным обновлением, но никак не сиквелом. испортило игру и переход на бесплатную основу, овервотч не должен был стать обычным бесплатным онлайн проектом, но это к сожалению случилось.
  66. Virageous
    May 8, 2023
    3
    In the first days i was thinking that game is pretty good. But after playing for a half year - I see that game is so bad and doesn't have any normal updates after Overwatch 1. The battlepass system is so bad, Why do we need it?
  67. ExcidiumNick
    Oct 10, 2022
    3
    Overwatch 2, as far as PVP is concerned, the same old song and dance. With a few new maps and game modes here and there, there isn't really much to rant and rave about. I'm disappointed that Overwatch PVE until early 2023, but that's how things go. I've played this game for almost a week now, and did my time in beta.
    Pros: It's the same Overwatch experience, but with better role queue    Overwatch 2, as far as PVP is concerned, the same old song and dance. With a few new maps and game modes here and there, there isn't really much to rant and rave about. I'm disappointed that Overwatch PVE until early 2023, but that's how things go. I've played this game for almost a week now, and did my time in beta.
    Pros: It's the same Overwatch experience, but with better role queue times. I don't have to wait an eternity if either I or a friend want to play one specific role.
    Battlepass > lootbox system. It's pretty easy to level up in Overwatch's battlepass system, so that shouldn't be a problem. Also, the never ending barrage of duplicates got old pretty fast in OW1.

    Now, the cons....
    The store is horrendous. A legendary skin will run you around 2000 coins, aka 2O US Dollars. Emotes are about 5 dollars or more. And other miscellaneous items.. I'm getting PTSD of Halo Infinite's store.
    The challenges are pretty repetitive, and don't really offer much incentive to keep coming back. Your reward is a couple BP levels and maybe 60 coins.... a week.....weeeeee. But hey, you save those coins and in a year's time, you could get a legendary skin!
    Blizzard's servers are god awful during this time. Even after the 2 day stretch of 40K queues and server logouts, it's still messing up. Sometimes it'll say that you've never played Overwatch (even when the 1000 hours say otherwise), or you have no friends online when blizzard says there's several friends on Overwatch.

    Overwatch 2 had every chance to come out swinging after a year of disappointing releases from other AAA games. The hype was built up to the stars, only for it to plummet to earth. If you're an old player of Overwatch, and are getting back into the swing, maybe the moment won't be tainted for you. But if you're a new player, and grinding for characters isn't your thing, then perhaps a different game is for you. Using the excuse "give it _____ and it'll get better" doesn't excuse the fact that it feels like minimal thought and work was put into making an Overwatch sequel. This feels more like an overhaul (and a bad one at that).    … Expand
  68. XyuNaBlude
    Oct 6, 2022
    3
    Достойный наследник Diablo Immortal.
    Теперь на желанную косметику (1шт.) придётся гриндить не 1 день, а 3 сезона. Ещё и новых героев теперь надо тоже гриндить в батлпассе неделю (целыми днями). Да и в целом теперь придётся работать на этот батлапасс, а не играть в своё удовольствие.
    С переходом на F2P близзы не стали закупать больше серверов, так что придётся подождать "100 человек перед    Достойный наследник Diablo Immortal.
    Теперь на желанную косметику (1шт.) придётся гриндить не 1 день, а 3 сезона. Ещё и новых героев теперь надо тоже гриндить в батлпассе неделю (целыми днями). Да и в целом теперь придётся работать на этот батлапасс, а не играть в своё удовольствие.
    С переходом на F2P близзы не стали закупать больше серверов, так что придётся подождать "100 человек перед вами". Вот, отзыв решил написать пока жду.
    Без вышеописанного это всё же Овер, только теперь 5 на 5.    … Expand
  69. BrandySavage
    Oct 5, 2022
    3
    Game's literally a free-to-play update for an Overwatch 1, but with 3 new characters, and in 5v5. It plays like old one, but kinda worse, it does not feel at all like the game I've played in summer beta. And lemme tell you, the summer beta version of OW2 alot of fun to play.
    I'm really disappointed I've spent my money on Watchpoint edition (I don't even know what I get for 40 dollars    Game's literally a free-to-play update for an Overwatch 1, but with 3 new characters, and in 5v5. It plays like old one, but kinda worse, it does not feel at all like the game I've played in summer beta. And lemme tell you, the summer beta version of OW2 alot of fun to play.
    I'm really disappointed I've spent my money on Watchpoint edition (I don't even know what I get for 40 dollars except the battle pass lol) and it's a shame that they've turned a really cool game I've seen into a mediocre copy of a previous one.    … Expand
  70. vitorgaioso
    Sep 11, 2023
    3
    Tinha tudo pra reviver o Overwatch, mas só piorou. Rotação de mapas ruim, preço de skins absurdo, sem as caixas que todo mundo amava, enfim, blizzard blizzardou
  71. Earo
    Oct 6, 2022
    3
    This game is soulless and the new robot mode is the worst **** ever. Every decision Blizzard made with this game has been a terrible idea
  72. Burned_ftw
    Oct 6, 2022
    3
    Well, it's very sad to see what a game I've played since I was a kid has turned into.
    For me it was something very close to my heart, different from other games like Counter Strike Global Offensive, Battlefield etc.
    At one time, I bought the "legendary" version of the game not even for skins, but in order to support the developers, and the fact that the game was paid eliminated a lot of    Well, it's very sad to see what a game I've played since I was a kid has turned into.
    For me it was something very close to my heart, different from other games like Counter Strike Global Offensive, Battlefield etc.
    At one time, I bought the "legendary" version of the game not even for skins, but in order to support the developers, and the fact that the game was paid eliminated a lot of toxic people.
    Of course, no existing game has ever done without them, but in overwatch the community was atmospheric and kind in its own way.
    I'll start with the cons.
    1. The game is now free - like I said, this adds accessibility to a lot of idiots that I wouldn't want to see and listen to in my favorite game.
    2. The second point follows from this - because of the free to play, the developers decided to add a battlepass, and I would close my eyes to this if it were free, like the containers in the first ov, but all the interesting things were stuffed into a paid battlepass, which I I can't even buy (I'm a ru player).
    The literal monetization of all cosmetics in ov2 is a direct path to the bottom.
    Even the skins that were released in ov1 became paid, and the coins that remained with ov1 became useless, and they can’t even be exchanged for a new currency.
    Of course, this was not the main thing in the game, but it added interest to play, knock out containers and increase the level with which my experience with the skill increased.
    3. New icons and interface. I feel like all the good designers have been screwed over and hired kids because they look frankly ugly.
    - Huge squares in the character menu, instead of medium and nice looking rounded rectangles lying at an angle, it doesn't look stylish or pretty.
    - Almost the same story with the interface of the character's health pool, it has become more square and straight in contrast to the slightly rounded squares - also ugly.
    - Same story with character abilities - normal squares instead of rounded rhombuses
    - The style of the ultimate has become not beautiful, although there are almost no changes, but it still does not look beautiful.
    - The character selection menu has the same story - squares instead of diamonds - and it pisses me off that it's like that everywhere, it absolutely did not need a redesign.
    - New 3D models in the lower left corner of the screen look bad.
    4. Also, the developers decided to remove the level icons that were in ov1 - but why? In order for the players not to have a biased attitude towards the allies, the developers answered. For me, this is fierce nonsense, since only those units of toxins in ov1 were biased towards the player, judging by his level (and by the way, sometimes it even played the opposite way - people could shame high-level players by calling them nerds).
    I don’t deny that by the level I could judge who I should heal more and help, but this was a plus, because in this way a team game was formed, which was always emphasized in ov1.
    Also, the levels were an aesthetic pleasure, because it was just nice to see a beautiful frame and characters in it (although I did not even have time to take a silver frame).
    5. Instead of your profile icons, players now see only character art - this is also an omission, because it was an aesthetic component of ov1, and it was possible for the whole team to display the same icon for fun.
    6. The statistics of enemies and allies became visible - kills, deaths, damage done, etc. Doesn't that cause prejudice, blizzard? After all, the impact of the player does not determine this at all, just like in ov1, even Jeff Kaplan joked about this topic in the New Year's issue.
    7. And due to the fact that prominent statistics appeared during the match, which is visible to everyone - the character cards disappeared at the end of the match ... This is a VERY big omission, because it was nice to put your "praise" to the ally and in some cases to the enemy, and then hear cool phrases from them (it was especially nice when you were the person who was praised). But no, they decided to remove it by adding ugly
    statistics like in cs go.
    8. By the way, the interface itself when you press the TAB key during a match is also disgusting, licked from other shooters like cs go - a complete lack of style...
    Let's move on to more serious issues.
    9. Battlepass cosmetics are survivable, albeit with difficulty - but characters in battlepass? Seriously, Blizzard? As a player from ov1, they are certainly available to me, but what will happen next? They only open at level 55, and these are the weeks of grinding, and keep in mind that not everyone can afford to play a lot.

    Unfortunately, I can’t write more than 5 thousand letters .. thats sa, I have something to say, and even praise ov2 a little, but the metacritic did not think that there are users like me, for whom the game is really important, and what they think about it in to the fullest.    … Expand
  73. Jaba01
    Oct 6, 2022
    3
    Overwatch. A lovely game. Overwatch 2? Not so much. Still a very fun game. The core gameplay is genius. Everything else? A straight up downgrade compared to OW1.

    The Blizzard most people used to love is dead - and there is no coming back. This is a straight up cash grab. And a very bad one, too. There's almost no incentive to spend anything at all. The prices are way too high to tempt    Overwatch. A lovely game. Overwatch 2? Not so much. Still a very fun game. The core gameplay is genius. Everything else? A straight up downgrade compared to OW1.

    The Blizzard most people used to love is dead - and there is no coming back. This is a straight up cash grab. And a very bad one, too. There's almost no incentive to spend anything at all. The prices are way too high to tempt anyone into buying anything. This game may very much die within a year if they don't make DRASTIC changes. There's still some hope. But it's quickly fading. Thanks for the fun times Overwatch 1.    … Expand
  74. Suboptimal
    Oct 7, 2022
    3
    Game would be fun if the servers weren't so awful even after the server patch. The monetization scheme in this game is disgusting however. The team went back on the idea of giving players every character in return of a pay for new character system, and with how blizz releases new characters it makes it pay to win. That's not even mentioning the awful skin monetization.
  75. Rihter_
    Oct 8, 2022
    3
    Проблемы на старте бывают у всех, но меня разочаровало другое: делать её бесплатной ужасная идея в обмен на это сделать тонну доната и невозможность получить даже старые скины на персонажей за нормальную цену серьезно, 1900 вместо 1000 при этом сделать валюту донатной, ужасная идея. Монетизация ужасна, система батлпасса так же ужасна, в бесплатной версии нет практически ничего пару скиновПроблемы на старте бывают у всех, но меня разочаровало другое: делать её бесплатной ужасная идея в обмен на это сделать тонну доната и невозможность получить даже старые скины на персонажей за нормальную цену серьезно, 1900 вместо 1000 при этом сделать валюту донатной, ужасная идея. Монетизация ужасна, система батлпасса так же ужасна, в бесплатной версии нет практически ничего пару скинов аватаров и несколько анимаций? Спасибо Blizzard, все ваши последние игры - мусор, Диабло и WoW тому пример, может уже пора задуматься почему так выходит? Или нет, нужно выпустить ещё несколько провальных проектов?
    Положительные стороны тоже есть но их настолько мало что все происходящее перекрывает эти положительные стороны. Пинг теперь ниже это классно, новые сервера это хорошо, но этот низкий пинг становится ничем когда игра начинает фризить или лагать, насколько мне известно комфортно играть только на торговом железе. Делать 5 на 5 это очень странное решение, каким образом это даст больше вариативности игрокам остаётся только гадать. А пока я буду ждать, ждать что вы наконец одумаетесь, пофиксите все баги и фризы, пофиксите очереди, перестроить монетизацию и сделайте пожалуйста возможность вернуть интерфейс OW1а лучше просто удалите этот позор и верните игрокам нормальную игру, просто введя правки персонажам и добавив новых. На этом все, я ухожу в тень...    … Expand
  76. xMarvinx
    Oct 9, 2022
    3
    It was said that Overwatch 2 will be a seperate game with a PVE focus, after Launch there is no PVE options at all, it is also not a separate game, and it replaced Overwatch 1 which had a PVP focus it is the same content the only difference being slight balance adjustments and 1-2 new Heroes and 3 new maps and a few new Modes, the big difference is also that now the content from theIt was said that Overwatch 2 will be a seperate game with a PVE focus, after Launch there is no PVE options at all, it is also not a separate game, and it replaced Overwatch 1 which had a PVP focus it is the same content the only difference being slight balance adjustments and 1-2 new Heroes and 3 new maps and a few new Modes, the big difference is also that now the content from the previous game you had access to is now monetized stronger than before basically locking you out of obtaining it without spending more Money to give a perspective there are 32 Characters in Overwatch if you want a skin for each Character it would cost you around 20$ per Skin which would mean you would have to pay 640$ to have 1 skin for every Character. Which is extremely steep considering the previous "title" the new "updated" game has launched as a free to play title which is the reason why there are these steep prices, and it is not hard to see where the focus is.

    It doesn't feel like a new Game, and it doesn't seem like a new Game it feels like an update for Overwatch 1 with fewer features and more Monetization things like leveling were taken out of the game just like in game stat cards at the end of a match, it feels like a simplified version which sole reason was to have as much monetization as possible.    … Expand
  77. MrMannen
    Oct 11, 2022
    3
    As a resource management enjoyer I do love the new feature they implemented where you try to earn as much as you can while spending the least amount of money. Next to the 10 coins I got in this week of grind I even got a 15 dollar skin! It was a Twitch drop!! EPIC WIN! But in recent setback I regret to infrom you all that I invested 7 dollars worth of coins to salt emote and a Junker QueenAs a resource management enjoyer I do love the new feature they implemented where you try to earn as much as you can while spending the least amount of money. Next to the 10 coins I got in this week of grind I even got a 15 dollar skin! It was a Twitch drop!! EPIC WIN! But in recent setback I regret to infrom you all that I invested 7 dollars worth of coins to salt emote and a Junker Queen voiceline.… Expand
  78. AngryNoivern
    Oct 11, 2022
    3
    Overwatch 2 is at the time of writing still not fully out (PvE modes are not out yet) but regardless there are serval problems that I'm very worried about for the long run of this game.

    1) the monetization is just downright bad, 1 legendary skin is nearly £20 and so is the "best" version of the battle pass witch is ultimately a let down. The next problem is that the coins that are    Overwatch 2 is at the time of writing still not fully out (PvE modes are not out yet) but regardless there are serval problems that I'm very worried about for the long run of this game.

    1) the monetization is just downright bad, 1 legendary skin is nearly £20 and so is the "best" version of the battle pass witch is ultimately a let down.

    The next problem is that the coins that are required to buy anything, are only obtainable in two ways, by either buying them with real money, or completing 11 weekly challenges for 60 coins witch is not enough for even the cheapest items in the store.

    Legendry's cost 1100 coins so at a max of 60 coins a week it would take almost 19 weeks for one skin or what blizzard wants is for your £20.

    2)the lack of incentives is also a problem and it ties into the 1st problem being because everything cool is locked behind a pay wall you'll have nothing to grind for or feel accomplishment for unlocking.
    one way to fix both problems would be to increase the coins gained from challenges and add the coins to daily and sessional challenges as well, and add coins in free tears of the battle pass and some of the paid tears to incentives grinding that out.

    Something else to look at is the fact that blizzard could be doing a 2 steps forward 1 step back by making it really bad monetization wise now only to go a little bit back so consumers are more ok with some still very predatory ways of making money from you.

    finally the game its self is still enjoyable but that shouldn't give the other problems a free pass.

    edit: a legendary is actually 1900 coins so at a max of 60 a week it will take around 32 weeks of grind for one skin    … Expand
  79. NakaZ
    Oct 15, 2022
    3
    Après le départ des meilleures têtes pensantes du jeu, les déboires de l'entreprise et le rachat de Microsoft, il était certain que ce jeu allait être ainsi,
    pas de nouveauté, un battlepass stérile, des serveurs (si on peut appelé ça serveur) en papier
    Blizzard et Microsoft n'ont pas voulu investir dans le jeu pour les joueurs et principalement pour les joueurs d'OW1, mais créer un    Après le départ des meilleures têtes pensantes du jeu, les déboires de l'entreprise et le rachat de Microsoft, il était certain que ce jeu allait être ainsi,
    pas de nouveauté, un battlepass stérile, des serveurs (si on peut appelé ça serveur) en papier

    Blizzard et Microsoft n'ont pas voulu investir dans le jeu pour les joueurs et principalement pour les joueurs d'OW1, mais créer un produit destiné à engranger un maximum de joueurs et d'argent au détriment de la qualité,

    Bienvenu dans l'ère des jeux vidéos 2.0 -> de la merde, des partenariats, du marketing et GO on lance !

    À vomir / pleurer au choix    … Expand
  80. GaeRat
    Oct 17, 2022
    3
    Ov2 is a fun game in my opinion and Iis not like I hate this game but, ive put a solid 30 hours into the game and it barely pays off. It just doesnt make sense that you need to grind to unlock heroes that were previously free. Some characters are just op like Zarya that has tank health but the range and damage of a DPS. Plus why would i need to put in my phone number to play a free game?Ov2 is a fun game in my opinion and Iis not like I hate this game but, ive put a solid 30 hours into the game and it barely pays off. It just doesnt make sense that you need to grind to unlock heroes that were previously free. Some characters are just op like Zarya that has tank health but the range and damage of a DPS. Plus why would i need to put in my phone number to play a free game? its just outright dumb. The maps arent all that good either, if theres a sequel to a game youd expect to get NEW and EXCITING content right? But no, they just make day and night maps and even better they removed on of the best ways to obtain accessories (lootboxes). Now you gotta grind to get a single skin or pay 20 which is absolute bullsh*t. So i feel like they need to add new content and new heroes like the MECHA team or members of Talon into the roster. And I want this to be a good game so i hope good things will come in the foreseeable future.… Expand
  81. jokercrovv
    Oct 19, 2022
    3
    The game has gone down the drain, before it was possible to improve your game, there was a maneuver for different heroes, this is no more.
    Playing as a support is pain and suffering, reducing the tanks broke the balance of the game, the balance is not so simple as to remove one hero and rejoice, the only ones who have fun are DD.
  82. dreamourn
    Nov 1, 2022
    3
    My only question at this point is what did devs do for 6 years?
    I heavily disagree that +3 new heroes and few maps could take that long.
    What happened to PvE? Storyline? New abilities they had teasers for. Did they REALLY scrap all that and decided that Overwatch 2 is what it is now? Ok I'm waiting for Overwatch 76 then.. or what? P.S. This game is fat from bad. It's fun and decent.    My only question at this point is what did devs do for 6 years?
    I heavily disagree that +3 new heroes and few maps could take that long.
    What happened to PvE? Storyline? New abilities they had teasers for. Did they REALLY scrap all that and decided that Overwatch 2 is what it is now? Ok I'm waiting for Overwatch 76 then.. or what?

    P.S. This game is fat from bad. It's fun and decent. It just doesn't fulfill "2" part.    … Expand
  83. FunkyFish
    Apr 13, 2023
    3
    Overwatch 2 is the same damn game but worse. I cannot believe they went the free-to-play route when really it is just a trap for micro transactions. The only time it is decent fun is when you play with friends but if your like me and do not have any, it is awful and boring.
  84. zNeverSleep
    May 22, 2023
    3
    That game is amazing. Not the sequel, exactly. I mean the core - since is my first time playing it.

    Rich characters, interesting lore, deep gameplay and mechanics, charismatic content creators, amazing OST, and the communication with the community is getting better. Season 3 is the right move. Unfortunately, since I completed my graduation, I had to let some games go to dedicate to    That game is amazing. Not the sequel, exactly. I mean the core - since is my first time playing it.

    Rich characters, interesting lore, deep gameplay and mechanics, charismatic content creators, amazing OST, and the communication with the community is getting better. Season 3 is the right move.

    Unfortunately, since I completed my graduation, I had to let some games go to dedicate to my career, but if this game was discovered for me when I was 15yo... dude, I would be playing 24/7.

    Addition: this review was made before I knew that PvE was cancelled - at least, the way it should be. Also, it's not right to give this game a high score when the merit behind is from another game. For this reason, I'm reducing it to 3.    … Expand
  85. Scaryloss
    May 18, 2023
    3
    Algumas mudanças são realmente boas, reduzir o número de jogadores de 6 pra 5 deixa o jogo mais balanceado, o novo sistema de ranked é bom, o fato de deletarem as loot box é ótimo, e também o free 2 play é sempre excelente. Porém tirando isso, agora que cancelaram o lançamento do PVE é praticamente o mesmo jogo, o fato de ter um 2 na frente é nada mais do que uma jogada de marketing praAlgumas mudanças são realmente boas, reduzir o número de jogadores de 6 pra 5 deixa o jogo mais balanceado, o novo sistema de ranked é bom, o fato de deletarem as loot box é ótimo, e também o free 2 play é sempre excelente. Porém tirando isso, agora que cancelaram o lançamento do PVE é praticamente o mesmo jogo, o fato de ter um 2 na frente é nada mais do que uma jogada de marketing pra tentar ressuscitar o jogo.… Expand
  86. DayXP
    Jun 14, 2023
    3
    Casual team based multiplayer pvp shooter with coop events.
    The pvp part is solid most of the time but gets interrupted by balancing issues, technical problems and bugs even the game is basically the same as Overwatch 1.
    The pve part is partially implemented as events and later on as a paid premium service. Sadly it got cut down the bare bones without the promised skill tree and leveling    Casual team based multiplayer pvp shooter with coop events.
    The pvp part is solid most of the time but gets interrupted by balancing issues, technical problems and bugs even the game is basically the same as Overwatch 1.
    The pve part is partially implemented as events and later on as a paid premium service. Sadly it got cut down the bare bones without the promised skill tree and leveling system.
    For a few rounds with friends ok, better pick some other free 2 player shooter. Any other, no matter which.    … Expand
  87. kucky7576
    Aug 9, 2023
    3
    a realy sad ending of an copy paste from overwatch 1, without any effort or love for the game itself
    my most positive view on overwatch 2 is: i like the 5 player gamemode more than the old one
    everything else has gone worse
  88. CynicalOatmeal
    Aug 31, 2023
    3
    Took away the original to force the player base to move. Reworked characters are a let down for the most part. Some positive changes in my opinion as well. Launch was poorly handled. But overall you took a beloved game and turned it into a cash grab. Blizzard this game will never get another cent from me personally.
  89. Celcees
    May 22, 2023
    2
    I already didn't like overwatch 2 compared to overwatch 1, i dont like the balance changes, i dont like the meta, i dont like the changes to the heroes, its missing a bunch of features, like medals, they made it a lot less inclined to communicate with teammates. it feels like the beta for overwatch 1. so i stopped playing for a while, i came back to give it another chance, was having a midI already didn't like overwatch 2 compared to overwatch 1, i dont like the balance changes, i dont like the meta, i dont like the changes to the heroes, its missing a bunch of features, like medals, they made it a lot less inclined to communicate with teammates. it feels like the beta for overwatch 1. so i stopped playing for a while, i came back to give it another chance, was having a mid time, and then they canceled, massively scaled back the only things i was looking forward to, and imo the only things keeping the franchise alive, a few days later. screw blizzard, screw this game. don't waste your time, and if you give it a try DO NOT PAY FOR ANYTHING. they don't deserve it.… Expand
  90. EricNeo
    Nov 4, 2022
    2
    The rebranded Overwatch 1 as Overwatch 2 and charge insane prices while fixing non of the issues that drove players away. Cheating and verbal abuse is the norm in this game and no matter how many times you report these players nothing ever happens to them. The only time any action ever happens is if you popular streamer or youtuber catches said person on video.

    Gone are the loot boxes,    The rebranded Overwatch 1 as Overwatch 2 and charge insane prices while fixing non of the issues that drove players away. Cheating and verbal abuse is the norm in this game and no matter how many times you report these players nothing ever happens to them. The only time any action ever happens is if you popular streamer or youtuber catches said person on video.

    Gone are the loot boxes, replaced by selling skins for $20-40USD, let me remind you Overwatch 1 cost $40. The free portion of the game is a complete grind and with all the cheaters and verbal abuse you will find yourself quickly not wanting to play. To make matters worse the game will have days where it matches people so poorly it's just one team being rolled by another over and over.

    Avoid this toxic game and don't give Blizzard your money.    … Expand
  91. xZippy
    Aug 19, 2023
    2
    Have you ever spent 20 minutes thinking to yourself, "What the hell were people thinking? Why did they think this would be a good idea? Who thought other human beings would be on board with this?" Well, that's Overwatch 2. The first game wasn't perfect, but it was fine.

    Who the living Christ thought it would be a good idea to slap a "2" in front of this game's title is far, far beyond    Have you ever spent 20 minutes thinking to yourself, "What the hell were people thinking? Why did they think this would be a good idea? Who thought other human beings would be on board with this?" Well, that's Overwatch 2. The first game wasn't perfect, but it was fine.

    Who the living Christ thought it would be a good idea to slap a "2" in front of this game's title is far, far beyond me. Uuuggghhh... This isn't a sequel, it's just a large update. The pointless "2" is just pretty much a tactic to rope people in. Oh yeah, now you get to pay for new heroes! Oh boy, how exciting!! It was so inconvenient to get free fun updates of new heroes, skins and gamemodes, now people get to drain their bank accounts for them.

    A fully-fledged co-op mode was planned to be part of this... """""sequel"""""... which a huge reason why people were interested in the game, and then out of nowhere, the idea gets scrapped, so now gamers feel this huge, crippling gut punch of disappointment. Great, now we're left with an unlikable pay2win game. Yes, co-op missions were added, but it doesn't make up for all the game's mistakes.

    A majority of players felt that the first game was fine as is, now we're all forced to play what's essentially Overwatch 1.3. In other words, something that feels like a permanent DLC you can't turn off. There are a few positives, like one tank being playable instead of two, which speeds up games a bit (although that one's a bit controversial), and there are a few balance tweaks to some characters, but at the same time, some were given changes that ruined them and made them unfun to play.    … Expand
  92. fredinator
    Oct 13, 2022
    2
    Blizzard fixed none of the issues except 1 and created a whole load of new ones. The tank meta is gone due to enforcing roles. Due to this the queue times are again long and the matches still not fun.
    GG Blizzard you rereleased a dying game by slapping a 2 on
  93. VidyaBum
    Oct 6, 2022
    2
    I fear that this is the same game with one less tank, a slight modernisation of graphics, and content that should've just come to OW1.

    The only reason this came out as a sequel is to transform the game into a free to play with ultra greedy transactions (that are NOT micro by any means, 40 dollars for a battle pass every season). The 5v5 with one tank made the game more active and    I fear that this is the same game with one less tank, a slight modernisation of graphics, and content that should've just come to OW1.

    The only reason this came out as a sequel is to transform the game into a free to play with ultra greedy transactions (that are NOT micro by any means, 40 dollars for a battle pass every season).

    The 5v5 with one tank made the game more active and speedy, but it also severely damaged the tactical experience of OW. So many of the maps that used to be special, that required thought, pressure and poking to fight properly in, are now just another big area with outdated graphics.

    For example the first point of Kings Row, widely considered the best or top 3 best maps of OW1 by everyone, is now barely any different than any of the other maps. I used to have so many doubts on placement and pressure as a tank, so much about resource management and risk taking as a support. Now you just walk in and start blasting at the nearest enemy. The game is plain dumber.

    The maps are totally unsuited for the 5v5, although the new maps are better, all grand total of 4 of them for the roughly 40 maps of OW1. The balancing problems which killed OW1 since 2018 are not at all solved, they are equalized in the sense that now, everyone can shoot almost immediately and don't have to rely on passing tanks to do so.

    The new problem is that while you have no double shields or a tank in front of you at every pass, you rely almost entirely on your overpowered solo tank to survive. If your tank throws, you might as well see the DEFEAT screen immediately. They are so powerful and you must rely on him so much that if your tank can't diff or at least survive the other tank, you're done. As a flex but mostly support player, this reliance makes me hesitate between being the tank every game, or just stop trying.

    Also, few things have outright improved. The graphics are "modernised", they're not comparatively better. Round things are rounder like faces, models are more graphically demanding, but that's it. There are few to no super amazing visual effects. It's not like I mind, OW1 was already a clusterfk of visuals in big fights, but it drives home the point that this "sequel" has no particular value and wasn't made for technical need. Also even for an improvement, it's definitely not a 2016-2022 jump. OW1 for 2016 looked far better than OW2 for 2022. A GTX 960 could run OW1, and I'm betting a GTX 1060 can run OW2 comfortably, so it's more of a 2-3 year progress.

    Some things are inexplicably absent or worse. The glorious "on fire" status that indicated that you were doing great? Gone. The amount of damage you did on a kill? Gone. Why? Those were great and helped players a lot! The little notches on your Ultimate icon that helped see just how much you had are gone too, now it's a plain circle that fills it. It's not a big downgrade, but again, why change and make it worse? It's like the devs were told to find things to change to justify the new game, when none of that needed fixing and some was just outright great. The removal of the medal system in favour of a shared scoreboard is great though. Finally no more pointless arguments about how good or bad you're doing for your team.

    In short, the game is more or less the same, but slightly worse or better here and there. The details in UI and graphics really do not justify at all a sequel, and in every way could've been done in OW1. The downgrade in certain QoL elements is just plain bizarre (on fire status will really be missed).

    The only real changes are the 1 tank system and the financial model. The game is much less tactical and more speed and damage oriented. It feels dumber, simpler, and less profound.

    The free to play model is as greedy and predatory as ever, perhaps worse than Diablo Immortal's. This really feels like they took Overwatch, plastered some reskins, cut off one tank, completely brainwashed it from a game whose goal was to be fun, to a game that must suck as much money as possible. It's a frankensteins game to me, and my longstanding attachment to OW has almost singlehandedly disappeared in a few nights. I wanted to play OW all the time. I can barely feel anything towards OW2.

    There is an ongoing rumour that OW2 is meant to become a PvE game with great ambitions, but that it was delayed. Considering the lies of Activision Blizz on WC3 Reforged and on Diablo Immortal, I do not expect any promises to be held. But if they are, I'll amend this review when it comes out.    … Expand
  94. Steve4500
    Feb 11, 2023
    2
    The concept of this game is fantastic and unique in a market over saturated with poor FPS games. However the very core of this game is based around a matchmaking system that makes the game almost unplayable if you want to have any sort of fun.

    The matchmaking system is so complex with no transparency that Blizzard fail to address. Most of the fans are sick of the line "the matchmaking    The concept of this game is fantastic and unique in a market over saturated with poor FPS games. However the very core of this game is based around a matchmaking system that makes the game almost unplayable if you want to have any sort of fun.

    The matchmaking system is so complex with no transparency that Blizzard fail to address. Most of the fans are sick of the line "the matchmaking system is working as intended" - well yeah perhaps it is in your heads, but when 90% of your player base is actually experiencing a terrible game play experience then there's something wrong.    … Expand
  95. Oneshot01
    Oct 7, 2022
    2
    Not only players who bought the game recieved nearly nothing cosmetic but the game has unstable and uncapable servers with queues up to 40000 players just to enter the game.
    Really hope Blizzard bumps down the price for the battle pass and give old players more cosmetics or coins like in PUBG when it became free.
  96. Xodis99
    Oct 25, 2022
    2
    Literally just Overwatch 1 but worse. As much as the loot boxes were hated at the time, I kind of wish they kept them versus going free to play and riding off of battle passes for making money. My MAJOR main complaint is that there is no way to earn anything (you want) through gameplay. Yes there are skins in the battle pass free version BUT 80% of the levels have literally nothing in themLiterally just Overwatch 1 but worse. As much as the loot boxes were hated at the time, I kind of wish they kept them versus going free to play and riding off of battle passes for making money. My MAJOR main complaint is that there is no way to earn anything (you want) through gameplay. Yes there are skins in the battle pass free version BUT 80% of the levels have literally nothing in them and the stuff that you can earn is again, trash sprays and voice lines nobody cares about. Not to mention leveling the battle pass as a free user is painfully slow, so if you do not pay for an experience boost that is legitimately no reason to levelit. They outright removed overall account levels for these god forsaken battle passes so literally all you rescieve is progression towards said pass...Which there is no reason to level. Ifyou want anything for your heroes now you are required to pay for them via microtransactions, a currency you cannot earn by any means except of a whopping 60 cents a WEEK if you complete all of your weekly challenges. So, since most skins seem to cost $20, divide that by .60 you get 33.33. Round that up you need to finish your weekly challenges for 34 WEEKS for a single legendary skin. So ya those loot boxes honestly don't seem all that bad all of a sudden when you would get one per account level and free ones for playing certain match types and one for free at the start of each event. Somehow they went from a bad system to so much worse that lootboxes somehow look good. The people that had paid for overwatch 1 have pretty much had their money thrown in the trash because now the game itself is free and are now locked out of the decent version of the game and now have to play a worse version with a 2 slapped onto the title. Good job Blizzard, first you make a fool of yourself with harassment cases and poor business decisions,now you made things worse with Overwatch "2".… Expand
  97. Aceholeas
    Aug 7, 2023
    2
    They add crappy battlepasses and game types of which they don't let you chose which game mode you want to play. Don't nerf problematic characters. But will nerf an already not spectacular character making them unplayably bad. An all around not great game from a dev that has fallen incredibly far from their former glory. Taking away one more point for adding pay to play characters. anotherThey add crappy battlepasses and game types of which they don't let you chose which game mode you want to play. Don't nerf problematic characters. But will nerf an already not spectacular character making them unplayably bad. An all around not great game from a dev that has fallen incredibly far from their former glory. Taking away one more point for adding pay to play characters. another point gone for the devs complete lack of feedback and replies.… Expand
  98. 25toliverus
    Oct 6, 2022
    2
    Literally the same game with only minor changes made for one purpose - take the purchased game away from the players and add monetization to it
  99. Conplay
    Oct 27, 2022
    2
    Imagine this, you bought a game for 40 bucks and after some time you get a free game with greedy monetization, bugs, imbalanced heroes, no communication with players, scummy illegal discounts (right after skin released without even changing price), battle pass locked heroes and a clown skin for old players
  100. Vega23232
    Jan 1, 2023
    2
    Honestly the worst game ever. A bunch of bugs, problems, but what can I say.

    The developers can't even make a normal patch. They buff those who really don't need it. And who really needs a buff, they can't make her strong. Yes, yes, her name is Junker Queen, a buff that did not give her anything. She is still a weak tank. Lifesteal - pathetic 19 hp. Shout - 200 hp for 5 seconds, and    Honestly the worst game ever. A bunch of bugs, problems, but what can I say.

    The developers can't even make a normal patch. They buff those who really don't need it.

    And who really needs a buff, they can't make her strong. Yes, yes, her name is Junker Queen, a buff that did not give her anything. She is still a weak tank. Lifesteal - pathetic 19 hp. Shout - 200 hp for 5 seconds, and then a cooldown for 14 seconds. Rampage only reduced the cooldown by 10%, and did that give her any advantage? Kiriko for example cancels anti-heal.

    What is special about the Queen? Nothing. She's a terrible tank, the devs don't want to buff her.    … Expand
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Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 37 out of 53
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 53
  3. Negative: 0 out of 53
  1. TouchArcade
    Oct 10, 2023
    70
    Overwatch 2 is a free to play game, and I’d definitely recommend trying it out if you haven’t to see how you feel about the gameplay and to see how well it runs on Steam Deck. Despite its flaws, it is still worth playing, but some of the decisions with how certain content has been handled in-game are weird. Overwatch 2 is yet to reach the highs of the original Overwatch, but it is still a great multiplayer game to play on Steam Deck. I enjoyed Overwatch 2 quite a bit on Switch despite the visual and performance cutbacks, but it really shines on Steam Deck.
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  2. PLAY! Zine
    Dec 13, 2022
    78
    While the game is called Overwatch 2, this all seems more like a transition to a full new game. The biggest changes are dropping the 6v6 gameplay in favour of a much more exciting 5v5 format. Three new heroes are also available, along with a new game mode, but for a final and real verdict, everyone should wait for the upcoming PvE segment.
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  3. GamesHub
    Nov 16, 2022
    60
    Overwatch 2 delivers high-octane multiplayer gameplay and a wholly improved version of the much-loved hero shooter. Now that the dust has settled, it’s becoming clear that despite a number of teething issues, the game manages to do what many sequels struggle to; build upon a successful game, and make it even better.
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