Overwatch

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1.4

Overwhelming dislike- based on 3886 Ratings

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  1. Qofniak
    Nov 17, 2022
    0
    They just can't balance this **** right.
    Every single time they try to do something they make some hero OP. Now for example Sojourn and Widow are super OP, Zarya is just dominating every game.
    Hanzo can still shoot randomly at ABSOLUTELY NOTHING and get headshot kills.

    P A T H E T I C, you deserve the hate you're getting
  2. Zuricho
    Nov 17, 2022
    0
    守望先锋2与曾经2年无更新的守望先锋没有区别，但有着无数的bug，有捆绑销售，有无聊到爆的通行证，还有即将死亡的中国服务器
    现在的暴雪，现在的守望先锋2，我只希望它赶紧死，死的越快越好
  3. Funny7Cloud
    Nov 16, 2022
    2
    整体上讲能玩，有朋友的情况下。具体地说就是各种机制都非常差，对新人不友好，对老玩家也不友好。外挂猖獗并且没有有效的措施防治，举报之后也不进行永久封禁，象征性的短期保护性封禁是什么意思？保护外挂吗？就连公屏打字卖外挂的都只保护性封禁，所以外挂就是暴雪自己做的吧？
  4. Onedaim
    Nov 16, 2022
    0
    Ranking system is rigged and goes 50/50. No real logic in that. They need to reset this game.
  5. taylores
    Nov 15, 2022
    1
    Poor turnaround times with patch updates is just the tip of the iceberg on this monetization attempt by Blizzard. Very unimpressive for a game I once paid for, and was forced to update to this subpar experience.
  6. moviesandgames
    Nov 15, 2022
    0
    the balance of the game is trash. Zen can erase people instantly, Sombra does 40% more damage to hacked characters and doesn't get started with orisa, primary does insane damage with way too much reach her E makes an attack that negates nearly all damage and her right click does stun, pushes the enemy back. insane damage and can go across the entire map, then her ULT combined with Symetrathe balance of the game is trash. Zen can erase people instantly, Sombra does 40% more damage to hacked characters and doesn't get started with orisa, primary does insane damage with way too much reach her E makes an attack that negates nearly all damage and her right click does stun, pushes the enemy back. insane damage and can go across the entire map, then her ULT combined with Symetra can be a literal insta kill to anyone with good timing and to top it all of they removed loot boxes which sounds good except you cant get skins without buying unless you wanna wait 31 DAYS to get 1 legendary skin. bring back loot boxes, make the characters more balanced and for the love of god dont punish new players with locked characters. the games latency issues are insane aswell (I know its the game because literally no other game I own does this) I'll be playing junkrat and use my ult and press left click does work, the games latency issues are insane this happens every time I play junkrat… Expand
  7. YaBanka
    Nov 14, 2022
    0
    Это теперь ф-т-п говно, я теперь не могу в это играть. Овервотч 2 - худшее что придумали близзы
  8. k23456
    Nov 13, 2022
    1
    Los personajes no están para nada balanceados ni la forma en la que se arman los equipos según el nivel de la gente. Es lo mismo que Overwatch 1 pero con skins exageradamente caras, y eso que ya existían en el 1, además de tener una gran cantidad de errores, incluso han tenido que desactivar a Mei por un error con esa personaje.
  9. smokingborito
    Nov 13, 2022
    0
    A hernia is less painful than this anti-consumer overly monetized garbage. it takes a real marketing genius to make people not want to spend any money at all in a "free" game but between the terrible shop, the most pathetic and worthless battle pass I have ever seen, and egregiously overpriced skins that aren't even new, Overwatch 2 manages to do it. So congrats I guess.
  10. lisotaviu
    Nov 13, 2022
    9
    Tem toda aquela história de "ain é o mesmo jogo". Sim, é o mesmo jogo com skinzinha diferente, mas ele abriu, por exemplo, oportunidade para pessoas sem muito dinheiro, como eu, desfrutar da obra prima que é o Overwatch. Impressionado que (por enquanto) não é pay to win.
  11. DinboNomad2z2
    Nov 13, 2022
    0
    Taken what was given to the players at $60 and marked it up by 4000%. They literally took away the content(maps, cosmetics), worsened the UI and called it Overwatch2.
  12. Beyhey
    Oct 11, 2022
    2
    It's so boring. Clunky. And no PVE mode which is supposed to be the thing!?
  13. SkyTreeX0
    Nov 12, 2022
    0
    Overwatch 2 is absolute
  14. Niga1467
    Nov 11, 2022
    1
    If you assign the number two to the first part, it does not mean that you have released a new part.
  15. Cynical_Critic
    Nov 11, 2022
    1
    I have been playing Overwatch 1 for over three years and considered it one of the best games ever even when it barely got any updates except for skins. Therefore, I was originally very happy when I heard that Overwatch 2 will come out. However, my experience with the game after 150 hours in it showed me ho wrong my excitnmment was. This game is a a disappointing and lame update and cannotI have been playing Overwatch 1 for over three years and considered it one of the best games ever even when it barely got any updates except for skins. Therefore, I was originally very happy when I heard that Overwatch 2 will come out. However, my experience with the game after 150 hours in it showed me ho wrong my excitnmment was. This game is a a disappointing and lame update and cannot be considered a sequel in any way. This is Overwatch 0.4 since they are actively removing things that worked and ignoring obvious problems like balance of characters. My biggest problem with this game is the battle pass which completely ruins my experience by being a greedy and cheap way for Bobby Kotick to earn for his new yacht. The absence of balance, disappointing updates, lags, locking of characters behind levels, and the greed regarding the received awards makes this disappointment one of the worst games that I ever played. Jeff Kaplan leaving really did change the course of Overwatch for the worst.… Expand
  16. Proggers
    Nov 11, 2022
    0
    The game is hot garbage. At first I struggled to call this game a sequel, now I struggle to call it anything other than a regression. The changes are minimal, the bugs are rampant, the progression is pointless and the monetisation is despicable. On top of everything, this comes at the expense of OW1 which I can no longer play anymore, glad I bought the disc when it released! Hurray! If anyThe game is hot garbage. At first I struggled to call this game a sequel, now I struggle to call it anything other than a regression. The changes are minimal, the bugs are rampant, the progression is pointless and the monetisation is despicable. On top of everything, this comes at the expense of OW1 which I can no longer play anymore, glad I bought the disc when it released! Hurray! If any game has ever warranted a minus score, Overwatch 2 is it! Blizzard continuing to push the envelope in abject failure.… Expand
  17. FLYINPOTATOO
    Oct 10, 2022
    6
    I have over one thounsand hours on Overwatch 1 so I think I speak with at least a little authority when I say that this game is just straight up lazy. Do I think it deserves to be rated as low as it is now, no. There's still a good game burried under the mountain of issues I have with it. It took Blizzard eight year, EIGHT, to produce what most other developers call an "update" not aI have over one thounsand hours on Overwatch 1 so I think I speak with at least a little authority when I say that this game is just straight up lazy. Do I think it deserves to be rated as low as it is now, no. There's still a good game burried under the mountain of issues I have with it. It took Blizzard eight year, EIGHT, to produce what most other developers call an "update" not a sequel. You can make the argument that changing it from 6v6 to 5v5 changes up the flow of the game and makes it feel somewhat fresh and the movement away from stun and CC with balancing has made the game infinitely more playable. But does this make it a warrented sequel, absolutely not. Putting aside the terrible launch controversies with outrageous queue times and server issues, the game is still not very great. It borrows A LOT from it's predescessor and doesn't really adapt it in any new or unique way. Another issue I have with the game is that it completely absorbed Overwatch 1 meaning that if you want to go back and experience the first game again, tough luck. Knowing Blizzard this is going to be turned into a ploy to resell the first game and call it a "remaster" but I digress. The game is also somehow more monitized than the first game. The first games lootboxes were pretty simple, you would level up once and be able to obtain one lootbox per level. If you played the game enough, you could unlock all the skins you wanted pretty easily. Now, they've moved to a battlepass system except it is an incredibly skewed battlepass. In other games with a battlepass system like Fortnite, you can obtain coins by completing the battle pass even without buying it that would allow you to buy things in the shop. However, in Overwatch 2, there is none of that. Instead, all of the skins are locked behind the premium battlepass so if you want any of the new skins but don't want to shovel any more money into an objectively evil company, tough luck. Overall, a lazy game not deserving of the sequel title and was obviously called a sequel simply to generate hype to hopefully revive the dead franchise. Unfortunately, does not seem like it worked for them.… Expand
  18. Toss
    Nov 10, 2022
    0
    killed OW1 where I could play 6v6.
    Hit detection is delayed and broken.
    Even ping 40 feels like 140 because it's broken
  19. Marcmr
    Nov 8, 2022
    7
    Jugablemente, overwatch 2 es una casi excelente, llevo jugando al original desde que salió y sigue siendo una maravilla. Ahora bien, el formato free to play no le ha hecho ningún bien, haciendo que la progresión sea un despropósito de escalas cósmicas, forzándote a pagar para tener la sensación de progresar.
  20. MrSolis
    Nov 7, 2022
    0
    This game had so much potential to become an eSport great. There is nothing like it, but it has basically become inaccessible and unbalanced for those not willing to spend money every season on the battle pass.
    A game that touts inclusivity has become the posterchild for the class divide.
    If anybody from Blizzard ever reads this, just take a look at Heroes of the Storm and be prepared    This game had so much potential to become an eSport great. There is nothing like it, but it has basically become inaccessible and unbalanced for those not willing to spend money every season on the battle pass.
    A game that touts inclusivity has become the posterchild for the class divide.

    If anybody from Blizzard ever reads this, just take a look at Heroes of the Storm and be prepared for what will become of Overwatch.

    Such wasted potential.    … Expand
  21. sombraisdead
    Nov 7, 2022
    0
    Blizzard is a fraud and shameless, giving us this pure garbage after long waiting and all they have done is make some ugly new skins and add PC characters cuz they still think they are so cool but seriously it just their illusion.
  22. RafiGinat
    Nov 7, 2022
    0
    You had 6 years to improve your matchmaking system and still ended with the worst one.

    You're a good player? let's team you with braindead players that you'll have to play so tryhard and carry them in order to win, but most of the times you'll lose anyway because bro, how much can you lift
  23. roflbots
    Nov 7, 2022
    0
    This game is so bad I don't even know where to start. So I'll start with bullet points.

    -Abusive monetization system: You thought loot boxes were bad? How about grind for 8 months for 1 skin -Lacks incentives to play: Little to no coins to push people to paying outrageous prices for skins or to buy battle pass. No more levels, no more xp, no more boxes. I never thought I'd want loot    This game is so bad I don't even know where to start. So I'll start with bullet points.

    -Abusive monetization system: You thought loot boxes were bad? How about grind for 8 months for 1 skin
    -Lacks incentives to play: Little to no coins to push people to paying outrageous prices for skins or to buy battle pass. No more levels, no more xp, no more boxes. I never thought I'd want loot boxes (also an abusive form of monetization, back)
    -5v5. Honestly I just hate it. It doesn't feel better, as a tank player/support? It quite frankly feels worse. Tanks decide the outcome of every match basically.
    -Ruined many kits. Many heroes are straight up worse than overwatch 1, and now feel pretty homogenous due to them basically gutting CC. No more real hard counters. Basically if you like this, just go play fortnite, it's a better (and now similar) game with less abusive practices, and it's generally more competent at development.
    -Killed overwatch 1, a product I paid for. I'd still be playing overwatch 1 honestly. I want nothing to do with 2.
    -No PVE, yknow the thing that was supposed to justify it even existing.
    -Numerous typos and poor lore, no excuse, especially because 1 was vastly better and more polished
    -Phone system. Blizzard is absolutely going to sell your phone number by the way, but yeah if you don't overpay for wireless you're out of luck. Granted I would recommend never playing a blizzard game.
    -Pay to win: New heroes are locked deep behind battle pass, or surprise surprise if you buy it you get them INSTANTLY WOW. This practice is so unbelievably scummy I decided to never play another Blizzard game again. They've permanently lost me as a customer. I don't care who buys them or what they do at this point.

    I could keep going on. Overwatch 2 is straight up inferior to the original in almost any way you can imagine, and they destroyed a product people liked and paid for in order to bring this abomination into existence.    … Expand
  24. Kishiradarken
    Nov 7, 2022
    10
    It's acutally a good update over the OW1, but comparing it to the other FPS titles, it still sucks, it would be better if this game was just a cheap Valorant clone rather than this mess. Valorant is also a bad game by the way.
  25. Karljj
    Nov 7, 2022
    4
    Same game like the first one + share your phone number with China company Blizzard? A big No!
  26. Ender7887
    Nov 6, 2022
    0
    It’s a shame.

    I’ve played overwatch since early 2017. That version of the game was fine. CC and shields were their own issue but it made sense with 2CP. Maps. The biggest thing about OW1 is that the game felt rewarding. I could sit and play overwatch for hours and have almost all the skins from an event they were doing. In overwatch 2 the gameplay itself feels better but the game is a lot    It’s a shame.

    I’ve played overwatch since early 2017. That version of the game was fine. CC and shields were their own issue but it made sense with 2CP. Maps. The biggest thing about OW1 is that the game felt rewarding. I could sit and play overwatch for hours and have almost all the skins from an event they were doing. In overwatch 2 the gameplay itself feels better but the game is a lot less rewarding. They stripped the on fire system, they got rid of the cards at the end of the game. The worst thing they did to old players was the new shop system. I have every skin from the original game, and I got every skin for free. The new shop makes that impossible, legendary skins cost 2000 credits, credits can only be earned by completing weekly challenges. You get a maximum of 60 coins per week, to get a leg dart skin I’d have to complete challenges for 33 weeks without spending coins. This game is a greedy cash grab and I hope blizzard changes their store prices, otherwise this game will be dead before the PVE comes out.    … Expand
  27. cihu
    Nov 6, 2022
    0
    Where loot-boxes. it is now item shop and bad battle pass, and the skins cost 20 dollars in the shop. wow
  28. joesmoecool
    Nov 6, 2022
    0
    This version of the game only survives because of its predecessor. The game is not a sequel. It is a lie to say it is OW2. The game is fun because OW1 was a great game. They did not make it more fun or better. When a company refuses to provide any content or balance changes for around two years, how can you objectively state that these changes are better? They created a content drought andThis version of the game only survives because of its predecessor. The game is not a sequel. It is a lie to say it is OW2. The game is fun because OW1 was a great game. They did not make it more fun or better. When a company refuses to provide any content or balance changes for around two years, how can you objectively state that these changes are better? They created a content drought and made players starved for any type of content to help make any changes appear in a better light. In my opinion, Blizzard and Activision's choices have been worse for the game in the long run for a short term benefit (story of their company). The product as a whole is utter trash. Removing features that existed in OW1 or that semi-exist (I'm on fire portrait) and personal playtime progression was an unnecessary and poor decision. The decision benefited no one and only cause discourse for players who spent a lot of time earning their playtime portrait. They could have easily removed it from view in game-play and kept tracking it, but have it only display in the player's profile. Which they sort of do already, except it no longer progresses anymore. They also created a monetization system that makes people miss purchasable loot boxes. Skins that players have been able to earn through grinding that gave players a different incentive path to play the game was completely removed. It would be one thing if the company actually spent time creating brand new skins and charged for those, but to charge for skins created by their predecessors that used to be in a "grindable" form, and to charge around $20 for those legendary (not mythic) skins, is a complete scummy tactic. They also rushed their release of this version of the game because they decided last minute to completely change everything they were working on in regards to their PVE campaigns. Then, they want to shield themselves from criticism by stating this is early access. When in reality, they originally announced the real OW2 back in 2019. Assuming they had plans for OW2 prior to announcing it publicly, they actually had over 3 years to prepare. This release has not been an acceptable one from my perspective. I refuse to give Activision Blizzard a free pass because "they changed their minds" last minute and did not give themselves the proper time to prepare for the changes they needed to make for a successful F2P game. It is very disheartening how little they care or even consider the financial reality of their customers. People who have supported this company for 20-30 years, buying almost every game they have released. I understand that purchasable loot boxes earned them a great deal of money and that there was pressure beginning to mount up in the U.S. government about gambling in video games advertised for kids so they wanted to get ahead on making changes before they were forced to, but overpriced cosmetics and anti-consumer tactics are not the way to make up those earnings. I would suggest that no one play this game or purchase anything from this company until they aggressively revise their monetization model.… Expand
  29. Andy1008
    Oct 7, 2022
    0
    Update:
    My original thoughts still stand but I have enjoyed the new change to 5v5. However I do mainly play open queue which leads to much more interesting team compositions. There's so much that still needs to be ironed out in this game. Hero balancing needs a ton of work but it will get there. What I really miss the most is award voting at the end of games, medals, leveling up and the    Update:
    My original thoughts still stand but I have enjoyed the new change to 5v5. However I do mainly play open queue which leads to much more interesting team compositions. There's so much that still needs to be ironed out in this game. Hero balancing needs a ton of work but it will get there. What I really miss the most is award voting at the end of games, medals, leveling up and the showing of other people's levels during a game. The scoreboard is okay but the old one felt superior for personal stats. It does help if you think a teammate would be better off being in a different role as you can easily see how everyone is doing and make a suggestion.



    Original:
    I feel like they've ruined what used to be an awesome game.

    I played Overwatch for nearly 1000 hours. Definitely one of the best games I've ever played with the most intense moments, particularly in competitive. Overwatch 2 felt like Apex at times. It's like they had to add lots of sounds, turn the saturation up to 100 to add appeal to the game. It doesn't feel right. The lack of prestige levels makes it feel like your playing without progression. Not entirely sure what benefit there was to removing them. I know it's free to play now but I hate how expensive everything is. I don't consider 1900 credits a reasonable price for what is essentially just a digital cosmetic. It's a real shock going from how Overwatch worked to this. Collecting all of the items was a real pull for me playing Overwatch and now I feel as though I'm just being excluded because I'm unwilling to throw hundreds of pounds at blizzard. I just don't believe in this type of game monetisation system. I mean I get a free game but I'd much rather pay for a game and not be excluded from things.

    The in game stat screen is a definite downgrade. Yes it's nice seeing other people's stats but I care more about my own. It's not quick or easy to read. The showing of other stats only creates internal team competition rather than focusing on the objective of the game mode. It will inevitably lead to a lot of calling out of those who think certain teammates aren't pulling their weight.

    I miss the awarding of medals based on each stat and the voting system at the end to call out good gameplay. The simplification of the endorsement system is also a downgrade, it could have been expanded to actually help describe what each player is good at contributing to a team.

    I didn't feel as though I was really connected with what was going on gameplay wise whilst playing. It felt odd as I never felt this way in OW1. I just wasn't getting hyped when we were pushing on objective or about to win. At times it felt like the whole gameplay was just a mess. These are probably the most obvious things I've noticed so far.

    Now for what I liked. The new characters are good, have inventive abilities and are quite fun to play. The addition of more hot button commands to share info with your team (going in, defending, watching here etc) are really good. This is something that was really lacking in OW1.

    I'll update this as things progress.    … Expand
  30. neuropathy86
    Nov 6, 2022
    0
    Lazy garbage.

    That's the best summary for this game. And I'm saying it after over 2000 hours played in Overwatch 1. Let's start with good (will be brief): - improved sound quality is really noticeable, guns sound pretty incredible, ambient sounds like footsteps are mixed more clearly, so you'll know there's enemy around - switching from 6v6 to 5v5, reducing amount of shields and cc    Lazy garbage.

    That's the best summary for this game.
    And I'm saying it after over 2000 hours played in Overwatch 1.
    Let's start with good (will be brief):
    - improved sound quality is really noticeable, guns sound pretty incredible, ambient sounds like footsteps are mixed more clearly, so you'll know there's enemy around
    - switching from 6v6 to 5v5, reducing amount of shields and cc in the game makes the game quicker and less tedious

    That's it.

    If you think that sequel should introduce new mechanics and visuals to the point it feels like a brand new experience, then OW2 is not a sequel. It's a patch modifying and mixing already existing game a bit. It feels as fresh as a rotten corpse that you put some fancy dress over to call it alive again.

    Going into some details:
    - switching from 6v6 to 5v5 made the game even more steamroll heavy than before, around 80 - 90% of my games were just an miserable experience where either my team just blasted enemies to the point they left or the other way around
    - game still expects high level of cooperation from total strangers. It's still in this weird place where you can't really pop off but one weak link in you team often means loosing the game
    - playing as support is horrendous and ungrateful job that will get you yelled at by dps going behind enemy lines to die instantly
    - horrible toxic community of players. Game has no social tools, no guilds (which would help to mitigate at least some toxicity) that were promised in the ancient times by Kaplan when he was still working on this game. Getting called every possible slur in this game is just bread and butter
    - if you though lootboxes in OW1 were scammy, wait till you see how much currency you'll need to buy any skin in the new monetization model, not to mention unlocking new heroes in battle pass
    - it was just plainly broken during the launch with enormous queues and constant disconnects. To give ActivisionBlizzard some credit - it got fixed at the time of writing this review, however it shows how incompetent they are during every major launch (similar problems occurred with WoW)
    - the whole telephone fiasco

    Overall OW2 is disappointing, infuriating experience that is just lazy reskin of the first game with some questionable monetization on top of it. OW2 just confirms (once again) what a horrible sh*tshow ActivisionBlizzard has become. This game is just void of any imagination, innovation and polish. Getting repeatedly punched in the face is more fulfilling experience than this game.

    About PvE - I simply don't care - ActivisionBlizzard can promise portable blowj*b dispenser or cocaine or whatever they want on their roadmap. PvE is simply not here and I'm way past believing any AAA publisher at this point when it comes to post launch content planned.

    I'd write some more, but I refuse to put more work than the team responsible for creating this abomination.

    Overwatch 2 is an opposite of fun. Don't play it.    … Expand
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Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 53 Critic Reviews

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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