Overwatch

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1.4

Overwhelming dislike- based on 3886 Ratings

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  1. grindy777
    May 26, 2023
    0
    i didn't play in the ow 1 because i don't have a chance to buy a good pc.But after release ow2 i buy a good pc to handle it. It's not worth it.I watched a lot ow1 videos and was impressed but after playing in ow2 i was disappointed.Everything feels same but more emptier.Less characters (5v5),NO game play innovations,and the fact that if you new in ow2 then you will have nothing fori didn't play in the ow 1 because i don't have a chance to buy a good pc.But after release ow2 i buy a good pc to handle it. It's not worth it.I watched a lot ow1 videos and was impressed but after playing in ow2 i was disappointed.Everything feels same but more emptier.Less characters (5v5),NO game play innovations,and the fact that if you new in ow2 then you will have nothing for months,only in events you will have some stuff like epic skins or sprays but that's all.You SHOULD pay for anything you liked in ow1(like old emotes or sprays).Battle pass is horse's ass.Nothing interesting.Just some sprays and voice lines.Paying for ONLY get mythic skin is not worth it.The whole ow team is focused on skins not gameplay SKINS.That so sad.More sad that we can't even play in ow1 anymore.She died too early.… Expand
  2. adashodhoashdou
    May 26, 2023
    0
    Truly not worth my time anymore. Sad to see Blizzard willingly dumpster such a great game, time and time again.
  3. akukaz
    May 27, 2023
    0
    I’ve never had such an amazing experience with overwatch 1, I’ve been gaming for 20 years and building up a team of 6 regular players across my country to smash it out in overwatch was easily one of the most fun experiences I’ve ever had in gaming, the current state of the industry makes me feel like I will never taste anything close to that experience again
  4. domicom
    May 27, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Pve was cancelled. Made an account just for this. Should’ve just updated OW1 till the pve was ready.… Expand
  5. twintailtickler
    May 28, 2023
    0
    I have no reason to continue playing Overwatch after the latest news with Activision Blizzard for lying to its own community. Congrats you have officially RUINED ONE OF MY FAVORITE GAMES! I can promise you this I WILL NEVER COME BACK TO THIS GAME LET ALONE ANY OF ACTIVISION BLIZZARDS GAMES YOU HAVE TARNISHED THIS GAMES REPUTATION. GO **** YOURSELF ACTIVISION BLIZZARD YOU MOTHER ****ERS!
  6. npalamar
    May 28, 2023
    1
    Overwatch 2 - Pixelstore 2. No PvE, weird balance, no loot boxes, battle pass and pixels buying
  7. owhater69
    May 28, 2023
    0
    This game is just a sad piece of **** the characters are unbalanced too many stuns and a shop system that is just fishing for money overwatch 1 was giving me so much joy and overwatch 2 is with the shutdown of pve just a insult to the gaming community.
  8. ATARII2600
    May 29, 2023
    0
    Cash grab at it's finest. People should stop supporting this scum of a company. They gave us Overwatch 2 with less maps and a buggy launch. Closing Overwatch's 1 servers and they knew that they will scrap the PVE way before telling the community. What a joke blizzard.
  9. Solexus
    May 29, 2023
    0
    Stopped playing a while ago. Will never come back after recent events. This game is dead.
  10. Chlorida
    May 29, 2023
    0
    Blizzard just killed Overwatch 1 with promises of bringing this new PvE mode, and now this trash company have just canceled it. But now we have trash monetization like in free service games on mobile phones, they don't care that I bought this game for full price in 2016. I played this mess only because wanted to play PvE, waited since 2019 for it. And now they're say something like "We'reBlizzard just killed Overwatch 1 with promises of bringing this new PvE mode, and now this trash company have just canceled it. But now we have trash monetization like in free service games on mobile phones, they don't care that I bought this game for full price in 2016. I played this mess only because wanted to play PvE, waited since 2019 for it. And now they're say something like "We're poor indie company that can't make the Archieves with upgrades". A REALLY BIG BILLIONARE COMPANY can't make something like players made in Workshop in far 2018, ha-ha-ha! "Zombie Escape Missions" by Mazatack, "Heat Street" and more examples. And I don't talk about deleted mechanics like "on fire", THAT THEY RETURNING, lol. They made some changes because of making a sequel. They understand that they're doing idiotic things to their game, but they don't even apologize for spitting in my soul and souls of other [NOW FORMER] fans. My heart is broken... Again. I wish Blizzard a really painful bankruptcy for their fraud and other crimes.… Expand
  11. JuwLZz
    May 29, 2023
    0
    Went from OV 1 to OV 2 with a promise of an actual game with it, back to a ripped OV 1, please, like cmon. Holiday activities, as if, we have always had that and everything couldve been earned for free, now its darn near impossible and is 20+ dollars for a recolored basic skin. Had a bunch of maps taken away from OV 1, along with game modes and a whole slew of things that were in OV1. NowWent from OV 1 to OV 2 with a promise of an actual game with it, back to a ripped OV 1, please, like cmon. Holiday activities, as if, we have always had that and everything couldve been earned for free, now its darn near impossible and is 20+ dollars for a recolored basic skin. Had a bunch of maps taken away from OV 1, along with game modes and a whole slew of things that were in OV1. Now OV is a shop, thats it. There used to be events with releases of skins, now events are just recolored lazy skins that are way too overpriced. I cannot trust this company anymore, I had enough. I didnt love the OV1 ranking system but somehow it is better than the OV2 ranking system, and role queue is doodoo too. Not worth getting into this game, get into another game with a better company behind it and likes their community. Waste of time game. Doesnt matter how good the developers are, if the company behind it is corrupt, the game will suffer.… Expand
  12. Fallbackearth
    May 30, 2023
    0
    Blizzard is dead, and more so Overwatch "2".
    - Terrible matchmaking
    - Terrible Balancing - 5 stack?? - Terrible ranking system that doesn't even work properly - Skins that are way to expensive - Matchmaking sucks - Barley any content - Oh and that big FK'n promise they lied about, you know PVE!! Like seriously how can you have a "2" in this game when it has less that the first    Blizzard is dead, and more so Overwatch "2".
    - Terrible matchmaking
    - Terrible Balancing
    - 5 stack??
    - Terrible ranking system that doesn't even work properly
    - Skins that are way to expensive
    - Matchmaking sucks
    - Barley any content
    - Oh and that big FK'n promise they lied about, you know PVE!!

    Like seriously how can you have a "2" in this game when it has less that the first game. What a CON..    … Expand
  13. Leiracal
    May 30, 2023
    0
    This generation's greatest bait-and-switch, Overwatch 2 has recently been revealed to be all it ever truly was: a corporate grift to replace a hugely successful game with a cash shop. The game's developers continue to defend its existence primarily on the promise of future content: as such, the history of such promises is essential to weighing the value of its present and future.This generation's greatest bait-and-switch, Overwatch 2 has recently been revealed to be all it ever truly was: a corporate grift to replace a hugely successful game with a cash shop. The game's developers continue to defend its existence primarily on the promise of future content: as such, the history of such promises is essential to weighing the value of its present and future.

    Revealed in 2019 as a massive single-player campaign with story and character progression, OW2's development resulted in a massive content desert for OW1: Full years without maps, new heroes, or events, as even new skins dried up to a handful of literal recolors for the 2022 events.

    A full year before OW2's release, the team was fully aware that they would not be delivering the project they had promised; however, the game continued to be described, marketed, and sold, under a lie of omission, with the truth finally squeaking out seven months post-launch, some thirty minutes into a completely unrelated developer podcast.

    In the absence of that vision, Overwatch 2 is in every way inferior to its predecessor: more maps removed than added; a new 5v5 matchup that continues to be severely dysregulated, with entire heroes built around roles they can no longer perform; a new mode held by the player base as the worst available to the point of crushing the soul of comp play; a laundry list of changes that players find worse than what they replaced; and of course, the surgical removal of free-play unlocking of content, so precise that only now, months later, could a F2P player afford their *first* legendary skin for a single character.

    The most functional facet of the game at launch was the cash shop, and by "functional" i mean "would purchase things you didn't intend to purchase, no refunds." What was once a transaction model that would allow even a casual player to unlock everything (I was one such player) now places nearly everything behind minimum $20 purchases. Much of the "content" being released includes tokens most players never use, and has been churned out so fast that recolors have been sold as Legendaries (when "recolor with small modifications" was the definition of Epic), and a recent Battle Pass included a Junker Queen highlight intro that would make a second-year animation student blush in secondhand embarrassment.

    The content of OW1 stopped for the story mode of OW2, but that mode isn't coming. The content drops of OW2 barely match the content of OW1 during its brightest days, and even that means "a new mode sometimes that you'll play for 10 minutes." The roadmap brought forth as apologia for the announcement does its best to sound grand and vague, but look where promises have brought anyone who supported this game: empty-handed. There is zero precedent, between OW1, OW2's promotion, and the first four seasons of the Battle Pass, to believe that anything will improve materially from the present state.

    Dedicated players lost years of content updates and actively contributed to padding Actiblizz's player base and pocketbooks, in service of a lie the company knew was a lie a year before release, yet still maintained. To take part in this rug-pull is to encourage the company responsible to maintain lies and deception; to reject the game wholesale is to actively tell those responsible that deceptive business practices have consequences.

    To that end, I cannot grant a single point in favor of this project. It is an inferior version of what came before, but more importantly, it is a question from Activision Blizzard: Are you willing to put up with this?

    No. I'm not.    … Expand
  14. actaria
    May 31, 2023
    0
    This is clearly the worst game i played in a while.
    Arrogant players, toxicity at the max, nonsense matchmaking, cheaters and many more features and you are going to have this every game.
    No fun at all i suggest wasting your time on any other available games you will have more fun for sure
  15. BiggDouggie
    May 31, 2023
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The stale game that shouldn't be a 2. There's nothing different about the game we wouldn't have normally gotten except an insanely prices store and battle pass. From one of the best games ever created to Bobby's play thing to make money. Nothing but lies since 2019's BlizzCom… Expand
  16. nbmn
    Jun 15, 2023
    2
    Matchmaking is just not fun in this game anymore. You either get matched up against people way better than you and get rolled for a day, or you get matched up with a team rolls the other team. There's no good games where you feel like you can come back -- you can usually tell if you're going to lose within the first few minutes.

    It's just not fun anymore, and Blizzard seems more focused    Matchmaking is just not fun in this game anymore. You either get matched up against people way better than you and get rolled for a day, or you get matched up with a team rolls the other team. There's no good games where you feel like you can come back -- you can usually tell if you're going to lose within the first few minutes.

    It's just not fun anymore, and Blizzard seems more focused on creating skins than they do actually making a fun game.    … Expand
  17. Octobrain
    Jun 16, 2023
    0
    I bought OW1 2 years after it's release. Now what do we got ? Not the overwatch 2 that was promised, they said that the PvE was going to be the big thing, then it was cancelled. Basically, overwatch 2 is the same as overwatch 1, but without lootboxes, and a change in HUD. Also, a thing that made me hate the game even more, is the battle pass, and the lack of content there is. The event areI bought OW1 2 years after it's release. Now what do we got ? Not the overwatch 2 that was promised, they said that the PvE was going to be the big thing, then it was cancelled. Basically, overwatch 2 is the same as overwatch 1, but without lootboxes, and a change in HUD. Also, a thing that made me hate the game even more, is the battle pass, and the lack of content there is. The event are the recycled one from the first game. Welcome to overwatch 0.5.… Expand
  18. RubyRyan39
    Jun 19, 2023
    0
    so much imbalance in the game. made Macri even more imbalanced. many heroes carry you without much difficulty. The fact that pve made paid adds disrespect to the piggy bank.
  19. joaltome
    Jun 27, 2023
    0
    i was an avid overwatch player but this game is trash, full of hackers, little to no support from devs, trash balance and not fun and frustrating all the time, matchmaking is utter trash too. If you want to have fun AVOID THIS GAME
  20. Kisaragi_
    Jul 10, 2023
    0
    Simplesmente uma ATROCIDADE, quando se trata do sistema de matchmaking, já cheguei a cair com pessoas que já foram Top 500 (devido ao título de "top 500 challenger") em partidas no prata, isso é horrível e a blizzard nunca faz nada pra corrigir ao que parece, fora coisas que nunca vi em nenhum jogo online, sério, ME DIGA EM QUE JOGO, VOCÊ PRECISA VENCER 5 PARTIDAS SEGUIDAS PRA SUBIR 1Simplesmente uma ATROCIDADE, quando se trata do sistema de matchmaking, já cheguei a cair com pessoas que já foram Top 500 (devido ao título de "top 500 challenger") em partidas no prata, isso é horrível e a blizzard nunca faz nada pra corrigir ao que parece, fora coisas que nunca vi em nenhum jogo online, sério, ME DIGA EM QUE JOGO, VOCÊ PRECISA VENCER 5 PARTIDAS SEGUIDAS PRA SUBIR 1 UNICO NUMERO DE RANK????? Cheguei a ficar 5-0 e me manter em um rank fixo, é coisa de louco isso. Fora a quantidade de troll que nunca acaba mais, eu nunca vi um jogo que tivesse tanta gente "trollando" intencionalmente quanto no Over, pelo amor de deus. O balanceamento é podre, a personagem "Mei" que já era considerada uma das mais quebradas do jogo não para de tomar buff interminável, além dela não precisar de senso de jogo ou habilidade alguma, tem um dano absurdo e pode literalmente ficar imortal enquanto se cura (Fora que pode atrapalhar o time), é bizarro isso, enquanto personagens como Doomfist e Genji (Os dois com maior chão de habilidade pra se jogar com) não param de tomar nerfs consecutivos e absurdos, doomfist consegue dar menos dano no soco do que o tiro da mercy, sério, da onde tiraram que isso tá "balanceado"????????… Expand
  21. thiagoloti
    Jul 13, 2023
    0
    I have been playing Overwatch since the first game came out, and I was excited to try the sequel. However, I was quickly let down by the terrible matchmaking system that ruins the game experience. The matchmaking is so unbalanced that you either get stomped by a team of much higher skill level, or you get matched with teammates who have no clue what they are doing. It's frustrating andI have been playing Overwatch since the first game came out, and I was excited to try the sequel. However, I was quickly let down by the terrible matchmaking system that ruins the game experience. The matchmaking is so unbalanced that you either get stomped by a team of much higher skill level, or you get matched with teammates who have no clue what they are doing. It's frustrating and unfair, and it makes the game feel like a chore rather than a fun activity.

    Blizzard seems to not care about fixing this issue, as they never communicate with the players or address their feedback. Every new season, the matchmaking gets worse and worse, and Blizzard says nothing. They are too busy making cosmetic items and new heroes that nobody asked for, instead of focusing on the core gameplay and balance. They have lost touch with their fanbase, and they have ruined a potentially great game.

    Overwatch 2 is a disappointing sequel that fails to deliver on its promises. It has some good features, such as the PvE mode and the improved graphics, but they are overshadowed by the awful matchmaking that makes the game unplayable. I do not recommend this game to anyone who values their time and money. Save yourself the frustration and avoid this game at all costs.

    If that wasn't enough, the skins are absurdly expensive and repetitive, the battle pass is short and with very few interesting things and the game is clogged with toxic people, who are sowing bullying, hate speech and suicide/self-harm and if you report it to Blizzard, they do not ban the player, much less respond to the complaint.

    RUN AWAY FROM THIS GAME THAT ONLY WANTS YOUR MONEY BUT HAS NOTHING TO OFFER BUT ANGER!    … Expand
  22. ulihsdiumhgn
    Jul 15, 2023
    0
    Plus grosse blague du jeux-vidéo.
    Un repatch avec des promesses non tenus, une politique économique désastreuse pour les amoureux de cette franchise, sans compter les problèmes en interne qu'il y a chez Blizzard.
    Bref, énième preuve que Blizzard ne fait plus du JV mais de l'arnaque assumé en profitant de ses franchises fonctionnelle pour faire cracher de l'argent.
  23. onismatic
    Jul 19, 2023
    0
    Blizzard is ruining their games. I lost all hope in this company.
    Way to turn something beautiful and fun, into a cesspool of crappy updates and bugs.
    Disappointing.
  24. Acquatic
    Aug 24, 2023
    0
    It's clear that Blizzard has no idea what they're doing. They scrapped the whole reason they said why they were replacing Overwatch with Overwatch 2. The characters are terribly imbalanced and the monetization is terrible. Overwatch 2 is a huge waste of time.
  25. PsycloneFPS
    Jul 21, 2023
    0
    The fact that they **** up this hard is hilarious. Pay-check stealing thieves deserve everything coming to them. Hope their stocks tank since they only care about being greedy mutts,
  26. DadDob
    Jul 21, 2023
    0
    Money grab battle pass bs. I'm out. Blizzard has driven me away from 2 games now cause I'm not going to buy into their battle pass bs.
  27. TheOkayDirector
    Jul 22, 2023
    0
    Overwatch 1 was one of my most genuine favorite games. I watched OWL and I played comp religiously. I cared about this game. But with the release of OW2 the ruined team play. The ruined comp by keeping in the forced role queue. They destroyed comp for people who care about the game and changed the events from a "Play to get boxes of loot for outfits" to "New event give us 30 dollars". EachOverwatch 1 was one of my most genuine favorite games. I watched OWL and I played comp religiously. I cared about this game. But with the release of OW2 the ruined team play. The ruined comp by keeping in the forced role queue. They destroyed comp for people who care about the game and changed the events from a "Play to get boxes of loot for outfits" to "New event give us 30 dollars". Each Battle pass is a waste of potential. Every single skin that was once completely free to obtain through loot boxes are now behind 10-20 dollar pay walls. What a disgusting fall from grace. Now with OWL being eliminated as well I feel so bad for the team of developers that were there since OW1 and slowly watched it die as the man in charge slowly burned their game away. I bless them and curse the higher ups. What a waste.… Expand
  28. Reviewer_162592
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    I liked the part where Activision Blizzard spent 3 years changing the team size from 6 to 5. Absolutely incredible. I can't believe how scummy it was to shut down Overwatch 1 when releasing Overwatch 2. Probably because it's such a steaming hunk of junk that the only way people were going to play it is if they're forced to. That combined with the micro-transactions and the discontinuing ofI liked the part where Activision Blizzard spent 3 years changing the team size from 6 to 5. Absolutely incredible. I can't believe how scummy it was to shut down Overwatch 1 when releasing Overwatch 2. Probably because it's such a steaming hunk of junk that the only way people were going to play it is if they're forced to. That combined with the micro-transactions and the discontinuing of PVE has left me convinced that this is probably the worst game to ever be made, and the fact it was made by such a large company in the gaming industry quite as Blizzard baffles me even more. This game deserves to be trashed on. Literally the only reason i even log into this game anymore is for the custom games, and its actually very funny that the most enjoyable parts of the game for me weren't even made by the developers themselves, which is probably why the latest event was just completely ripped off of workshop.codes. How far you've fallen, Blizzard.… Expand
  29. Vhs88
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    I wish you could get overwatch coins by the battle pass so you wouldn't have to spend 10$ every 2 months but they prefer make choices that gets them money instead of making their fans happy, that's why I play Fortnite.
  30. MKM505
    Jul 24, 2023
    0
    wdym the Overwatch 2 will be available on Steam? Did your game doesn’t bring that much money so you will be selling battlepass every 2 months on Steam? I pay for O1 to have a nice time with my friends without a mini-transaction, where I forced to buy bp, because I want to play on a new hero (which always super unbalanced on the first time of the update)

    I think not only me want to go back    wdym the Overwatch 2 will be available on Steam? Did your game doesn’t bring that much money so you will be selling battlepass every 2 months on Steam? I pay for O1 to have a nice time with my friends without a mini-transaction, where I forced to buy bp, because I want to play on a new hero (which always super unbalanced on the first time of the update)

    I think not only me want to go back in time, where Blizzard didn’t promise a great PvE mode and on Blizzcon they would talk about an enormous patch with 3 new heroes and change amount of tanks from 2 to 1

    Sorry, but this is an absolute failure of Overwatch

    Майкл Морхейм мы все проебали    … 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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