Overwatch

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1.4

Overwhelming dislike- based on 3886 Ratings

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  1. GamerRater
    Oct 10, 2022
    1
    I… look. I loved Overwatch. But after playing through today, it just feels dead. The visual updates are nice, and I like the added depth of sounds, but it’s very clear it’s lost its soul. The new voices lines for every character are very poorly written in my opinion, it takes a single element of their character and makes it their WHOLE personality, making them seem far more one dimensionalI… look. I loved Overwatch. But after playing through today, it just feels dead. The visual updates are nice, and I like the added depth of sounds, but it’s very clear it’s lost its soul. The new voices lines for every character are very poorly written in my opinion, it takes a single element of their character and makes it their WHOLE personality, making them seem far more one dimensional than they did before. Whoever did the writing didn’t treat them like characters but like stereotypes, which makes me shudder to think how the ‘story mode’ is going to go if just the voice lines in gameplay is flat. The visualls are chaotic , and very hard to look at when you’re fighting team v team. I don’t really care about the battle pass stuff because I’m very picky about skins and am happy with the ones I have, but it is disheartening to see how much you’d have to play just for ONE skin. Can you imagine being a new player and seeing that you have to play for 8 /MONTHS/ before you can get a skin?? I much prefer lootboxes, it was fun and easy and everyone could get one without dropping money. And this is just a personal thing but I think so far that the new skins are not well designed. They look like leftover character designs that got scrapped, not intentionally designed skins. I don’t care about the battle pass, because I don’t care about the rewards, they’re not attractive or fun enough to be worth caring about. Kinda like this game as a whole as it stands. I’m uninstalling for now, maybe in a few months once stuff gets repaired and maybe blizzard gets a clue about how much less fun this game is I’ll try again.… Expand
  2. docsxd
    Oct 10, 2022
    0
    Tenho um pc acima dos requisitos para jogar e mesmo assim o jogo crasha toda partida, experiência péssima.
  3. Fonzitti
    Oct 10, 2022
    0
    Horrible! If you’re gonna have a competitive team FPS game maybe make sure your servers don’t crap out and crash the match right before the end!!! It’s a broken, buggy game. Even tho it’s free to play don’t bother investing the time to learn and grind out the hero unlocks, play anything else and save yourself frustration.
  4. Frohike
    Oct 10, 2022
    1
    Seriously, based on the current state of this game after roughly a dozen updates, I'm getting ready to uninstall and wait for Blizz to get it's **** together in 6-9 months after they've "compiled their data" and figured out what's not working, which is basically everything outside of the core game modes (UI, battle pass model, server **** no fire mode, no cards, no stat recap at end ofSeriously, based on the current state of this game after roughly a dozen updates, I'm getting ready to uninstall and wait for Blizz to get it's **** together in 6-9 months after they've "compiled their data" and figured out what's not working, which is basically everything outside of the core game modes (UI, battle pass model, server **** no fire mode, no cards, no stat recap at end of match, etc, etc.)

    Interesting ideas weakened by some 5v5 epiphany they thought would solve everything but really didn't. I think a lot of "pro" reviewers have been fooled by the shortcut that was taken here, which just creates a QP-trash style deathmatch scrum on the PL where the game devolves to 2 healers desperately keeping the one tank alive while trying to not die themselves since there's no time for peeling. if the DPS even moderately suck and can't find health packs, or the tank forgets part of their kit, it's game over.

    And it's all wrapped in corporate F2P bull**** and a launch that just wasn't well-prepared because, for some reason, the shareholders wanted to see this live NOW NOW NOW. Nope, maybe later, and good luck with the stock portfolios.

    Blizz has simply lost the basics. They're now also lost in "putting out fires" without realizing some of the more fundamental problems with this reboot... I don't need to throw my money at it until it's ready, which it clearly isn't for now and I'd be surprised if it's still alive in a year. Calling it.    … Expand
  5. kwisi91
    Jun 29, 2023
    0
    EDIT.: - They topped it now by adding Maps with Gay flag and Sexual Preference Flaggs as Player Icons. Imagine buying a game and then being forced to see this kind of stuff. Disturbing and sick.
    0/10
    UNINSTALLED! Another failed game launch by the "new" Blizzard. The graphics feel psychedelic and make the brain and eyes hurt it is like they put a photo filter over OW1. Can't play this    EDIT.: - They topped it now by adding Maps with Gay flag and Sexual Preference Flaggs as Player Icons. Imagine buying a game and then being forced to see this kind of stuff. Disturbing and sick.
    0/10
    UNINSTALLED!
    Another failed game launch by the "new" Blizzard.
    The graphics feel psychedelic and make the brain and eyes hurt it is like they put a photo filter over OW1. Can't play this longer than 20 minutes.
    The Hero-Icons look very cheap, the UI looks just bad and confusing, OW2 feels slower than OW1. No more medals and and and. I could write 20 more minutes criticizing this game. I played very often OW1 but OW2 is just a joke. I uninstalled it because it is unplayable and boring for me.
    Overwatch 1 was WAAY better, the same as they did with Warcraft 3 after bringing out Warcraft 3 Reforged. The old game was better.    … Expand
  6. rayalk
    May 17, 2023
    0
    This game has deceived its community in the most brazen way. Let's start in order.

    1. PvE In 2019, at BlizzCon, Jeff Kaplan announced Overwatch 2, he said that it would be a leap into a new generation, that it would be a legendary game, and for the sake of its development, Overwatch 1 would completely stop receiving new content, and all forces would be thrown at the implementation of a    This game has deceived its community in the most brazen way. Let's start in order.

    1. PvE
    In 2019, at BlizzCon, Jeff Kaplan announced Overwatch 2, he said that it would be a leap into a new generation, that it would be a legendary game, and for the sake of its development, Overwatch 1 would completely stop receiving new content, and all forces would be thrown at the implementation of a new game. The community of the game then agreed, because what was there to worry about? Part 1 steadily received new heroes, maps, cinematics, and everyone was sure that our favorite campaign would not let us down. Here in this waiting mode of a great game, with talents for heroes, cool cutscenes, a shallow plot, replayable dynamic PvE on a huge world map that is constantly being updated. 19,20 and 21 years have passed in this standby mode. And now, in the 22nd year, Overwatch 2 is finally announced to us. However, the players were upset as quickly as they were happy, because this is not a masterpiece promised to them, but only an update of the first part, with some balanced edits, several new heroes, etc. Nothing comparable to promises. But the new game director of the game, Aaron Keller, promises that everything will still be, just not now. "Dear players, development is getting more expensive, buy a battle pass, we need money to finish the very game that we promised you" - this is how many players perceived the release of Overwatch 2 in the first part. But nevertheless, there was hope and faith in the "Great Blizzard", which, yes, did not calculate its strength, but all the same, now we will give her some more money, and she will fulfill all her promises. What happened in the end? On May 16, 2023, Aaron Keller announced that PvE was being canceled. And we will only get story missions, like those that we already received for the archive event in the first part. What can I say here, Blizzard publicly signed her incapacity. For 3 years, this campaign did not do anything for overwatch, they just had a huge amount of free time, which they apparently spent just sitting in their luxurious offices and drinking coffee. Or, another "effective manager" broke into the studio and said that no one needs PvE, immediately do a free dump like Fortnite or apex, so that with a battle pass, donat cosmetics, and so on. Here we actually go to the second point.

    2. Monetization
    When overwatch came out, it was a premium game, it cost 2000rubles, and in return offered a complete absence of Pay-to-Win elements that are always present in free projects. And now, after 6 years, half of which the game was completely devoid of content, the developers suddenly announce that the game will be free. And as compensation for those who bought it for the full price tag, Blizzard will give 2 epic looks, for the fist of death, "General", and for sombra, "Fool", and the second look clearly made it clear for whom Blizzard keeps people who pay her money. And so, overwatch became free, a battle pass appeared in it, all skins became paid and cost just cosmic money, 2000rubles for 1 legendary skin, 700 rubles for an epic one. The game has turned from a primal, high-quality game from the famous blizzard, into another free dump, since in addition to donating, pay-to-win elements have also appeared in the game, namely, now new heroes are not opened at all at once, but after pumping out the 55 level of the battle pass, or buying its primal version which in itself is already absolutely unacceptable for a game for which many people gave their hard-earned money. Of course, overwatch 1 also had monetization, the same loot boxes, but they could be received for free, in a huge amount, in an hour you could get 1-2, and sometimes 3 loot boxes, just by playing the game. And in overwatch 2, in order to "play the game" to save up for a battle pass, you need to spend 17 weeks, for the sake of 8 legends and 1 mythical skin.

    In conclusion, I want to say that you should not believe this terrible office called “Blizzard”, in no case do not bring money there, and do not support their terrible monetization. Only by depriving them of money, you can achieve changes.

    I've been playing overwatch since 2018, 400 hours.    … Expand
  7. cruel_frames
    May 24, 2023
    0
    The recently released Overwatch "Shop Update 2.0" cured my long lasting 1000+ hours Overwatch addiction.

    Thanks Blizzard, I hate it.
  8. yeet444
    Oct 10, 2022
    0
    heros are getting locked for overwatch 1 users from a bug and let me tell you the battle pass is worse than halo infinites like my goodness is this were the gaming industy is heading because let me tell you if battlefield 2042 and halo halo infinite fell off for player count i wont be surprised if this happens to overwatch 2 also now i see why jeff kaplan left because overwatch is turningheros are getting locked for overwatch 1 users from a bug and let me tell you the battle pass is worse than halo infinites like my goodness is this were the gaming industy is heading because let me tell you if battlefield 2042 and halo halo infinite fell off for player count i wont be surprised if this happens to overwatch 2 also now i see why jeff kaplan left because overwatch is turning into a live service game at this point because overwatch 2 battle pass you dont even earn credits coins even the paid version when leveling up but you can check for yourself by looking up all the unlockable stuff but there wont be any unlockable credits coins smh… Expand
  9. parkysolomon
    Oct 11, 2022
    1
    Honestly feels like the same game as overwatch. One reason I put a negative score is because all my characters were unlocked then all the sudden they are locked. Slow log in times and it seems like they are trying to force people to buy the battle pass. This is basically what killed Destiny and looks like they are leading to the same path.
  10. darkcr0w
    Oct 11, 2022
    0
    This is unacceptable!!!
    Lets not pretend Overwatch 1 never existed for a second and think about what they are doing!
    They dummed down the entire game, removed medals, removed level progression, removed a way to get skins for free, made the game 5v5 without an option to play 6v6 if we want and list goes on and on... Lets focus on the skins for a second, you are saying that what they    This is unacceptable!!!
    Lets not pretend Overwatch 1 never existed for a second and think about what they are doing!

    They dummed down the entire game, removed medals, removed level progression, removed a way to get skins for free, made the game 5v5 without an option to play 6v6 if we want and list goes on and on...

    Lets focus on the skins for a second, you are saying that what they are doing is fine? **** no! I'm not gonna pay 1/3 of the price of Overwatch 1 FOR ONE LEGENDARY SKIN in a game that has over a 100 of them!!??!! The legendary skins should be maximum of 2$ a pop and not even a cent more and we should have a currency that we can earn by just playing the game to buy the epic skins for free! Blizzard you can still sell your bundles and legendary skins but please 20$ for a single skin is just outrageous.

    Now "Watchpoint pack" i paid 40$ to get a battle pass and 2000 points so basically 1 legendary skin, meanwhile some games who ask for that price give you multiple seasons of battlepass and bunch of more goodies, I hear what you are gonna say "BUT YOU GET OW1 and ITS SKINS WITH IT" I ALREADY HAVE IT BLIZZARD, i had the game of the year edition before, ive had all these skins already and guess what i cant even play overwatch 1 a way better game than what we have right now with ow2. And the biggest blunder of this pack is that it doesnt even guarantee you access to ow2 pve in 2023, they will probably charge us 60$ on top of this for that game mode which was supposed to be the entire point of the overwatch 2 in the first place.

    This has to change! Don't sit around thinking its gonna change itself be vocal about it leave reviews post tickets to blizzard talk on forums lets just make them realize what they are doing with the game we all love and have been playing for past 5 - 6 years.    … Expand
  11. afwasbeer
    Oct 11, 2022
    0
    its just a bad version of overwatch 1. They removed everything that was good about the game just to make the game free and make the rest behind a paywall.
  12. manhdeptrai0710
    Oct 11, 2022
    0
    i pay 40$ to buy overwatch1 but i dont have anything better for this new game ? i think this is new patch not the new game
  13. lolkas
    Oct 11, 2022
    0
    I have hated many games in the past but Overwatch 2 is the only game ever that made me create a Metacritic account only to give it a bad review.
    This game is yet another miserable try of a once beloved franchise to keep themselves above water.
    Let´s ignore Blizzards disgusting greed for money. ignore the fact that they now charge 20 bucks for 6 year old skins. It´s the absolute lazy    I have hated many games in the past but Overwatch 2 is the only game ever that made me create a Metacritic account only to give it a bad review.
    This game is yet another miserable try of a once beloved franchise to keep themselves above water.
    Let´s ignore Blizzards disgusting greed for money.
    ignore the fact that they now charge 20 bucks for 6 year old skins.
    It´s the absolute lazy finish of this game that can be seen around every corner that is just pissing me off.
    Their pathetic battlepass that is supposed to be "cyberpunk theme" with it´s military camouflage Winston and Sojourn.
    Broken UI that at times looks terrible.
    Missing animations for certain heros.

    This game is just another dog**** cashgrab and even if we ignore all that, the game simply is NO fun.
    The matchmaking of this game has yet to be THE MOST BROKEN matchmaking I have ever seen. Throwing literaly new people into matches with former Diamond players that have 800 hours in Ranked alone. Go **** yourself and your entire franchise Blizzard. I can´t wait for Diablo 4 to land in the top 10 worst rated games on Metacritics to join the last 3 games you have launched.    … Expand
  14. TheS1lentGuy
    Oct 11, 2022
    0
    Since 2021 I knew that OW2 is going to be worse that OW.
    I'd rather play TF2 24/7 than this garbage game.
  15. crusaderlc208
    Oct 11, 2022
    0
    Cant even play the game LC 208, don't play this game if you enjoy playing games (because you cant even log in, get it)
  16. RaphaTeles
    Oct 11, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Very bugs, not playable, its a trash… coins, skins… very money, low investiment, bugs in servidor… Expand
  17. r8nes
    Oct 12, 2022
    0
    Without long introductions.
    1) Fierce donat. If there used to be a paid game, now it is only visible for free. If you want cool skins, pay money. Do you want it for free? Play 247. Why were the loot boxes removed? They were perfect.
    2) 5x5. And why was it impossible to introduce a separate mode for fans of this option? 3) Inclusivity. I still can't forgive Blizzard for the soldier. Why    Without long introductions.
    1) Fierce donat. If there used to be a paid game, now it is only visible for free. If you want cool skins, pay money. Do you want it for free? Play 247. Why were the loot boxes removed? They were perfect.
    2) 5x5. And why was it impossible to introduce a separate mode for fans of this option?
    3) Inclusivity. I still can't forgive Blizzard for the soldier. Why is it in the game? No, I don't really care, but Blizzard emphasizes it SO much that I want to puke.
    4) Separate tournaments for inclusive? I feel slighted. (no) But I can say it, why is it in the game?(I have already asked this question)
    5) Linking to the phone? What the **** Oh, that's it. Not a foot in the game anymore.
    6) Departures from the game. I'm sure it will be fixed, but I left the negative.    … Expand
  18. Hzerty
    Oct 12, 2022
    0
    This is a direct downgrade from the previous title. Nothing changed, most of things just got paywalled.
  19. MrTrubi
    Oct 12, 2022
    0
    It’s terrible **** you, Blizzard
  20. OW2Garbage
    Oct 12, 2022
    0
    OW2 is literally the same game with updated graphics and UI. Battle pass is a toxic cash grab, requiring a phone number is absolutely ridiculous. Ranked play is a hot garbage fire of a mode and their ranking system is a joke. This game should've never been made in the first place.
  21. StaleBread22
    Oct 12, 2022
    0
    All of the UI changes and audio changes are awful. Why remove ways to find groups? Why remove medals to reward you for good play? Did they remove medals to avoid toxicity? No, they did not. Now, instead, they show everyone's healing, damage, and mitigation, which easily shows you who is leading and who is lacking on your team and the enemy team. Gameplay feels faster, but there is littleAll of the UI changes and audio changes are awful. Why remove ways to find groups? Why remove medals to reward you for good play? Did they remove medals to avoid toxicity? No, they did not. Now, instead, they show everyone's healing, damage, and mitigation, which easily shows you who is leading and who is lacking on your team and the enemy team. Gameplay feels faster, but there is little no teamwork or cohesion yet. Playing supports who have little defense/movement is a death sentence with how much the enemies go to your backlines while your tank is across the map. This is all without mentioning the monetization, which is outright egregious. $20 for a skin? I can get 3 skins for the whole price of OW1? Corporate greed is a plague upon the gaming industry. Battle passes already feel outdated, relying so heavily on FOMO. Paying for products you may not even receive, and with how slowly you gain XP, it is very likely.… Expand
  22. thurstonftw
    Oct 13, 2022
    0
    Honestly sours the legacy of overwatch one. This is a large content patch at best which feels untested and broken in many ways. A lot of the systems have changed for the worse and seems now like a blatent, shameless cash grab. I really feel for new players for whom this is their first overwatch experience. Shame on you Blizzard, shame on you.
  23. Emori_fujiko
    Oct 13, 2022
    1
    Difficile de donner plus que 1..

    Battle pass : Pourquoi changer un système qui fonctionnait très bien avant ? Pour avoir joué à Overwatch 1, le système de lootbox était très bien, il permettait aux joueurs qui ne jouent pas souvent de pouvoir "faire les coffres" en gagnant 9 parties en Arcade. Ces coffres permettaient d'avoir de l’argent et de pouvoir acheter le skin souhaité.    Difficile de donner plus que 1..

    Battle pass :

    Pourquoi changer un système qui fonctionnait très bien avant ? Pour avoir joué à Overwatch 1, le système de lootbox était très bien, il permettait aux joueurs qui ne jouent pas souvent de pouvoir "faire les coffres" en gagnant 9 parties en Arcade. Ces coffres permettaient d'avoir de l’argent et de pouvoir acheter le skin souhaité.

    Maintenant, il faut spam les games pour monter le battlepass sans possibilité de choisir la récompense voulu. Je ne parle même pas ici du déblocage du nouveau héro dans le battle pass. Bref le battlepass pénalise les joueurs occasionnels ou qui ne peuvent/veulent pas jouer toute la journée au jeu.

    Voice line :

    Toutes les voix des personnages ne sont pas toutes localisées en France. Cela montre le serieu du déroulement du projet Overwatch 2 pour lequel ils ont mis en pause Overwatch 1 pendant un lonnnng moment.

    Gameplay :

    Supprimer tous les stun du jeu, c'est bien, mais j'ai l'impression qu'il n'ont pas eu le temps de réadapter tous les personnages. Certains personnages ont donc des spells useless.

    D'un côté, il supprime entièrement des mécanique de gameplay et de l'autre, il laisse des personnages comme moira AKA l'aspirateur faire toujours autant de dégâts avec une facilité de AIM qui frôle l'assistanat. Je ne comprends pas.

    Le mode arcade à quoi sert il maintenant ? Maintenant, c'est anecdotique.

    Sortie du jeu :

    Gros problème serveur comme depuis des années sur Overwatch 1 à chaque event (Il ne faut pas en vouloir à blizzard c'est leur premier jeu en ligne), de l'argent et des skin qui disparaisse et maintenant deux personnages retirés pour une durée indéterminée parce que bugger. Bref un beau bazar bien comique.

    Absence du mode solo pourtant la raison de la sortie d'Overwatch 2 de base ....

    Conclusion :

    Pourquoi pas avoir fait une mise à jour majeur comme d'autres jeu de l'industrie ? Pourquoi les joueurs ayant acheté le 1 à l'époque sont obligé de switcher sur leurs F2P avec battle pass parce que les serveurs du 1 ont fermé ? Pour quelques map, le retrait d'un joueur par équipe et deux nouveaux personnages ? Sans blague blizzard essaye encore et toujours de se faire de la tune sur le dos de leurs fans.    … Expand
  24. Mckraken
    Oct 13, 2022
    1
    This is supposed to be a sequel, But it's the exact same game...

    But it's worse now.

    Another downgrade from the husk that used to be Blizzard.

    SHAME!
  25. GusGusSirius
    Oct 13, 2022
    0
    One of the most annoying, chaotic and obnoxious games I've played so far. Massive downgrade.
  26. NikolaiBlyatman
    Oct 13, 2022
    0
    Overwatch 1.1
    3 years of development :
    - only 3 new heroes, 1 per year WOW
    - weather
    - useless 5vs5 (just to reduce tank queue because they can't create fun tank heroes)

    But don't worry, they want your money. Don't forget to pay $20 for ugly skins when back in the time you could win them for free.
  27. IsshoSan
    Oct 13, 2022
    0
    We need Overwatch back, almost everbody don't like the new game. I was actually excited for OW2 but never imagined it to be this bad.
  28. EnzoDiCapri
    Oct 13, 2022
    1
    This is not really a game, just a mess. I played Overwatch 1 for 4 years. I came back for OW2, and I was surprised to see the insane lack of new contents : 6 characters and that's it. 9 maps out of 10 are exactly the same as OW1 years ago.....
    But they managed to twist the game for the worst :
    -We used to have FREE lootboxes with plenty of cosmetics and skins every time we leveled up.    This is not really a game, just a mess. I played Overwatch 1 for 4 years. I came back for OW2, and I was surprised to see the insane lack of new contents : 6 characters and that's it. 9 maps out of 10 are exactly the same as OW1 years ago.....
    But they managed to twist the game for the worst :
    -We used to have FREE lootboxes with plenty of cosmetics and skins every time we leveled up. Now even a mere taf costs 10$ .... Instead we have a crappy Battle pass that rewards you with a lame Winston skin and if you play for 2 months every day you get a McCree's skin lol ..... Sooo pathetic.
    - You have to PAY to play the lastest champion Kiriko .... Imagine if you had to pay real money on LoL to play the latest champ. So unless you play for months to reach level 55, you need to pay real money for a champion.
    - It's one of these dumb games where a premade party of 5 players can be matched with 5 individual players in RANKED games. So if you play alone in ranked, you can NOT carry 4 individual guys if you are against even average players but playing together. In League of Legends, parties are limited to 2 in ranked games. If you wanna play with 5 players, there is a dedicated game mode. But Activision doesn't understand this ....
    - Lots of deconnections, even though i have fiber. Sometimes my whole party gets DC at the same time, so it's got to be their servers ....
    -Glitches, you go through wall, some trophies/achievements won't unlock even if you meet the requirement (hello Sigma's ultimate)
    - The game is still unbalanced asf. In 9 ranked games out of 10, there is a DVa/Zyra/Orisa. Winston is absolutely useless. In 9 games out of 10, there is a Sojourn/Sombra/Soldier. In 9 games out of 10, there is a Mercy/Zenyatta/Lucio. Brigitte is totally useless.
    So clearly they ruined the original game by focusing so much on easy money with a crappy battlepass like Fallguys and totally abandonned the gameplay and the game mechanics as well as the servers. I feared that with Microsoft buying Activision, the quality of the game would drop like everything Microsoft touches, but here it's an understatement. From a very fun yet not perfect OW1, we got a lazy mediocre pay-to-get-anything OW2.    … Expand
  29. orwennes
    Oct 15, 2022
    0
    It's a million times worse than Overwatch 1, with a lot of map details removed, a lot of particularly bad hero changes, and countless bugs, even Overwatch 1's heroes need to play 150 games to unlock them all, which is a complete waste of time.
  30. crz864
    May 18, 2023
    0
    I'm so done with this game, lots of broken promises and lots of decisions that made OW2 so shxt and today they announced that the PvE they'd promised got cancelled? at this point the "2" doesn't mean anything at all it's more like OW 0.5 that is worse than OW 1, apparently they use all the money to make more stupid skins but can't develop the PvE, eh? I really feel being scammed andI'm so done with this game, lots of broken promises and lots of decisions that made OW2 so shxt and today they announced that the PvE they'd promised got cancelled? at this point the "2" doesn't mean anything at all it's more like OW 0.5 that is worse than OW 1, apparently they use all the money to make more stupid skins but can't develop the PvE, eh? I really feel being scammed and there's no words other than DISAPPOINTMENT, everytime they have some bad news like when J Allen Brack gave the most insincere and just a single word "sorry" when they withdrew the prize money of the Hong Kong player they would announce something else right after for distraction and this time is the exact same thing, announcing the cancellation of PvE while showing us other advertising materials.… Expand
  31. beergogglesftw
    Oct 11, 2022
    0
    Can I have my Overwatch 1 back?

    I can understand when a dead game goes Free2Play, or a game goes Free2Play and stays relatively the same.

    But they took away a good $40 game, abandoned it years ago... just to force people into this turd. Shame.
  32. Bamboodpanda
    Oct 8, 2022
    0
    I have about 2000 hours of OW1. This isn't a sequel. It's a monetization overhaul marketed as a sequel. It's a blatant cash grab by a garbage company wearing the shell of the now-dead Blizzard. Don't even bother downloading it. Even if it's free, it's more than you can afford.
  33. Kenstar
    Oct 14, 2022
    0
    Blizzard really likes to set new standards for how lazy and incompetent a tripple-a developer can be. But keep buying them battlepasses one day they'll make a great game!

    Oh and its still rigged if you haven't understood that yet.
  34. Kuma
    Oct 11, 2022
    0
    I played overwatch 1 and really enjoyed it. This mess is not enjoyable and feels like a bad knock off of overwatch. Games are blow outs in one direction or the other and at times it feel like the games included bots instead of regular players. Simply not an enjoyable game to dedicate your time too.
  35. Szternit
    Oct 13, 2022
    0
    balance is totaly destroyed
    game looks the same like ov1
    mm is a joke
    living in EU it can not find me ranks and unranks under 180ping !!!!!!
    itemshop is broken
    in game curency doesnt exist meaning no money no skins
  36. Netero
    Oct 13, 2022
    0
    It's just an update of owerwatch 1....
    Blizzard is truly dead. Shame on you blizzard.
  37. Shellob
    May 16, 2023
    0
    Blizzard just scammed people with PVE content. I've never seen a company do that before.
  38. Brynden
    Oct 11, 2022
    0
    An update disguised as a sequel. No PvE. And the monetization is one of the worst. No currency on the battlepass. The only way to get coins is grinding weekly challenges for months. Legendary skins are disgustingly overpriced.
  39. led_lightbulb
    Oct 8, 2022
    0
    Overwatch 1 but take out all the fun stuff and replace it with every money hungry practice you could possibly have in a mobile game
  40. Moraith88
    Oct 8, 2022
    0
    They've changed to micro transactions.. Enough said. This is unfair to the original buy to play set up from OW1
  41. Unaccurate
    Nov 25, 2022
    0
    Yet another cash grab from blizzard. This game is just Overwatch one toned down, and full of ways to steal money from you. Complete garbage.
  42. Plabli
    Feb 5, 2023
    0
    Bring overwatch 1 back. This game is literally a piece of sh__. Avoid this game
  43. Skhaarin
    Oct 11, 2022
    0
    Pure cringe. I had never felt so embarrassed of what this industry has become
  44. Vlafsdslkdjskdh
    Nov 25, 2022
    0
    **** **** new monetization system as for me this is the first game about which you can say 100%:
    1. "It's not possible to play without a donation"
    2. "Donat dump"
    **** let BLIZZARD them return the system that every day you can get one case for the game.
  45. Losers_inc
    Oct 11, 2022
    0
    Overwatch 2 will go down in history as one of the most pathetic releases and sequels of modern games. Yep, it's up there with Cyberpunk. I don't know who at the top is making the call to release every major title so horribly unfinished and lackluster, but I'm sure it can't be the developers. I can't, I refuse to imagine that someone worked on this for years, and thought this was good toOverwatch 2 will go down in history as one of the most pathetic releases and sequels of modern games. Yep, it's up there with Cyberpunk. I don't know who at the top is making the call to release every major title so horribly unfinished and lackluster, but I'm sure it can't be the developers. I can't, I refuse to imagine that someone worked on this for years, and thought this was good to go. It shames me as a fellow creator and a customer.… Expand
  46. Are_U_Serious
    Oct 24, 2022
    0
    3 years spent to get rid of one tank and rework ways for people to spend money, great job guys. Game itself is more than playable, but way how blizzard treats it's own consumers is disgusting, hope no-one will be stupid enough to spend money on this "new" game. How to get from point where you are fans favourite company to point where you are hated as much as EA
  47. SharDMetacritic
    Oct 10, 2022
    0
    Mediocre. 8 months of nonstop grinding to get a single skin is a pathetic joke, and so is the battlepass. I am blacklisting any reviewer who gives this game a good score, they are almost shouting "i'm a sellout". Modern gaming is terrible
  48. ThSenpai
    Oct 7, 2022
    0
    all free content from overwatch 1 became paid in overwatch 2.For second part,they stopped updating first part and i can't see any good update for so long
  49. Roxasflame
    Oct 7, 2022
    0
    SMS protection being forced on players when you don't actually support all phone carriers is just a joke. Take this **** out, if someone payed $40 for the Watchpoint pack and they can't play the game day one you guys are just robbing people. I hope your company literally crumbles from the stupid jackasses making these decisions.
  50. BruhBeast
    Oct 8, 2022
    0
    this is honestly so bad. you cant even get new skins anymore cause of the new system of overwatch credits. you get like 50 credits per week. takes approximately a year to get a new legendary skin. gameplay gets really stale its literally the same game.
  51. turovel
    Oct 10, 2022
    0
    говно, не заходит три часа, мать разраба говно жрала тоннами,
  52. MRAgent47
    Oct 10, 2022
    0
    I must say, as a 1.6k hour ow1 player, ow2 is the worst combination of what I expected. Unless you are 5 stacks, you will always have a teammate that does nothing the entire game. That could be because my hidden MMR was too high in ow1. I keep getting new players in my team which ruins every single game. Blizzard can easily solve this by adding a newcomer player list. But as we know,I must say, as a 1.6k hour ow1 player, ow2 is the worst combination of what I expected. Unless you are 5 stacks, you will always have a teammate that does nothing the entire game. That could be because my hidden MMR was too high in ow1. I keep getting new players in my team which ruins every single game. Blizzard can easily solve this by adding a newcomer player list. But as we know, blizzard is an incompetent company that is already bankrupt and does not even care about anything except grinding money. The joke is, for 3 years they did a game that is so buggy and ugly that they have to decide to make it free to even make money. I have to say, if you can give a negative rating, I will, sadly there ain't.… Expand
  53. MinusDKP
    Oct 10, 2022
    0
    OW1 was ended so you couldn't play the old game when people found out OW2 is awful.

    Everything just felt like "adjustments" then you don't get any way to get coins at all now. They are just money hungry and want to get a battle pass and play going thru the the battle pass is slow. It's like their trying to be awful on purpose.
  54. IronWolf6677
    Oct 10, 2022
    0
    Blizzard needs to stop being so anticonsumer. This game is the embodiment of laziness and greed. Day after day it’s fiasco after fiasco and controversies. When will you learn to respect your players Blizzard?
  55. criskoliver
    Oct 10, 2022
    1
    I've never written any reviews on the site, but overwatch 2 managed to piss me off on so many levels...
    1 week to get into the game, get banned in the middle of the game because of the server, expensive battle pass and with boring rewards. Money in the game is hell to get and even doing missions, the game doesn't count and you lose challenges.
    It's not worth the change for 2 if they're    I've never written any reviews on the site, but overwatch 2 managed to piss me off on so many levels...
    1 week to get into the game, get banned in the middle of the game because of the server, expensive battle pass and with boring rewards. Money in the game is hell to get and even doing missions, the game doesn't count and you lose challenges.
    It's not worth the change for 2 if they're going to do a worse and dull service. They abandoned the first game and these changes from the second would fit in very well in the first. All to force people who have already paid for the game to spend even more on the second one. Frankly, Blizzard doesn't get one right. It's one **** after another. And now even paying, you still have your characters blocked and you can't use them. They managed to ruin everything that was good about the game. Can't expect anything good from this company.    … Expand
  56. Snaky203
    Oct 11, 2022
    0
    Exactly the same as ow 1 just some minor changes.. i dont know how u Can tell this is a New game .. WE wait this game for have only 3 New character and this is it ! Thx Blizzard ! Oh yeah now u need to pay for all skins and no more lootbox so i Hope u are ritch .. and im not gonna talk about all bugs or the Time u need to wait for go into the game ..
  57. Coolcatt
    Oct 11, 2022
    0
    Absolutely no reason to be a sequel besides the fact they wanted to monetize the game even more now with the pass
  58. Noopyy
    Oct 11, 2022
    0
    The game sucks balls. I was playing OW1 till the very last moment. Dont even feel like playing this one. 5v5 is horrid, the sounds effects are horrid, the whole feel of the game just sucks balls now.. Bring back OW1!!!!
  59. M34flick
    Oct 12, 2022
    2
    Feels somewhat like overwatch but I am really disappointed with all the bugs at launch and the horrid ranking system. I am playing with people who have never played before, ever, because they put me in bronze 5 when in the same category I was gold, almost Plat. Super frustrating. And now that ranking is not good, no one cares about it. I had 5 games in a row with someone who left the game.Feels somewhat like overwatch but I am really disappointed with all the bugs at launch and the horrid ranking system. I am playing with people who have never played before, ever, because they put me in bronze 5 when in the same category I was gold, almost Plat. Super frustrating. And now that ranking is not good, no one cares about it. I had 5 games in a row with someone who left the game. They DON'T care because ranking is a joke. Overwatch was my absolute favorite game of all time I loved climbing the ranks and have never put so many hours into the game. Now I can't stand to play for than an hour before it's too much and I get off. I miss OW1 and hope they bring it back, or fix this mess of a game. It also disconnects me from blizzard everything I get an Xbox achievement then suspends ME when they are the ones with the bug. Crazy.… Expand
  60. Zeleniuz
    Oct 13, 2022
    1
    Thanks blizzard for giving us free-to-play trash, that we saw 6 years ago. Nothing have changed, but now we have to pay for everything. Only 3 new heroes, some maps and battle pass that has nothing interesting. And what Blizzard Can say about features that were showed in gameplay trailers? I think, nothing. This game is still overwatch 1 but for every step you have to pay.
  61. p3qch
    Oct 13, 2022
    1
    Ok so I'll be honest. The gameplay is still somewhat fun.
    But in reality, this game is no way a new game, they just took overwatch 1 and changed a couple little things. In addition, they added a battle pass, which could be fins if it was only for cosmetics, but guess what. THEY PAYWALLED **** CHARACTER.
    U could try to say it's fine, as it's the same in Valeant, BUT overwatch is a game    Ok so I'll be honest. The gameplay is still somewhat fun.
    But in reality, this game is no way a new game, they just took overwatch 1 and changed a couple little things. In addition, they added a battle pass, which could be fins if it was only for cosmetics, but guess what. THEY PAYWALLED **** CHARACTER.
    U could try to say it's fine, as it's the same in Valeant, BUT overwatch is a game where the characters have diffrent power, which counter other characters, now what happens if you need to counter a character who you dont have the counter for, you're **** Overwatch boss will try to say you anyways dont use most of them. SO WHAT THIS IS AGAINST OVERWATCH CORE VALUES. ALL THE CHARACTERS SHOULD BE ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE. BLIZZARS, IF YOU WANT MONEY, GO ON MAKE EM SKINS PAYED, BUT MAKING CHARACTERS 0AYED IS NOT OK AND WILL TURN THIS GAME GARBAGE    … Expand
  62. nanzo
    Oct 13, 2022
    1
    excluding a tank from matches made the game faster and cooler to play
    however, now it has turned into an absurd slot machine, before it was possible to play and buy skins peacefully with the money that I won playing the games, now the skins are extremely expensive because the amount of coins that can be obtained is negligible compared to the price of same... basically 1 year doing the    excluding a tank from matches made the game faster and cooler to play
    however, now it has turned into an absurd slot machine, before it was possible to play and buy skins peacefully with the money that I won playing the games, now the skins are extremely expensive because the amount of coins that can be obtained is negligible compared to the price of same... basically 1 year doing the weekly missions to buy a single skin, ridiculous    … Expand
  63. Traces
    Oct 13, 2022
    0
    it's the biggest scam to put new heroes into a battle pass. They can't fix a single bug but manage to add new ones. 0 matchmaking balance you get people in ranked that never played the game before and are able to play the most important role just to make it impossible for you to win. Queue times feel like the games is 10 years old already. Who would have guessed that blizzard would releaseit's the biggest scam to put new heroes into a battle pass. They can't fix a single bug but manage to add new ones. 0 matchmaking balance you get people in ranked that never played the game before and are able to play the most important role just to make it impossible for you to win. Queue times feel like the games is 10 years old already. Who would have guessed that blizzard would release a decent game after the biggest fail with diablo immortal. 3 or more characters are disabled for ranked because blizzard know nothing about balance in a game or how to fix beyond broken bugs. You need 8 month of daily 2 hours or more grind to get a single skin. After the launch I Regret to have bought overwatch 1 in the first place. So many games are free to play with out those **** systems If I could I would take back every single penny I ever gave to blizzard... Can't wait to see how many cash grab systems they add to diablo 4.
    The only positive thing was the change from 2 tanks to 1 but now you just insta loose with a bad tank    … Expand
  64. YuninTech29
    Oct 13, 2022
    1
    I am an Overwatch 1 player with over 2000 hours of gameplay. It's amazing how blizzard released Overwatch 2 all broken, with fps drops, stuttering and other problems.

    The game today is unbearable for low and mid-range PCs. With the first Overwatch you could play it very smoothly with graphics cards up to the GTX750 Ti class. Overwatch 1 was very well optimized and running smoothly. I    I am an Overwatch 1 player with over 2000 hours of gameplay. It's amazing how blizzard released Overwatch 2 all broken, with fps drops, stuttering and other problems.

    The game today is unbearable for low and mid-range PCs. With the first Overwatch you could play it very smoothly with graphics cards up to the GTX750 Ti class. Overwatch 1 was very well optimized and running smoothly.

    I have a PC with:

    CPU: Intel Core i5 10400 @ 2.90GHz

    Ram: 16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR4

    Board: Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. B460 HD3

    Card: ASUS VP228 (1920x1080@60Hz)

    2047MBNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

    Disk: 232GB Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB (SATA (SSD)

    With this pc I played overwatch 1 even in epic quality without FPS drops.

    With overwatch 2 the fps drops to 50 every so often, sometimes it drops to 37 fps...

    The game is very poorly optimized. The worst thing is that the support forums do not help you and do not give you a solution.

    The launch of this second part has been a disaster of epic proportions.    … Expand
  65. 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
  66. asher_goo
    Oct 18, 2022
    1
    OW2: Return, a new 5v5 team mode
    OW3: Departure, a new 4v4 team mode
    OW4: Coming again, a new 3V3 squad battle
    OW5: Expedition, a new 2v2 squad battle
    OW6: confrontation, a new 1v1 battle
    OW7: Void Arena, new JPG, PNG and other formats of pictures for your viewing. And there are special nostalgic clothes to experience the passionate collision of OW1.
  67. Menitca
    Oct 19, 2022
    0
    They did steal OW1 from me just to give me **** game with micro-transactions.
    Give me OW1 back!
  68. enary-the-witch
    Oct 25, 2022
    0
    I still can't believe this is happening. Wow, overwatch 2, just a bomb. Bomb of my hopes and expectations. F2p, sky-high prices for skins after I paid full price for ow1 and tried to support devs by buying loot boxes. Thanks, really. This is typical story about human greed and how hard it is to regain faith after betrayal.
  69. Aivek
    Oct 25, 2022
    0
    Shame on you, management at Blizzard, for taking the Overwatch we all held dear to our hearts and sh*tting all over it. The prices of skins are exorbitant, let alone charging for OLD skins that used to be FREE.
  70. Jyha85
    Oct 25, 2022
    0
    not the game i paid for, what a shame for you to have fallen so low Blizzard
  71. Xtrmn
    Oct 25, 2022
    0
    So, the game is free and despite that I feel like i got ripped off.

    The battle pass system is like the worst one I have ever seen. No way to earn premium currency in the pass, rewards are mostly crappy even in a paid version. Battle pass is not rewarding at all. Grinding battle pass feels useless as f2p player and real underwhelming if you pay for it. Oh but you can get 60 free coins    So, the game is free and despite that I feel like i got ripped off.

    The battle pass system is like the worst one I have ever seen. No way to earn premium currency in the pass, rewards are mostly crappy even in a paid version. Battle pass is not rewarding at all. Grinding battle pass feels useless as f2p player and real underwhelming if you pay for it.

    Oh but you can get 60 free coins from weekly challenges. Yeah, if you are grinding them. There is no way for a casual player to complete them all. It's not even worth it for so little.

    No free currency means that you practically get no skins aside from recolors you get form free pass. Unless you want to grind coins from weekly challenges for like 2 years for ONE legendary skin. Maybe a year if you are playing a lot.

    And well, gameplay is okay because it's just OW1. Just copy and paste the entire game, remove 1 tank and change like few abilities and WOW we got a new game for you guys. They did not even bother to remove "on fire" quotes despite "removing" the mechanic from the game. Most heroes feel not balanced at all, Doomfist is just straight useless.

    Lazy cashgrab from Acti-Blizzard.    … Expand
  72. Mastafara
    Oct 29, 2022
    0
    Same game than 1. Booring. Unbalanced. Stupid. MONEY HUNGRY COMPANY. No pve. Like no ok cares abaut it. No game rewards. Still same game thann 1
  73. iTzQrow
    Oct 31, 2022
    0
    An obvious cash grab, with perhaps the greediest, most anti-consumer monetization I have seen in a AAA game in recent years. The whole justification for the sequel was the new PvE content, but that's been pushed back, so instead it just feels like an update on the guise of it being a sequel as an excuse to force the playerbase to engage in this horrible new system.

    I played the first    An obvious cash grab, with perhaps the greediest, most anti-consumer monetization I have seen in a AAA game in recent years. The whole justification for the sequel was the new PvE content, but that's been pushed back, so instead it just feels like an update on the guise of it being a sequel as an excuse to force the playerbase to engage in this horrible new system.

    I played the first couple days with some friends to judge for myself how bad the monetization was...
    It was even worse than I expected. I had been playing OW1 since early 2017 and had easily put over 1000 hours into the game, but I quit and uninstalled this greedy, predatory cash scheme so easily, that's how bad it was.    … Expand
  74. K0tA
    May 16, 2023
    0
    the only reason this game was tolerable was bc of the PVE, and now we are left with a meh game with worst content (starwatch) if you get any.

    RIP overwatch, died with the announcement of overwatch 2
  75. MilkaNut
    May 16, 2023
    0
    Nice PVE. Thx Blizzard. 5 years 5 years 5 years 5 years 5 years 5 years 5 years 5 years
  76. Dahakere
    May 17, 2023
    0
    No PvE mod? So the reason this version exists is to make it easier to release D.VA clones for p*rnhub? I don't find any other reason here.
  77. Kiszu
    Oct 20, 2022
    1
    The worst is that, they changed loot box to p2w season-pass
    3 year after announcement:
    remove:
    - 5 maps
    - 1 game mod
    - 1 hero
    - player's profile awards
    add:
    + 6 map
    + 1 game mod
    + 3 hero (and 2 rework)
    + lazy graphic change
  78. Ndi
    Oct 10, 2022
    0
    My heroes are changed, the meta is gone, the requirements are up (and not hardware), the recording of chat, the text message verifications, the entire whole thing is a mess and I want none of it.

    The team comp is now more sensitive to trolling, the queue times are still bad, roles aren't made any more fun, the matchmaking stil puts me in steamroll games, I win 5 and I lose 5 no matter    My heroes are changed, the meta is gone, the requirements are up (and not hardware), the recording of chat, the text message verifications, the entire whole thing is a mess and I want none of it.

    The team comp is now more sensitive to trolling, the queue times are still bad, roles aren't made any more fun, the matchmaking stil puts me in steamroll games, I win 5 and I lose 5 no matter what and I feel like playing well does nothing for me.

    A piecemeal game, cut in shreds that you can never own completely, paying to play shards of a copy of a game that was good in 2016.

    I especially love it when I buy a game, then the dev delete my game, adds a 2 next to it, makes it worse and then tries to get me to pay to play it.

    Pass.    … Expand
  79. Nocturno999
    Oct 7, 2022
    0
    Blizzard killed the first Overwatch for this. Even gameplay and presentation feels gimped in this sequel.
  80. yY2
    Oct 10, 2022
    0
    They should have named this update Overwatch 3, there is so much symbolism.

    3 years without new content 3 heroes that are less fun / lost their identity after "reworks" (Symmetra, Torbjorn, Mercy) 3 "new" heroes 3x less new heroes compared to the normal update cycle (3 per year) 3x worse game, and 3333333333x greedier with battle pass This game will die 3x faster than the    They should have named this update Overwatch 3, there is so much symbolism.

    3 years without new content
    3 heroes that are less fun / lost their identity after "reworks" (Symmetra, Torbjorn, Mercy)
    3 "new" heroes
    3x less new heroes compared to the normal update cycle (3 per year)
    3x worse game, and 3333333333x greedier with battle pass

    This game will die 3x faster than the Overwatch 1.0

    They still don't understand that unique heroes even if they are weaker, are more interesting to people than copy paste heroes like soldier 76, souljourn 77, torbjourn 78, hanzo 79 etc.

    Don't play this game, it's same as the original game, which was turned into garbage by developers who railroaded it into unplayable / unwatchable esport.

    Final score: -3    … Expand
  81. vault2wasteland
    Oct 8, 2022
    0
    egregious cash grab. Game companies really love to ruin gaming these days. I should not have been surprised but I am still sad.
  82. DarkStart
    Oct 25, 2022
    0
    Monetization is worse than it was in SW Battlefront 2 (2017) at launch + game lost it's magic after removing some features and adding battle pass.
  83. Mppleader
    Oct 11, 2022
    0
    Overwatch 2 more like Overwatch Reforged. Seriously getting rid of the original like that abomination is something I find baffling. Especially when you're gonna require new players to have A SPECIFIC KIND OF PHONE PLAN (Can't believe it's gonna be done again with COD MW2 2022) If it weren't for the occasional thing, they put out that piques my interest (Hi Crash & Spyro) I'd be totallyOverwatch 2 more like Overwatch Reforged. Seriously getting rid of the original like that abomination is something I find baffling. Especially when you're gonna require new players to have A SPECIFIC KIND OF PHONE PLAN (Can't believe it's gonna be done again with COD MW2 2022) If it weren't for the occasional thing, they put out that piques my interest (Hi Crash & Spyro) I'd be totally avoiding them like the plague. As it stands for those exceptions? Well. Let's just say I've got no shame waiting for them to go on sale (Would buy used. But knowing they possibly already got full price from someone makes me sick)… Expand
  84. joeyleo
    Oct 13, 2022
    0
    Predatory corporate over-monetization. Mediocre sequel with drip-fed content and challenges designed to sheepify consumers.
  85. speedro
    Nov 1, 2022
    1
    This is a disgrace to everything OW1 stood for and an insult to both the original developer team and the gamers.
    Disgusting monetization. Legendary skins are literally impossible to earn via playing the game. You need to open up your wallet wide as hell. (Everything i earned in OW1 till now just by playing and buying the base game, would now cost 4000€. That's the worth of my account as    This is a disgrace to everything OW1 stood for and an insult to both the original developer team and the gamers.
    Disgusting monetization. Legendary skins are literally impossible to earn via playing the game. You need to open up your wallet wide as hell. (Everything i earned in OW1 till now just by playing and buying the base game, would now cost 4000€. That's the worth of my account as it seems)
    But also the game itself is a huge downgrade. Visually ugly. Every map looks like mexico in Hollywood movies. Yellow like a chicken soup. Matches have 2 less people, but visually it is a bigger chaos. And they literally got rid of the importance of roles. Now every game is just a team deathmatch.    … Expand
  86. AdaptiveTech
    Oct 29, 2022
    1
    Just... not fun. The same formula and outcome as before: Everyone mashes up in a big clump with little strategy or communication, there are explosions, and one team lives.
  87. ShadowedSong
    Oct 13, 2022
    0
    Game is unplayable. First few days it was login queues and server disconnects, next few days it was bugged heros and unlocks. Now you can't even start games even if you do manage to login.
  88. MrGrubby
    Oct 26, 2022
    0
    Overwatch 2 is unfortunately a big downgrade in terms of the original Overwatch, ok it's free to play but they took away so much only to add the bare minimum. I understand why they made changes to the game-play, that isn't my issue.

    Some of my issue's with the game are: removed game mode, maps, find a group feature, the grind and cost required to unlock cosmetics (I personally, would    Overwatch 2 is unfortunately a big downgrade in terms of the original Overwatch, ok it's free to play but they took away so much only to add the bare minimum. I understand why they made changes to the game-play, that isn't my issue.

    Some of my issue's with the game are: removed game mode, maps, find a group feature, the grind and cost required to unlock cosmetics (I personally, would rather they earn my money by releasing a new game every few years instead of a battle pass system), bugs of the original game are still present (which makes me think OW2 literally was just a big update). No option to play the original, Broken hero's, Broken game modes (in Total Mayhem, Zarya literally has unlimited bubbles so cannot die, meaning the only time the game ends is when Zarya gets bored with spamming shift)

    It's sad because Overwatch, the lore, the hero's, the animated shorts are all amazing. I have played Overwatch as my go-to game for years with friends, and now we are looking for a replacement, it's kind of heartbreaking, it feels like we have lost something, instead of gaining more of what we loved.

    This isn't me review bombing, It's honetly how I feel. No new content for years... for this. Shame on you Blizzard.    … Expand
  89. Hugo1919
    May 16, 2023
    0
    The entire reason this "sequel" exists, cancelled. How embarrassing for everyone involved.
    What did they kill OW1 for? A **** battlepass? 5v5? What a joke.
  90. Meon0007
    Oct 20, 2022
    1
    Blizzard added monetization cheme ((( decreased number of teammates, made unbalanced characters, shop is poor... what the heck !(
  91. Vrexxen
    May 17, 2023
    0
    3 year content drought. Re-named OW2 to add a cash shop and battle pass. Used PvE as a means to hook people on launch when they had internally known they were canceling PvE. The 2 in OW2 stands for monetization changes.
  92. Ammonium
    Oct 16, 2022
    0
    Trash utter Trash it's so unbelievable Garbage with a marketing stick of a "2"
  93. dan8991iel
    Oct 30, 2022
    0
    The game is worse than before and now even filled with greed. A complete insult towards the player base.
  94. Isengrym
    Oct 16, 2022
    0
    Congratulations, Blizzard is now a robber that steals your property.

    It is not okay when a game you bought 6 years ago transforms into free-2-play game, where you need to pay 12.000$ or play for 397 years to unlock all the content available in the game (80% of which came here from the first game). In addition to that, there are even pay-2-win elements now. I wasn't paying for that, I    Congratulations, Blizzard is now a robber that steals your property.

    It is not okay when a game you bought 6 years ago transforms into free-2-play game, where you need to pay 12.000$ or play for 397 years to unlock all the content available in the game (80% of which came here from the first game). In addition to that, there are even pay-2-win elements now.
    I wasn't paying for that, I was paying for another product, which Blizzard replaced with this thing.

    P.S. 12.000 and 397 are not just random numbers btw, you can google it.    … Expand
  95. Penguin7
    May 16, 2023
    0
    - Potato Server
    - From Pay to Play became Cash Grab game
    - No Free Battle Pass for OW 1 owners is discrimination - You no longer earn lootbox or even credit after playing, and they literary forced us to buy it with real money. - Challenge mission is a joke. - They increased in game cosmetic price 75 became 350 350 became 1000 1000 became 1900 Papa Jeff trusted you, I thought I    - Potato Server
    - From Pay to Play became Cash Grab game
    - No Free Battle Pass for OW 1 owners is discrimination
    - You no longer earn lootbox or even credit after playing, and they literary forced us to buy it with real money.
    - Challenge mission is a joke.
    - They increased in game cosmetic price
    75 became 350
    350 became 1000
    1000 became 1900

    Papa Jeff trusted you, I thought I could too...    … Expand
  96. Wlack
    Oct 9, 2022
    0
    Absolute trash of a replacement to the original Overwatch, and I'll tell you why.

    First, I'll be nice and commend what I like: Some new skins. Now to mention everything they've removed and changed: - Removed player levels. No longer personal levels for your account to show off with. All experience goes to the damned 'Battle Pass', because everybody and their mother have to have a    Absolute trash of a replacement to the original Overwatch, and I'll tell you why.

    First, I'll be nice and commend what I like:
    Some new skins.

    Now to mention everything they've removed and changed:
    - Removed player levels. No longer personal levels for your account to show off with. All experience goes to the damned 'Battle Pass', because everybody and their mother have to have a god damn Battle Pass in their game now.
    - Removed medals while in a game. Replaced with a generic stat screen, so everybody can see everybody's stats at all times, and immediately flame the correct person for doing poorly.
    - Removed the "On Fire" feature. Replaced with nothing.
    - Made everybody more squishy. Everybody dies in a moment, if you aren't paying attention for a nanosecond.
    - Removed Orisa's shield. Replaced with a spear(???). Reinhardt's shield was further nerfed, from it's original 2000 HP, to 1600 HP, to now being 1200 HP.
    - Removed 1 tank slot, so both teams max consist of 5 players, 1 being a tank. This kept in mind with the 2 above mentioned nerfs to at least 2 tanks, means the game is way more exposed than in OW1, making the squishy issue worse.
    - Made Moira's damage orb even more damage-y. If you didn't like one of your healers being damage-only, I have bad news for you.
    - Removed Bastions repair function. Replaced with a grenade. Also, made his gatling gun (Turret Mode) have a 12 second cooldown. (This only mentioned, because what's Bastion good for now, if he can't even Turret Mode. Just a slightly different Solder:76).
    - Removed lootboxes. Replaced with daily/weekly quests/tasks, that are tedious at best, and only designed to make you spend even longer in the game, and god knows they need it, as they need a big, sirup-drenched carrot to keep you playing this mess.

    Conclusion:
    Bring back OW1 and stop trying go rip people off with microtransactions, Blizzard.    … Expand
  97. Clockworkenergy
    Nov 26, 2022
    0
    The only thing that can save this disaster of an IP is if they pull an Arcane and make a good TV show based on it like they were probably planning to do originally
  98. BlizzardFan1
    May 17, 2023
    0
    Видите трейлер?
    Красиво да?
    Ждали да?

    А х/й вам не будет никакого PvE

    Нас н@еб@ли, как в случае с Warcraft 3 refounded
  99. AaronTheAion
    May 17, 2023
    0
    Huge wasted potential after killing off the much anticipated PvE game mode so they can focus on selling in-game store garbage and battle passes everyone from the top to bottom at Activision /Blizzard should be ashamed of themselves for grifting the community yet again a hard 0.
  100. SavaLione
    May 17, 2023
    0
    Overwatch 1 was delightful game, but Overwatch 2 sucks. Overwatch 2 gives all new games terrible features like: battle pass, monetization, heroes that are locked behind pay wall. And do you remember what blizzard promised you when they'd announced OW 2? They promised cross play between OW 1 and OW 2, a lot of new cool heroes, pve content and much more. What do you get? You get some smallOverwatch 1 was delightful game, but Overwatch 2 sucks. Overwatch 2 gives all new games terrible features like: battle pass, monetization, heroes that are locked behind pay wall. And do you remember what blizzard promised you when they'd announced OW 2? They promised cross play between OW 1 and OW 2, a lot of new cool heroes, pve content and much more. What do you get? You get some small amount of **** looking heroes that look alike those from cheap Chinese games, you got terrible pay wall with hidden mechanics (like the same icon for legacy credits and for their new premium currency), ****ty textures and terrible sound overhaul. Now I get why Jeff left blizzard before OW 2. I miss Overwatch 1 and I'm sad that blizzard kill it and I can't play in it anymore… Expand
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  1. Positive: 37 out of 53
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 53
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  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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