"Hey guys, remember what we did to all those women? It doesn't matter anymore, we've just made a sequel to our most anticipated game of the last decade? No its not Diablo its Overwatch 2."

"We added 3 new heroes and reworked a few as well as adding maps to give you ultimate Overwatch experience. We've also added a paid battle pass, all the heroes are behind an unlock wall and the skins you could get for free in Overwatch now cost £16. But hey at least its free to play right?? We're delaying the Story Mode to 2023."

This is probably the biggest sequel dissapointment in history. As someone who played OW for a while (100+ hrs) as well as have friends who are big fans of the game this feels all the while confusing on why they made this. After playing the beta I just enjoyed the overall experience of the first one more and now with all the micro-transactions it has me extremely worried. The fact that the game literally changed itself to OW2 on my Xbox is extremely concerning. This just feels like a reskinned cash grab that a shitty company is trying to convince us that it's good again. If your own fans don't agree with the way you're making this, then who is this for?

but hey the porn is good so yknow

edit: for those who haven't seen my comment, this is me mostly complaining about blizzard's shitty way of treating fans and the game itself, rate the game whatever you want!

My original review was removed. I guess my message wasn't clear enough when I told Activision/Blizzard to eat my ass.

This is a bad game made by a bad company. It is basically an update of the original (as it completely replaces it) and serves no purpose but trying to hide the rampant system of abuse taking place within the company by throwing the media coverage back onto this. I can't even call them allegations because they've been proven. . If you enjoy the game that's fine, but it is simply just a watered down form of the original that doesn't update, improve or innovate it in any meaningful way and is simply a distraction for a larger issue.

Eat my ass, Activision/Blizzard

Why the fuck is the big selling point that makes this a sequel not even being released for half a year?!?

Edit: Hey, they finally fixed it...and it's just Overwatch one with a more scummy marketplace. Hoorah.

Edit 2: And they canceled the main reason this game exists. Hooray...

Wow this overhate is insane

It is a good game
+ most of the gameplay changes are great, gameplay feels amazing
+ bp is surprisingly good
+ upgraded engine graphics are really good
+ junker queen is great, kiriko is good, new maps are really fun to play
+ junker mommy

- people who picked prices for skins should be sent to hell
- ui is clearly unfinished
- sojourn is so underwhelming
- push mode is not fun to play, and it must be really annoying for level designers to make mirrored maps
- removal of level system is... not good

NOTE: I know you hate the ABK, but if you didn't play the game don't write a review to mislead people. If you played it and didn't like it, I respect it, write all your rage and your problems with the game and ABK. But posting "reviews" without playing the game, that's just despicable.

He's dead, Jim.

I legitimately can't believe it, Blizzard actually went ahead and "released" the exact same game that they'd compartmentalized and destroyed over the last six years with less features, a board-room bland UI, and a predatory battle pass. There is almost too many issues when it comes to Blizzard's decision making process in the last decade plus that even pointing them out becomes a chore, there is quite literally a surplus of awful, and Overwatch 2 is no exception.

I was a competitive player when Overwatch first released, and the game was a catalyst for me becoming a more social person as I met and befriended a completely new circle of people as well as for taking games much more seriously. I put hundreds upon hundreds of hours playing casual, custom, and competitive matches to hone my skills as both a single player and teammate. As the years went by, Blizzard did their best to make that experience that I had molded, a chore. The balancing team released meta-destroying characters and refused to change the game, more or less saying "deal with it" as the consensus of the beloved Overwatch took a nose dive. What people had fallen in love with, myself included, with Overwatch in 2016 was a completely new hero shooter experience that emphasized teamwork and jubilee. Time progressed and the experience of playing Overwatch became an experiment. Additions to maps and characters were lazy at best and boring, communication to the playerbase was insulting, the company did its best to ruin its internal image by doing a complete disservice and committing to horrendous acts upon its female employees, and they removed features from the Overwatch that gave it the identity it held. I didn't want to gloss over the treatment of women at Activision-Blizzard, as it is completely deplorable. Moving Overwatch to a five player team felt like a decision for decision's sake rather than actually investing in making the gameplay fun or invigorating. It felt like a corporate "what-if" scenario to throw at players to make them feel like "OOOH AHHH something new!" rather than put content in the game that would be genuinely interesting or engaging. Moving away from the open queue to a role queue that made it nigh impossible to play as a DPS further cemented the downfall of Overwatch from an acceptance standpoint. How does Blizzard expect working adults or anyone with a time constraint to wait anywhere from ten to fifteen minutes to find a match? In my previous days, when the game was still a little fresh, you could pop in and play as whichever character, and that was beautiful! If I wanted to play a ranked game, I could jump on and pick my Hanzo within a few minutes, play the game and be on with it.

I enjoyed each role in the first few years of Overwatch, playing at nearly the highest tier as both a tank and a healer, and near that as a DPS. I'm experienced in every role and I would like to think that made me a good well rounded player, yet having a queue and rank devoted to each seperate role enforced that I would never commit to the grind, because I simply couldn't afford the time for what was becoming such a middling gameplay experience. How is it that a game like Halo Reach, a game that I frequent, has aged better than Overwatch? Well you can abandon any of the incomprehensively poor gameplay decisions that Blizzard has made with OW in favor of a completely free, cosmetic only, not even available to purchase with a seperate currency, cosmetic pass for items not available in the original game. Overwatch, victim of a poorly designed ever changing meta, cannibalized itself by never having a gameplay identity that felt reliable. Reach fundamentally today is still the Reach it was back in 2010 from a matchmaking standpoint. Playing Overwatch now after the six years have passed since its original release feels like you've landed on the Planet of the Apes. Gone is the joy, gone is the happiness, gone is the gameplay loop that once took the world by storm, and now you have... role queue's, a poorly optimized engine, a few new characters which have boiled down the competitive and casual experience, an eyesore UI that robs the game of its flare, and a battle past thrust into the player as soon as they load up the game.

You know what's crazy? I've basically gone this entire "review" without mentioning Overwatch 2, and that's because it doesn't exist. Overwatch 2 is legitimately Overwatch again. It's the same exact game. Nothing is new, I figured that with the release of this game I'd be getting a plethora of new characters and maps, but that was not the case. Remember back in the day when Super Smash Bros Brawl came out and you cracked the game open, ran through the gambit and unlocked freaking Sonic and Solid Snake? That's what a new title based on heroes should feel like. In Overwatch 2 you load into the game, should you have an account from the first Overwatch, and you have all the characters, the same ones from Overwatch and/or the Overwatch 2 beta, which again is just Overwatch with a new character. How is this excused? How was Blizzard able to craft this update as a new game and how are journalists and consumers even treating this like its a second game? I'm at a loss for words at the predatory greed that Blizzard continues to embark itself on, between WCIII, Diablo Reforged, and Overwatch 2, Blizzard has done nothing but demonstrate that they do not care for their consumer base, just for their coffers.

I remember having the physical copy of Gameinformer two years ago, long before GI got culled in the same style of corporate greed as Blizzard, that went into extreme depth detailing the story and narrative experiences of Overwatch 2. Can you recall that adding a story to go along with these heroes was the entire reason that this game was coming out? Probably not! Blizzard went into depth about the mission structure and RPG elements of Overwatch 2 as its selling point, giving some love back to the players who requested more out of the attractive new IP. Not often does a company like Blizzard, which has some committed series lore in games like Warcraft, Diablo, and Starcraft launch a new title in a completely new universe. Players were hungry for some insight on the characters they were playing as, clawing for any exposition they could get on the world of heroes and Overwatch 2 was it!... until it became clear that the company couldn't offer what they had promised players and instead realized they could be milked like the cash cows they are. Why give your players, after years of clamoring for more and promising of a new story experience what they asked for when you could opt for a faux relaunch of the baked down version of the game they're already playing (and leaving?)

It's for this reason that I'm granting a half star review for Overwatch 2, I don't know what makes it a new game, other than the predatory battle pass and resoundingly boring new UI experience. There's no single player, there's no new exciting group of characters, there's no graphical update, there's no improvement to user communication, there's just more of the same. Why don't we start releasing new Fighting game characters as new games. Bridget is now out in Guilty Gear but its the exact same game? How about release it as Guilty Gear Strive 2! PUBG has a bug fix update and a new 3x3 map? Let's release it as PUBG 2! This is an inexcusable, undeniable cash grab by a former legendary developer that is now a complete husk of its former self.

Overwatch is dead.

I played the "first", therefore I played the "second"! Thanks Blizzard for saving me some time to fill out a larger backlog!

This game is offensive by just existing. Same game, same blizzard, only now they can suck money from people with a stupid battle pass with stuff that was free (even if lootbox rng based)

Blizzard is becoming one of the worst, and I really hope to live to see its well deserved downfall with all its stupid harassers in jail. If you believe Microsoft is going to save it, good copium to you.

Overwatch 2 is a failure. This is the worst online multiplayer ever just by principle of what it is. A glorified update in every way shape and form to a game in an already pitiful state. This game feels like it was in a box that said “in case of massive PR nightmare break glass” and that’s exactly what Blizzard did. You can’t even find a better alternative because Overwatch 1 is fucking dead. The battle pass sucks dick and the in game shop is overpriced as shit. Fuck Blizzard. Fuck Activision. 1/10

Only 1 hour in and I can say with absolute certainty that Overwatch 2 is not any different from Overwatch, except for the fact that you have to pay money to get anything now. The game looks and sounds pretty good, but it’s just the same game. Queues still being the worst of its problems.

Why not just polish Overwatch up a little (graphically and with balancing changes)? Why does it need to have a paywall for heroes and skins? And why oh why does it need to have a battle pass? Just get rid of all the things that players are complaining massively about since 2018 and bring Overwatch up to modern FPS standards and everyone would be happy to keep playing.

I probably will start up a game now and then, but I will not return to this game fully unless it’s been made playable again.