So it's come to this...yes I did play this and decided to add it, retroactivly, to the Cringetober 2022 listing for fun to wind up Yuudachi and others who unconditionally love the series for some reason.
Much of this game reminds me of Team Fortress 2 with the colourful characters, variety of classes and the objectives too such as capturing points, escort missions and in regards to classes, having healers, tanks and damage dealers, but they did expand outwards with having the characters function very differently from each other. The characters have their own functions and abilities such as Tracer's ability to reverse time, a character's ability to heal others and another who goes between healing and harming and the same games for pretty much all of them. All having some fun and different ways they play and certainly leading to some fun gameplay engagement.
Now, I never played the first one. I had no interest as my opinion as "I have TF2, why do I need this?" and that only went on in regards to the excessive microtransactions that the pushing of inspired Star Wars Battlefront 2, to go even further and incur the wrath of governments wanting to protect kids and the vulnerable from the abusive practice.
Despite being a sequel, not all the characters are released from the beginning. They locked many behind in-game progression such as x number of kills, matches, wins and so on which makes sense if you have nothing to actually add to the game, however, as a new player this is a pain in the ass because certain characters are more likely to gel with your gameplay style and who knows what your main might be? Hopefully you find out before you get too frustrated and dying all the time.
I don't see myself as too good at the game, buy my friend, Yuudachi says I could get to high Bronze or low Silver, whatever that means, so I don't know. He claims that's good, but feels kinda mediocre to me. Nothing special you know.
I do love that there's a training course so you can try out characters and see what one you have a feel for and don't have to go through what you do in most games, with a trial by fire before you know if you're any good with it or not. It's a similar experience I have in War Thunder with new tanks, aircraft, ammo and so on. It also doesn't help that I'm not too patient either.
I also don't want to support this game because of all the stuff Activision Blizzard has done over the years. Including the thing J. Allen Brack, and his hair, said about that "Tough E-sports moment" as he cowardly tries not to address it immediately or even apologise for essentially bowing and obeying their paymasters in China.
So my review will be covered by this, but also how they've handled micro-tractions certainly doesn't help and I am trying my best not to exposed to these predatory systems designed to torment me and others who are vulnerable to them.
Stream/Gameplay
Much of this game reminds me of Team Fortress 2 with the colourful characters, variety of classes and the objectives too such as capturing points, escort missions and in regards to classes, having healers, tanks and damage dealers, but they did expand outwards with having the characters function very differently from each other. The characters have their own functions and abilities such as Tracer's ability to reverse time, a character's ability to heal others and another who goes between healing and harming and the same games for pretty much all of them. All having some fun and different ways they play and certainly leading to some fun gameplay engagement.
Now, I never played the first one. I had no interest as my opinion as "I have TF2, why do I need this?" and that only went on in regards to the excessive microtransactions that the pushing of inspired Star Wars Battlefront 2, to go even further and incur the wrath of governments wanting to protect kids and the vulnerable from the abusive practice.
Despite being a sequel, not all the characters are released from the beginning. They locked many behind in-game progression such as x number of kills, matches, wins and so on which makes sense if you have nothing to actually add to the game, however, as a new player this is a pain in the ass because certain characters are more likely to gel with your gameplay style and who knows what your main might be? Hopefully you find out before you get too frustrated and dying all the time.
I don't see myself as too good at the game, buy my friend, Yuudachi says I could get to high Bronze or low Silver, whatever that means, so I don't know. He claims that's good, but feels kinda mediocre to me. Nothing special you know.
I do love that there's a training course so you can try out characters and see what one you have a feel for and don't have to go through what you do in most games, with a trial by fire before you know if you're any good with it or not. It's a similar experience I have in War Thunder with new tanks, aircraft, ammo and so on. It also doesn't help that I'm not too patient either.
I also don't want to support this game because of all the stuff Activision Blizzard has done over the years. Including the thing J. Allen Brack, and his hair, said about that "Tough E-sports moment" as he cowardly tries not to address it immediately or even apologise for essentially bowing and obeying their paymasters in China.
So my review will be covered by this, but also how they've handled micro-tractions certainly doesn't help and I am trying my best not to exposed to these predatory systems designed to torment me and others who are vulnerable to them.
Stream/Gameplay