Overwatch Unveiled

Feedbot · Nov 8, 2014

Overwatch Unveiled
The gap in the schedule was a nice long Overwatch panel.
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Story

The game is set on Earth, 60 years in the future
Robots became very common in the future and they went crazy, attacking cities all over the world. The war that resulted against the robots was the Omnic (?) Crisis.
The strike team that took on the robots was Overwatch.
For the next 30 years after the war, Overwatch was a worldwide agency that displayed how great people could be when they came together, representing heroism and sacrifice.
In the last few years, Overwatch started to fall apart.

Gameplay

Chris Metzen is only doing one voice in this game.
Blizzard has been making competitive PvP games for a long time and this will be yet another.
Overwatch will have some dark gritty areas, but it will mostly be a world you will want to come back to.
The game is all about heroes.
The game will be accessible with non-twitch options.
You can do things other than put a crosshair over targets, as that is what drives people away from other shooters.
The game is less-lethal. You will die, but you should die less frequently than in current modern military shooters. With more time alive, you are able to do more interesting things and interact with your team more.
The teams are going to be 6v6, which is just big enough to make it fun.
There are Payload and Capture Point maps, no deathmatch mode.
The game is focused on Heroes, not classes.
There are 12 playable characters at Blizzcon, with many more to come.
Tracer has a ~10 meter teleport / blink that uses energy. Enough energy to do 3 blinks in a row.