Overwatch Origins Edition - Xbox One

After watching a few gameplay videos and reading a lot of posts in forums, I decided to jump in. The tutorial was pretty basic, even placing the easiest hero to use as a tutorial character. There is a training grounds in which you can take any hero and test out their abilities, but I decided to join a multiplayer mode instead. I first tried the mode Play vs A.I. where you are paired with other players and go against CPUs. The matches would fly by rather quickly, due to the A.I. not fairing to well against 6 people. I then jumped into the mystery battle that was going on at the time, where upon death the game would switch you to a different hero. I found myself learning how the entire cast of heroes played fairly quickly, while being able to test them out. This may have been the mode that assured me that I would be playing this game for a long time. The heroes are pretty varied and interesting, both in gameplay style and unique desing, and they all feel fun to play. Definitely worth checking out, especially if you have friends to play with.

This is a game with excellent graphics and superb characters with lots of uniqueness and personality. But it could have been so much more. Blizzard obviously put a lot into the lore and story, as they are known to do. My girlfriend and I watched the trailers with wonder and anticipation. Surely a game with such well-made and professionally animated trailers and mini-movies was going to be epic! In this case however, it seems like meaningless fluff. We were both terribly disappointed to learn that there is NO campaign or story mode. No journey through the stories of these incredibly detailed characters. It is just another online death-match game. For a death-match game, it is extremely well-done. The characters are all well-balanced and have moves and abilities that make them feel truly unique. For someone who is fanatical about online team-based shooters there is a lot of depth to master and strategy to hone. Each character has characters that they are strong against and those they are weak against. You can change characters after a death or by heading back to the spawn, so if you identify a strategy the opposing team is using, you can quickly swap to characters that counter it. There is no character development beyond cosmetic unlocking of skins and voice lines. This is both good and bad. It means all characters are on equal footing. Nobody who has spent sleepless weeks grinding while you were living a life will have an advantage other than practice and deeper understanding of the strategies and tactics. You won't die to another player because they spent a weekend unlocking the super FOOZBAM ability and you haven't. This is very good. However, it also means that there isn't much to look forward to, beyond learning all of the various nuances and tactics of each character. Overwatch is fun and exciting. It is pure adrenaline entertainment. However...and in this case it is a HOWEVER with letters thirty feet tall atop a skyscraper...unless you really enjoy this particular niche of gaming, I feel it will get old quite quickly. This is the case for other games of this type for me. For me I will struggle to get $60 worth of entertainment from this title. I doubt I'll be playing it for long...there's just not enough content to be mined here. The lore and development could have been the basis for an incredibly compelling campaign mode along with the PvP game, but in this case, without this it just falls short.

Very addicting hard to stop playing this game once you start.

So, Overwatch. If you're reading reviews then most likely you are skeptical of buying the game. If you are a fan of games such as Team Fortress (probably the closest to this game) or other Blizzard games, you'll probably have a great time with this game. I've put over 33 hours into the Open Beta (26 of them being with one character) and I wasn't bored with the game. The only real issue I had with Overwatch was the lack of fun it provided when you weren't playing with friends. Overwatch is a team based shooter and when playing with randoms, you'd almost always get put with people who only want to play offensive characters, now, I'm sure that was because people were just playing whatever they wanted simply because they probably aren't buying the game. But, nonetheless, Overwatch is a very great shooter and would definitely recommend it over something like Call of Duty! (Attached photo is a picture of my beta stats)

When Overwatch was first announced I was skeptical, the market is getting flooded with new fps every week and these mock-MOBAS are popping up everywhere. Yet Overwatch seems to be the most user friendly and down right fun option out there today! Being able to choose if you're playing truly competitively or for fun online makes this game an excellent choice for any gamer. It needs to be mentioned that this game is made to be played online and if you prefer to play games alone this is NOT the game for you. Also there is no split screen/couch co-op available. These two points are the only reason this review is a 4 star and not a 5. All that aside I would fully recommend thus game to anyone looking for a new obsession for the next few months

An amazing game! Worth the full retail price it asks for. 21 different characters with each one playing differently leads to endless amounts of fun. 3 different game modes with 6 maps and 21 characters. Have put in at least 70 hours of game play so far

Really fun game. Love multiplayer games and the online play is great.

Game isn't released yet but many of our had the pleasure of playing the open Beta recently. For as long as it was up, I had a fun time playing with friends.