{"id":279,"date":"2016-04-09T21:08:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T20:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mandarinestudio.com\/news\/?p=279"},"modified":"2016-09-23T10:44:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T09:44:28","slug":"overwatch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mandarinestudio.com\/news\/en\/2016\/04\/09\/overwatch-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Probably, everyone has heard about World of Warcraft<\/span>, Starcraft<\/span> or Diablo<\/span>, so today we want to talk about the new Blizzard<\/span>‘s bet: Overwatch<\/span>.<\/p>\n

If we compare Overwatch<\/span> with its brothers, it’s obvious that it’s a completely different game with a fresh spin. The main difference is that it’s not a MOBA but a FPS, but it keeps the importance of the teamwork. It also has cartoony aesthetics that reminds us of Pixar’s style or even games such as Team Fortress 2<\/span>, although at first sight it shares more things with that game than just aesthetics, a very commented topic, even at the Blizzcon<\/span>, where the Overwatch’s director, Jeff Kaplan<\/span>, said:<\/p>\n

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\u201cTeam Fortress 2 is one of my favourite games of all time, but we\u2019re going in a different design direction than they are. If people want to compare Overwatch to Team Fortress 2, we would take that as the world\u2019s greatest compliment. We love that game, it\u2019s probably one of my favorite games of all time. Those guys are geniuses; that guy, Robin Walker, up at Valve – I had the honor of meeting him\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

However, we don’t like comparisons or comments that say that it will be the next Team Fortress 2, because when you analyze them, despite Overwatch has more similarities with TF2 than with World of Warcraft, we don’t think that it’s going to finish with TF2. To start with, one is a payment game and the other is Free to Play, both are FPS based on teamwork, but the truth is that TF2 doesn’t emphasize that, since rounds usually consists in players that play by themselves and, at the end, the victory or the defeat is more based on the individual ability of the players, than in the teamwork. However, in Overwatch team integration is vital and the matchmaking is enhanced continuously.<\/p>\n