Blizzard Announces Overwatch at BlizzCon 2014

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The new franchise is a team-based multiplayer shooter, beta coming in 2015.

Overwatch is a brand new team-based multiplayer shooter from Blizzard, which contains elements taken from Blizzard’s cancelled MMO Project Titan.

Blizzard describes the game as a "pick-up-and-play first-person shooter" set in an all-new Blizzard game universe, and during a panel today at BlizzCon the firm’s SVP Chris Metzen said certain elements of Overwatch such as maps were derived from Titan.

That being said, Metzen said Overwatch is not Titan despite there being similar "components."

"In a time of global crisis, an international task force of soldiers, scientists, adventurers, and oddities known as Overwatch had come together to restore peace to a war-torn world. After many years, the group's influence waned, and it was eventually disbanded. Overwatch might be gone now...but the world still needs heroes."

Players will need to pick a a character, a offense, defense, tank or support role and join a team of six which will battle other teams across futuristic locations such as a hologram-lit London and a bazaar set against a high-tech Egyptian pyramid background.

Every battlefield is built to highlight each character’s unique abilities, and fights can "shift from streets to rooftops to open skies" at any given time.

"Overwatch is our take on a vibrant, near-future universe with amped-up characters and action-packed team-based gameplay," said Mike Morhaime, the firm’s CEO and co-founder. "With every new Blizzard game, we look at our favorite aspects of a genre and put our own spin on things. Our goal with Overwatch is to create an awesome FPS experience that’s more accessible to a much wider audience while delivering the action and depth that shooter fans love."

FOr now there are 12 playable heroes available to play on three different maps at BlizzCon.

More heroes and maps are planned to be added to the game as development progresses, and beta testing will begin in 2015.

You can sigh up for the beta here.



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