Overwatch from Blizzard is out now on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, and in only a month it has already scored 10 million players. Full details including the Overwatch UK release date, price, deals, gameplay and trailers – complete guide to Overwatch.
Overwatch is the ’shooter of tomorrow‘ from gaming behemoth, Blizzard, which has made titles including World of Warcraft, StarCraft and Hearthstone. Overwatch is out now on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, and in only a month it has already scored 10 million players. Full details including the Overwatch UK release date, price, deals, gameplay and trailers – complete guide to Overwatch. Read our full Overwatch review.
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Overwatch UK release date: 24 May 2016
After months of waiting, Overwatch was released on 24 May .
Overwatch is available for PC, PS4 and Xbox One, and the developer Blizzard is apparently considering cross-platform play for the game. Although PC and console cross-platform play is not going to be a thing (since mixing mouse/keyboard and controller can cause competitive issues), it looks likely that PS4 and Xbox One cross-platform gameplay could be possible at some point in the future.
In response to a question on Twitter, @PlayOverwatch said: „There is no cross-platform play. We’ll keep an eye on cross-platform possibilities on the consoles. “
There is a regular Overwatch Edition for PC, which is available from Battle.net and costs £29.99.
Origins Edition
The Overwatch Origins Edition includes the above plus five skins (Overgrown Bastion, Security Chief Pharah, Strike-Commander Morrison, Blackwatch Reyes, and Slipstream Tracer) and content for other Blizzard games (Heroes of the Storm – Tracer Hero, World of Warcraft – Baby Winston Pet, StarCraft II Portraits, Hearthstone Cardback and Diablo III – Mercy Wings).
Collector’s Edition
If you’re willing to pay more, the Overwatch Collector’s Edition include the above, plus a 28cm Soldier 76 statue (approx. 28cm), steelbook DVD case, full colour artbook and the Overwatch soundtrack. This is sold out in most places, but you can pick it up from ShopTo for £123.88 or from Amazon for £105.38, but these prices are subject to change.
Overwatch is available now on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. In only a month the game scored 10 million players, which is seriously impressive. You only need to check out the video at the top of this page to learn why, though.
Digital editions of Overwatch Origins are available from the PlayStation Store and Xbox Store at £54.99, and from Battle.net for PC at £29.99 ( standard ) and £44.99 ( Origins ).
You can also buy Overwatch Origins from various online retailers. The best deal we found was at Amazon for £36.49 on PC or £40.93 on Xbox One or PS4.
With 21 characters (or heroes) at launch and two more added since, Overwatch has a similar feel to a MOBA like Heroes of the Storm. Rather than simply picking a different skin, you’ll be able to play a character which suits your style. Here’s the full Overwatch characters list:
• Ana
• Bastion
• D. Va
• Genji
• Hanzo
• Junkrat
• Lúcio
• McCree
• Mei
• Mercy
• Pharah
• Reaper
• Reinhardt
• Roadhog
• Soldier: 76
• Sombra
• Symmetra
• Torbjörn
• Tracer
• Widowmaker
• Winston
• Zarya
• Zenyatta
Overwatch is regularly being updated with new maps and heroes, and the next major update could be a new hero: Efi Oladele.
Blizzard teased the new character in a fictional interview on the Overwatch site, revealing that she’s an 11-year-old inventor from Numbani, an African city in the game’s lore:
„After my mom and dad got me my first robotics kit, I became obsessed with putting together little drones. When I started to get good at it, I tried to build robots to do my chores and help around the house. My parents think it’s cheating… It’s no fair! (laughs)
I want to create things that make our lives better. And someday, my dream is to build something that can keep us safe, like the new OR15s! I think that would be great. “
Given that Efi is only 11, it seems unlikely that Blizzard would have her directly involved in combat (no-one wants to headshot a little kid), but instead it sounds like she might hang back from the action and uses drones or robots to fight for her, which could be a pretty great gameplay twist. We’ll have to wait a little longer to find out for sure though.
Blizzard’s latest seasonal event for Overwatch was Chinese New Year, which for 2017 is the Year of the Rooster. It went live on 24 January 2017, and brought more than 100 new cosmetic items (skins, voice lines, emotes and more) and a new gameplay mode called Capture the Rooster in which you must secure the enemy flag.
“In this fast-paced brawl, players will need to get creative with their team compositions as they attempt construct a lineup that’s simultaneously built for offensive speed and defensive stability,” said Blizzard.
Blizzard promised to ban anyone who cheated at Overwatch, and it’s held true to that promise: thousands have already been banned, reports Kotaku .
„U sers of a popular Overwatch cheat program began reporting bans en masse yesterday, to the point that the program’s creators have shut down authentication servers until they can figure out what to do,“ it said. And that’s just the start it seems, as PC Gamer reports others are seeing bans across multiple copies of the game.
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