Overwatch

Overwatch is a team based First Person Shooter(Fps) where you and your team must cooperate to accomplice your tasks and/or quests. You usually must take a point, defend a point, move a Payload, defend a Payload, or basically defeat the enemy team without losing your own team. There is also a bunch of different maps and game modes.

Overwatch is balanced around counter picking. This means that if your enemy team has a hero which is making sure that your team is losing, you should pick a hero that is strong against that enemy hero. Every hero counters someone, but every hero can be countered too.

Heroes or characters

There can be six heroes on each team, and you cannot play the same hero on the same team (unless you are playing “No limits”). There are a lot of characters or heroes to choose from, and all heroes are split in different groups depending on the characters and their abilities. There are a “Attack” group, a “Defend” group, a “Tank” group, and a “Support” group. In the Attack group, there are 7 heroes, in the Defend group there are 6 heroes, in the Tank group there are 5 (With one upcoming one), and in the Support group there are 5, which all adds up to 23 (+1) heroes in Overwatch.

Heroes:

Attack:

Genji, McCree, Paraph, Reaper, Soldier:76, Sombra, Tracer

Defend:

Bastion, Hanzo, Junkrat, Mei, Torbjörn, Widowmaker

Tanks:

D.Va, Orisia (upcoming), Reinhardt, Roadhog, Winston, Zarya

Supports: Ana, Lúcio, Mercy, Symmetra, Zenyatta

 

Game Modes

Escort

Escort is the game mode where the attacking team must move a payload to a certain point, and a certain time, to win. The defending team, however, must make sure that the attacking team won’t be able to move the payload in time.

Assault

There is also an attacking and defending team in Assault. There are different points across the map, and the enemy team must take control of all of them one by one before the time runs out.

Hybrid

Hybrid is like a combination of Escort and Assault. It starts with the attacking team taking over the defending team’s point, and ends with the attacking team having to move the payload, while of course the defending team has to make sure this doesn’t happen before the time runs out.

Control

On the “Control” game mode, both teams must take over the same point, and when the point is theirs, they must protect it and wait until a bar is filled up from 1 to 100%. The teams must stay at the point to control and maintain the point.

Quick Play, Arcade and Competitive

“Quick play” is the most casual way to play Overwatch. When you enter quickplay you will end up in one of the game modes above. If you’re playing “Competitive” you will do the exact same, but only with your rank counting. If you enter the “Arcade” there are a few other game modes to play, which of course isn’t competitive.

Personal Opinion

In my opinion, Overwatch is a fun game for both competitive and casual players. “Quick Play” is a nice way of practicing your skills, and just playing for fun, while the “Competitive mode” is mostly based around showing off your skills, and ranking up to a grand rank. The game also becomes a lot funnier if you’re playing friends. Communication is important in this game, while strategy and teamwork is also very important. I really like this game, and we all do here in GreatGhettoGamers.

8/10, and a lot funnier while playing with friends!       

 Written by Sigurd Aksel Lysvoll-Hansen