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Blizzard unveils Overwatch, a 6v6 team-based shooter

Blizzard unveils Overwatch, a 6v6 team-based shooter
Lewis Leong

Lewis Leong

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Titan may be dead but Blizzard has a new game that will make you forget all about it. The developer’s next big game is called Overwatch, a six versus six team-based first person shooter that strongly resembles Team Fortress 2.

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Not much is known about the game other than what’s seen in the above gameplay trailer. There will be capture point and payload type game modes but apparently no team death match.

Overwatch will also focus on its twelve “heroes” instead of classes like Team Fortress 2. However, it looks like each hero can be part of a class like slow-moving heavies or support engineers who construct automated turrets.

The heroes introduced in the gameplay trailer are varied and feature female characters, unlike TF2. Some heroes have wings and there’s even a transforming robot named Bastion that turns into a giant submachine gun.

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Blizzard will start a public beta some time in 2015 and you can sign up here. No word on when to expect the finished game but Blizzard says it’ll be out “sooner than you think.”

Source: Overwatch

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