- Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment , Activision Blizzard
- Release Date: May 23, 2016
- Also On: PlayStation 4, Switch, Xbox One

- Summary: Overwatch is a highly stylized team-based shooter set on earth in the near future. Every match is an intense multiplayer showdown pitting a diverse cast of soldiers, mercenaries, scientists, adventurers, and oddities against each other in an epic, globe-spanning conflict.
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- Developer: Blizzard Entertainment
- Genre(s): General, Action, Shooter, First-Person, Tactical
- # of players: Up to 12
- Cheats: On GameFAQs
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 62 out of 64
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Mixed: 2 out of 64
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Negative: 0 out of 64
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LEVEL (Czech Republic)Jul 12, 2016The first Blizzard shooter excels above the current competition in all aspects. A distinctive audiovisual style and plenty of pleasant details on each step are nice additions to its precisely-tuned gameplay. [Issue#265]
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May 24, 2016Pretty much everything about this game feels fresh and exciting: the class-based combat, the art style, the roster, the modes. It's equal parts strategic and twitchy, encouraging you to think while also rewarding skill, and its roster is a delight. Overwatch may well be the best new multiplayer shooter to come along since Modern Warfare and Team Fortress 2 took 2007 by storm. I can't wait to play more.
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May 31, 2016A gaming experience that’s more polished and exciting than I have ever had the pleasure of experiencing and one I’ll be sure to continue to play for the foreseeable future. If not for the inclusion of microtransactions, this would have been a perfect game in my book.
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May 24, 2016It's that intoxicating path of discovery that makes Overwatch so varied, so rewarding, and ultimately another seminal release from developer Blizzard. Overwatch is an intelligent cascade of disparate ideas, supporting one another, pouring into one another, and coiling around themselves as they flow into the brilliant shooter underneath.
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May 31, 2016A great package: fun, accessible and extremely well-made. It's a shooter as much for those pledge their lives to online play, as those chiefly interested in the occasional fun foray. It's an instant classic that, with the kind of good post-launch support Blizzard is known for, could prove the go-to shooter for an entire generation of gamers.
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May 27, 2016If you are a first-person shooter fan generally, and if you enjoy team-based FPS play specifically, not at least trying Overwatch feels criminal. Blizzard always imparts a deep sense of holistic quality into its games, and Overwatch is no exception.
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Jun 6, 2016Blizzard has created a solid team FPS but right now it's light on content.
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Positive: 579 out of 1443
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Mixed: 262 out of 1443
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Negative: 602 out of 1443
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May 25, 2016This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Dec 31, 2019game is ok, good but not very good. Its decent good, but not the goodest.! xD y
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Jul 8, 2020Bad game with a bad meta game and a bad community, need to add more? i don't think so
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