After months of leaks, rumors, and speculation, Blizzard finally announcedOverwatch 2at BlizzCon 2019. Blizzard announced the game with a stunning animated short that brought some of the game’s heroes together in a cinematic for the first time, showed off their new looks, and confirmed thePvE focusthat the new game will take.
TheOverwatch 2Zero Hour cinematic features Winston, Tracer, and Mei going on a mission in Paris after Winston’s Overwatch Recall initiative. The three of them attempt to fight Null Sector robots, but they eventually become overwhelmed. Winston makes a move to sacrifice himself so that Mei and Tracer can escape with their lives, only for Genji, Reinhardt, Mercy, and Brigitte to show up and save them at the last minute.Presumable new hero Echocan also be seen in the cinematic.
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Overall, theOverwatch 2cinematic short confirms that the sequel to Blizzard’s award-winning hero-shooter will carry on in the same tradition as the original game. However, it will have a much bigger focus on story, which should appeal to those who are more interested in the lore than they are in fighting each other in PvP battles.
Something of note is that many, though not all, of the leaks aboutOverwatch 2prior to the game’s BlizzCon 2019 announcement turned out to be true. This includes details about this very cinematic. Prior to the release of theOverwatch 2cinematic, a leaker revealed that the short would contain Genji making a last minute save, and that’s exactly what happened here. The leaker also mentioned some of the other heroes that were indeed featured in the short, lending credibility to them in case they decide to leak more information about Blizzard-related products in the future.
Not everything that was leaked aboutOverwatch 2was true, though. Those concerned thatOverwatch 1progress wouldn’t carry over toOverwatch 2can rest easy, as game director Jeff Kaplan confirmed that all the cosmetics players have unlocked for the original game will indeed carry over to the sequel.
More onOverwatch 2should come at a later date, but with the game already in a playable state, hopefully we’ll have our hands on it by the time next year’s BlizzCon rolls around.
