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Overwatch Lead designer Jeff Kaplan in 2019. Overwatch ' s animated media is interconnected, taking place in the same continuity. Through this animated media, in conjunction with comics and fictional news reports, Blizzard developed the story of Overwatch, rather than including it in the video game.
Overwatch (abbreviated as OW) is a multimedia franchise centered on a series of multiplayer first-person shooter ... anime-influenced music videos, Internet memes, ...
The sequel Overwatch 2 was released in October 2022, and will continue the seasonal events. According to Kaplan, while the game will be a sequel, they want to allow all content from the first Overwatch to be brought forward into Overwatch 2, requiring them to slow down new content development for the original game, particularly new heroes and maps.
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Overwatch (retroactively referred to as Overwatch 1 [b]) was a 2016 multiplayer first-person shooter video game by Blizzard Entertainment. The game was first released for PlayStation 4 , Windows , and Xbox One in May 2016 and Nintendo Switch in October 2019, with cross-platform play supported across all platforms.
Overwatch 2 is a hero shooter, where players are split into two teams and select a "hero" from a roster of over 40 characters.Characters are organized into a "damage" class, responsible for offensive efforts; a "support" class, responsible for healing and buffing; and a "tank" class, responsible for creating space for their team.
Overwatch originally featured 12 characters at its November 2014 BlizzCon convention announcement, [6] but expanded to 21 by the next year's convention. [7] The game is character-driven, and reviewers noted Overwatch 's emphasis on the individual differences between characters in the same role (e.g., between two snipers) as a departure from dominant class-based shooter paradigms.
Pharah, real name Fareeha Amari, is a character who first appears in the 2016 video game Overwatch, a Blizzard Entertainment-developed first-person shooter.Voiced by Jen Cohn, she is an Egyptian woman trying to follow in her mother's footsteps, enlisting in a military unit and helping to defend her local community, going by the call sign "Pharah".