Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Overwatch

Overwatch is a very fun game. It puts people into two teams of six and each player has  hero they choose to use. These heroes are divided into four classes: Offense, Defense, Tank, and Support. Players on either team have to work together to defend and control points on the map. 

There are other game modes that require a single team to  carry and defend an object all the way to the other team's base. Players get rewards at the end for playing the game. The game was created with a single mode, while Blizzard (company) added competitive ranked play after a month after the game was released. Blizzard addressed players that update to the game will remain free.


 Now I'm going to talk about how this game was first developed. Overwatch was created due to the cancellation of a game called "Titan" that Blizzard was in the process of making. The thing that got me thinking was that this game, "Titan", took seven years to make and now they just cancel it? 

I mean even Bungie (company) is better! Blizzard stated that they didn't see the "fun" in "Titan". Thats why they cut dos t of the team members in the "Titan development and told them to create something new. Something like "Overwatch". The team thought about all the successful games they have mad win the past and thought about a first-person shooter.


The players in Overwatch were meant to describe genders and ethnicities. The males and females, along with the non-human characters like the gorilla and robots. The need for the characters to be diverse was important to the developers because over the years most of Blizzard's game s have been criticized for not adding a variety of characters to their games. Before I go I want to tell you something.


 One of  things the developer said was "we want it to play out organically," adding "we don't want it to be a data point or feel contrived in any way. Michael Chu expressed that the diverse group of characters is a result of Blizzard's approach to game design, elaborating that "We've tried [to] have a diverse cast of characters and diverse locations that you go through, and hopefully these characters - even beyond national diversity; just seeing their personalities, their backstories, their occupations - hopefully people will find things in common with these characters."

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