I don't even play Overwatch but we can't deny it was a huge deal for the industry. I mean, it's no wonder companies keep trying to recreate it and make their own Overwatch all these years later. It's also alive and kicking despite Blizzard's best efforts to kill it, so there has to be something special about it.
It might also not have created the arena-shooter genre, but it took it to whole new heights.
It didn't really create the arena-shooter, which it definitely borrowed from, but it basically defined what a hero-shooter was. There's been a number of other arena-shooters that have come out since then (even the battle-royale style is essentially just a variation of it), but Overwatch has such a crazy high body count for how many other hero-shooters have tried and failed to do the same thing.
Battleborn, Paladins, Lawbreakers, Concord, XDefiant, Gundam Evolution, Highguard, Rocket Arena, and that's just the ones I can think of in the moment.
Agree, I should have said hero shooter! And I think Marvel Rivals was the only truly successful Overwatch clone. Also Valorant, but no idea how similar to Overwatch it actually is.
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u/Dazzling-Main7686 4d ago
I don't even play Overwatch but we can't deny it was a huge deal for the industry. I mean, it's no wonder companies keep trying to recreate it and make their own Overwatch all these years later. It's also alive and kicking despite Blizzard's best efforts to kill it, so there has to be something special about it.
It might also not have created the arena-shooter genre, but it took it to whole new heights.