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Fro awhile I kept expecting them to come out of left field with new engine tech like they did for Half-Life 2 AND TF2.

But now I have just resigned that it will never happen unless they sell the IP to someone else.

They lost a good percentage of their killer art department to Arkane anyways.

Pandering more than slightly to the FPS puritan crowd. There doesn't seem to be any frilly bullshit going on - the type that drives oldschool FPS players crazy like calling in air strikes, perks, experience, head bob and realistic climbing motions, reality physics.

I mean i'm forever bitching about how most FPS these days make you feel like you're waist deep in treacle, nothing feels crisp and reactive. I complain that in the old days we didn't have crowd control effects where you'd take your hands off the mouse&keyboard for up to 5 seconds because of someone's second special attack or 'ultimate'. Or that one hero type will always beat another hero type - I was in top teams/national teams for both HLTFC and TF2, i know my stuff regarding class based team FPS, i'm not just talking shit/whining there.

They ram those statements home at the end - pure speed, pure skill, pure fps. I don't believe it for one second, but they clearly want people like me to be hyped over this.

Blizzard has always had top-notch animation, I didn't think they would go so far into backstories for each of the characters. I'm still waiting to see if it unseats TF2. The reviews are good though,

@artician

Honestly, I'm much more a fan of stylized fantasy / sci-fi rather than just photo-realism. Like Bruti79 said, it keeps the game from ageing (e.g. TF2 still looks very good despite its age because of this).

Also a hyper realistic approach generally has less character and unique style. Admittedly, Overwatch is very Pixar inspired but stylistically that is still enough to distinguish it from your Call of / Battlefield monotony.

If there's anything I would criticize is the tone of all their titles is moving towards a PG-13-eque, appeals to the widest audience nature. They haven't released anything as dark as Diablo 1 or 2 in ages, and look like they never will.

That was awesome. Love me some TF2
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Initially saw this as a TF2 rip-off but actually pretty excited about it now having seen the streams of the closed beta.

A lot of concepts borrowed from TF2 sure, but also plenty of new ability and weapon ideas. The ultimates as clutch abilities and more tightly knit maps give it a different feel.

Also happy to see it's not free to play and it has been promised future heroes will be free. Suspect they'll probably still have some form of gameplay based DLC but it could be worse.