Overwatch Beta: Like Brink But, Wait What's Brink? 

Title: Overwatch (BETA) 
BETA Time: May 3/5 – May 10 
Release: May 24 2016 
Platforms: PS4 (BETA Played), XBOX ONE, PC 
The only reason I'm doing a review for this is because Overwatch, and Dark Souls 3, are all I have played lately and I'm no where near ready to talk about Dark Souls 3, so even though this is a Beta and might mean this review could be a bit shorter, it's all I can really think about doing right now so deal with it. Also; I would like to take this moment to self promote and say if you go to my Youtube you will see me streaming quite a bit. It will most likely be either Dark Souls 3 or Overwatch; since the beta got extended. 
Anyhow back to Overwatch: 
Overwatch is a first person online shooter in the same vein of games such as games such as Team Fortress. Overwatch is made by Blizzard, it seems they could finally tear themselves away from those three games they keep shitting out. Maybe I should point out I don't really enjoy Blizzard games, I could never get into WOW or any MMO if I'm honest, I've never even tried Starcraft and Diablo doesn't interest me. So maybe I'm biased, maybe I'm ignorant or possibly it's cause non of their games are the type of games that I actually enjoy. As a whole multiplayer aren't my type of thing, with a few exceptions of course. So, is Overwatch part of that exception? Well you'll have to bloody wait, won't you? I will say I didn't like Team Fortress either. 

Visuals: 
I think Overwatch looks really damn good, I do really enjoy the whole cartoon style the graphics have. Although, maybe it's cause just before me playing Overwatch I played part of the first episode of the Game of Thrones Telltale game, and it looks shit I would even go as far as to say it looked disgusting. I won't review that so here's a quick overview: It was shit. Back to Overwatch the game is cartoonish as I said before, and it is also quite colourful and nice to look at and in a world over populated with gray, gritty, realistic first person cover shooters this is nice and refreshing to play. 


Gameplay: 
If you've played any other games like this such as Team Fortress or Brink, if anyone even remembers that, then you pretty much know the score. Two teams, range of characters from different classes and the two teams have to kill each other whilst completing an objective. From what I have said already surely I won't like this, but I do. In all honesty I find this game really fun and I really enjoy playing it. Unlike Team Fortress Overwatch has a wide range of characters that could suit anyone's playstyle from a fast character like Tracer or a 'stay in one place and kill everyone' character like Bastion, (who also has a really cute bird). To me the characters also have a lot more personality than characters in games like Team Fortress. Each character also has their own skins, poses, tags and voice lines to unlock which, for someone who likes that sort of stuff, is really cool. If anyone is interested (why would you be?) my favorite character to play as is D.VA.

This is normally the point I would take about the story however from what I can see from the beta there is no real story to it, maybe there's some back story to the characters but I haven't really looked. Whether there will be a story mode or anything like that in the finished game is unclear to me but I am cautiously curious what will happen with the final product. Why cautious? Cause Brink. 


Here I would blabber on about the final part of the game however this is a first person online shooter so the last mission is literally when you decide to stop playing. I guess I'll just blabber on about the game modes instead. In this beta you have the option of custom game, online against players and online verses AI, the latter is the one I played the most. They all work it's just personal preference and my preference is to pretend I'm actually decent at games. From what I played there seems to be three game modes: stop/escort the payload, attack/defend the area and just kill people. It's not much but it is a beta, I don't doubt there will be more in the final game. 

Outro: 
To finish I would like to say that I really like that this is an online that you don't need PlayStation plus for because you know I payed for a next gen console I can't really afford to fork out another £40. Let's not allow how much I think PlayStation plus is bullshit take away from how much I actually enjoy Overwatch and the fact that this is the first Blizzard game that I actually enjoy. I just hope they don't go back to WOW and forget about this and it becomes another Brink. Yes I'm still pissed off by Brink cause I was looking forward to it and got hyped and it was shit, just another reason hype culture is poisonous. 

Tracer's controversial ass/10 

As I said before I have been streaming more frequently on YouTube CAUSE TWITCH IS SHIT ON MY PS4 come and join PLZ.
All feedback and comments very much appreciated. 
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