Upcoming sequel brings players into the story
of Overwatch as the world’s heroes stand together against a global
Null Sector attack
Level up and customize your heroes with
supercharged abilities as you undertake a wide range of cooperative
Hero Missions around the world
Team up in a new era of Overwatch’s world-class
PvP competition with new heroes, maps, and more
More than 50 million players* worldwide have teamed up to
capture objectives, push payloads, and fight for the future in
Overwatch®, Blizzard Entertainment’s acclaimed team-based shooter.
Today, before a sold-out crowd of BlizzCon 2019 attendees and
millions watching online, Blizzard Entertainment revealed
Overwatch 2, a supercharged sequel that will send players
deeper into the world and story of Overwatch and build upon the
original game’s critically acclaimed foundation of world-class PvP
competition.
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Overwatch 2 is a supercharged sequel that
sends players deeper into the world and story of Overwatch and
builds upon its foundation of world-class PvP competition.
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In Overwatch 2, players will take on the roles of the world’s
heroes in cooperative missions that challenge them to team
up, power up, and stand together against an overwhelming outbreak
of threats around the globe. Players will also battle each other in
the next evolution of competitive Overwatch play, which carries
forward existing players’ accomplishments and loot collections and
features the current complete Overwatch roster, a new generation of
heroes, new internationally recognizable maps that widen the scope
of the world, a new Push map type, and more.
“With Overwatch 2, we’re building the cooperative,
narrative-driven game experience that players have been asking for
since the original—and that we’ve wanted to make for a long time,”
said J. Allen Brack, president of Blizzard Entertainment. “We’re
looking forward to telling the next chapter of this epic story
in-game, and we’re excited to give players a whole-new kind of
co-op experience built around progressing and customizing their
favorite heroes—all while providing even more of everything they
love about Overwatch today.”
In the sequel’s action-packed cooperative Story Missions,
players will experience the advent of a new Overwatch as Winston,
Tracer, and other members of the original Overwatch join forces
with a new generation of heroes. Players will take an active role
in the Overwatch saga as a new global crisis unfolds through a
series of intense, high-stakes four-player missions. As the story
progresses, players will team up as different sets of heroes and
fight to defend the world from the omnic forces of Null Sector,
uncover the motives behind the robotic armies’ attacks, and come
face-to-face with rising new threats around the globe.
The battle continues in Hero Missions, where the
Overwatch team will be called upon to go beyond their limits as
they deploy across the planet, defending cities against robot
invasions, taking on elite Talon agents, and battling the
villainous forces laying siege to the world. In this highly
replayable mode, players can level up their favorite heroes
and earn powerful customization options that supercharge
their abilities in co-op play—such as altering Reinhardt’s Fire
Strike to ignite nearby enemies or modifying Tracer’s Pulse Bomb to
cause a devastating chain reaction—granting the extra edge they
need against the overwhelming odds.
To help realize these missions, the sequel also introduces
significant engine upgrades that support larger maps for co-op
(PvE) play, as well as the wide variety of new enemies and factions
that players will encounter on their missions. The game also
introduces visual enhancements designed to bring players’ favorite
heroes—and their new looks for Overwatch 2—to life in greater
detail.
Overwatch 2 also represents the beginning of a new era for the
series’ world-renowned competitive 6v6 play. In addition to
carrying forward all of the original game’s heroes, maps, and
modes—as well as existing Overwatch players’ accomplishments and
loot collections—the sequel adds multiple new playable
heroes to the ever-growing roster; widens the scope of the
world with even more maps and locations; and adds a new
Push map type, in which two teams compete to make a robot
(that happens to be pretty good at pushing things) push the map’s
objective to their opponent’s side.
Overwatch 2 also renews Blizzard’s commitment to continue
supporting the existing Overwatch community. Current Overwatch
players will battle side-by-side with Overwatch 2 players in PvP
multiplayer. In addition, current Overwatch players will be able to
play Overwatch 2 heroes and maps, ensuring the core PvP experience
remains dynamic and vital for today’s community in the Overwatch 2
era. More details on Blizzard’s plans, including some of the new
heroes joining the fray, will be announced in the future as
development continues.
For more information on Overwatch 2, visit
www.playoverwatch.com. For screenshots and other assets, visit
http://blizzard.gamespress.com.
About Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
Best known for blockbuster hits including World of Warcraft®,
Hearthstone®, Overwatch®, the Warcraft®, StarCraft®, and Diablo®
franchises, and the multi-franchise Heroes of the Storm®, Blizzard
Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision
Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), is a premier developer and publisher of
entertainment software renowned for creating some of the industry’s
most critically acclaimed games. Blizzard Entertainment’s track
record includes twenty-two #1 games* and multiple Game of the Year
awards. The company's online gaming service, Battle.net®, is one of
the largest in the world, with millions of active players.
*Sales and/or downloads, based on internal company records and
reports from key distributors.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking
Statements: Information in this press release that involves
Blizzard Entertainment's expectations, plans, intentions or
strategies regarding the future, including statements about the
features and functionality of Overwatch and Overwatch 2, are
forward-looking statements that are not facts and involve a number
of risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause Blizzard
Entertainment's actual future results to differ materially from
those expressed in the forward-looking statements set forth in this
release include unanticipated product delays and other factors
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most recent annual report on Form 10-K and any subsequent quarterly
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assumes any obligation to update any such forward-looking
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made may ultimately prove to be incorrect. These statements are not
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other factors, some of which are beyond its control and may cause
actual results to differ materially from current expectations.
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