Overwatch 2 is formally the worst-reviewed recreation on Steam from over 110,000 votes, giving it a paltry general rating of 0.94 out of 10.
Metro noticed that Steam250, the web site that calculates how extremely video games are rated utilizing dwell critiques knowledge from Steam, confirmed the hero shooter on the very backside of the record of all video games on the platform.
On the time of writing, Overwatch 2 is extra maligned than the free-to-play technique card recreation Battle of the Three Kingdoms, the god recreation Godus which has been in “early entry” for nearly a decade, the “sluggish” looter-shooter Redfall, and the Resident Evil spin-off Umbrella Corps.
Lower than 10 per cent of the critiques for Overwatch 2 are complimentary, with gamers taking purpose at Blizzard Leisure‘s historic controversies, the sport’s strategy to monetisation and that the unique Overwatch is gone eternally.
“I cried on the half when Reaper stated ‘BUY, BUY, BUY’ and locked the brand new heroes behind a battle cross and scrapped the Story Mode. Really the sport of all time,” stated one overview.
Final week, Overwatch 2: Invasion launched, including a brand new hero, a brand new mode and three new narrative missions concerning the battle between Overwatch and Null Sector. Nevertheless, to play these missions, these should pay a minimum of $14.99 for the Invasion Bundle.
This stung the gamers who had been disillusioned that the “cooperative, narrative-driven recreation expertise” mode pitting gamers in opposition to enemies was cancelled in Might. Furthermore, the Blizzard Leisure staff affirmed that the following lot of narrative missions gained’t be launched till 2024 on the earliest.
In July, it was introduced that roughly 50 Blizzard Leisure esports workers had been laid off, but Overwatch League commissioner Sean Miller stated that there shall be a “revitalised world scene” for the aggressive recreation within the subsequent yr.
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