Recent reviews by ModestMorning

Overwatch 2 is a shell of what Overwatch was, the gameplay is satisfying, but only for so long (In my opinion), there aren't any huge techs you can learn unless you play a character like Lucio or Tracer. Most characters just run in, either one shot someone, or be oneshot / stunned, and die, and there's a clear as day meta that Blizzard just don't act on at all.

I've been a huge fan of Overwatch before the original released, I pre-ordered it and played day 0, seen high highs, and low lows, and the current state is an all time low, and there's no signs of it improving.

So, to explain a few things wrong with Overwatch 2...

The game gets no new content anymore apart from a new hero every other season which has become boring / stale, or you get a map for a gamemode that was rushed and released with 1 or 2 maps (Clash / Push). The only new content it gets nowadays is a new battle pass every few months, and more paid cosmetics for the same 6 characters, the battle pass and item shop is littered with re-colours. There's even a D.va skin with 4 VERSIONS OF THE SAME SKIN, all re-colours, and most released during Overwatch 2 costing more / the same as the original.

The only "new" content the game gets nowadays is Overwatch 1 content returning like 6v6 or Overwatch classic. I don't blame the devs, I blame Blizzard / Activision / Microsoft for the layoffs and the prioritising of milking it's player base with cosmetics only for popular characters like Kiriko, Mercy, Reaper, Reinhardt and Genji.

The PVE, (The main reason OW2 exists) has been completely cancelled, it got downsized to a few missions a year which was a punch in the crotch, but we got 3 missions in 2023, and got none in 2024, they could change that in 2025 but I doubt it considering that the whole of Overwatch's story / PVE team was laid off.

Since Marvel rivals came out, all Blizzard have done is make another item shop and do a small update to 6v6, I don't even play Marvel Rivals but wow it's pathetic how little Blizzard cares about their now biggest competitor and Blizzard only gave us a new item shop with discounted items which is absolutely pathetic. Instead of prioritising some new / fun content, they decided to do a new item shop.

I love Overwatch's world, lore / story and everything (Especially Junker Queen) about the game, except the game itself, like I said before, it's a husk of what it was before. Please let me change my review to positive in the future Blizzard, I want to love this game again.

Behold, dog!

Updated review after version 2.0

Early access was before 2.0 like fr lol
Even back then I had a blast with the game, it had it's problems, a LOT of problems, but CDPR have done an amazing comeback, the best redemption arc of a game I've ever seen.

Pros:
The game is gorgeous
The combat is fun
The redesigned perk tree is easy to understand and gives you a lot of freedom
The customisation is great
The ost is a major banger
The weapons are great
The story is amazing and well written
The characters are so memorable
Cyberware adds so much depth to your combat and exploration
The map is a great size with a lot to explore

Cons:
The game still has some visual bugs, not many but it does happen
Vehicle controls are still a bit iffy but far better than before
First person animations (excluding arms) are super, super weird, they straight up look bad
You gotta have a real beefy pc to run the game above medium, but welcome to next gen gaming lol

Extra:
The recent 2.0 update changed the game in all the right places, Cyberware and clothing is a huge upgrade compared to how it was, clothing is almost purely cosmetic with some exceptions, and Cyberware are your real upgrades as it should've been from day 1, I also enjoy the limitations of Cyberware, fits in with the lore (Cyberphycosis). Another thing is the redesigned perk trees, it's much simpler, straight forward and far better than what we had before which was over complicated and didn't really do much.

I couldn't recommend this game more if you're into story driven open world games, it's been my favourite game for years now and I love it to death.

This game changed how I view first person shooters and music

And how I view big muscular men

This is basically GTA

Late September 2024 update: I haven't seen a single bot or obvious cheater since June, Valve seems to be keeping on top of the botting crisis for the moment, but they have regained my faith (For now).

This is one of the best shooter games you can ever play, as they said when the game went free to play 13 years ago "The most fun you can have online"

I have a couple of hours on the game, and can say with full confidence, this game will never get boring to me, it's the most re playable shooter I've ever played. The game is turning 18 in October 2025 which is insane, and it's still going, may not get any official content from Valve anymore, but the game still gets bug fixes, quality of life changes / fixes, new maps and new cosmetics. Much as I would LOVE for this game to get content updates once again, it can live without content updates, and the game has proven that due to it being over 2,500 days (Almost 7 years) without a meaningful content update (Jungle Inferno), the game still gets 3 yearly seasonal updates which is Summer, Scream Fortress (Halloween), and Smissmas (Christmas), they all bring cosmetics and maps.

One big thing, don't buy from the mannco store, it's stupidly overpriced, the prices have never been changed in the over 10 years of the item shop existing

Anyways, the most fun you can have online for free as Valve said years ago, highly recommend the game.

(Please keep up the anti-cheat Valve)