ACTIVISION Blizzard Entertainment Overwatch - Origins Edition - Xbox One

We absolutely love it!!

Update 1/12/17. This game is a blast! Perhaps the most fun I have ever had playing a video game, and I go all the way back to the original Atari Pong and race games. The recent update added characters and maps, and as I stated in my review, I expect Blizzard to continue to update and make this game better. They really are a great gaming company. I personally have never played COD style FPS online in competition with other people, so I was a little apprehensive. I'm used to playing against AI with a limited number of lives. I never got the fun of dying over and over just to run back and kill a couple of characters, but what I have realized is that the kids today don't know how to play these games! I've been playing for a week, and I now rarely die and I am able to nearly single-handedly decimate the opposing team. These are players with twice my experience and I'm sure ten times the hours of playing. Infinite lives has ruined everyone's ability to develop STRATEGY, and strategy has always been what these games are about for me. Perhaps this generation of gamers should pick up a little game called Chess before they run out and buy COD 99! Believe it or not kiddos that ancient game can teach you many, many lessons about abstract thinking and strategy, and I believe they even have it in video form these days for those who can no longer deal with the reality of actually having to pick up a game piece and move it with your hands. LOL! Better give it a shot, because if you run into me online, I'll definitely be killing you.I am a huge Blizzard fan, and have enjoyed many of their PC games. Additionally, I am crazy about Diablo and all it's iterations. So when I saw that Blizzard came out with a new FPS, I had to jump at the chance to play it, and I have not been disappointed.I immediately threw myself into this game. It's got some pros and cons, but overall, I'm satisfied and very happy with the purchase.Pros:1) Refreshing: there's so many unique characters, and different classes. No more of the COD style default boring character. These characters have personalities, great voice lines and interact with each other. They've clearly put a lot of heart into the production of these characters, which is something I have always loved about Blizzard's games.2) Fun!: this game is fun. Point blank. There's a character/position for anyone.3) Blizzard: this company is wonderful, they've stated that any DLC/Character/Maps they create will be available to all, free of charge.4) Polished: this game is wonderfully polished. Unlike some games, this one isn't glitchy and buggy right at release. They've done this game right.Cons:- Unlockables: while I love the idea of so much being Unlockable, from what I've played, it's gonna take a LONG TIME. It seems to be a rarity to get the in-game-currency in your loot crates, and I find myself getting a lot of things I'm not too thrilled about.- Repetition: this game isn't going to be one that you can play ALL day, unless you really really enjoy FPS games. I found myself being tapped out after a few hours of gameplay, as it did get repetitive. However, I'm accounting this to the fact that this game is BRAND new, and there is lots of room for expansion and new game modes.I think this game is 100% worth the money. And I'm super excited to see where they take this game!

Grandson loved it and is happy to tell me all about it when he is over

This game delivers more than you'd expect. I went from never having heard of it to playing the "beta" (it was really more of a demo) and being full invested. I've played the game more in the few weeks since it's released than I've played most of the AAA releases in the past year. More than Halo 5, more than Battlefront, more than just about everything except Rocket League, and Overwatch is catching up to that very fast. I know you're reading this saying "those are all very different games with completely different mechanics" and you'd be right. Overwatch captures that middle ground of being deceptively simple to learn and forever hard to master. If you have friends who know how to FPS, the variety is endless compared to something like Halo where the only variance in character is armor ability and grenade type. Battlefront equates to Star Wars skin on Battlefield, and while the large action of a DICE game is exciting for sure, the staying power just wasn't there. As for Rocket League, that game is perfect, but comes from a small studio and you're limited to 3 friends to play with on your team (but really you should only play with 1 or 2 other people) and it is exciting and also provides that same atmosphere of progression and collectible items (skins, paint jobs, rims, toppers etc) but car soccer isn't for everyone. That brings me to the game at hand. The variety of characters is huge. There are 4 types, and each type has multiple "heroes" and they are WILDLY different in their core abilities, appearance, utility and high-level play. The team dynamic and balancing and planning and coordination are all a macro-game to be good at while still perfecting the micro game of learning how to play more than one character. I have no background with MOBA's but from what I've gathered this game took the simplest to understand elements of that genre and elegantly threaded them into a handsomely presented FPS. There is a character for EVERYONE. Don't do well when you're in a firefight? Run a support hero who can hang back and heal or shield or damage boost or debuff opponents while other people deal damage and capture objectives. Not a huge fan of standing around? Be a flanking character that deals massive damage but don't stray too far from your team. Want to be the center of attention? We've got 5 tanks to choose from and they're all unique, whether you want to turn the oppositions damage against them, leap into their face, or just push the line forward one ironclad step at a time there's a hero for you. Prefer to lock down one area and make sure no one is getting in? We've got a pegglegged demolition expert, a Chinese Eskimo with a Mr. Freeze complex, a cybernetic dwarf who builds turrets and armor and a whole bunch of others for you to choose from.The game is never the same twice. It is well worth the investment and the long-term support Blizzard has promised (free new characters on top of the 21 hero roster they already have along with new maps) makes this game worth the time.

Son loved it