If you’re a fan of first-person shooter games, then chances are you’ve played Blizzard Entertainment’s popular hero shooter, Overwatch 2. The popular game has been out for nearly a year, picking up exactly where the original title left off. Despite a handful of controversies, Overwatch 2 is poised to have an even bigger sophomore year.
- Blizzard is developing a three-part Overwatch 2 animated mini-series.
- The series will expand on the game’s lore and is set to release on YouTube.
- The first part of the series will premiere on July 6.
- The series will likely focus on the Omnic Crisis and the formation of Overwatch.
- Blizzard aims to fill gaps in the game’s story and make it more cohesive for fans.
Blizzard isn’t leaving anything up to chance though. The studio confirmed that it’s releasing a three-part animated mini-series that will expand on some of the game’s lore.
The animated series will be released in three parts, with the first one scheduled to arrive on July 6 at 9:00 AM PT. It will have a runtime of 5 minutes and 13 seconds and will be uploaded directly to YouTube.
It was a technological golden age. Until it wasn’t.
Introducing GENESIS, an Overwatch mini-series.
Part one of three premieres July 6 ✨
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— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) June 30, 2023
The trailer looks amazing. It depicts a war between AI and humans in what we assume to be the original Omnic Crisis when robots with artificial intelligence rebelled against their human creators. The fact that the trailer features some of the game’s fabled heroic characters – Reinhardt, Ana, and Torbjörn – makes this theory more feasible.
Even though details about the project are sparse, our prevailing theory is that Overwatch 2: Genesis will focus on the Omnic Crisis and the eponymous organization that was created to combat that threat.
Over the years, the studio has built a solid reputation for creating magnificent shorts to complement its games. But then, a majority of those shorts were standalone and, quite frankly, disjointed. Overwatch 2: Genesis feels different. From what we’ve seen, it’s meant to fill gaps in the game’s story and make it more cohesive for fans.
Blizzard released a roadmap for the action shooter game in May that promised a couple of new characters, story missions, and reworks.
While that was good news to fans of the game, Blizzard’s next announcement achieved the opposite effect. Last month, the studio said it would charge gamers a fee to access the game’s story missions that will arrive with its sixth season coming in August.
