It’s amazing when a single news post can get me from zero to GET HYPE! in literally three seconds. The only-slightly puntastically-named Overwatch just released their first news post, and it revealed that Overwatch is almost done. Well, it’s nearing its closed beta, which is development code for “almost done.” The first set of development invites are being sent out on July 14th, and then a bunch more are being sent out each week until the first public release. It should be exciting.
If you don’t know what Overwatch is (like me twenty minutes into the past) it’s kind of a hybrid real-time strategy/first person shooter dealie. The person playing as the Combine views the world through a overhead (hence the name, heh heh) viewpoint and he or she controls a bunch of troops, while the rest of the people play individual Rebel soldiers from the first person perspective. With the mod team’s pedigree, which consists of them working on Zombie Panic, Dystopia and Sven Co-op, they should be one of the few teams that would be able to pull something like this off.
While the very sleek ModDB page is a little light on actual gameplay screenshots, here’s a series of moving pictures to demonstrate how the Combine gameplay should work.
Or, if you want to look into it more, here’s the ModDB page or the mod’s official website.
Sounds just like the HL2 mod Zombie Master, but with the Owerwatch instead of the Zombie Master, and Rebels instead of survivors.