Overwatch's first Halloween update.
If you were concerned that the online team-combat game Overwatch didn't have enough blatant similarities with online team-combat game Team Fortress 2, this week's seasonally themed update is for you. Overwatch's first Halloween-themed patch went live for all of its platforms on Tuesday, and like TF2's spooky annual updates, it includes Halloween-themed unlocks for its characters, a new map, and a co-op brawl.
This, by the way, marks Overwatch's first pure "player vs. environment" (PvE) content, as opposed to existing "versus bots" versions of its deathmatch modes, and it pits four human players against waves of computer-controlled "zombie robots," along with a few higher-powered, AI super-soldiers. The time-limited "Junkenstein's Revenge" brawl dumps a team of four into a haunted-house setting where enemies appear from roughly three spawn points, and it asks players to not only survive seven minutes of enemy waves but also keep those baddies from breaking down a door in the back of the room.
Unlike co-op PvE modes in series such as Gears of War and Call of Duty, players aren't tasked with building fortifications or upgrading their own weapons. This is just pure action-survival stuff (with three selectable difficulties). Players can pick from one of four heroes (Ana, Hanzo, McCree, or Soldier 76), and once a hero is picked, that hero is no longer selectable by teammates.
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