Overwatch 2’s newest crossover — with Hasbro’s Transformers franchise — was introduced again in June, and now followers have their first trailer exhibiting what it appears like. It’s stuffed with anime and woop-woop-wak-wak goodness.
The fundamental level is that Overwatch 2’s roster will get reskinned. So whereas we’re undoubtedly seeing Megatron and Optimus Prime-inspired heroes, these are literally Overwatch 2 fighters in costume. The costumes are nonetheless fairly rad.
Reinhardt will get the father-figure position of Optimus, and Ramattra has a pleasant Megatron design. Bastion takes the position of loyal underdog Bumblebee, and Illari will get forged as Arcee. These are the one roles confirmed. Overwatch 2 has a forged of 40 heroes total.
Whereas it is a good anime it’s clearly not gameplay (and Blizzard nonetheless must maintain its sport balanced, so you possibly can anticipate everybody to behave as they do often) it appears like that is the extent of the crossover. Nonetheless, 4 characters in well-chosen getups from Cybertron probably took numerous work.
They are going to be accessible starting Tuesday, July 9 within the Overwatch retailer. Costs haven’t been revealed however contemplating that is licensed content material from the world’s largest toy maker, and a mega-movie franchise, showing in a free-to-play, live-service multiplayer shooter, don’t expect them to come cheap.
Overwatch 2 launched in 2022, and is obtainable on Nintendo Swap, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Collection X.