Overwatch 2 is getting an animated mini-series subsequent week, and it appears to be a prequel exploring the Omnic Disaster.
For the reason that first recreation’s launch in 2016, Overwatch has had quite a few animated shorts that discover the backstories of quite a few characters, going into a number of the bigger story right here and there. However for the primary time, Blizzard is releasing a 2D animated mini-series referred to as Genesis – Half One: Daybreak, which appears to enter extra element concerning the Omnic Disaster, the massive inciting incident of the entire world of Overwatch.
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To shortly clarify the Omnic Disaster, the world was mainly a utopia that used omnics (AI pushed robots) to automate society and ensure of worldwide financial equality. As is par for the course of many tales about AI powered robots, they gained sentience, and fairly understandably revolted in opposition to their creators, kicking off an enormous struggle, i.e. the Omnic Disaster.
Whether or not your entire mini-series will go into the Omnic Disaster is not clear but, there might be some acquainted faces within the first episode, together with Reaper, Reinhardt, and Ana, all seen combating within the struggle. It additionally appears like we’ll be assembly the scientists that created the omnics, in addition to getting the attitude of stated omnics too. There might be two extra episodes following Daybreak, so it might discover every kind of tales on the planet of Overwatch.
This upcoming mini-series is not the one approach you may quickly expertise story in Overwatch 2, as come this August some story missions are being added into the sport. For some baffling motive you may should pay for them, however if you need extra story within the recreation itself that’ll be the place to be.
Genesis – Half One: Daybreak will premiere on the official Play Overwatch YouTube account on July 6, which you could find the hyperlink to under.
