How Blizzard is using Overwatch to evolve its storytelling approach

Overwatch wouldn’t be a Blizzard game if it didn’t have a deep story.

The team-based multiplayer shooter (coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC next spring) is developer Blizzard Entertainment’s first new game universe in almost 20 years. It has a cast of 21 playable heroes and villains, each with their own personality and history. But unlike Diablo or StarCraft, Overwatch doesn’t have a robust single-player mode that tells one main story. It’s mostly about players working together to defeat the opposing team (check out our impressions from the closed beta here).