Nevertheless, she has ideas and motivations independent of theirs. Exactly how she ended up working with Reaper and Widowmaker and Talon is unclear, but their attacking LumériCo in Mexico meant they shared a common goal. She went into hiding, went overground, got augmented, and re-emerged years later as Sombra. She ran with the Los Muertos gang in Mexico but was caught in the spider's web when she uncovered a global conspiracy and the attention turned to her. The Overwatch website tells us she had an affinity for hacking and soon discovered information was power. She was born the year the Overwatch organisation was formed, so would have known of them well. Sombra grew up an orphan of the Omnic Crisis. But the events of the animated short cannot have occurred more than six years ago because Soldier: 76 was still John "Jack" Morrison more than six years ago. Sombra is 30 years old and Alejandra is probably no older than 10. Could she have a tie to one of the existing characters, or a character from Overwatch lore? Is she that girl, Alejandra, from the Hero animated short as people suspected? No, she isn't - she can't be because of the ages involved. Orisa has no affiliation to Overwatch nor Talon but is inextricably linked to Doomfist, who we expect to be unveiled next.įinally, Sombra. Using salvaged and auctioned parts, Oladele built Orisa to stand in their place. The OR15 robots that were supposed to protect Numbani, didn't, and were either destroyed by Doomfist or decommissioned following the attack. Orisa was created by 11-year-old Efi Oladele after a Doomfist attack on Numbani. Symmetra can also be considered a baddie, although she has nothing to do with Overwatch and she appears to be questioning her conscience. The baddies working against Overwatch are Reaper and Widowmaker, although Roadhog and Junkrat are also considered baddies but with their own chaotic crime-spree of an agenda. Pharah never worked for Overwatch but wanted to and her mother did. It's Winston who illegally reconnected the Overwatch network, and it's he who issues the Overwatch Recall - calling back into service all agents - upon which the game begins.īroadly, the goodies associated with the organisation Overwatch are: Soldier 76, Ana, Reinhardt, Torbjorn, Mercy, McCree, Winston, Genji, Tracer and Mei. These attacks were led by mysterious and merciless killer Reaper, but were thwarted by Winston, a gorilla scientist who refused to let Overwatch go. But Talon has also been attacking old - not quite dormant - Overwatch outposts hoping to steal data and whereabouts of all old operatives. An era of peace was ushered in and Earth's champion Overwatch prospered for 20 years under the command of Morrison, expanding its influence and numbers all over the world.īut in the six years since Overwatch disappeared, tensions have risen between human and omnic, stirred by Talon terrorist attacks - particularly the assassination of Shambali leader Tekhartha Mondatta by Widowmaker. The omnics had taken over most of the world but with the help of Overwatch they were eventually beaten, forced back into submission, although a religious omnic off-shoot was formed called Shambali that claimed omnics had souls, and crusaded for equality with humans. God programs - AI super-brains - took over the omniums and turned omnics against humans, equipping them for war, and the Omnic Crisis began. For years the omnics had served humans, churned out by huge omnium factories, but something went wrong just over 30 years ago. It was a super-team created to end the Omnic Crisis - omnic robots turned bad (or was it robots awakening from slavery and rebelling?). That was six years ago.īut once upon a time Overwatch was great, held aloft and cheered around the world. Overwatch was disbanded and declared illegal, and all agents associated with it scattered to the wind. I say "was" because it was destroyed, torn apart by allegations and in-fighting and eventually an explosion at the Swiss headquarters that reportedly killed two of its founding and leading members, Gabriel Reyes and John "Jack" Morrison, and maybe Ana Amari, Pharah's mother. Overwatch was an organisation formed by Earth's United Nations 30 years earlier. The game takes place in a fictionalised version of Earth 60 years into the future. I didn't know much at all about it after 20 hours or so of playing but now I do, I wanted to share it with you, because knowing a bit more about adds a certain je ne sais quoi. It isn't rammed in your face, it doesn't get in the way of the action, but it is there.
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