{"id":186699,"date":"2024-07-08T16:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T21:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/?p=186699"},"modified":"2024-07-08T15:32:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T20:32:13","slug":"overwatch-2-transformers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/07\/08\/overwatch-2-transformers\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch 2 is collaborating with Transformers with a comic, skins, and animated cinematic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/category\/overwatch\/\"><em>Overwatch 2<\/em><\/a> crossover event begins <strong>July 9<\/strong>, and so far their collaboration with <em>Transformers<\/em> has featured a whole lot of gorgeous artwork and character concepts. The header image is an Optimus Prime skin for Reinhardt, from the trailer posted to the <em>Overwatch 2<\/em> social media sites, done in a style distinctly invoking Saturday morning cartoons. It seems meant to play on nostalgia for the original, and less so to build anticipation for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0rmJXXKDrsM\">the upcoming movie<\/a> featuring Chris Hemsworth as the voice of Optimus Prime.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arve\" data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-x3k-avl7yfy66dfbdabbcfcc942380938\" style=\"max-width:900px;\">\n<span class=\"arve-inner\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 500 \/ 281\"><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" data-arve=\"arve-youtube-x3k-avl7yfy66dfbdabbcfcc942380938\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/x3K-Avl7yFY?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"505.8\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/x3K-Avl7yFY?feature=oembed&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autoplay=0\" width=\"900\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"http:\\\/\\\/schema.org\\\/\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blizzardwatch.com\\\/2024\\\/07\\\/08\\\/overwatch-2-transformers\\\/#arve-youtube-x3k-avl7yfy66dfbdabbcfcc942380938\",\"type\":\"VideoObject\",\"embedURL\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\\\/embed\\\/x3K-Avl7yFY?feature=oembed&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0\"}<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They also released a comic to go with this tie-in, called <a href=\"https:\/\/overwatch.blizzard.com\/en-us\/media\/stories\/transmission\/\">Transmission<\/a>. The art is again beautiful and meant to have a strong nostalgia hook. While the story isn&#8217;t consequential to the universe of <em>Overwatch<\/em> per se beyond justifying the skins for the event, it is a decent read.<\/p>\n<p>I would expect some kind of Arcade-based game mode to go along with this, but we don&#8217;t have that detail quite yet. I would expect some kind of Autobots squad &#8212; Reinhardt, Illari, and Bumblebee Bastion &#8212; against a super powered Rammatra, since he seems to be the only one with a Decepticon-themed skin. We&#8217;ve seen a few of these now, like the Yeti Hunt mode featuring Winston as the main baddie, so it should be at least fun enough to slog through a handful of matches for a spray.<\/p>\n<p>Would it be too cynical to point out that the original <em>Transformers<\/em> TV series was conceived by Hasbro to sell their existing line of <em>Transformers<\/em> toys, and now here we are, purchasing skins in a game all but synonymous for predatory monetization based on nostalgia for that 40 year old merchandising scheme from a company that <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/06\/04\/wizards-coast-ai-engineer-job-posting\/\">continually<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2023\/02\/02\/dnd-ogl-1-1-controversy\/\">disappoints us<\/a>? I don&#8217;t mean to be a wet blanket for those who are excited about this &#8212; and <em>Transformers<\/em> are fun and exciting &#8212; but some days are just more meta than others, I guess. I do get it, though. Really, the only thing I&#8217;m a little confused on is why they didn&#8217;t wait til September to create a stronger tie-in with the movie as it releases, but I&#8217;m clearly not in marketing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next Overwatch 2 crossover event begins July 9, and so far their collaboration with Transformers has featured a whole lot of gorgeous artwork and character concepts. The header image is an Optimus Prime skin for Reinhardt, from the trailer posted to the Overwatch 2 social media sites, done in a style distinctly invoking Saturday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":186703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[275],"tags":[4235,33727,76481,78675,5756,24199,3817],"yst_prominent_words":[8335,8593,12542,8697,12864,11213,8214,24304,10197,20011],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186706,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186699\/revisions\/186706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186699"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=186699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}