Is Overwatch a good video game?

Definitely not to be compared to CoD or Halo. Overwatch doesn't have a Team Deathmatch mode, or Deathmatch mode for a reason, Blizzard did not want to give the impression that this game was about killing your opponents. They wanted to ensure the game stayed focused around team play and cooperation.
It is a FPS Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA), to be compared more with Team Fortress.

Given the nature of MOBAs it does not have a campaign mode, but that's not to say it doesn't have a story. Blizzard has already begun releasing short animated films to help give context to the unique characters and the world & reason you fight. Many fans are theorizing there will be a full length movie or animated series to be released some time shortly after the games release (but I'm a bit skeptical on that, and instead expect a series of books as with all Blizzard games). The point is Blizzard has never skimped on telling an elaborate well thought out story.

The game has several different game modes to help ease new players into the game.
You start out with the beginners tutorial of course which gives you the basics of character movement.
Afterwards you can enter the training grounds where you can select any Hero and test out skills and abilities in a non-hostile environment.
And following that you can enter matches against A.I. You can choose to team up with human players, or you can select to have A.I. team mate as well.
Vs. A.I has 3 difficulty modes; easy, medium, and hard.
If A.I. have become too predictable or you feel the desire for more challenging play; you can join Quick Match games which you put 6 humans vs 6 humans, Blizzard does have match making to sure like skilled players are put together, and that pre-made teams are matched up against other pre-made teams.
If you really want to try-hard, there is also Ranked matches where players take things a little more seriously.

There are toxic players in all games no matter the genre. Blizzard views chat as a Privilege; and privileges can be taken away. As with all Blizzard games there are means to report toxic players, enough reports and those players will loose their chat privileges preventing them from communicating with other players. Blizzard has even gone so far to ban "Silenced" players from being able to play in Ranked matches.
Blizzard has no tolerance for toxic players ruining the fun for other players.

Don't listen to any of these guys. They are telling you exactly what you are getting. By the way the game is a ton of fun to play! Once you get a team together and start working together it becomes a lot more enjoyable :) Its just the matter of finding people that do. It only has about 8 or so maps at the moment though. So eventually it does get old. But its Blizzard, so obvi they are going to add new maps. Its a lot easier and more fun than most games that I've played. Its flown up to being one of my favorite games.

I played the open beta with a few buddies. Definetly a lot of fun. Lots of different classes to chose from. Im buying it.. if youve ever play team fortress 2 and enjoyed it, youll LOVE overwatch.

Comment your skype name and we can play when it comes out if u want. Got a few chill friends were all around 20-21 years old

Its very funny and wonderful but, yes it´s so hard. :S

its so funny,but to hard

Overwatch is a team game where you have to work with other players, so it isn't like COD where everybodies in it for themselves, and it's quite crazy and at time total choas, gets very intense.

it's a different kind of shooter. it's not like halo and cod where it's run and gun. a good kill death ratio usually means nothing in overwatch. it's more about capturing bases, transferring good or capture the flag type modes. there's no real death match modes or free for all in the game.

i've heard unless you have a close group of people to work with online, it's hard to win matches. as you need to coordinate a lot and choose characters in the game wisely, as they each have different abilities.

I still don't decide. I played in all Blizzard games, but Overwatch is something different.
It's their first FPS, and a lot of was borrowed from TF2.
There was open-beta, I played for 3 days, and I don't know will I buy this game.
Gameplay is simplified, comparing with TF2. Another thing that annoyed me, that not all characters could run.
Some characters is too weak, but nothing new it's old good Blizzard.
Maybe they didn't show all stuff in Beta, but I don't know it's not a masterpiece like Diablo, Warcraft, it's just another game.

no

I'm not getting Overwatch.

Reason why? I don't like games that think everybody wants just multiplayer, and nothing else.

Even if this game has a BOT MATCH (which I would love if someone would comment and tell me if it does), I still don't like games that are multiplayer-focused.

Two prime examples of recent multiplayer focused games that were once great:

- Star Wars Battlefront (Solo sucks, barely anything to do)
- Rainbow Six (Not online? Play the tutorial and nothing else)

Yeah, no thank you.

I did see the other one though...Battleborn I think. That one looks much better.

It's getting a lot of hype, but i don't know why.

It's yet another MOBA type game, which is a complete turn off for me because:
* Online only.
* No story. Just a MOBA.
* MOBAs are infamous for their communities made up of nothing but impatient @ssholes who will do nothing but curse and yell at newbies who just want to learn the game and have fun.

MOBAs are also known for their difficulty and steep learning curves. This might not be so much of an issue if it weren't for the fact you're playing with the aforementioned impatient @ssholes who are more interested in winning, than having a good time or, god forbid, helping out a newbie now and then.

Since winning a match pretty much requires you to already be fairly proficient in the game, able to coordinate complex strategies with your teammates, this creates a pretty imposing barrier for any but the most thick-skinned and determined player.

Sorry, but I'd rather play games to have fun, not be chewed out by other gamers with the mentality of a raging teenager.