3. JUNKENSTEIN’S REVENGE
Spooks and scares were aplenty for Overwatch players from Oct 11 to Nov 1, as the Halloween Terror event released tons of spine-tingling skins along with the game’s first PvE co-operative brawl.
Titled Junkenstein’s Revenge, groups of four players choose between McCree, Solider: 76, Hanzo, and Ana or “The Gunslinger,” “The Soldier,” “The Archer,” and “The Alchemist” to fight waves of monstrous robots called Zomnics created by the horrible Dr. Junkenstein.
With three different difficulty settings at easy, medium, and hard, there were also mini-bosses that showed off the Halloween skins of Roadhog (Junkenstein’s Monster), Reaper (The Reaper), Mercy (The Witch), and Junkrat (Dr. Junkenstein). You won the brawl as soon as the evil Dr. Junkenstein was vanquished along with his crew.
This brawl was extremely well-received, as it provided players with new ways to utilize the weapons and kits of Overwatch characters that had thus far just been used in online multiplayer modes. By fighting AI enemies, players had to work as a team and figure out strategies for when best to use ultimates, how to focus firepower on certain areas of the map, and how to take down the mini-bosses quickly and efficiently before the Zomnics destroyed the gate and all was lost. Unleashing an ultimate on dozens of unknowing robots was extremely fun, and deciding who to Nano Boost as Ana was a key element to success.
The narration and redesign of the Eichenwalde map were top notch, with a creepy voice narrating the battle in a Frankenstein-esque style of story-telling. New voice lines for both the bosses and playable characters were featured, and the difficulty setting offered a challenge for both new and veteran players.
