Overwatch

Blizzard makes its first foray into multi-player shooters – and conjures up a surefire hit.

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Playing Blizzard’s latest slice of multi-player mayhem is a bit like playing Russian Roulette with your spare time. It always starts innocently enough – “I’ll just play a couple of matches,” you say as you select from one of Overwatch’s 21 characters. Then you look at your watch and realise that nine hours have passed and your dinner has charred to a crisp in the oven. It’s a proverbial rabbit hole of a game, and an addictive one at that.

Shooters – and especially multi-player-focused ones – are ten-a-penny on the PC and currentgen consoles these days, so it might seem quite risky of Blizzard to enter such a crowded and innocuous genre. But