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New agents were recruited, and the organization’s goals expanded to include more than just keeping the peace. The world fell in love with Overwatch, and the team transformed into an international peacekeeping force that delved into exploration and discovery. And they performed exactly as hoped - together, the team took down the force behind the omnic uprising and saved the world. There were others that were brought in over time, but these seven were considered the founders of Overwatch. The team itself was fairly small to begin with - of course there were Reyes and Morrison, but also in the ranks were Gérard Lacroix, armorer Torbjörn Lindholm, Reinhardt Wilhelm, Ana Amari, and Liao. His second was another member of the same soldier enhancement program and a close friend: John “Jack” Morrison. The appointed leader was a military veteran and member of the soldier enhancement program - a man from Los Angeles named Gabriel Reyes. This team, called Overwatch, was filled with soldiers from all over the world. Gabrielle Adawe, secretary-general of the UN, formed a team of the world’s best soldiers and best technology, creating an elite strike unit that was hopefully capable of bringing down the threat. Understandable, considering the omnics likely had access to every piece of technology the human race had.ĭesperate to fight back, the United Nations came together to try and find some kind of solution. And despite mankind’s technological prowess, there was very little the individual nations of the world could do against such a large-scale threat. Uprisings sprouted up all over the world - because the omniums themselves were scattered all over the world. For some reason, the ominums went rogue, and began churning out armies of militarized omnics that promptly began a global effort to overthrow the human race. People existed side by side with omnics, and while it wasn’t exactly utopia, it was peaceful.

These robots, called omnics, and their facilities, called omniums, were incredibly common all over the world. Mankind developed artificial intelligence - real artificial intelligence, creating sentient robots for the purpose of bolstering manufacturing and creating economic equality worldwide. It’s a future brimming with technological advancements - teleportation technology, flying cars, laser guns, and clear steps forward in robotics. The game itself is set 60 years in the future, but the story really starts a mere 30 years down the road. The world definitely needed heroes, and maybe it still does. And what it has to say about the future of our world is pretty interesting.

Because although the game is pretty much an FPS with no campaign or story to explain why we’re all fighting over various checkpoints in locations all over the world, Overwatch does have some distinct lore moments. While the game doesn’t have a ton of lore surrounding it, that’s almost a blessing in disguise - but we’ll talk about that later. Rather than taking place on an imaginary world at some nebulous point in time, Overwatch is set on Earth, in the not-too-distant future - which makes it a little easier to relate to.

Overwatch is a little different from Blizzard’s standard fare.