Blizzard shows off Overwatch 2 Transformers skins in animated trailer

Blizzard and Hasbro have revealed the Transformers skins for Overwatch 2’s upcoming collaboration with the favored mecha toy franchise. The 2 firms launched an animated trailer on the Overwatch YouTube channel as we speak, exhibiting off the skins based mostly on three Autobots and a Decepticon.

The trailer exhibits that the Transformers skins are assigned to Reinhardt, Bastion, Illari and Ramratta — 4 characters that had been already robots or people carrying armor to start with. Reinhardt will likely be cosplaying Optimus Prime, the fearless chief of the Autobots; Bastion will likely be Bumblebee; Illari will likely be fairly in pink as Arcee; and Ramratta would be the fearsome Decepticon chief, Megatron. Many Overwatch 2 gamers are anticipating how effectively the Transformers skins will match with the sport’s aim-and-click, collection, and respawn mechanics in actual gameplay.

The Transformers crossover comes on the heels of the sport’s collaboration with Porsche again in Might, which reworked (pun completely supposed) the most recent fashions of the German firm’s vehicles into souped-up pores and skin for D.Va and Pharah. Earlier this 12 months, gamers acquired to decorate up Cassidy as Spike Siegel and Ashe as Faye Valentine in the course of the Cowboy Bebop collaboration, amongst different characters from the traditional anime. Final 12 months, followers put Doomfist in a pores and skin based mostly on Saitama from one other hit anime, One-Punch Man.

The Overwatch 2 x Transformers collaboration begins tomorrow. Blizzard didn’t put a price ticket on the Transformers skins nor point out whether or not they’ll be obtained as free rewards by way of gameplay. For reference, the Cowboy Bebop and Porsche skins price a fairly penny, so it’s possible you’ll be anticipated to spend massive on the Transformers pores and skin you want the perfect. Regardless, this crossover could attraction to gamers who performed with Transformers motion figures and watched the animated sequence once they had been children.