Blizzard and Hasbro have revealed the Transformers skins for Overwatch 2’s upcoming collaboration with the favored mecha toy franchise. The 2 corporations launched an animated trailer on the Overwatch YouTube channel as we speak, displaying off the skins primarily based 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 sporting armor to start with. Reinhardt shall be cosplaying Optimus Prime, the fearless chief of the Autobots; Bastion shall be Bumblebee; Illari shall be fairly in pink as Arcee; and Ramratta would be the fearsome Decepticon chief, Megatron. Many Overwatch 2 gamers are anticipating how properly 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 yr, gamers bought to decorate up Cassidy as Spike Siegel and Ashe as Faye Valentine throughout the Cowboy Bebop collaboration, amongst different characters from the traditional anime. Final yr, followers put Doomfist in a pores and skin primarily based 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 value a reasonably penny, so it’s possible you’ll be anticipated to spend massive on the Transformers pores and skin you want the very best. Regardless, this crossover could enchantment to gamers who performed with Transformers motion figures and watched the animated sequence once they had been youngsters.