From Shattered Nations to Overwatch

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Just posting here this old trailer to see how old the Overwatch game idea really is.

[Herecius]

That was a totally different concept, at least storywise, from that tiny little snippet... there's practically no information around about Shattered Nations. Not sure where you get the idea that it was Overwatch.

[Gumboy]

The IDEA of a TYPE of game. Not the actual game itself...

[Herecius]

The IDEA of a TYPE of game. Not the actual game itself...

But... Shattered Nations was an RTS game that eventually became Starcraft. That's still totally different.

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That was a totally different concept, at least storywise, from that tiny little snippet... there's practically no information around about Shattered Nations. Not sure where you get the idea that it was Overwatch.

Shattered Nations was a near-future Earth world. That's the story that Metzen always wanted to explore, with several attempted IPs that never came out. That's the point I was trying to make.

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But... Shattered Nations was an RTS game that eventually became Starcraft. That's still totally different.

A 3D Action RTS, different from what Starcraft became.