9 Reasons Overwatch Is The Most Exciting Gaming Franchise In Decades

6. Every Character Is Ripe For Cosplay

It takes the internet a good, ooh, five minutes, to decide whether to cosplay something or not? For Overwatch it was more like five seconds, as no sooner had the initial press materials and beta made themselves known, that every character from Mercy to Reaper suddenly had incredibly well put together, real-world costumes popping up across the interwebs.

Cosplayers who take their passion seriously love to see increasingly complex accessories and avatars, simply to challenge themselves into recreating every last piece. For Overwatch, characters range from armoured angelic warriors, to oily Mad Max-style raiders - each one is so immediately recognisable, so enticing, and when then seen in the real world, incredibly impressive.