Overwatch Halloween Terror 2018: Ranking Every Skin
2. Soldier: 76 - Slasher: 76
The stars just aligned for this costume this year. Jason Voorhees is an iconic horror character, but various Friday the 13th flops over the years prove he isn’t cast iron reliable. However, Soldier: 76 feels like the perfect character for this skin, while Michael Myers’ box office success with this year’s Halloween has set those slasher flick nostalgia glands tingling again.
There’s just the fact it’s incredibly cool too. It can’t be overstated how much Blizzard swung for the fences here. They could’ve had Reaper as Ghostface, but that wouldn’t have surprised the fans half as much. Soldier: 76 is usually quite cut and dried. Putting him in a larger than life skin like Jason could have easily backfired and wound up being goofy and disjointed. Instead, it fits like a crinkled yellow glove.
It’s not just a tribute to Jason either. They couldn’t really call the costume Slasher and not add in some slashing, after all. A la Gears Of War, Slasher: 76 equips Soldier: 76 with an ultra violent chainsaw add on to the rifle.
Stacks of people will be donning classic movie character costumes on Halloween. There’s no reason the Overwatch crew shouldn’t either.