Overwatch: Ranking Every Seasonal Event From Worst To Best

If there's anything World of Warcraft has taught us, it's that Blizzard loves to allow the characters who inhabit their virtual worlds to celebrate various holidays and special events, decorating maps, offering exclusive items and going all-out to give cosplayers a few hundred new ideas.

Now that we're over a year removed from the release of their latest massive hit, the fantastic and unique Overwatch, it seems that old habits die hard. Thus far, the multiplayer shooter has featured six seasonal events, each bringing all-new character skins and other means of customization, as well as new or modified game modes and aesthetic changes to the maps and menus.

In addition, these events have also served as a way to keep the game fresh and interesting, as well as a way to potentially lure back lapsed players with the promise of some brand-new spoils to be won and holiday-themed fun to be had.

That said, while some of these events certainly made the most of their respective concepts, their greatness also served to make the others feel rather lacking in comparison. And this is how they stack up.

The event that celebrated the anniversary of Overwatch's release was also, in all honesty, the most underwhelming.

Anniversary did have some great new skins, most notably cruiser D.Va, graffiti Tracer, and oasis Symmetra. However, the vast majority of them were good, just not great and a select few, such as cyborg Soldier: 76 and dune buggy Bastion were just flat out disappointing (even if the dance emotes were good fun).

Speaking of disappointing, Anniversary was also the first event not to feature a special, thematic game mode to go along with the new loot. It did serve as a means for new game modes to be introduced and for what it's worth, lockout elimination and limited duel were pretty fun. But they also did get old rather fast, the new maps were fine (but nothing special), and to make room for the latter, the much more fun random duel was removed indefinitely.

All things considered, Anniversary felt more like a glorified title update than it did like an event and to be fair, it succeeded on that front. Unfortunately, it simply lacked the aspects that would have made it feel truly special.