It’s arduous to cease making Overwatch comparisons to Marvel Rivals, given how acquainted the latter’s upcoming Chinese language New 12 months occasion seems. These of us who’ve been enjoying Blizzard’s hero shooter for the previous eight years have seen this all earlier than.
The Spring Pageant, which begins on Jan. 23, introduces a brand new limited-time mode that’s principally Rocket League with out the vehicles. It’s known as Conflict of Dancing Lions, and it takes place in a giant enviornment with targets on both finish. Groups cross a ball round and attempt to rating targets utilizing Black Widow, Iron Fist, and Star-Lord — in dancing lion skins, after all. When you changed these heroes with Lúcio from Overwatch, you’ll simply have Lúcioball, a mode that has existed in that sport since its first Summer time Video games occasion in 2016.
It additionally seems just like the Marvel Rivals heroes are getting dancing lion MVP animations identical to their Overwatch counterparts. Clearly, neither sport invented Chinese language New 12 months celebrations or the standard dance related to it, however the similarities between the occasions are arduous to disregard.
Overwatch goes larger with its Lunar New 12 months celebration this yr partially as a result of it’s coming again to China on Feb. 19, through writer NetEase, no much less. In a publish final week on Xiaohongshu (often known as RedNote), sport director Aaron Keller introduced a bunch of returning cosmetics and an entire set of Chinese language mythology-themed skins coming in its subsequent season.
However till then, it’ll be Marvel Rivals’ flip to have fun. And even when the brand new mode performs nothing like Lúcioball, you possibly can guess persons are going to level out how blatantly it’s borrowing from Overwatch. That doesn’t make it inherently unhealthy, but it surely does make you surprise how a lot of the sport goes to be aimed immediately at Overwatch followers sooner or later.
