Overwatch 2: Invasion finally brings three PvE story missions to the competitive shooter, but it was an arduous process to get here. When Blizzard Entertainment first announced Overwatch 2 in 2019, the game's main hook was new cooperative story missions that would finally give players the Overwatch narrative content they yearned for alongside more replayable Hero Missions and a Talent skill tree system. When Overwatch 2 eventually launched into early access in October 2022 after several leadership changes, it was free-to-play and lacked any narrative content.