00:02All of our players at home, they want to see one of the new maps that we've never talked about
00:08before.
00:09Really? I can just, like... I can just talk about anything that I want to?
00:15Yes!
00:15You're serving this up to the guy that has, like, unintentionally leaked information in past interviews?
00:23You can do it officially now!
00:25Okay, so one of the maps that I'm most excited for in Overwatch 2 is our Rome map.
00:37We always want Overwatch to feel like this globetrotting adventure for our players.
00:41So we're having a lot of fun coming up with the Overwatch version of Rome.
00:45We wanted a very romantic, sort of this powerful feeling of old world architecture.
00:51One of the most exciting things for me is the early building of these maps, where we get to sit
00:57down together with key people from the environment team, level designers, effects groups.
01:02We'll spend some time talking about moments in the game that we really want to see, like the Colosseum or
01:08a grand view of the hills of Rome in the backdrop.
01:10And then we'll go back and do a paint over or we'll do a concept painting of certain things based
01:15on that.
01:16We try to draw inspiration from as many different sources as possible.
01:20For example, one of our environment artists had just taken a trip to Rome and he returned with thousands of
01:28pictures and was so excited to work on a map set in Italy.
01:33There's a lot of ancient architecture in Rome that represents the empire that it used to be.
01:39So we brought some of that back, some of the things that are destroyed in real life we kind of
01:44rebuilt in kind of an Overwatch style.
01:47It's one of the most beautiful pieces of environment art that I think we've made for the entire game and
01:53it just absolutely took my breath away.
01:59Can we reveal more maps?
02:01Yes, Scott. Scott, why don't you have the honor? Why don't you reveal, like, is there an artified, like, let's
02:09pick an artified one.
02:11I know what map I want to talk about. It's the one that I just get super excited about. New
02:15York City.
02:16New York City is just an amazing Overwatch location.
02:23We're really striving to make it as authentic as possible while still putting this Overwatch spin on it.
02:29There's a lot of amazing buildings and architecture pieces that just, especially for artists, stands out a lot.
02:34And they usually use this kind of art deco style from the 1920s, 1950s.
02:39We started in an area that's a little bit like the village. There's some smaller shops there.
02:44There's a fire station, little pizza places and things that people that are familiar with New York City will either
02:51recognize or maybe see the reference that we're trying to make with some of our different locations.
02:58It feels like something you haven't seen in other games before because it's uniquely Overwatch.
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