The next major collaboration coming to Overwatch was teased last week, as Capcom’s Street Fighter franchise will become the first-ever video game franchise to join Blizzard’s hero shooter. Eight of Overwatch’s heroes will be given the Street Fighter treatment, as they’ll be able to dress up as eight of SF’s world warriors, with some new themed emotes to boot.
GameSpot sat down with Overwatch art director Dion Rogers and former character art director Arnold Tsang to talk about bringing Street Fighter to Overwatch, from the character-selection process to how Street Fighter inspired some of Overwatch’s design choices from the very beginning.
„Match made in heaven“
From the beginning of discussions–“about a year ago,“ according to Rogers–the Overwatch x Street Fighter collaboration has been what Tsang describes as „a match made in heaven.“ A big part of that, as Rogers describes, is Capcom’s shared background in developing games.