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When Blizzard announced its new shooter Overwatch at BlizzCon, a question immediately presented itself: was this project related to - possibly even a repurposed portion of - its cancelled massively multiplayer game, codenamed Titan?For starters, Overwatch's game director was revealed to be Jeff Kaplan, the former World of Warcraft game director who went to work on Titan in 2009. It's possible the two games had other core team members in common. Furthermore, after Blizzard confirmed Titan's cancellation to Polygon a few weeks ago, Kotaku reported that the canned MMO - which Blizzard's story chief Chris Metzen describes now as "six games in one" - had many elements we now know to be common with Overwatch: shooter gameplay, a near-future Earth setting and stylised, cartoon art.
Speaking at a press conference at BlizzCon, Kaplan initially poured cold water on the link. "I think there's a lot of assumptions, especially considering some recent stories that have come out, but Overwatch is its own game," he said. "Now, in all of our games at Blizzard we borrow ideas from previous projects, previous games, we take a lot of inspiration from other things that we've done. So there are things from Titan in Overwatch, but it's not like there aren't things from World of Warcraft in Overwatch as well."
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