Watch: 'Overwatch' mashes Rio, soccer with Lúcioball mode
Overwatch's Lucioball stadium, Estádio das Rãs, could be mistaken for a Rocket League arena.
Hit action game "Overwatch" is leverage Olympic interest with a soccer-themed mode that runs for three weeks.
Introduced as the video game's spin on soccer, the Lúcioball mode is a 3-vs-3 match whose players are special clones of "Overwatch" character Lúcio.
Though team action game "Overwatch" is primarily a shooter, Lúcioball turns it into a sport, after the new Lúcio's attacks are exchanged for passes and lobs.
The mode not only leans in on the 2016 Summer Olympics which, like Lúcioball, take place in Rio de Janeiro over a three-week period, but also incorporates distinctive elements of 2015's breakout video game "Rocket League," which reinvented soccer for gravity-defying remote-controlled cars.
Another team-based shooter, "Team Fortress 2," added its own quasi-"Rocket League" mode Pass Time in August 2015, while "Rocket League" itself is accommodating a loot crate system as seen in the likes of "TF2," "Counter-Strike: GO" and "Overwatch."
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