PREVIEW: Paladins offers great Overwatch-like gameplay but still stands out

Paladins: Champions of the Realm has been labeled as a “blatant rip-off” of Blizzard’s Overwatch by a large portion of the latter game’s fan base ever since its initial PC beta release in November 2015, just a month after the closed beta for Overwatch began. After hours of playing on PC, and now on Xbox One, it’s very clear that Paladins’ colorful cast of fantasy characters and even its basic gameplay loop is heavily inspired by Blizzard’s recent success.