While there’s certainly room for improvement, Highguard is delivering enough to fill the void that has plagued the hero shooter genre for some time. However, despite that bias, it is hard to deny both the incredible influence TF2 has had on the hero shooter genre in particular, but also on games as a whole. Indeed, Team Fortress 2’s classes are what make it so unique, each perfectly balanced and in tune with one another. Featuring a similarly cartoonishly stylized art style and a roster of quirky heroes, Deadlock looks set to carve its own place in the overcrowded and saturated hero shooter market. Frankly, I can easily see Deadlock becoming just as popular as its Valve-produced predecessors, but then it does feel as if the consensus toward the hero shooter genre has soured somewhat.