The Figma series of highly articulated, highly detailed action figures continues to suck up franchises like a nuclear powered hoover. The latest to fall into this attractive hole is the Overwatch series. The online multiplayer shooter has taken the world by storm, in part due to the highly popular character designs. Widowmaker is the game's sniper, a French cyber-assassin with a lethal arsenal and a lithe body, perfect fodder for the Figma treatment.
In the box, you get an assortment of hands, a straight face (which is a little expressionless for my tastes), a squinting, smirking face and a deployed helmet option. That covers most bases for the cold, calculating assassin. You also get a spider-drone, a deployed winch and an attachment for her gun to turn it from sniper-rifle to short-range gun. The usual Figma stand is also included, with obligatory extra Blizzard details (that's how you know it's official!)
The only oddity in that assortment is the deployed winch - it's a separate arm piece with a piece of nylon connecting it to the claw. It's a bugger to actually use, and while it's her gimmick, a plastic rope or some form of coloured metal wire would have been far more practical. As it is, it's just there to, well, dangle about a bit.
The usual Figma articulation is all present and correct, and happily Widowmaker's bionic upgrades make the joints used for articulation pretty seamless. The sculpt is gobsmackingly gorgeous, with a ton of detail right down to the arm tattoo, Widowmaker logo spider-detailing on her back. It's finished with a stunning mix of matt grey paint for the armour, shiny purples that comprise her outfit and a lovely blue skin tone. The colours really make this character design work, and they're captured here perfectly.
Compared to other Figma figures I have in my collection, she's right up there. The closest cyber-style character I have is Angela Balzac from Expelled From Paradise, and she's easily outshines her.
At £70, it's an expensive figure for the size, but then Figma have long carried a premium. The Widowmaker statue from Blizzard is the only other official figure on offer, and that requires a much heftier investment, so by default the Figma is the most frugal representation you can currently pick up.
I've always had a thing for bad-girls in video games (Juri from Street Fighter is another favourite) and Figma Widowmaker is a top-notch representation of a fabulous femme-fatale. If you get the chance to pick her up, I'd highly recommend you do so.
This figure was purchased and is not a review sample.
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