The Next DotA Wannabe – Leage of Legends (LoL) Yay or Nay?
Posted on May 18, 2009
Filed Under Games, League of Legends, News
It seems like there’s been quite alot of commotion recently in the world of Defense of the Ancients(DotA – a Warcraft 3 Map). Of which the most notable would be Icefrog’s depature from the Dota-AllStar’s community site. The reason for it, suspected by a couple people is the promotion of a game similar to DotA by the name of Leage of Legends (LoL) which is being promoted by Dota-Allstar’s Pendragon_.
I’m not a big fan of developer drama, but this recent separation of Icefrog, and Dota-Allstars had basically the effect of hitting a beehive with a stick. I personally hadn’t heard of League of Legends until now, even though its been announced from quite a while back by many people. Anyways lets take a quick look at this game that’s soon to be in beta. Here’s their official gameplay trailer on the site:
And another teaser trailer of League of Legends which IMHO is pretty well made.
A few things definitely comes to mind when watching the trailer for me, and they include the words like vibrant, and colorful to say the least. After playing games like Warhammer Online in which the color palette is pretty dull to dreary, this seems like moving from Siberia to playing in Vegas or Ginza.
Check out some of these ‘colorful’ screenshots for League of Legends:
The game faqs are posted here on their site, and what’s interesting about it seems to be that its trying to merge the session based games (like dota), with an ongoing experience gaining system, something that normally gets used in mmorpgs. Most recently seen in games like Demigod with their favor point system. (which by the way I’ve been playing quite a bit recently, but have not yet posted about).
They are building quite a few heroes (or champions as they call it), and hope to have ‘dozens’ of them by release. You can check out a sample of them on their champion’s page here. They got posted a few other goodies like League of Legends wallpapers, and concept art which is worth checking out. All in all looks to be a good start, though I don’t agree with them posting about it all over the dota forums, and ticking off Icefrog in the process(if that was the really the reason behind the departure). Either way I’m glad there’s another game that I’d be interested in playing as I’ve been searching for a decent online game to play.
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[...] Well Icefrog finally did it. The long awaited 6.60 Defense of the Ancients (DotA) map for Warcraft 3 has finally been released. As usual the GetDota site has been flooded for a while now for people itching to get the map. For those of you who don’t know what DotA is, here’s the wiki, and the current DotA Forums as well as the one Icefrog was previously affiliated with for reasons unknown. [...]
LoL? lol…. looks pretty decent… although i’d be more than likely to play dota over lol, it wouldn’t hurt to try this one out..