League of Legends Announced

[modeps]

New development company Riot Games has announced their first game. Titled 'League of Legends', they hope to enter the online action-RPG market with guns (or spells, as the case may be) blazing by throwing in some RTS elements. BigDownload has the scoop (http://news.bigdownload.com/2008/10/07/riot-games-announces-league-of-legends/):

League of Legends involves the player (or as the game terms the Summoner) invoking one of dozens of different "Champions" as they battle online with other Champions in team matches. Champions can gain experience to get new abilities, items and such as they battle and even Summoners can gain rank to access new abilities.

If it sounds to you like this is a retail version of Defense of the Ancients (http://www.dota-allstars.com/), then you're probably right, as the LoL's dev team consists of members who had a hand in DotA.

The game's initials are LOL, that alone has to be worth something.

[Azrael]

DOTA was alot of fun, played it for a decent amount of time though only through LAN and never online. Simply because of that this game has my interest... Though to top DOTA it will really take something big, afterall DOTA definitely has something of a cult following around the place

[Panthera]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OzWIFX8M-Y

Yay DOTA!

[Lima Beans]

Epic!!!!!!!!

[PopoWRX]

Should be interesting how it stacks up to Demigod.

[Hapless]

Dota is the only game i have been able to come back to over the last 5 years and have fun playing it every time. I've been silently hoping for a standalone from the makers forever and thank god it's finally here.