Friday, March 25, 2011

Game #2: League of Legends

What it is:
http://signup.leagueoflegends.com/?ref=4c32f7450e35d


League of Legends is a MOBA developed by RIOT Games.  For those who have played the Warcraft 3 Map "DotA", the controls and layout should seem very similar.  A couple differences are in the fact that it promotes more aggressive play style and can't be carried by a single champion nearly as easy.  The game is completely based around online multiplayer and offers both 3v3 and 5v5 modes.

This game is free, but offers several micro-transactions that can be used to buy champions and new textures for the champions. It has its own in-game currency as well, which is awarded after each game that can be used to purchase champions as well as some stat altering items called runes.


The basic objective of the game is to move from your side of the map down lanes filled with minions, destroying turrets as you go, to go and kill the home base of the other team.  Sounds easy enough, but when faced against 5 other players, games can rage from 20 minutes to well over an hour.

This game can be found and downloaded for free at:
http://signup.leagueoflegends.com/?ref=4c32f7450e35d

And a video provided by riot as a small tutorial: 

 





What I Liked:


  • Game is free! You could play for 10 minutes and get your monies worth.
  • Updated often, Riot releases new skins and champions about every two weeks.
  • Tons of unique champions, not quite as many as DotA, but will soon be beating them in numbers.
What I didn't Like:

  • The one thing I didn't like about the game was the large portion of games I played involved a lot of blaming, flaming, trolling and the sort.
  • Unstable servers / I had problems inviting friends to custom games.
Overall Grade so Far: B+



52 comments:

  1. I play it sometimes with a friend or two. Couldn't be bothered to play it alone.

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  2. Great review! I'll be looking forward to seeing more from you.

    Also, love the game.

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  3. started playing this today.. following

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  4. Good rewiew! However, you big want to add this to your minus part; Their servers have been highly unstable these past two months, and their chat system keep crashing. Besides that, good article!

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  5. Ahh, I hadn't noticed that.

    But then again I haven't played that much :).

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  6. I got some friends playing this game, never got around to accutaly play it for my self, thanks for sharing ur option tho! + followed =)

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  7. its a cool game and free.. so why not play it :D

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  8. I play this game a lot with my friends. There are many immature people who play, which is annoying sometimes, but I still love the game. It's a lot easier to control than dota.

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  9. I love this game, play it all the time with my friends. The community can be crappy sometimes, but it's better than most similar games

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  11. I played League of Legends when it was in the beta stage. Really liked it, but yeah, the community is horrid. (Like it is with ALL free to play games) I pretty much ignored everyone and had a decent time.

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  12. good blog, good info! love me some LoL #following

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  13. I want to play this game now. Following.

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  14. Interesting I'll be giving this game a shot when I have the time

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  15. Looks interesting.

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  16. mhmm. makes me want to play. +follower

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  17. mobafire is a good website for builds to lol,
    Grate post

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  18. this is like that game with the balloons, tower defense i think nonetheless good post
    +1 follower.

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  19. It's harder for me to spend $5 on microtransactions than it is for me to spend that same $5 on a crappy trinket from the store. I've heard that League of Legends is a good game though.

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  20. a b+ is pretty good ill have to check it out

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  21. This reminds me of Warlords Battlecry; awesome game. You should review that if you haven't already.

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  22. Interesting review, i'll have a look

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  23. Another DotA rip-off, HoN style? Bleh, call me weird but I'll just stick with the original thing.

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  24. Normally I'm just a xbox 360 gamer. I might check out this title though. I know I have a couple friends that play it.

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  25. A lot of people have been saying good things about this game.

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  26. I've been playing LoL for about a month now. At the moment I prefer playing Tristana - great character to play in my opinion

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  27. Excellent review. Looking forward to trying out this game.

    bigunicorn.blogspot.com

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  28. I'm playing this, lots of fun.

    Lotsa mean players though, but not surprising with it being free and all.

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  29. I'm a real big fan of the DOTA maps on SC2, gonna try not to get addicted to this aswell.

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  30. I absolutely love Dota and HoN. Never really tried LoL, nice review though!

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  31. Very good review dude. Keep on showing nice stuff man.

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  32. LoL sucks.. i don't like anygame from EA since they become greedy at "free" online games :(

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  33. looks neat will have to try it once i get a better pc

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  34. league of legends is the shit man, definitely recommend this game to anyone! nice post keep it up

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  35. Awesome game. Iv been playing it for years.

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  36. Great review, I'll give it a look :)

    Following!

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  37. I played DoTA a couple times back in the day, and I totally sucked at it/ didn't know what i was doing. lol

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