{"id":12318,"date":"2012-07-17T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=12318"},"modified":"2013-02-07T14:13:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:13:14","slug":"moba-round-up-part-1-introduction-to-whole-new-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/gaming\/xbox\/moba-round-up-part-1-introduction-to-whole-new-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"MOBA Round-Up: Introduction To New Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-12349\" src=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DotA-575x273-custom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"273\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My brother <a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comauthor\/austen\/\">Austen<\/a> and I are hooked on MOBA games. You might know them as \u201cDotA games\u201d or \u201cAction RTS games,\u201d but it&#8217;s equally likely that you haven&#8217;t heard about them at all. At the very least, you probably have no idea how fast these Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (see, MOBA) games are growing and evolving. Trust me: these indie free-to-play MOBA games are definitely the next big thing.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Defense of the Ancients\" href=\"http:\/\/www.playdota.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Defense of the Ancients<\/a> (DotA) is a Warcraft III mod that kick-started the movement, and most of its original structure remains in place, in most current MOBA games:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Five players battle against five other players in the middle of a large map to defend their respective bases, which are located on opposite corners of the arena.<\/li>\n<li>Players select from a stable of powerful heroes, champions, gods, etc., starting the game at level one, and leveling their skills to a cap by killing each other, as well as waves of A.I. minions.<\/li>\n<li>There are three lanes (pathways where minions continually march towards each other) and a jungle (an area between lanes where A.I. monsters or creeps spawn and can be killed for gold, experience, and stat-boosting buffs).<\/li>\n<li>Players fight to push deeper and deeper into their enemy&#8217;s side of the map. First, to kill a few A.I. defense towers, and then ultimately, to destroy the opponent&#8217;s heavily-defended base and claim victory.<\/li>\n<li>Players can buy a range of items at a store to increase their defense, damage output, health, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With each match lasting roughly 20 to 45 minutes, it&#8217;s easy to pop in and enjoy a game or two without the huge time investment most MMOs take to get one character to max level. It&#8217;s also nice to not worry about playing a single role in combat because you&#8217;ve leveled up one type of character with one kind of gear. Instead, you can simply pick a different champion\/hero each time, and thus switch between support, carry, tank, assassin, and so forth every game.<\/p>\n<p>Innovations in MOBA gameplay are becoming more frequent and fun. There&#8217;s an outstanding third-\/first-person shooter MOBA called <a title=\"Super Monday Night Combat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uberent.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Super Monday Night Combat<\/a> and a smaller arena-style game called <a title=\"Bloodline Champions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodlinechampions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bloodline Champions<\/a> where players don&#8217;t level up at all. Even within traditional MOBA games that have been around for years, developers have brought out new maps and modes recently, like the Dominion map for <a title=\"League of Legends\" href=\"http:\/\/na.leagueoflegends.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">League of Legends<\/a> and <a title=\"Heroes of Newerth\" href=\"http:\/\/heroesofnewerth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heroes of Newerth<\/a>&#8216;s Mid Wars.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12348\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12348\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12348\" src=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/SMNC_PAX_Screen04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"323\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Super Monday Night Combat believes in diversity.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, there&#8217;s so much good content coming out lately that we&#8217;ve decided to bring you the most complete, comprehensive review of every single MOBA game available online, all in one place.<\/p>\n<p>Without further ado, here are the MOBA reviews coming your way:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>League of Legends<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=tecitement-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002HOIPCW\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Heroes of Newerth\" href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comgaming\/pc\/moba-round-up-heroes-of-newerth-is-a-champion\" target=\"_blank\">Heroes of Newerth<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Super Monday Night Combat<\/li>\n<li>Smite<\/li>\n<li>DOTA 2<\/li>\n<li>Bloodline Champions<\/li>\n<li>Avalon Heroes<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Awesomenauts\" href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comgaming\/pc\/awesomenauts-2d-side-scrolling-moba-awesomeness\" target=\"_blank\">Awesomenauts<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lands of Chaos Online Evolution<\/li>\n<li>Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes<\/li>\n<li>Blizzard All-Stars<\/li>\n<li>Realm of the Titans<\/li>\n<li>Guardians of Middle-Earth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Did we leave your favorite off the list? Throw it in the comments and we&#8217;ll check it out! Meanwhile, keep coming back as we post reviews of the best and not so great MOBA games out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brother Austen and I are hooked on MOBA games. You might know them as \u201cDotA games\u201d or \u201cAction RTS games,\u201d but it&#8217;s equally likely that you haven&#8217;t heard about them at all. At the very least, you probably have no idea how fast these Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (see, MOBA) games are growing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,3062,2221,3063,26],"tags":[3047,3051,3056,3050,3039,3040,3058,3044,3043,3052,3042,3048,3049,3053,3037,3038,3057,3046,3045,3060,3059,3061,3054,3055],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12318"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16332,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318\/revisions\/16332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}