By Darren Allan
There’s another Hearthstone rival marching onto the scene, from a big-name franchise with an already well-established pedigree in competitive gaming: Dota 2.
Dota 2 is Valve’s MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) game which involves teams of players who level Up characters and attempt to trash the other side’s base while defending their own, and it’s set to make the transition to a collectible card game.
Artifact was announced over at the International Dota 2 Championships, but unfortunately not much in the way of details have been spilled at the moment.
We did get some info though, and apart from the obvious fact that this game will incorporate characters and content from Dota 2 (just as Hearthstone does with World of Warcraft), it will seemingly be taking quite a different tack in terms of the actual gameplay mechanics.
Lanes and creeps
Artifact will apparently use ‘lanes’ as seen in Dota 2 – paths which monsters wander down, and players must fight their way through – and you’ll be able to build structures like barracks which spawn said monsters (or creeps as they’re known).
So it sounds like the game could contain an element of base building, and mirror Valve’s MOBA quite closely in some …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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