Defense of the Ancients [DotA] review

 

Defense of the Ancients (commonly known as DotA) is a custom scenario for the real-time strategy video game "Warcraft III" and it's expansion "Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne". The main goal of this map is to destroy the enemies heavily guarded structures, using units called "Heroes".

This game is the mother, father, and even the adopted son of of all the Hero Arenas. A lot of "DotA clones" are out there on the market right now, including League of Legends, Demigod and Heroes of Newerth. Even if DotA is old and Warcraft III's graphics are not the best people still play this map because of its originality. The community of this map is the most unforgivable. They do not like "newbies" and will swear and rage about them.

As in other RPG games your Hero can level up, buy new and powerful items from the several shops around the map, and get new abilities. Every hero has 3 basic abilities and an ultimate which is acquired at level 6 and can be boosted on level 11 and 16 or with an item called "Aghanim's Scepter". There are also 2 runes in the river on each side. The runes can be any of the following: double damage, regeneration, invisibility, haste or illusion. They will spawn every 2 minutes replacing the runes on the map. You can store a rune for later use with a Bottle, which can be bought at the starting shop for 600 gold pieces.

At the start of the match players on each side choose one of 103 heroes, each with different abilities and tactical advantages over other heroes. You can acquire gold and experience by killing computer-controlled or neutral units. This map is really team oriented, so one player can't carry his team to victory alone. There are towers on the road to the enemy hq, which can be destroyed for a good gold reward. The game end when one of the teams destroy the enemy base.

 

You can buy the game here: Warcraft III Battle Chest.

You can download the latest version of the map here.

-PoKeR...