To MOBA or Not to MOBA - By Navar

MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) games became very popular lately because they combine some of the best ingredients for making a good gamers choice. Here some of the reasons that those games got loved by the gamers:

1. You can play LAN and via Internet
2. Team vs team (gather you friends make your team and give

others a good beating)

3. Fast Gaming
4. Fast PVP experience
5. Easy to master (since heroes in all MOBA are easy to control and to use)
6. Huge combination of Heroes and skills (u can’t get bored of them easily)
7. Very competitive (many tournaments, many prizes and lot of publicity)

First MOBA if not mistaken was Dota (Defense of the ancients), a map of warcraft 3 game that in my opinion became more famous and more played than the original game ( a map vs a game lol). Now many titles go around after the days of Dota and here are the latest’s.


1. Demigod
The game has one of the best graphics we have seen lately, the maps are making a difference here, not only with their outstanding graphics but with the variety they offer too. Next we got REALLY interesting heroes, and nice hero backgrounds, the game makes a difference in the hero development because it gives more than 1 path of skills to choose. That way you can have many different builds based on skills and items. The disadvantages of this game towards the rest MOBAS is the slower gaming and the few hero selection. ( you get bored easy if you don’t got many heroes to play). The game by my opinion worth’s a try by every gamer cause it has new things to offer.



2. League of Legends
This game came up combining new ideas on an old good tested game way. I will start with the graphics which are different from the rest of the MOBA and look a lot cartoonish but in a nicely way. Its obvious that the game is user friendly from the graphics to the menus, even on the in game choices (can the item builds be more organized and easy???) . League of legends has a new scenario about the heroes and everything around them. You take the part of a summoner that summons a champion inside the arena so the game got actually 2 skill builds, one for the summoner and one for the champion that you will choose inside the game. This way no champion will be the same inside the arena. Also the game is total free (YEAAAA) and every week specific champions are opened to be available for choice. The gamers can unlock any champion they want by using points they earned from wined matches or they can just buy them. The game so far have 2 maps available, one for 5 vs 5 (dota like map) and one for 3 vs 3 (new map) and more will come in future as things show so far. In the end League of Legends as total view has all a gamer wants.
The combination of many heroes – skins – skills – choices. The gives a great result that definitely puts the game into the ‘’must have list’’.



3. Heroes of Newerth
The MOBA with the guaranteed success. It’s actually Dota itself with changes that make the game better. I won’t explain all the game structure I will only focus on the changes:

1. The graphics (no words lads, you have to see that for yourselves, it’s like surprise)
2. Good menus - easy to guide through.
3. They worked on the leavers’ thingy cause it was the worst part of Dota
4. Old Heroes with great new appearance (Lion -Witch Slayer = respect) and new heroes that can compete the old ones (Deadwood FTW)
5. Sound and effects really put you inside the game (it’s like a battle when you fight and spam the skills)
In total the game is an old tested recipe in a shiny new box. Its great the feeling of playing this game, picking your old favorite heroes with the new appearance and skills. For all the Dota funs – you got to play the game, for the rest good luck by trying. (Did I mention that game is a hell for new users?????)

That’s the new MOBA games so far, I hope I didn’t forget anything (I’m sure I did), as for the gamers - gather your friends master your heroes, create the best champion combination and go for the fight and the fun.