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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

A Loco Kind of DotA

It's free to play but there are things that needed to be unlocked in the game.
I haven't figured out if you need real money to access them all.

I found another Defense of the Ancients clone for the Personal Computer today called Land of Chaos Online from Alaplaya that is currently in its open beta stage . The object of the game is to destroy your team's base and to accomplish that, you have to battle creep waves and the other team's heroes as well as defensive structures and neutral monsters along the way. You get to level up as the game proceeds, buy items, and upgrade skills to make your character more powerful. You can also customize your character outside of the battle to give him or her a permanent statistic boost.

Only a llimited amount of characters are available.
There are supposed to be more as you continue playing the game.

What is unique about this game compared to other DotA clones is that it is played via a third person perspective with the camera situated right behind your character compared to the overhead top down view you usually get with the genre. This makes the game more similar to World of Warcraft's battlegrounds. As exciting as that may sound, it is however pretty rough around the edges when it comes to its gameplay. The game controls like a first person shooter with the left mouse button used to trigger regular attacks. This makes accessing your 5 character skills located on the number keys very difficult because you control the movement of your character using the WASD configuration. What's worse is that as you play the game, your additional shortcut slots will be filled with items and accessing them via the function keys (from F1 all the way to F10 oh my galaxy) on top of everything else becomes a total nightmare. Oh, let's not forget the other keys you need to press to access the shop as well as other important functions in the heat of battle. The game could have easily benefited from an action bar click control scheme like what is normally used in massively multiplayer online games. There is just simply no balance between the amount of things you need to access and how convenient it is to do so. I plan to play the game a little more to see if I could manage to get over the terrible user interface and if not, I will have to abandon it completely.

This game is specifically made for Dr. Octopus.

FIRST IMPRESSION: 2 out of 5

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