Heroes of Newerth is an Arena RTS from S2 games. Now to be honest I was not a fan of the Warcraft 3 mod DotA(Defense of the Ancients). If you don’t already know, DotA was a game consisting of two teams, the sentinel and the scourge and they would have to defend their own town from attack from the other team. The team who best strategized the plan to push the other team in to submission would usually win.
Heroes of Newerth is almost literally not different at all from DotA, aside from the fact that it runs on an optimized engine just for this game style. I am not saying the game isn’t fun. Its plenty fun but if you’re looking for DotA improved, don’t look here. It even has the same item list as DotA because the developers couldn’t be bothered to create and balance their own.
To wrap this up, the game is DotA with a different title and slightly different character models. Networking does work better I’ll give S2 games that much. The community isn’t any more helpful in this game then it was in WC3 so if you’re new to the game expect to be yelled at a lot (even on servers marked for noobs). The game over all does have a bit of a learning curb so read up before you play about class roles and what lanes to start off in. and like I said don’t expect too much from this title, it’s not much of an improvement on DotA so much as DotA on a different platform. Hopefully League of Legends (another DotA clone, this one from the creators of DotA) proves different.
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DotA was always way too intimidating. What power do I cast, when? What to I buy? Full team center rush? I’d die, like, so many times.