The big addition it makes is the Summoner System, a persistent frontend for the game that makes DOTA more than just a competitive game. League of Legends takes this framework and does its best to refine it. Still waiting for the first game that outright calls you s***. Being killed by a minion is a "humiliation", apparently. Dry to describe, but tense and completely riveting to play. Eventually one team will have knocked down enough defences to clear a path to the 'Ancient' in the enemy base, and if they destroy the Ancient too they're declared the winners. The emphasis is on levelling up your heroes as fast as possible by killing enemy minions and heroes, all while launching assaults on enemy towers and, ultimately, the enemy base. Here's how Defence of the Ancients works: It's like a tower defence game, except instead of one player building any towers (which are already in place) two teams of 2-5 players micromanage heroes in a Diablo stylee, inamongst the cannon-fodder "minions" which both team's bases continually spawn. Actually, Demigod was technically the first, but I'm not sure anybody cares about Demigod any more so let's move on.
League of Legends is the first of several games in development (including the upcoming Heroes of Newerth and whatever it is Valve's cooking up) to have a crack at turning the Defence of the Ancients Warcraft III mod into a standalone product. So, basically you want to prevent the enemy from fighting and you do this by fighting them. If I quit I'd lose all the XP and IP for the match, and most likely my four team-mates would lose half of theirs as, outnumbered, they suffered a defeat. The question became whether it would pass the second test - whether I would abandon my team by dropping out of the game to head out the door, or tell my friend I'd be late and keep playing.
So, League of Legends clearly passes the first test of any addictive, free online game, the greasy business of managing to hypnotise you utterly and take fat bites out of your free time. I should have already left the house, but the online match I'd signed up for was dragging on.
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