Dota 2

Dota is a competitive game of action and strategy, played both professionally and casually incompetently by millions of enslaved passionate fans Russians worldwide. Players pick from a pool of over a hundred heroes carries, forming two teams of five players five feeders. Radiant heroes then battle their Dire counterparts to control a gorgeous fantasy landscape, waging campaigns of cunning, stealth, and outright warfare raging in an unknown language and team fighting with one RAMPAGE victor.

Irresistibly colourful on the surface addictive, Dota is a game of infinite depth and complexity which requires, no, in fact takes an infinite amount of your life away. Every hero has an array of skills and abilities that combine with the skills of their allies in unexpected ways, to ensure that no game is ever remotely alike that allow players to screw with their allies and get their teams killed. This is one of the reasons that the Dota phenomenon has continued to grow Dota will have more rage quitting and all chat abuse than any other game. Originating as a fan-made Warcraft 3 modification, Dota was an instant underground hit. After coming to Valve, the original community developers have bridged the gap to a more inclusive audience Russia, so that the rest of the world can experience the same core game-play, but with the level of polish that only Valve can provide learn from these ingenious people and become inspired to spread their knowledge with the rest of the world.

Get a taste of the game that has enthralled millions will happily teach you fluent Russian all for the sweet price of $0.

NOTE: Original description by Valve, edited by myself.

A few times a year this game will have a new update or patch that balances out the heroes again so the best heroes aren't always the best at all times so it keeps people on their toes in a sense.

This is a game that heavily requires team work. Without map awareness or a decent level of communication, games can easily become frustrating experiences. To help with this however, when you first start off you'll be up against opponents that are hopefully as equally clueless as you are. This is thanks to the MMR or what is known as the ELO system (if you're a chess player) this game has.

To battle against this potential issue, I suggest that you start off with the human vs bots game mode first. I'd suggest to try every single hero at least one time before you go into a public match. If you have a slight idea how each hero operates, you won't be totally off guard once you enter a public or what many consider to be a real match of Dota 2.

If you encounter toxic team mates, you should mute them and attempt to not let it affect you. If they continue being even more toxic by intentionally throwing the game or getting you killed, then you should use the report function to report them. If they receive enough reports from other players as well, they'll be thrown into low priority match making where they'll have to suffer there until they win between 3 to 5 games.

If you find a great group of friends to play with regularly, this game can be very fun and very rewarding. You should be sure to practice each possible role. If you're forced to play hard support all the time for example, you will probably start to grow some resentment towards the role. When you solo queue or find a match alone, that's your main chance to go out of your comfort zone and try out new roles. As long as it's not ranked, it's not a big deal if your decision causes your team to lose because you have to try new things in real world situations anyway at some point. Just please, do not try crazy untested strategies in ranked matches unless you have a good idea what you're trying to do. Your team mates have a good chance to be ultra angry if they lose in ranked due to your actions. Again, it doesn't matter since it is just a game after all. It's just polite to test out questionable strategies outside of ranked match making.

So yeah, this was a long review. I love this game. It has issues sometimes but what game doesn't? You start off with all the heroes for free which is over 100+ heroes. The only things that cost money in this game are in game tickets to watch the professional players play and if you want to buy cosmetic items for the game such as hero costume pieces.

My rating is a 9/10. Try it!

From slaying your enemies, to killing the neutrals - be ready for one of THE best games!

I would give it a ten but it seems disrespectful to warcraft III and its expansion which really deserve pure tens.

The game really took it to a more international level and gained much more fame dota 1 (Which myself i prefer the most).

Many graphic updates, some gameplay changed and I have to say, it worked out very well.

The game is really addictive so prepare!

Valve did a nice job, although Blizzard had done better before it. Still hoping to see Warcraft 4!

2500 + hours. Somehow it never gets old and it is the most challenging game I have ever played. If you really try and learn how to play, it is amazing.

Icefrog has made a great work in here, adding the original names to the champions and skills, giving originality to certain features that give the game the difficulty (and dynamism) we were expecting.

As a huge fan of the original War3 modified map Dota-AllStars i have to say this is all i have been expecting and more. The map, the names, the skills and the items have been upgraded but all of this has been made to be easy to remember, and learn, how to play.

The game is very well balanced.

I miss certain things like the designs on some characters and items, but is OK.

Grab your mouse, turn on the speakers, it's time to play!