Yes ladies and gents, you read it right, what you see up there is the official “logo” of Valve’s latest game on the works, Dota 2. Before you start going all googly-eyed and all OMFGFTWBBQAWESOMESAUCE about it, the game is not yet out till 2011. When exactly, well that’s still up in the air and the biggest speculation on the game.
Oh, just to make things clear, ICEFROG is on this project with Valve. That’s the first thing I made sure to check upon hearing the news. Being a former player of this WCIII mod, I was pretty surprised that this news came out from joystiq and game informer.
Here’s the rundown of the things we know about Dota 2:
- 100+ character rosters will be brought into the game
- Icefrog was hired by valve for this project (back in 2009) YES I MENTIONED IT BUT I KNOW IT’S EFFIN IMPORTANT EY!
- Dota 2 uses the Valve source engine hence the game looks more beautiful
- The game has an integrated voice chat system
- AI bots will take over disconnected players
- Tons of custom voice work for characters
- There’s an in-game rewards system for interacting with the community (details are still fuzzy)
- There’s a coaching system
- Interactive guides are also in place
- Skill-based matchmaking
- The game’s set for the PC and the Mac
In-line with the nearing release of Dota 2, Valve is also upgrading it’s backend technology Steamworks for matchmaking, other gameplay and community-related things. Here are the artworks of the characters we’d be seeing once the game comes out–
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I’ve also read the reviews but there’s no specific date yet on when exactly DotA 2 will be released.
The artwork of the heroes look awesome. Hopefully they look awesome in the game as well. =)
I know– I’m definitely waiting for this game to come out it’s a first day purchase for me!