League of Legends PC
Metascore
78 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 36 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 36
  3. Negative: 0 out of 36
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  1. GameShark
    91
    Free to play and addictive as hell, League of Legends delivers a really entertaining, competitive environment for RTS twitch players.
  2. 1UP
    91
    The biggest change to the formula, however, is the persistence of your player as a "Summoner," not to be confused with the 30-odd in-game characters, which get a clean slate at the start of every match.
  3. GameZone
    90
    League of Legends has replayability in spades for anyone who loves romps in real-time strategy format. It's attractive, accessible, and above all else, League of Legends delivers heaps of fun.
  4. Cheat Code Central
    90
    Getting hooked up with players in the lobby is about as easy as it gets. The matches are short enough and challenging enough to suit virtually all skill levels. The time I spent with this game has been fun, and with a good community base, it can only get better with time.
  5. GamingXP
    88
    There are always some people online you can fight with! If you liked the mod GOTA for Warcraft III, you will definitely love this game!
  6. ActionTrip
    87
    The fact remains that if you're looking for a fast, smart and fun fantasy themed team-based strategy game, you can't go wrong here.

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User Score
7.3 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 667 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 162 out of 234
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 234
  3. Negative: 52 out of 234
  1. thunderbug
    2
    I have played this game extensivly and can honestly say this is possible one of the worst excuses for a game i have ever seen. A few things you should know before i continue, i only got the game due to dota having a no way to easily find games, it was the first game of this type i came across after playing dota. Gameplay A game of this type is based entierly on balance, it is to a game like this what guns are to COD. So if the balance is out then the game is instantly terrible. No surprise here the game is about as balanced as a one legged spider. 2 game modes are available 3v3 and 5v5. the problem here is that the game is made for 5v5, so the 3v3 suffers horribly. The champs are normally split into 3 arch-types Nuke, DPS, Tank. This is all well and good but riot games decided to give some tanks more damage output than a nuke or dps, or give a mage the ability to tank without any ill effects.ect. The concept of a hybrid is these kind of games means they sacrifice a bit of each type to creat a hybrid for instance a Tank/Nuke should not be as tough as a tank and not deal as much damage and a pure nuke. try telling this to the devlopers of lol Vladimir a champion in the game has more damage output that 90% of the other nukes yet can tank extremly well this is bad balance. Then there is the combat which becomes a massive mess on screen in the big battles.

    Graphics
    The only thing i liked about the game and then nothing special.

    Cost I have spent a fortune on this game and still have only about half of the content, my current spend is £81 so basically COD Black OPs twice. The game can be free but the time required to get anything without paying is crazy for intance IP the free in game money is earned from playing games a win will give you about 90 a newly released champion is normally 6300IP a game last 25 mins on average so doing the math it comes to 29.1 hours to unlock 1 champion and there are 50+ in the game. Player base
    Full of ( .......................................................................censored.........................................................................) in conclusion the worst player base i have ever seen. The words kind, considerate, friendly, helpful, understanding, are to the players of LOL non existant.

    Conclusion
    I have played this game lots and as anybody reading this review will guess i despise it to the core. Many people ask me why i played it so much if i hate it, well the answer is i wanted to like it i really did, its like when u go to see a movie about something you like or a francise your a fan of u can fogive it some minor mishaps. i tried this with LOL and found no matter how you look at it, it is a very bad game. DOTA was better for the simple reason that the more patches they released the closer the game go to being a well balanced game, on the other hand with every patch LOL bring out the game becomes yet more of a waste of space. Some of the people from DOTA actually make LOL which is why i do not understand why its so bad. Although 1 has left to make DOTA 2 :) and according to all the LOL forums hate being thrown at him this is true, i just recon its becouse he realised he was working with morons.    … Full Review »
  2. misterpete
    0
    This game is flat out awful. It's imbalanced, has horribly graphics, frequent lag and server downtime, and the developers don't seem to care about their game in general. Stay well clear of this one.… Full Review »
  3. Punkforever
    3
    I would like to inform you reader, I have never reviewed a game up until this day. However I felt obligated to throw in my two cents in the matter of this game. First off like other reviewers have mentioned balance in this game is inconsistent from game to game, many heroes are obviously favored (Tryndamere, Vladimir, Singed, etc...) and as a result usually wipe the floor with the opposing team. But as I mentioned earlier there are times where the game consists of teams with for the most part, balanced heroes in which the game is fun- under certain conditions. If you do not have any friends to play with I would highly highly highly suggest finding another game to play. This game has the worst community ever. No joke by far THE WORST COMMUNITY IN EXISTENCE FOR ANY GAME. If I had to pick the number one most used phrase in League of Legends it would probably be "umadbro" or "get good baddie" or something along those lines. In fact the community IS SO TERRIBLE that is the main reason that I write this review right now. I know what you must be thinking reader, "It's a FTP, expect it..." No I have played other FTP games as well, and I can assure you will not find a worse community, I CAN NOT STRESS ENOUGH HOW TERRIBLE the League Of Legends community is. Finally the only reason this game even deserves 3 stars is the fact that when you play with your friends, 5v5 or 3v3, whether you win or lose it still turns out to be a fun match and due to this game being FTP, playing with your friends should not be too difficult. In conclusion if I personally could affect your decision to play this game I would say play at your own risk unless you have friends or prepare your wig because you won't have any hair left when you are done with this game...… Full Review »
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