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League of Legends

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9.4 User Score:

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Game Info

Publisher: Riot Games

Developer: Riot Games

Genre(s): Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game

Players: Thousands

ESRB Rating: T (Teen)

Release Date: October 27, 2009

Summary

Join forces with your closest allies as you unite to defeat your foes in deadly multiplayer battle arenas. League of Legends combines elements from both strategy and role playing games to bring you a unique and dynamic player experience. As a Summoner, you will have your own distinct, customizable avatar that grows in power as you move through the game. In each battle you will select and call forth one of dozens of Champions to control and engage in head-to-head combat against teams of highly trained warriors. Choose your allies wisely, for the stakes are high. In the League, every battle means more than life or death as the balance of power shifts with each victory or defeat. [Riot Games]

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What The Critics Said

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1UP

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.

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GameShark

Free to play and addictive as hell, League of Legends delivers a really entertaining, competitive environment for RTS twitch players.

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GameZone

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.

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Cheat Code Central

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.

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GamingXP

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!

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PC Gamer

The most accessible, rewarding and endearing of DotA's offspring yet. [Jan 2010, p.72]

Gamer Limit

LoL is a great, free alternative to DotA that caters both to newbies, and the hardcore.

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Vandal Online

Demanding, addictive, fun and free to play, League of Legends provides intense and absorbing moments.

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Gamervision

When it comes to actually playing the game, something that's obviously very important, LoL provides an addictive experience that should feel reminiscent of any other game in the genre.

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GameTrailers

The game largely succeeds more than it falters, and anyone with a soft spot for deep, team-based strategy should not pass up this substantial gem.

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Game Revolution

A very well-done game.

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GameSpy

The best game of its kind I've played. If nothing else, it definitely takes careful measures to ease in new players (meaning the non-Defense of the Ancients elite).

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Eurogamer Spain

This is what Demigod should have been. An addictive experience with a great multiplayer mode.

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Game Chronicles

Despite being released probably a bit earlier than optimal, League of Legends is still a very solid game that combines many of the fun elements found in RTS, RPG, and online multiplayer PvP games.

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Eurogamer

More time, heart and money has gone into this than any other free game I can remember playing, and I think Riot Games is going to make good on its promise of post-release development. Until further notice, this is the DOTA game you should be playing.

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IGN

But sometimes it feels like League of Legends throws too much at the player, both in terms of the number of champions and the general confusion of the larger battles. While that's not enough to dampen your enthusiasm of the game, the vague status of the launch and the more-than-occasional hostility of the community just might.

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Game Informer

It's too bad that Riot Games didn't take more chances with League of Legends, because the basic premise is good enough to have made Defense of the Ancients a subgenre unto itself. [Jan 2010, p.89]

3DJuegos

League of Legends is an intelligent and shocking remake of the Defense of the Ancients concept.

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PC Gamer UK

Less adventurous heroes might be scared off, but if more is merrier, LoL is perfect for your advanced tower defending fix. [Christmas 2009, p.112]

Gaming Nexus

A solid and promising free-to-play multiplayer RTS that seems to have been released a bit too early. Even so, there's a lot of fun in the content that is available.

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GameSpot

This competitive strategy game is fun, though it offers only a fraction of what you should expect from a retail product.

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Boomtown

Underneath the tough exterior is an enjoyable game, but it's impossible to ignore the miserable, unaided struggle to get there and persistent balancing issues throughout.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 9.4 (out of 10) based on 108 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jim S gave it a10:
I love this game - haven't spent so many hours playing a game since WOW first came out. Hugely replayable and extremely fun.

Jung So gave it a10:
game created by the same person who developed Dota, meaning, successor to Dota. This game is full of fun and gets quite addictive. Although, losing may be frustrating sometimes, it hooks you into the game, and you'll never be able to let go of this.

anonymous gave it a10:
Big shoes to fill? Bah! This successor to DotA definitely walks proud in daddy's giant boots.

Linus S gave it a9:
Its going to get a 10 when they fix all the bugs there is with the friend system but league of legends is with out a doubt a more intens, fun, and player friendly game than dota. You get an intro to a basic champion and get to lear all the basic thing the you can go join other for a pratic battle, you have a feeling how long they have played when you look at there lvl and maybe even at there wins, it they have played normal games, which count in other players eyes. You can also choose to play agains bots so that you can leave anytime you want, and you can get to lear some heros if you dont feel so confident in just jumping into some random game. If you compare that to dota where you dont have any idea how good a player is, you cant really play agains bots, atleast not any who have a brain, so you have to play for a while to have a chance to win, you dont have to have played any rounds in this game before you have a chance to win if you are against opponents who is around your own lvl. So its easy to start and itll get more and more intense and harder and harder the more you play because youll get to play against ppl who is at your own lvl and therefor have played it about as long as you have. And when the friend system works a little better you can team up with your friends so you can make tactics and stuff like that. Well then, gl and hf

George H gave it a9:
The "store" is currently critically unstable, and there's some balance issues that need to be worked out, but otherwise this is what DoTA would be without warcraft 3 holding it back... which is pretty much exactly what it needs to be. Particularly taking into consideration that it's free-to-play (and they mean it, you'll gain no competitive advantage with money, just cosmetics), the game delivers. The real balance issues are minor, and when I say that I dismiss the slew of complaints from players who mistake the objective of the game to be killing other players, rather than winning. I'd have given a 9.5 if it were an option, but settled on 9 because, of course, the game isn't *quite* perfect.

YJ K gave it a10:
It's the DOTA variation that we all dreamed about. The f automatic match making based on ELO easy interface and reconnection possibility and a penalizing system for those cheaters and leavers... ETC. And to top it off it has really unique set of heroes and a complex combination of masteries and runes that you can use to come up with your own combo.

Jared V gave it a10:
This is one of the best games I have ever played - I haven't been so addicted to a game since I first played World of Warcraft! I can't stop playing and it's a ton of fun.

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