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The Next Futuristic MOBA is Games of Glory

Games of Glory / 4 Jul 2014

Capture points and kill players to take down the Emblem. By Leah B. Jackson Games of Glory, the upcoming futuristic MOBA from Lightbulb Crew, puts a few spins on the traditional MOBA formula. I recently played a couple matches of the alpha version of Capture the Points mode, and was able to get a very early feel for what the bright and technological MOBA is trying to accomplish.

The core gameplay is quite different than what you'll find in a MOBA like League of Legends or Dota 2. Instead of a long lane game, your main goal is to complete objectives in order to overcome the enemy's base.

You take the role of characters called Clones, which are divided in to tanks, assassins, scouts, carries, and supports. Tanks are bulky defensive characters, designed to take a lot of damage. Assassins and scouts are the damage dealers with some versatile combat manuevers. Carries are geneerally pretty weak at the start of the game and ramp up in damage as things progress, while supports help out on the battlefield, offering heals and aid, in addition to some combat buffs.

I played as a ranged carry named Pinto in the first game, who could jump over walls and attack enemies with an aimed skillshot. He could also get all of his weapon energy back instantly, which was incredibly helpful for taking down unlikely opponents, but more on that later.

In the Capture the Points map, two teams of five are ultimately trying to destroy the opposing team's base. The twist is you can't touch the enemy base until your team takes down the other team's forcefield, which is done by capturing and holding three areas in the middle of the map. For each second your team holds a control point, the other team's forcefield starts ticking down from 1,000 to 0.

Once the forcefields are gone completely, your team can proceed to attack the Emblem, or core, of the other team's base. If you can destroy the Emblem, your team wins.

By taking down an enemy player, the other team's forcefield will go down by five points, giving additional incentive to go after kills. To help bolster your team's offense, you can capture up to two gold points that passively generate additional income as long they're under your control.

The capture points and gold points randomly reset throughout the match, so you and your team will constantly be battling to hold as many points as possible. Additionally, minions will spawn in the control point areas during each match. They're tough at the beginning of the game, but important, as items give you a big leg up.

Games of Glory plays more like an action RPG than your typical MOBA. As such, weapons and movement control differently in this game than what you might expect if you're used to playing MOBAs.

You'll have a variety of guns and melee weapons to take out the other team, and can have two weapon sets equipped at a time. What's nice is that you can swap between your primary and secondary sets at will. Guns have limited energy, or ammo, and interestingly enough, the way different types of guns shoot vary.

Quick-firing pistols are used by rapid-clicking your mouse, whereas with a sniper-rifle, you have to aim, hold down your mouse, and fire at maximum range if you want extra damage. This adds an additional layer of skill to Games of Glory, and I liked the optional complexity. If I wanted to simply right-click down enemies, I'd quickly tap D to switch to my melee weapon on my other weapon set, and slash for the win.

Movement in Games of Glory is a bit strange at first, as you left click to move and right click to attack. After two games I began to get the hang of it, but it takes some getting used to. It definitely feels different than League of Legends or Dota 2, and while I understand that Lightbulb Crew wants Games of Glory to feel action-packed and unique with varying gunplay, I'm not sure if I'm on board with the decision to change up the familiar MOBA control scheme.

When you put everything together, the Capture the Points map in Games of Glory is intense, and there was always something for me to be doing which I liked. Whether I was going to capture one of the three center points, a gold point, or running off to try and nab a kill, I was constantly occupied throughout both 30-minute games I played, and am looking forward to testing out future modes, maps, and clones.

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Leah B. Jackson is both an Associate Editor at IGN and Corgi megafan, and not necessarily in that order. Follow her on Twitter and MyIGN!

The Last of Us' infected origins revealed in dev video

blackcat 7:03 AM

That's point No. 1 in the developer documentary video above, which shows how Naughty Dog set about making The Last of Us' infected into uniquely terrifying foes. We're totally going to call them zombies--c'mon, they're still contagious, vicious, mindless ex-people--but their idiosyncratic behavior and appearance do a lot to set them apart.

You can try not to breathe in any spores, or let your friends get killed by bandits, when The Last of Us releases for PlayStation 3 on June 14.

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metalgatesolid - 8 hours, 11 minutes ago

Wow... This game will be terrifying... Reply Report

winner2 - 16 hours, 31 minutes ago

Those are some diabolical mushrooms Reply Report

ObliqueZombie - February 28, 2013 7:46 p.m.

The more I see of this, the more impressed I am. The sound design could rival that of Halo 4--even surpass it. Reply Report

Ryan_Taljonick - February 28, 2013 7:06 p.m.

Welp, they make that awful noise that the creepy chick from The Grudge makes. Which means I will scream like a child the entire time. Reply Report

GamesRadarCollanderCooper - February 28, 2013 4:39 p.m.

This is what happens in Obama's America Reply Report

BladedFalcon - February 28, 2013 3:51 p.m.

Those things really are disgustingly creepy, and I do like that they behave a bit more differently in regards of being blind and reacting to sound. Still, I kinda wish they did even more to distinguish themselves, but then, you'd risk having your game feel too weird or outlandish, I suppose, and they do seem to want to keep it more towards the "realistic" side of things. Reply Report

alex-roy-bristol - 15 hours, 53 minutes ago

Yeah', they sure are disgusting eh'?? But, still, I kind of agree with you on the "making them even more horrific" thing... However, if they still retained most of the "human"ness of them, than maybe it'll be more emotional and/or disturbing to gun them down, and maybe even some moral shit thrown in there, just for extra fun at/towards the end! :D Also, this isn't Silent Hill, nor The Thing, so those designs juuuusst miight not fit and work with this game world, even though we may wish so a little bit from time to time... :PStill looks freaking GREAT though!! :D Reply Report

BladedFalcon - 10 hours, 17 minutes ago

Yeah, agreed on the silent hill or the thing point. Which is why I understand why they have kept them this way, even if I would have liked them to go even further with the idea of fungus infected humans. Mainly because it's such a cool idea that hasn't really been explored before. Reply Report

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