Defense of the Ancients (Dota) is widely regarded as one of the most popular game modification in the world. Its popularity is ever increasing and is a very popular game across the world especially South-East Asia.
For starters, Dota as stated is not a game, it’s a modification or more precisely a custom scenario in a real time, multi strategy game War craft III: The Frozen Throne and its predecessor War craft III: Reign of Chaos. The game is available on the web as a freeware here. (another reason accounting for its bulging popularity).
The essence of the game for any team is to destroy one’s opponents’ secured establishments at divergent corners of map at hand. These establishment or structures that need to be destroyed are called as Ancients (hence the name). Three different sets of entities – the dota heroes, dota allied heroes and dota creepshelp the players in their task, heroes being the most powerful of the three. Gold acts as the medium for commodity exchange and is used for buying equipment (also called dota items and spells) and other things during the errand.
The scenario has undergone many mutations since inception and continues to do so. Though the most popular of the all aka Dota Allstars has been reigned through time. The same scenario is used in tournaments and multi player competitions. At present, ‘IceFrog’ is the authoritative developer of this scenario per se.
The game play confronts two teams with each trying to destroy each others’ ancients. The teams are known as the Sentinels (South west corner) and the Scourge (North East corner). Obviously the ancient is heavily guarded and players have to fight to reach the base, at the center of which “Ancient” exists.
Each human player represents a virtual a hero (already mentioned). The hero is vested with extra ordinary powers that help him in its task. Choosing a hero is a tactical decision as one hero’s weakness is another hero’s strength. As such it is a team game but sometimes one hero can change the whole scenario of the game single handedly.
The game mostly revolves around strengthening your heroes. This can be done by neutralizing soft targets and the likes. This lets a hero achieve experience which in turn increases the efficiency of the hero. Killing of enemies heroes does precisely the same. Also another important commodity in the game, gold plays a vital part overall. With gold a hero is able to buy stuff that ultimately leads to increase in level.
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