League of Legends (LoL) is a freemium DotA-style multiplayer online battle arena game with over a hundred playable characters.
The objective of LoL is fairly simple: defeat the enemy team by destroying their structures (or capturing them, in the alternative Dominion gamestyle). Players pick a "champion" avatar before the game begins with distinct abilities and attributes. The other resources available to both teams are the same, despite slight cosmetic differences. It's the strength of the team's combination of individual character strengths and how well they use them that determines how well they fight each other for domination of the map.
Sam's Protip: Although it's seldom explicitly stated as such, standard game strategy dictates that each player takes one of five roles - attack-damage-heavy bottom laner, supporting bottom laner, ability-power-heavy middle laner, solo top-lane bruiser, and jungler (or second top laner).
Pros
- Highly nuanced combat mechanics
- Two game modes other than standard DotA style
- Large and highly active online community
- Mac version lacks no PC version features
Cons
- Can be ruinously addictive
- Fellow players can be unforgiving and unpleasant
- Mac version runs slower than PC version
This game makes your brains work. It is cooperative and you feel the team. Success depends much on players and team work. Like it.
Hey, how can you play this game? I can't understand a thing in it! Some heroes are so quick to move that I simply can't play them. Some are called 'tanks' and are totally impossible to play. When am I supposed to start a team fight? No one who I played with could explain it to me clearly. The game might be nice, but not for me, definitely.
It is good if you have the right company to play with. Sometimes the company is critical as unskilled players may ruin the game. It is rather easy to learn to play. I enjoy playing it in the right company.