Heroes Of Newerth Review

 Hello again. Today I'm going to write my first online game review. Heroes of Newerth is an action real time strategy game developed by S2 games. I can say that the game is copy of DoTA but so far it has improved itself and to me, it's smooth gameplay, fancy graphics and player quality level, Heroes of Newerth is a much better game than DoTA. The game has released in May 12, 2010 as P2P (Pay to Play), after a year it has re-released as F2P (Free to Play) in 29 July 2011.

 The gameplay of the game is just like DoTA. There are two enemy factions. Legion and Hellbourne. Legion is the good side, the tree guardians and the druids protect the world tree from Hellbourne's demons. The bad side Hellbourne is trying to overcome Legion with it's minions and dark wizards. As players, we fight for one of these sides and trying to destroy our enemies main building which is World Tree for Legion and Sacrificial Shrine for Hellbourne. Choose your hero at the beginning of the game, go to your lane, gain gold by last hitting the creeps which are sent by their faction automatically every 30 seconds as 3 melee and 1 ranged type. After getting gold and getting to higher levels, build your hero the way you want, buy the items of your choice, kill enemy heroes and loot their gold. As you get stronger and make your enemies lose their golds, destroy their towers one by one and in the end take their main building down.

 There are 3 playing mods for this game

Forest Of Caldavar: This is the most popular and the largest mod. There are 3 corridors linking two enemy factions. The game is 5 versus 5. An average game lasts 40 minutes.                                                                                    
Grimms Crossing: The medium sized, least popular mod. There are 2 corridores and 3 players in each team. An average game lasts 25 minutes.
Mid War Mod: This is the last mod developed by S2 and totally original (Not copied from DoTA). Only 1 corridor, 5 players in each team. If you die in this map, you don't lose your gold. If you kill an opponent hero, you gain twice more of the normal gold (For example 240 in a forest of caldavar game, 480 in a midwar game). This makes the mod much faster, less strategy - more fun based one.

 Pros of the game against DoTA

• Smooth Gameplay.
• Better Graphics.
• Bigger Community.

 Cons of the game against DoTA

• New heroes require $ for early access and usually they get nerfed back to normal when early access time is done.
• Some patchs may blow the game up and cause to make S2 shut the servers down for a while (Experienced 4-5 hours to 1 week shutdowns).

 If you have played DoTA or want to play a ''Really'' challenging game, you really should give this game a try.