DotA-alike Heroes of Newerth Launching in May

I'm still waiting for 10 hero siege remakes/game modes along with that one game mode where each team is on one side of the map, they can buy "neutral" heroes in the middle of the map, or a hero on their own side. Also they get to choose their own faction, and they can upgrade their current units, or buy new ones(catapults, dragons, archers, bombardiers, etc.) which each have their own "spawn rate" and you push to destroy the enemies citidel. You can also build towers in specific places, or upgrade the ones you already have. Your personal castle where your units spawn are invincible, but the citidel for your team isn't and must be destroyed to win. You can also buy items for heroes at the citidel and some other places on the map, or get unique items for creeping on the top or bottom of the map. That was always really fun...does anyone else know of that custom map gamemode from WC3? I miss it...and it was much more fun than I'm having with HoN...though I'm having a lot of fun as it is already with HoN...

$30 for a game that is VERY replayable and getting free DLC is just unbelievable. Already spent more than 1000h on this and will probably spend atleast a few thousand more.

I wish I could be as positive on this as the others who commented. I bought this game during early beta and really tried to like it but the heroes are so broken. Some are way OP and others are worthless. There is not a lot of room for mistakes in this game because once someone on your side starts feeding that person will get kicked. If you let the feeder stay on your team you will for sure lose because of the money the feeder will give the other team. It is really hard for new people to break into this game because they get voted off of teams within a few minutes of play because they didn't purchase the right item, etc.

The positives, the game looks beautiful and the heroes look great.

It seems to me that S2 took all the heroes from DOTA and ported them, they didn't bother to fix what was broken about DOTA and just gave us an updated graphics engine.

Riot Games on the other hand created League of Legends and fixed everything wrong with DOTA. The heroes are much more balanced (at least you have more that are worth playing) and if you have a feeder on your team you can still recover.

One of the best games I played in HoN was when our game had lasted for I believe a little over an hour, about even on kills, and each of our entire teams (all 5) stormed each other's bases at the same time, tearing down towers with ease and completely annihilating each other's stronghold, nobody defending their own base, just trying to finish each other's base off. My team won by a fraction of a second, our own stronghold incredibly low on hp. That was the closest match I ever played, but damn it was epic!

The beta alone was worth the 30 bucks i paid for it. Twice.

I almost want to get this just to suck at it, the rage opportunities are endless.

Though I never played dota, I've been playing for close to a year now, I'm still awful, still learning, still addicted.

Love this game and can't wait for release. I'm tired of this "smurf account" bullshit. I love the idea of having viewable stats but it has such an adverse effect on gameplay sometimes.

Amazing game. I've been playing it for months, and it's continually updated, the community is encouraged and fostered, and it's just polished as hell.

Well worth a buy.

I have a lot of respect for s2 for this.

Best game Ive played in a while. Been in beta since october and im still playing 2-3 games a day.