First 4 illustrations from Valve's DOTA 2.

adam

Check out the first 4 illustrations from the DOTA 2 announcement.

Earlier today GameInformer announced Valve's latest project, DOTA 2, which saw them team up with one of DOTA's original creators, Ice Frog. I'll update this post with more information about the game, but for now here are the 4 illustrations found within the announcement.

 

PatrickL

Valve... fantasy? This could be good. Real good. And I don't even care for Dota.

Japhir

Is this going to be like the pretty version of League of Legends?

Hellmouth

Hah, they didn't even bother to give them better designs.

moose

that first concept is fucking sick!! wish the elf was a little less Warcraft-y, but the rest are kinda cool character pieces.

stoofoo

but but but! I wanna! I WANNNAAAA

Jungsik

Dota came before anything else

HoN and LoL followed

But the gameplay was never good enough to even match what Dota has developed into

With this new concept , I hope IceFrog make name for himself again

GOGO ICEFROG !!!!!!!!!

Go Dota !

Ryan Smith

What's a dota?

Jungsik

Defense of the Ancient, a custom map made in Warcraft 3

IceFrog has worked on it for over 4 ~ 5 years now? or longer

hes actually workin with Valve right now for this game

haiddasalami

@Jungsik: BBBBBBBBBBBBBB

lol I enjoyed HoN. Definitely looking forward to Dota 2

dregoloth

they're all sick, but my favorite would either be morphling or the drow

Spiderhead

These are sick. Really amazing work.

Purplepaint

They will be nice, but ill be waiting to see what dota 2 puts itself from games like LoL and HoN etc..

Purplepaint

i realize i mis-worded the crap out of that, i meant to say what makes the game stand out, game play wise


My Bad :$

Snowfly

Niiice! Is the first one the new take on Magina? They did him good.

ZacD

Dark elf archer is over done, but the other characters are pretty awesome.

kodde

This looks promising. Go go DOTA!

deazar

Totally forgot that Valve was involved in this when watching those great pieces of art...thought it was Blizzard...

HappyFool

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Raider

You guys realise LoL / HoN were based off DotA right , so it isn't the fact that dota needs to stand out, it's literally just DotA with a graphics update and a lot of people think it's still a superior game just lacking graphics, gotta agree about Drow.. was really hoping she was more icy instead she looks kinda overdone with just a frost arrow.

Muzzoid

HOT!

dfacto

This is a source worth reading for some interesting tidbits (which are probably true): http://icefrogtruth.blogspot.com/

Icefrog more or less demanded a direct port from DoTa to an extent that wouldn't get Valve sued. And they did it. Looks like they smelled the money and let him run DOTA 2 as he pleases.

Andrew Mackie

Wow those are beautiful concepts.
This game/genre always interested me, even though I am really bad at Warcraft RTS style games

3D-209

[quote]This is a source worth reading for some interesting tidbits (which are probably true): http://icefrogtruth.blogspot.com/[/quote]

Is there anything in particular that makes this sound "probably true" to you? It just seems kind of petty and not very well thought-out to me. More like it was written by someone with a personal problem with Icefrog than someone who actually works at Valve.

yiannisk

simply awesome! and they try to preserve the "blizzard" feel intact where possible too!

Jungsik

@ 3D-209 and dfacto

i thought they proved that this article was a fake?

o_O