Garena Online, the internationally-renowned online game software and game publishing company is currently gearing up to launch its highly anticipated flagship game title in the Philippines, League of Legends.

From the creators of DOTA All-stars comes the next evolution in DOTA type gaming. League of Legends combines elements of role-playing and strategy genres with addictive battle action that brings accessible, replay-able and competitive gameplay to Filipino gamers. The game itself is built as a highly competitive core game that will change people’s minds about the type and caliber of games that are offered for free, yes; it’s FREE TO PLAY.

League of Legends or LOL as it is commonly called by gamers boasts of industry powerhouse veterans behind its team such as Blizzard Entertainments, Tom Cadwell and Shawn Carnes as well as Steve “Guinsoo” Feak, the original creator of DotA Allstars, and Steve “Pendragon” Mescon who started DotA-Allstars.com.

As part of its launch, Garena is planning an abundance of events including tournaments, leagues and raffles. Just recently World Cyber Games Inc. (WCG), organizer of the premier international video game competition, announced that League of Legends will be one of the featured Promotional Game Titles at the WCG 2010 Grand Final. These are the type of things we can hope to expect from Garena LOL.

About the game

The basic game play of LOL is the same as DOTA, teams/players win a game by destroying the others teams base. But be warned, LOL game play has a much faster pace.

• 2 Teams (Maximum of 5 players per team) of opposing sides fight each other.
• A match is won by destroying the others teams base called the Nexus.
• In order to get to the Nexus, players must destroy Turrets as well as incoming waves of AI controlled minions (or creeps as they call in DOTA).
• Along the way players gain levels from killing minions and other players.
• Players also earn gold by killing minions, towers and other players.
• Players can use their gold to buy armor and weapons using the gold they acquire throughout the game.

Though the game play is similar to DOTA, League of Legends offers a lot more features that makes it truly the next generation MOBA (Massively Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) type game.

Some of the basic game features of LOL include:

• Anti-leaver protection
• Game reconnects
• Advanced match making system
• Video scaling
• Match history
• Game statistics
• Buddy lists