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StarCraft and Guild Wars designer reveals a gorgeous new MOBA

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Everyone is jumping onto the MOBA bandwagon. Just the other day Gearbox, the studio behind Borderlands, revealed that they were going to try their hand at the popular online format, adding their names to a growing roster of developers wanting in on the MOBA money. It’s easy for lots of these titles to slip through the cracks and go unnoticed. Although, it’s much more difficult when your game looks as stunning as this.

Gigantic is a new third-person MOBA that doesn’t actually look like one. The game seems to have all the MOBA elements there; a five man team, one single objective and a varying roster of characters. Most of the time MOBA’s involve two teams battling each until one of the teams destroys the big, almighty structure/ancient/nexus in the other teams base/home/sanctuary. The variations differ more in the way the game actually plays rather than the rules, but Gigantic is tweaking that a little bit.

There’s still a singular structure, or in this case Guardian, that the enemy has to destroy. The difference is that in Gigantic this Guardian is a living, thinking character that moves around the map. This means that Gigantic is no longer about defence, but rather offense. Your five man team might fights alongside your Guardian, playing to your different character strengths as well as the strengths of the creature you’re protecting. It’s an interesting twist, and one that makes Gigantic stand out from the rest of the crowd.

That, and the game has an absolutely gorgeous art direction. It’s all on show in the revel trailer below, with the game being released sometime next year. Gigantic also has some big names behind it, with StarCraft and Guild Wars lead designer James Phinney heading up the independent studio behind the title.

You can sign-up for Alpha access here if you’re ready for yet another MOBA in your life. Personally, I’d play it just to see all the pretty art. This type of stylisation really speaks to me.

Last Updated: July 16, 2014

7 Comments

  1. Hmmm interesting

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  2. Tom Neil

    July 16, 2014 at 22:13

    It seems very interesting! Our goal is to add only interesting games in http://OwlGames24.com/

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  3. Sir Rants A Lot Llew

    July 17, 2014 at 08:02

    Ugh. More mobas. Really? Is this what the PC platform is going to turn in to? MMO’s and MOBAS? GAH!

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    • Am I taking crazy pills?

      July 19, 2014 at 06:02

      There are a ton of good games coming out for PC that aren’t MMO’s or Mobas. Just because these websites just keep talking about MMOs and Mobas doesn’t mean there aren’t other genre of pc games coming out. Almost every ex Blizzard employee is making either an MMOrpg or Moba.

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  4. R4ziel

    July 17, 2014 at 08:25

    Personally I dont like the GFX, it doesnt look pretty. My PC could do those graphics 10 years ago, why would it be awesome now.
    I agree with Sir Rants A Lot, it feels like everything on PC is becoming MMO’s and MOBAs, sigh

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  5. Ringo

    July 17, 2014 at 09:07

    “…revel trailer” As in a trailer too revel in? I did take great pleasure and delight from that trailer.

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  6. Rags

    July 17, 2014 at 11:13

    Graphics reminds me of Zelda on the N64 😛

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