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The shorter matches are another difference. Next would be the way loadouts work, as it’s a bit different than the usual. After that, you probably asked, “Why should I care about yet another MOBA?” So, what makes this different from all the other games in this genre? Well, first would be the sci-fi dystopian future setting of the game – quite different than the fantasy theme that most go with. If you’re like me, you probably groaned when you learned about yet another MOBA project. Sure, there are some things that make the archetypes stand apart from other games, but for the most part if you’re familiar with playing tanks from a game like League of Legends, you’ll get used to them in Shards of War fairly quick.
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The archetypes are the same for the most part – you still have attackers, tanks, and supports. Like most MOBAs, Shards of War has a theme or back-story surrounding their “heroes.” Here, the Sentinels are warriors from alternate realities taken from their own realities and placed in Empire City to do battle. So far, there have been ten revealed Sentinels.
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The end goal of Shards of War is to redefine the MOBA, so let’s see if they’re on the right track. The game makes use of WASD controls, twitch-action combat, and relatively short match times compared to other games in the genre. You will take control of a Sentinel, a warrior sent to Empire City from an alternate reality, to do battle. Instead of the usual fantasy-theme of most MOBAs, Shards of War will be going with a sci-fi theme. Shards of War is an up-and-coming “Next Generation MOBA” brought to us by BIGPOINT, currently in alpha.