By all means please elaborate, what makes it, in what way is it not close enough to DotA? You always got to keep in mind that this is a closed beta too. More game modes are coming, a larger hero pool, more hero ports.

Edit: Of course the game will feel different at first because everything "seems to be new". In fact there is absolutely nothing new. All of HoN items are DotA duplicates, only with different names. Of course that is also subject to change because it's already been stated that S2 was not going to follor Icefrog steps all the time.
edit2: I gotta say one thing that pained me on my first few games of Heroes, that I had to ask my teammates who every heroes were, and what the items were called now. But once you nail that, it becomes just as familiar as DotA.

This post was edited by Pook1212123 on Nov 17 2009 04:15pm

uhm.. couldnt you just dl it from free off the site?

but they can do stuff that dota cannot due to the limits of the wc3 client.


Honestly they are the same imo, but hon has extra perks that really do make a difference.
How many times have you disconnected in dota and said FUCK!, well in hon you just log right back in... sure you might be slightly behin

and one question, what hero is electrian in dota?


Of course every game is going to look like the base of the category, just like wow has done to every new mmo out there, but does it mean wow = every mmo?

This post was edited by Kadger on Nov 18 2009 01:31am

DotA> HoN> LoL

This. HoN isn't quite there, yet it is enjoyable.

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Elecrtician is a new hero. Not related to DotA. As well as The Dark Lady, Puppet Master, and many more. I believe there are still a lot more ports coming from DotA. But S2Games also creates they're own heroes.

One thing that's a bit sad is currently the game does not have the same balance DotA has, because the hero pool is different. That's something else the players must get used to.