Its heroes have a touch of Todd McFarlane about them, a cavalcade of hulking grotesques, mechanical monstrosities and buff bodies it would be easy enough to imagine them adorning the shelves of a comic book shop as collectors' action figures. The art style here is unabashedly Epic, all deep blacks and mottled musculature. Paragon lacks the clean, cartoon lines and bright colours of such competition, however.
Market leaders such as Valve's DOTA 2 and Riot's League of Legends have gained fierce reputations in this regard, though Blizzard took a good stab at simplifying the format with Heroes of the Storm, and has arguably nailed it with the recent Overwatch, which, while not a MOBA, takes inspiration from the genre with its roster of colourful heroes, each of whom have different team roles and abilities. Gameplay footage from the early access preview of 'Paragon', captured by the author "We recognized early on that the cinematic trailers of other games offer the player a powerful experience that is vastly different from the gameplay, so we aim to have Paragon fulfil on that promise." "When we started exploring the idea of making a MOBA, one of the innovations we believed Epic could bring was an improved action feel," he explains. The primary motivation for this approach, according to creative director Steve Superville, stems from Epic's background in action games. Where it distinguishes itself is in its use of a deck-building metagame, designed as a more beginner-friendly replacement to the usual MOBA "shop", allowing players to increase their hero's abilities with stat-boosting cards, as well as its third-person presentation (a la SMITE and the upcoming Gigantic). You've got your top, mid and bot lanes, minions, jungle, the Roshan/ Baron-style boss of said jungle (called the Prime Guardian here), towers, inhibitors (essentially Paragon's barracks), wards, last hitting, et al. A five-on-five, team-based arena battler, gamers familiar with the style, from titles like League of Legends and Heroes of the Storm, will get the gist of things straight away, but there can be a lot here to learn for new players, particularly the exhaustive terminology. Paragon is unabashedly a MOBA, a multiplayer online battle arena game, and comes with all the trimmings associated with the genre.
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