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Crytek’s Arena of Fate Announcement Teaser

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Endless

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The website is up now: arenaoffate.com (You can apply for the Beta)

Teaser Trailer on YouTube

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History's Greatest Heroes Clash in "Arena of Fate" – a Brand New IP from Crytek

Step into the shoes of legendary heroes from history and fantasy and lock horns in "Arena of Fate"; an action-packed online multiplayer game coming to PC and consoles soon from Crytek.

Featuring fast-paced 5 vs. 5 battles, Arena of Fate expands Crytek's range of Games-as-a-Service, and will be playable for the first time at this year's E3 expo in Los Angeles. Players will be free to choose from a huge roster of famous characters before engaging in star-studded skirmishes with fresh gameplay twists.

Among the iconic figures in Arena of Fate are the likes of Frankenstein, Jack the Ripper and Baron Münchhausen. Tap into their famed traits in battle as you bring Frankenstein back from the dead, use Jack's cleavers to gruesome effect, and launch across the map on Baron Münchhausen's cannonball!

Managing Director of Crytek Black Sea and Game Director of Arena of Fate, Vesselin Handjiev, said: “Imagine Joan of Arc and Robin Hood cooperating to hunt down Little Red Riding Hood – Wouldn’t that be terrific? But besides the game's iconic heroes, which everyone in the team really loves, we are also challenging ourselves to carefully craft a streamlined player experience that allows for both greater accessibility, and rich, deep, action-packed gameplay. We are very excited to meet the first wave of players in the arena this summer, and will be listening carefully to the feedback we receive and making the community's contribution a key part of our efforts to perfect the fun.”

The game is being developed by Crytek's Sofia studio, which was established in 2008 following Crytek's acquisition of Black Sea Studios. Originally founded in 2001, Black Sea

Studios made their name with critically acclaimed real-time strategy game "Knights of Honor" and sci-fi online RTS/RPG hybrid, "WorldShift".

Arena of Fate is scheduled to enter Early Access Beta testing on PC this Summer, and players can sign up for a chance to get in on the action at http://www.arenaoffate.com. E3 attendees are invited to go hands-on with the PC version of the game from June 10-12 by visiting Crytek at booth 4500 in the Los Angeles Convention Center.
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Tomat

Wanna hear a good joke? Waste your time helping me! LOL!
So it's multiplayer, and in an online battle arena?

Interesting.
 
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Aaron

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K.Sabot said:
Lol that moba bubble.

Gonna burst and I hope it leaves a huge crater.
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Maybe you should check the pot for the TI4. Six million, mostly through people buying virtual goods. Until something equally massive comes along, MOBAs are where the money is now.
 
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Felensis

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Is this a MOBA or a beat 'em up? I don't get it.
Nevertheless Crytek should keeping make AAA games like Crysis and Ryse instead of IMHO mediocre F2P games like Warface and Arena of Fate.

I'm wondering who got the time play all this stuff? Warface, Arena of Fate, Diablo 3, LOL, DOTA 2, WoW etc. If I would start playing one of those I wouldn't have the time to play any other (SP-)games, but I love variety ;)
 
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Rogue_Ledr

Banned
Looks corny and dopey to me personally.

They're wasting time and resources on this when there are far more promising projects for them to delve into.
 
JordanN

JordanN

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Maximum plagiarism.

Though seeing Crytek go for something cartoony instead of the usual brown and grey shit would be a welcome change.
 
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Drencrom

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Aaron said:
Maybe you should check the pot for the TI4. Six million, mostly through people buying virtual goods. Until something equally massive comes along, MOBAs are where the money is now.
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It's ironic and sad to see people look down on these smartphone games with microtransactions and F2P games in general but they turn a blind eye when they spend money in their MOBA of choice.
 
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Fezan

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Need new pick saying everything was MOBA

I have nothing against MOBA have played more than 3000 thousand matches across dota and dota 2 and 100 of LOL. But i dont think every one jumping to this bandwagon would be successful
 
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ashecitism

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I don't see how it being a Dota-like makes it automatically bad. Perhaps wait till gameplay vids and details on its business model first?

Drencrom said:
It's ironic and sad to see people look down on these smartphone games with microtransactions and F2P games in general but they turn a blind eye when they spend money in their MOBA of choice.
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It's ironic and sad to see people likening a hardcore genre like Dota-likes to casual browser and mobile games designed to rip off whales and equating their business models to them.
 
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Cato the Censor

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Something something Crytek something optimization something gameplay something graphics something.

Also, Robin Hood, Jeanne d'Arc and Little Red Riding Hood come into a bar...
 
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K.Sabot

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-MD- said:
DOTA 2 shows so signs of slowing down.
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I am heavily invested into Dota 2.

The moba bubble is completely different from that.

WoW was fine after the MMO bubble burst.

Aaron said:
Maybe you should check the pot for the TI4. Six million, mostly through people buying virtual goods. Until something equally massive comes along, MOBAs are where the money is now.
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Dota 2 and LoL are where the money's at. The second wave of mobas in "beta" are already showing that they will be nowhere near the first.
 
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