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1UP has word that Gas Powered Games (Dungeon Siege, Supreme Commander etc.) are working on Demigod, an upcoming fantasy Action-RPG-RTS hybrid which is inspired by a popular mod created for Blizzard's Warcraft III called DotA (Defense of the Ancients). Demigod has you controlling large "demigod" hero units, each with their own abilities and is heavy on multiplayer and co-op battles (with some single player designed as training for playing the multiplayer modes). The game is scheduled to be revealed in the February, dated issue of Games For Windows magazine, but no publisher or release date was announced.
For those who've never tried DotA, it concentrates on two teams
trying to destroy each others' bases; though rather than managing all
the units or gathering resources as in a regular RTS, players each
control a single Hero unit with different powers, leveling up by
killing A.I. enemies around the map.
In Demigod, you control one of many "demigod" heroes -- some of which
survive solely on the strength of their own powers, others of which
thrive on building smaller units and structures of their own for
support. The guy on the left in the screenshot below is one such hero,
"The Rook," a former king whose spirit now animates an anthropomorphic
castle. Demigod is, as you'd expect, a multiplayer game at heart, with
an emphasis on co-op play. There's a single-player mode, too, though
Gas Powered Games says it will serve mainly as a "training ground" for
the multiplayer.
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