Review of League of Legends

Updated! 9.25.11: Dominion mode fixes 2/3 of the horrible gameplay problems.

Free; play now. Based on Dota. Competes with demigod and HoN.

The best thing about this game is that it has few faults: Monetization and leveling don't get in the way. The graphics make the game easy too see and never an eyestrain. There is not too much to keep track of or command as in a standard strategy game.

Good, easy to see wow-like graphics!! Beginner friendly. Deep item system. Ward/bush mechanics. Balanced. Many champions. The 'mmo' qualifications do not get in the way of the game.

There are two huge gripes with this game.
The end game and in most ways the game in general is decided by as few as two seconds of the team gank and weather or not you could pick and click the enemy in the jumble of enemies and then do it twice more for mages and not split second lag.

Too often the best strategy is patience. In the early game the best strategy is often to tower hug. Or to put it another way the best option is to be patient and do nothing for 15min. Of course this depends on the champion you pick but that's a bad solution. Creep farming (last hitting) in general is hard and tedious and annoying because there are too many creeps and they are no challenge. In late game the best strategy by far is sitting in a bush with your whole team waiting for your enemy to blunder in with only part of his team.

In summery alot of effort and time goes into the preparation for the battle and the battle lasts all of 3 seconds.

There are far too few maps/game modes. Every one wants to be the damage dealer and noone wants to be the tank partly because of difficulty farming. Games are often too long (1hr-45min).