With Prime Arena, the developer studio Nival aims to create a game that combines the gameplay of the battle royale shooter PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds with the play style of MOBAs like Heroes of the Storm or League of Legends. Furthermore, Prime Arena is supposed to solve the alleged main problem of MOBAs: the toxic community!
MOBA games like Dota 2, League of Legends, and Heroes of the Storm remain incredibly popular. Only the battle royale shooter PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds recently surpassed Dota 2 in simultaneous players on Steam.
So why not combine both genres, MOBA and battle royale? This idea has been brought to life by developer Nival with Prime Arena.
Prime Arena – Battle Royale MOBA
In Prime Arena, you select one of 20 heroes and start playing. You smash other players and NPC creatures as in a MOBA. However, similar to PUBG, the arena continuously shrinks.
Thus, the action becomes more concentrated towards the end of the round, resulting in massive action. As is typical for MOBAs, the view is from an isometric perspective. In the end, only one player can remain; team play does not seem to be intended.
A similar concept, albeit with teams, is used by the arena brawler Battlerite.
Prime Arena – No Team, No Trolls?
Moreover, developer Nival claims to have found the sole reason for the bad reputation of MOBAs: toxic teammates, flamers, and trolls. However, where there is no “forced socialization,” there can be no flamer spreading their indecency.
Therefore, Prime Arena completely dispenses with any form of team play. You are always on your own and do not have to worry about the bothersome activities like teamwork. Just shoot and slaughter away.
Prime Arena will be released in Fall 2017 on Steam for PC. First screenshots and a trailer are already available. However, the title still looks quite modest, and especially the animations in the video seem quite stiff. So it remains to be seen whether Prime Arena will succeed with its approach to MOBA and battle royale.
Here’s the Steam page for Prime Arena.
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