The authors of Boom Beach and Hay Day started 2016 with a soft lunch of a mobile game in the MOBA genre.
The novelty is called Clash Royale. It is very different from the Supercell projects currently on the market.
The rules of the game are as follows: there is a playing field with six towers. Three belongs to you, three belongs to the opponent. The task is to summon units to the battlefield and destroy the opponent’s central tower.
There are no heroes, no direct control either. The multiplayer around which the game is built is synchronous. That is, the opponents are selected in real time.
After each battle, the player receives a chest in which, in addition to gold spent on participating in battles, there may be cards. Cards are spells and units. To improve the units, the same cards are needed. That is, to get a second-level shooter, you need to have two arrow cards in your hands. The problem is that the contents of the chests are determined randomly.
Of the existing deck, only eight cards can be in the hand. Each requires a different amount of replenished mana to summon to the battlefield over time. Therefore, for example, it makes no sense to form a deck consisting only of heavy fighters requiring five or more mana. By the time you create this or that fighter, your towers will be able to demolish cheap enemy units.
The game is designed to be played in the vertical orientation of the screen.
Currently, the project is available for download only in nine countries, including New Zealand and Canada. It is unknown when the game will appear in the “world box office”. Plus, it is unclear whether it will appear at all, since the two previous Supercell games (Spooky Pop and Smash Land), without ever coming out of the “soft launch”, were closed.
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There are problems with the definition of the genre to which Clash Royale should be attributed. To call such a game a full-blooded MOBA (and Western publications are already doing this) is not entirely correct.
Clash Royale is more of a synthesis. Here, the tag of war genre (League of War, Castle Raid and Dragon Warlords), the Clash of Clans action game and, directly, MOBA are merged together.
We named the game MOBA for one simple reason. Clash Royale takes confident steps in the direction of this genre: in tag of war there were, as a rule, two tracks — always one way to the enemy base.