Smite launched for North America and Europe last month: it’s a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) that gives you unfettered access to a pantheon of gods from around the world, complete with an over-shoulder camera view and game controls more reminiscent of MMORPGs than MOBAs.
Smite was developed in the US, but now that Chinese eSports team World Elite has announced a Smite team even though the Chinese client is still in beta and not widely accessible, we thought we’d better give it a spin. After all, everyone knows a MOBA to an Asian gamer is like breathing to a living creature.
(See: Tencent wants Smite to be an eSport as Team WE announces new Smite team)
So without further ado, please welcome our latest weekly feature at Games in Asia: MOBA Madness, where we will discuss, analyze, and compare MOBA games every week.
What is Smite?
Smite is a third-person MOBA developed by Hi-Rez Studios featuring heroes based directly off various pantheons. There are presently 51 playable gods from Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Hindu, Roman, Mayan, and Norse mythology. The Chinese version of Smite will be released by Tencent.
Like League of Legends, gods in Smite can be purchased with virtual currency. They also get rotated on a regular basis, so you can play all the gods without having to buy any. Hero levels are capped at 20, and each god comes equipped with three ordinary skills, one ultimate skill, and one passive skill.
(See: Smite begins China beta, just in case there weren’t enough MOBA competitors there)
Requirements
Smite looks really fancy, but according to Can You Run It, it can inch by on Windows XP, a Core 2 Duo 2.4ghz processor, just 2GB of RAM, and a graphics card with minimum 512MB video RAM. That’s not much at all, and I was able to play it at its highest settings with no video lag on my two-year-old rig.
The only problem you may face is the client download. I work off a 100mbps home broadband and took about half a day to fully download the client, which takes up a total of 10GB in your hard disk. I shudder to think of how long a less stable internet connection will take to do that.
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