Petroglyph Enters The Arena With Rise Of Immortals

Rise Of Immortals is a Defense Of The Ancient (DotA)/Massively Online Battle Arena (MOBA) style game. The story takes place in the world of Graxia 300 years after their strategy PC game Guardians Of Graxia. Petroglyph is taking the MOBA game play and adding new MMO style features that are sure to attract competitive players from all over. Some new features like enhanced socialization and persistent character progression (a first in the MOBA community) will be side by side with other MMO style. Features like persistent skill tree, customizing and upgrading the characters to unlock unique abilities that persist from match to match. This could be a Battle Arena players dream come true. Check out the preview below!

"Many people at Petroglyph are huge fans of MOBA game play, so developing Rise Of Immortals was truly a passion project for the studio," said Steve Wetherill, executive producer of Rise Of Immortals. "We recognize that there can be a high barrier to entry in current MOBA games on the market, and we wanted to expand the genre with a title that offers new features that will appeal both to current fans, as well as those who are new to this type of game."

Some of the features that will be available at launch:

  • Twelve unique Immortals at launch with additional Immortals released on a regular basis.
  • Persistent per-Immortal level progression and skill trees.
  • Persistent artifacts for stat enhancements.
  • Player versus Environment instances with collectible items.
  • Player versus Player instances with up to 5v5 multiplayer.
  • Persistent experience and leveling in both PvP and PvE instances.
  • Collectible pets for combat and vanity.
  • Account and Immortal statistics tracking.
  • Player hub instances for socialization.

We also got our first look at the first three immortals: Lazarus, Kyrie and Tatiana

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For players that can't wait to get their hands on the game, you can sign up for their closed beta on their website http://www.riseofimmortals.com. Although it is a closed beta, Petroglyph will be expanding its testing over several weeks. So if you don't get in the first time keep trying. This is a game you won't want to miss.