What is Smite?

Hi-Rez wants us to play with Gods.

Hi-Rez Studios, the team behind Global Agenda and the upcoming Tribes: Ascend, are also hard at work on a Defence of the Ancients (DotA) inspired God game called Smite.

Now this sounds a lot like Demigod, but Smite is switching things up in a couple of ways. First of all the game will employ a third person action perspective, and you will be aiming your attacks in real-time rather than just clicking an enemy from a top down perspective. The game will be free-to-play in a similar fashion to League of Legends and there will be 30 Gods to play with a launch drawing inspiration from Norse Mythology and Greek among other things.

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Smite was playable for the press at Gamescom, and is also playable at PAX Prime this week. There is an interview with Hi-Rez CEO Todd Harris about Smite in work that will be released next month on GRTV.