Valorant (for pc) preview

Last year in october, riot games announced a horde of new projects the studio is working on, including multiple games and even an animated series. One of these is the arena shooter valorant, a first-person shooter where different agents have special abilities and the focus is on tight gunplay. Valorant's style combines the authentic gunplay of popular shooters like cs: go and call of duty with the stylized, more toony appearance of games like team fortress 2 and overwatch. Valorant is planned as a free-to-play game with skins that can be purchased using valorant points, in a very similar vein as league of legends.

Valorant is an upcoming free-to-play multiplayer first-person shooter developed and published by riot games the game was first announced with the codename project a in october 2019. But valorant brings to the table the same thing riot has brought to the table with every other game it's released in the past year: refinement and innovation.

To support this endeavor, riot has released the valorant community competition guidelines, a blueprint to assist third-party organizers to coordinate and create events for amateur stars to rise during the early days of the game's life span. We have massive dreams for what this game can be as an esport, and we're excited to embark on this long esports journey with our players.

Whalen rozelle, senior director of global esports at riot games, spoke on the announcement in a release: we're overwhelmed by the initial interest and excitement in valorant. Keep in mind that it is alpha gameplay, but you'll quickly Valorant acquainted with the ui and the typical map structure which will be very familiar to counter-strike fans.

The game is round-based, with two teams of five players going head-to-head on various maps where the only goal is for the attacking team to detonate a bomb on a designated site, or for the defending team to prevent that from happening. The company has no track record when it comes to releasing games that aren't league of legends-based (both the auto-battler teamfight tactics and card game legends of runeterra exist in the league of legends universe), and even less (read: zero) publishing first-person shooters.