Such an approach might be worthwhile when I’m writing about Magic and how, despite recent improvements in art direction, their art is still very sexist. However, this time around going to all that effort really felt like a tremendous waste of time. Those of you who have been reading my blog long enough to be familiar with my numbers posts will know that I generally tend to stick to the same set of criteria when evaluating character designs in video games typically I will compare the numbers of figures that are shown with: 1) active poses versus neutral poses and 2) fully clothed versus suggestively attired by gender in order to demonstrate the consistent under-representation, objectification, and sexualization of female characters.

And Smite has a lot of playable characters – sixty-six in total. If you wish, you can pay extra to unlock special characters or alternate skins. Smite, like other MOBAs, has a pre-set roster of characters that you can choose to play as that have set abilities.

What exactly is Smite? Smite is a MOBA – a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena, a genre made popular by games like Defense of the Ancients 2 (DOTA2) and League of Legends. So let’s just jump right on in! Getting ready to rumble So when Smite made a few headlines last week for its decision to include Hindu gods as playable characters, I figured that it would be worth taking a closer look since that was the third time in a relatively short period of time that it caught my attention.Īs it turns out, I wound up having a lot of stuff to say. More recently, a few friends over on G+ that have been talking about playing Smite.

When it first came out, my brother emailed me a few pieces of promo art of the female characters. However, Smite is a game that kept coming up on my radar for various reasons. I try not to pay attention to MMOs anymore, because the vast majority of them are steaming dung piles of bullshit sexism.

Smite rumble race