DOTA 2 ingame screens.

[knorke]

beside gameplay & visuals what makes for a good competive game is how good the replays system works and if you can have spectators to easily stream games and all that.

[smoth]

I suspect a good part of it would be a few things:

• Good spectator/replay mode for people to watch and learn from.
• Higher emphasis on micro, that way the player makes a large bit of the unit performance. if the unit is too intelligent you end up either fighting to get what you want or it is on auto play
• solid ladders/matching