Arena: Cyber Evolution
is an action FREE-TO-PLAY MOBA with sport mechanics.
Would you be enough sharpened and cold blooded to perform in the arena ?
Innovative control scheme
ACE’s ultra-precise control scheme allows players to analogically manipulate the disk using simple mouse gestures.
Just like in real sports, this feature allows for super intuitive gameplay while proposing nearly infinite depth & skill cap
MOBA-like champion logic
By featuring a MOBA-like champion logic, ACE brings an unprecedented twist to the sports genre by allowing players to choose from a variety of super-powered heroes and what style of gameplay they prefer to build their own team strategies.
Designed from the ground up around the mouse & keyboard, ACE was not envisioned only as a sport game, but really as a new sport.
What is Arena: Cyber Evolution?
Arena: Cyber Evolution is an action FREE-TO-PLAY MOBA with sport mechanics. Usually called MOSA for Multiplayer Online Sport Arena game, it is an unique game based on team synergy and individual skills.
Players can play several heroes, called Runners, who fit the best their play style between Striker, Support or Goalie positions.
Dynamic Gameplay
Arena: Cyber Evolution (ACE) is a futuristic physics-based sports game in which players confront each other in 3 vs 3 matches of wits and twitch reflexes.
By featuring a MOBA-like champion logic, ACE brings an unprecedented twist to the sports genre by allowing players to choose from a variety of super-powered heroes and what style of gameplay they prefer to build their own team strategies.
RUNNERS
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Real name: Hans Eisenberg
Age: 38
Allegiance: Integral Security (InSec) -
Nerve Gas
Hit enemy with this projectile to slow him for a
brief moment.
Cooldown: 15sCall Drone
Launches a drone that will help you for short while.
Charges: 2 -
It is the middle of the afternoon. In this seemingly pleasant suburban neighborhood, a young boy is surrounded by a street gang. One of the gang members holds a yellow bicycle in his hands.)
Gang Leader: We’ll keep this till you get us our money.
(The boy’s face tenses, eyes wet.)
Gang Member (mocking): The little baby is gonna cry! What’re you gonna do kid? Call your mommy? What she gonna do? Call the police?
Gang Leader: Oooh, the police! Scary! But what’s they gonna do, eh? Email us a fine? (He sneers.) You got no security contract in your neighborhood.
(The gang members begin to laugh. Suddenly, a “clung” is heard, followed by a “whoosh”. Black smoke fills the screen. The gang members look all around, panicking. In a blur, a spherical shadow strikes the leader in the head, then bounces around, striking the other members one by one in quick successive rebounds. After a few seconds, the smoke clears. All the gang members are on the floor, moaning. The young boy is still standing, unharmed. A flying drone approaches him, followed by a familiar figure.)
Kid (excited): It’s you! Captain Smoke!
Captain Smoke: Are you all right, kid?
(The boy nods.)
Captain Smoke: Your mayor just signed a contract with Integral Securiy. This neighborhood is now safe.
Kid: Woah!
(Captain smoke makes a victorious pose, muscles twitching beneath the tight suit.)
Kid: You are so cool!
Captain Smoke: Ha! Ha! Ha! True! That’s due to my overdeveloped pectorals, my holographic cigarette and my sexy chin. If you train hard, you can be cool too! And remember, never smoke real cigarettes!
(Captain Smoke picks-up the bicycle and extends his hand to the boy. The boy grabs the hand, eyes overflooding with gratitude. Together they slowly walk away.)
(A loud, bass heavy, off screen voice resounds.)
Voice: Your children are important, do not gamble with their lives. Request a contract with Integral Security now!
(A text fills the screen: Integral Security. Your safety, our business.)
Black.
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Nickname: Hiro
Real name: Unknown
Age: 26
Allegiance: Independant -
Kinetic Punch
Hold to charge the power, release to project a force that can propel the disk at a great speed.
ooldown: energy
Kinetic Speed Rail
Creates a rail that greatly accelerates the Disk in a direction.
Charges: 3 -
Coming soon...
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Nickname: Nitrogen Queen
Real name: Unknown
Age: Unknown
Allegiance: Unknown -
Mass Shift
Hit Disk with this projectile to temporarily stop its
movement. Anyone grabbing the disk while in this effect
will be slowed as well.Cooldown: 15s
Time AlterationActivate to create a zone around you that slows down
all players and the diskCharges: 2
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Integral Security Intelligence Datavault access
Decryption initiated. Three seconds to Intrusion Countermeasure LockTOP SECRET – Clearance Ultra-Violet
Subject: Nitrogen Queen Threat Assessment Preliminary Report
The first recorded appearance of the subject Nitrogen Queen (NQ) was at the Arena recruiting camp on October 15th 2086. She (it?) easily passed all the tests and quickly climbed the ranked from trainee to established Runner. NQ does not use spoken language. She appears to communicate with holographic projections. Spectroscopic analysis has been performed. Complex organic molecules. The android hypothesis can be safely ruled out. Unfortunately the portable lab cannot provide DNA analysis without direct contact.Two seconds to Intrusion Countermeasure Lock
Subject has been called Nitrogen Queen by tournament organizers, presumably due to the cold gas exhaust. This is NOT nitrogen. Analysis indicates evaporative cooling with solid state freon. Internal temperatures far below liquid nitrogen’s 77 Kelvins. Whatever mechanism operates NQ’s abilities is extremely powerful and requires extreme cooling. Two puzzling observations have been made while subject activates her abilities:
1. Cherenkov radiation combined with local gravitational lens effect suggests space-time distortion of seizable magnitude.
2. Perhaps the most intriguing observation. Energy dissipation has been measured, helium-4 production from NQ’s Phuel(TM) reactor has been sampled, energy production inferred. The numbers do not add-up. Energy vanished, in the order of 10E8J. Need further analysis.One second to Intrusion Countermeasure Lock
Now onto the threat assessment. The field agent, code name Indigo, tasked to infiltrate the Arena and approach the subject has been KIA. Prior to his death, Indigo requested immediate extraction. It is assumed that he had acquired key information on NQ. The official COD is multiple internal organ failures due to cyberware accidental malfunction. We believe agent Indigo has been assassinated. This is a clear indication of the threat the subject may represent. A new agent has been tasked to infiltrate the Arena, code name Violet. Extreme caution is advised. Her nickname as a Ru
Intrusion Countermeasure Detected. Ejection Subroutine Activated.
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Nickname: The Sentinel
Real name: Shawn Ling (unconfirmed)
Age: 34 (unconfirmed)
Allegiance: Unaligned -
Guardian Field
Lauches a small cylindrical Force Field that blocks
only the disk.
Cooldown: 10s
The Great WallInstantly creates a wall that spans the entire arena and
that blocks only the disk.Charges: 3
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Harrison : My dear viewers from across the solar system, this is a historical day in the stardom universe of the Arena. Ever since he appeared as a Runner four years ago, he has always shunned the media. But all that is about to change! He requested an interview with me. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Sentineeeeeeeel!
(Delirious cheers from the audience)
Harrison: Let’s start with the question burning everyone’s lips. Why request an interview? Why now?
(Sentinel lets out a low-pitch hum. In a heartbeat, a wall builds up in the studio, completely surrounding him and Harrison. Two seconds pass, then the wall vanishes, as quickly as it has appeared.)
Harrison: I apologize for this interruption. Sentinel does not wish to answer the question. We will move on with the rest of the interview.
(Surprise and confusion ripple through the audience. Harrison never takes no for an answer. He always pleads and manipulates until the guest spills out the truth. Was this part of the show?)
Harrison (ignoring the crowd’s reaction): You are the living image of the main character from the cult series “Vagrant Sentinel”. According to your records, you went through a lengthy and expensive process of extreme cybernetic and genetic transformation in order to BECOME the Sentinel. Why choose this character?
Sentinel: The Sentinel has marked many kids of my generation. He was a wanderer who would protect the people he met from injustice. He had many opportunities to gain wealth and power, but he never took advantage. To me, he is the incarnation of the selfless idealist. Someone like him did not, could not, exist in the real world. I wanted him to exist. I had the means and the will.
Harrison: Yet you do not wander from town to town to fight corrupt governments and criminal cartels.
Sentinel: Maybe I do! (laughs) Seriously, as you know, I donate all my earnings to NGOs. You would agree that their combined effort is more effective than a single man’s actions. I want all the children in the solar system to know that I am fighting for them in the Arena.
Harrison: Fair enough. Well, since you mention the Arena… You held the Defender of the Year title for three consecutive seasons, but now you lost it to Negociator, a newcomer. Has the Sentinel finally been outclassed?
Sentinel: I respect Negociator. However, I think…
(The voices fade out in the background. While Harrison is conducting his interview, he is also having a subvocal conversation that no one else can hear. On the line is a woman with a cold, razor sharp voice.)
Harrison: Only two seconds? No! From my point of view I was walled-in for a few minutes.
Woman: Tell me every detail.
Harrison: He was not alone. Nitrogen Queen appeared once we were surrounded by that wall. I could feel an oppressing energy emanating from her.
Woman: That can explain the temporal distortion.
Harrison: They asked me to convey a message to you… They seem to know that I have a direct line with the Committee.
Woman: This is no surprise to us. What was the message?
Harrison: Wait! How could they know? Just who are these people?
Woman: Not your concern. The message.
Harrison: Fine! “A riddle will knock at the gates, its eyes of blue deep. Not a man, not a machine, let it in lest the skies crack and weep.” Is that… Is that a threat?
Woman: “They” will send us a new Runner. Listen carefully, Harrison. You must finish your interview without further incident. Then you will completely wipe those two seconds and this conversation from your memory. No questions. Understood?
Harrison: I don’t really have a choice now, do I?
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Nickname: Vex Wrecker
Real name: Ed “Kaboom” Kaminsky
Age: 26
Allegiance: American Applied Apparatus (Triple-A) -
Tactical Booster
Hit Ally with this Projectile to temporarily boost
both his and your movement speed.Cooldown: 20s
Fist of Revolution
Fires a powerful projectile that explodes in radial
force on impact.Charges: 4
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Nathan: I am not asking for your opinion, Vex. This comes from the top. You are doing it, period!
Vex: Screw you, man! Don’t treat me like some friggin’ nut case! Ain’t done nothing wrong.
Nathan: Don’t treat you like a fr… are you crazy AND dumb? Ok, let me lay down the situation clearly for you, Vex. The PR guys… TWO of them visited my office… Almost wet my pants. These guys NEVER leave their floor! Do you realize how serious this is?
Vex: They confiscate your candy machine?
Nathan: You almost blew up your teammates during a training session. And those public declarations you make… Come on, man! Death threats? I know how good you are, I was there when we recruited you, remember? But right now Triple-A feels you are becoming a loose cannon. The company has invested millions on you, and they want billions in return, not lawsuits.
Vex: Yeah, I’d like a taste of those billions myself!
Nathan: Remember the army? How you were discharged?. And then the street, couldn’t keep a job? We saw your potential, gave you a place in the world. And I know how much you enjoy being a Runner. Wanna throw it all away?
Vex: Just two years and you think you know me? What are you gonna say next? That you’re my friend? That you care? People like you make me puke.
Nathan: You are not capable of having friends, Vex. Now listen. Dr. Nagikata is the best. I hear CEO Jones herself used the doc’s services.
Vex: Sure, I spill my secrets to the company’s good doctor so she can spill ‘em all back to you.
Nathan: There won’t be a second chance. You do the therapy, hopefully the doc can figure out where it hurts and fix your behaviour. Or I submit this report today and tomorrow you are back in the street… probably both of us.
Vex: Good!
Nathan: You know, I don’t need to be Dr. Nagikata to see a pattern. The talent you possess… In the army you were respected, could have plowed through the ranks. But then always when things are good, you self-destruct.
(Long silence)
Nathan: Sigh… such a waste!
(Nathan opens his holographic keyboard and starts typing.)
Vex: Wait! (silence) Wait! Damn it! You’re right, ok? I mean, about me enjoyin’ bein’ a Runner… You’re really gonna do it? The report?
(Nathan keeps typing)
Vex: All right! All right! I’ll do the friggin’ therapy! Man, I swear, one day I’ll kill you!
Nathan: If I don’t kill you first. Now get out!
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Nickname: Hikari
Real name: Unknown
Age: 26
Allegiance: Apex Technologies -
Lightning Arrow
Fire an arrow that activates a zone on impact. If the
disk moves through the zone, its speed is
greatly increased.Cooldown: 10s
Hyperdash BeamFires a long range beam. If it hits the disk, Hikari will
Dash at high speed to the disk and push it on impact.Charges: 3
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(Heaven Station: a sprawl built inside the asteroid anchored at the end of the space elevator, 100 000 km above the surface of the Earth. One third of Heaven station is owned by Apex.)
(Hikari treads the hallways of the huge Apex Technologies Module at a comfortable 0.5g, occasionally glancing at the Earth above her head. From here the blue planet is less than 4 degrees wide, but for Hikari it is still breathtaking.)
(She senses a presence, then hears the steps. Judging by the sound, it’s Professor Ramirez.)
Prof. Ramirez: There you are! How was the trip? I heard there was a delay in Limbo Station?
Hikari: There was almost a riot… Elevator tickets down to Wu’Kong were sold-out, and there is a match tomorrow in the Arena. InSec intervened. Nobody died this time. Anyway, I am on my way to the construction site. Walk with me?
Prof. Ramirez: Of course. Besides, you need my clearance to access the site.
(They quietly walk for a while. Finally, Hikari breaks the silence)
Hikari: Say what you came to say, Ramirez-san.
Prof. Ramirez: I have your test results.
(Hikari shrugs)
Prof. Ramirez: Multiple signs of inflammation in your muscle and brain tissue. Generalized strain in your bone structure. Hikari, this is not good. Your powers are killing you. I am going to recommend that you be removed from the Arena.
Hikari: You will do no such thing!
Prof. Ramirez: I doubt you have much say in the matter, Hikari.
(In a tense silence, they reach what appears to be a construction yard. Hundreds of workers swarm around a huge complex structure. This has been Apex’s flagship project, its construction hidden deep in the Heaven Station. Propulsion systems, fusion reactors, habitat modules… It appears to be a work of precision and efficiency. A multi-trillion C-bux project. The slightest mistake and…)
(Hikari observes the workers for a long minute, then turns toward Professor Ramirez.)
Hikari: Tell me the truth, Ramirez-san. How many failures did you have before you began experimenting on me?
Prof. Ramirez: You know that’s classified.
Hikari: I am guessing thousands have died. Maybe more. How long before you find someone who can replace me?
Prof. Ramirez: It is true that you are an exceptional woman, off the charts really. To be honest, I doubt we can reproduce the results we have with you in the near future.
Hikari: (she points at the construction yard) We have both made great sacrifices for this project. It’s too late to back down now.
Prof. Ramirez: But you will die.
Hikari: Then make sure I don’t! In a few years, the construction will be complete. It’s my purpose to be there, to be the first. Apex has a dream, I will see it through!
(Hikari steps toward Professor Ramirez, with fires in her eyes. She leans forward, her face almost touching his.)
Hikari: I will do whatever it takes to see this through, and you will do whatever it takes to make sure I get there.
Prof. Ramirez: It will be extremely unpleasant. And you may die anyway.
Hikari: Whatever it takes.
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Nickname: Negociator
Real name: RS-NGCR001 (brain pattern of Nicholas Lloyd)
Age: 18 months (brain pattern of a 36 year old human)
Allegiance: Property of Robotic Solutions, international megacorporation. -
Proposal Blocker
Hit Disk with this short range power to push it away.
Cooldown: 7s
Strategic RetreatActivate to Teleport near your goal from anywhere in
the field.Charges: 4
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There is a law about the uniqueness of a human identity. You cannot duplicate one while its owner is alive. That’s why I’ve made a special deal with Robotic Solutions. There were other “candidates” like me, it seems, but I got “lucky”. I happened to die first.
It’s my brain they were interested in. They’ve put it in this carcass of titanium and plasteel. Well, not exactly the brain. They uploaded a full map of all the neural connections, without the meat. They wanted something very specific: the body frame of a robot, the processing power of a computer and the secret ingredient, human intuition.
There are no synthetics in team-based sports. A Spanish soccer club has once tried to use an android. While jurists were debating the ethical aspects, the team was winning all its games… for a short while. And then things went south. Opponents started changing their behavior. With all its physical prowess and computing power, the android was failing to read player’s intentions. Soon after, it was removed from the team.
This is why I exist. Body language, playfield situation… Opponent moves cannot always be predicted with an algorithm. You need the human touch. Though I wonder, how much “human” is there in a digital copy of a human brain?
Robotic Solutions seem to think that there is enough for “entities” like me to be considered true humans. Of course there is much opposition to that idea, something about the “soul”. I’ve got the feeling that they’ve put me in the Arena to harness public support. Enough people see me as human, and laws may change. Rumor has it the presitent of Robotic Solutions himself has been brain mapped into a machine. Immortality, perpetually transferring your mind when the meat body grows old. I don’t dare thinking of all the implications.
And to be honest, I don’t really care. My memory is a haze, but at least I think I know why I did this: Aileen.
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Nickname: Stalker
Real name: Unknown
Age: Unknown
Allegiance: Independent -
Cloak
Activate to become invisible for a brief moment.
Cooldown: 20s
Blink
Activate to instantly teleport to your cursor’s location.Charges: 2
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Stalker: thanks again for putting me on top of the list with Apex. I am sure the bidding war was brutal. I know they will expand the project and lend the device to other Runners, but it is still good to be the first in the world with the power of teleportation.
Nemo: Don’t mention it. To be honest, we are as much interested to analyze the device performance in the field as the Apex researchers. Imagine the potential for our mercs.
Stalker: Oh trust me, it performs admirably well. There are headaches after repeated use, but I can live with that.
Nemo: You shouldn’t push it. We still don’t know much about that tech. Anyway, did you think about my proposal?
Stalker: the answer is still no. I know you have done a lot for me, and I appreciate it, I really do! But I have retired for a reason. All I want now is to focus on the Arena.
Nemo: We are not asking you to fully resume service. Just keep your eyes peeled, and report anything unusual.
Stalker: last time I did that nobody listened.
Nemo: So that’s what this is about?
Stalker: No, I am too old for ego trips, though I still think you should have listened.
Nemo: Paranoia is a quality in our line of work, but you are taking it too far. We purged that organization seven years ago. We dropped the hammer on their leaders. We heard zero chatter related to them since. It’s over!
Stalker: I am not convinced. They must have expected that we would come for them. I suspect they sacrificed the assets they wanted us to find, cut their losses, and went dormant. They will resurface, and they will try it again.
Nemo: You have no evidence, and right now, we have other potential threats, based on real evidence, that you can help us investigate. You and me, we go a long way: the Amazonian war, the Space Elevator crisis… If you don’t do it for the company, at least do it for me.
Stalker: You really think the emotional angle would work on me? You must be desperate, my friend. I will not change my mind. But if, I say IF, I accidentally see something, I may share it with you. I WILL NOT actively nose around. Got it?
Nemo (barely containing a victorious grin): got it!
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Nickname: Vengeful Star
Real name: Tatiana Kalinin
Age: 29
Allegiance: Independent (Kinetix Cyberware) -
Hyper Disk
Hit Disk with this Projectile to boost its speed for a
brief moment.Cooldown: 20s
Hyper Speed
Activate to run at hyper speed for a brief moment.Charges: 3
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Harrison: Welcome back to The Harrison Show! I’m here with a very special guest: she is young, she is unstoppable, she is the new sensation on the Arena, Vengeful Star!
(cheerful applause)
Harrison: Barely two months as a Runner and you have already climbed to the top of the popularity charts, which is incredible considering that, until today, you have been avoiding the media. The public is dying to discover who you really are! So, Tatiana, tell us, why did you decide to become a Runner?
Tatiana: I have 300 million reasons for that.
Harrison: Come on! It can’t be just for the money. The truth now: why use Vengeful Star as your nickname?
(A faint shadow overlaps with Tatiana’s confident smile. A fraction of a second, then it’s gone. Perfect smile again. Did Harrison notice?)
Tatiana: The megacorporations have been leaving very little space for small businesses, buying the competition off or otherwise choking it to death. My company, Kinetix Cyberware, is still standing. We are the punch in the face of megacorps, and we do it for all the victims out there.
Harrison: You can bet your millions of fans will order your Kinetix Subdermal Enhancer when it hits the market. Speaking of fans, let’s take questions from the audience. SeXym0nkky21 asks: “Is there a man (or a woman) in your life?”
Tatiana: There was a man once… But with the competition, love’s a distraction I can’t afford.
Harrison: 66% of our viewers disagree with you while 346,825 viewers are requesting a date with you. Tatiana, you have to pledge, here and now, to reconsider your position! All those hearts you are breaking, psychoanalists will make a fortune.
Tatiana: You are hard to resist, Harrison. Fine, I make a pledge, here and now, to think about it!
Harrison: Guys, stop with the smilies, you are overloading my Pad! All right, next question from Ycar_IPS_No_C: You were born in Moscow’s Federal Hospital, July 6th ’68. Is that correct?
Tatiana: How did Ycar know? Yes, that is correct.
Harrison: Follow-up question from Ycar: “According to the hospital records, the only Tatiana Kalinin born at that time died in the nursery.” This must be a mistake, shouldn’t have made it through the cut… let’s take another question.
Tatiana: I want to hear it! Please continue.
Harrison (hesitantly): “I have also checked university records where you claim graduation. No Tatiana Kalinin. Uploading files now. Care to explain?”
Tatiana: Are you suggesting that I am hiding my real identity? What if you got it upside down? What if I am who I say I am, but someone went to great lengths to erase all traces of me? What if your nosing around is putting everyone watching this show in danger?
(Harrison squirms in his chair. This was not in the program.)
Tatiana: Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! I am just kidding. No one is in danger. Tell you what, Ycar: I’ll answer your question if I win the tournament this season. Deal?
Harrison: This interview has gotten very interesting! Let’s have a commercial break. More of Vengeful Star when we return!
CUSTOMIZATION
Implants and CLAWs!
Unlock implants and new powers. Upgrade your characters, tweak and customize their abilities to fit your playstyle and tactics.
Emblems
Win emblems, and display a unique profile to impress your opponents!
Skins and hats!
Win with style! Unlock hats, skins and emblems. Mix and match to create a look of your own.
More, you can find unique skins and hats in the chests during your leveling!
FAQ
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No, unfortunately the game is not available to play any more.