Arena Type

Which sounds good for an arena:

A) Heroes have one or two abilities that affect battle in a small way.
Monsters and spells can be summoned and controlled from card items thrown from an NPC audience.
An introduction, "half-time", and ending cinematic cut-scenes.

B) Heroes and monsters from A.
No cinematic cut-scenes. Hints and battle information will be dropped throughout the game.

C) Standard Heroes, with creeps incoming.
Cinematic cut-scenes from A.

D) Standard Heroes, with creeps incoming.
No cinematic cut-scenes. Hints and battle information will be dropped throughout the game.

E) Hang it up kid! Go work on some other n00b project.

[A] sounds interesting and new (card-based), but a generic arena-type map would fit the bill. The question is, what do you want to make?

Screw cinematics, but keep it fresh. [b]