Pots shake as you stomp the floor and explosions blow up furniture. Players can bring walls down upon enemies and smack them off bridges. The orbs are intended to keep you in the place you want to be - the thick of a gigantic battle.Īnother trick Blizzard have up their sleeves is a destructible, animated environment - even if much of the dungeon design will remain as randomly-generated as ever. And more importantly, it removes the slog of having to go to town to replenish your stocks of healing potions. You'll spend more time fighting across the battlefield than hoping you've hotkeyed your potions. While this sounds like a naff idea on paper, it fits well into the Diablo system. This makes the game more mobile and in co-operative situations lets you save your partner from a quick death, rewarding those who keep close to each other. Said health globe system replaces piles of potions with glowing red orbs, dropped by slain enemies, that heal you and anyone near you when they're touched.

Things like the new classes, animated environments, the 3D engine and the new health globe system really freshen up the experience.'

The fans are expecting new things, and we're going to give them a fresh, fun experience. 'At the same time, it's been a while since we launched Lord of Destruction. 'The core philosophies of this game are based on what we did with the franchise so far, and that's our launching point,' explains Brian Morrisroe, self-confessed Diablo fanboy and Diablo 3 art director.

These games are all about epic, large-scale battles with you (and maybe a pal or two) in the centre, or on top, of a pile of corpses.Įssentially, it's the isometric megainstance from hell. For those who joined the Blizzard fanbase with World of Warcraft, Diablo is a popular hack 'n' slash series where you slice up hordes of monsters, gaining experience in a multitude of randomly generated and static dungeons. Though every cocky conspiracy theorist this side of Irvine, California was telling us that this announcement was inevitable, in reality you can only try to predict Blizzard's plans, as their lips remain sealed until the moment when rumour and conjecture become reality.ĭiablo III is the real, true-blood sequel to Diablo 2 and its expansion, Lord of Destruction.

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