Yes, the king of clickfest isometric-perspective monster slaughter has returned. The big “surprise” announcement at Blizzard’s Worldwide Invitational was the forthcoming release of Diablo III, and I, personally, am pretty gosh-darn excited. I sank a great many hours into Diablo 2, and a great many more hours into it when the Lord of Destruction expansion came out, and then a great many more hours again a few months later when they patched in some interesting changes and myself and a friend stormed through Nightmare mode.
As is typical with Blizzard, there is no release date, but they never announce these things until they’re pretty far along – D3’s apparently been in development for four years already.
So, basically, I’m excited. Are you excited? I am.
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July 1st, 2008 at 10:33 am
Most definitely, I also spent a fair whack of my time on Diablo 2 – it’s brilliant! It’s nice to see they’ve retained the top-down style for the new one. Although do you know if you can zoom in or not? I haven’t seen any footage so far.
Excited!
July 1st, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Is this just on PC or what?
And the big bad, it always comes back.
July 1st, 2008 at 3:39 pm
PC and Mac, like all Blizzard titles.
July 1st, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Rumoured release date is March 27th 09.
And yeah it can zoom in ;).
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:15 pm
I’m excited! I’m also glad a release date hasn’t officially been made yet.
I never learn, i get all excited for a release date, then can barely console myself when it’s puched back a few months!