After spending approximately a week tantalizing fans with misleading splash screens laden with ice and purple walruses (walri?), Blizzard has officially announced that Diablo 3, A.K.A. “Project Hydra” is in development. Although the rumour mill had me fairly convinced that this was going to be the major announcement scheduled for today, it was still a shock of satisfaction and overwhelming glee to hear the news from an official source.
There have been two character classes announced thus far: The Barbarian, with (judging from the game play video) his familiar - but slightly modified - power set and multi-wielding capabilities. Fighting alongside him is the Witch Doctor, which appears to be a modified Necromancer with more elemental capabilities.
The game interface / HUD seems familiar, and will probably be immediately comfortable to old Diablo fans, as it keeps the traditional health and mana orbs with moves and option buttons in between them.
Exciting is the state of development that the game appears to be in. Obviously this has been in the works for a long while, meaning fans won’t have to wait through an entire development period. Hopefully we will be seeing this game hit shelves within the next 12-18 months, though given Blizzard’s track record of perfectionism, anything can happen. Frankly, I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Be sure to stay tuned in, as I will certainly be reporting more on the upcoming sequel to one of my favourite series’ of all time.
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June 28th, 2008 at 2:28 am
I got chills when I went to the Blizzard website. The face of Diablo, the logo, “And the heavens shall tremble” - holy crap. Diablo 2 is by far my favorite game. Diablo 3…whew.
June 28th, 2008 at 9:48 am
I came
June 29th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
I’d like to say that I so fucking called this 2 months ago when I was snooping around blizzard’s jobs website. I’m happy that its now official especially that diablo was one of my fav games of all time and I’ve only played a few. The only thing that I want to comment about the game is the art I’m very sad that it looks like there changing it from the original diablo and adapting this world of warcraft cartoony feel. For example its way to colorful for a diablo game it needs more gloom and it also needs more blood .. .I’m not buy this 2 seconds of redness on screen thing. And I’m disappointed to see that there’s some monsters that are coming into the game that look like they are rejects from world of warcraft.
November 13th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Hey Blizzard had recently launched their fansite kit for all web developers to build the diablo 3 site on. check this site : http://www.diablo3fansite.com for gameplay footage, skill videos, wallpapers etc based on their fansite kit.
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