All You Need To Know: Diablo III

Posted Nov 4th 2009 5:00PM by James Murff
Filed under: Features, RPG, Diablo III

Games that are coming out soon have a lot of unknowns that the average person might not know. Who is this character inspired by? Is all the talk of volumetric fog or cel-shaded graphics really worthwhile? Do the game mechanics really seem solid, or are they lackluster? In All You Need To Know we provide information to help you fully appreciate what these upcoming games have to offer.

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The Diablo series is one of the most revered in PC gaming. Taking influence from games like Nethack, they interpreted the complex mechanics of the rogue-like genre in a way that your average person could handle. It spawned an entire subgenre of action-oriented RPGs, and it's still going strong with new releases such as Torchlight. However, Blizzard is working on the third game in the Diablo franchise, and while it's not being done by the original developers, there is still a lot of talk about it. The real question is whether or not Blizzard can live up to Blizzard North's vision of the franchise. There's a legacy here, after all.

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