I spent so long tinkering with my loadout that the equip menus kept screen-burning into my older HD TV. The equip menu lets you equip pieces from head to toe and before long you’ll be picking up items with extra properties that add to your strength, provide health top ups per kill, extra experience and many other factors that will spoil you for choice. New gear is found in chests, dropped by enemies and given as rewards for quests. The pacing of the unlocks is spot-on and never feels overwhelming.įinding loot (weapons, armours and items) is a huge draw for Diablo and this is the best I’ve seen a game handle it. Each skill can also have a secondary rune equipped to add extra damage/elements/defensive buffs. In the skills screen you can even see what level you need to reach before unlocking an ability. As you level up, the face buttons and two shoulder buttons unlock, with you able to assign any attack/spell that you have unlocked through natural progression. Initially, you only have one attack unlocked, but in a matter of minutes you’ll have a new button to play with. I don’t know how PC gamers coped without this to be honest. An addition to the console version of the game is a neat dodge roll assigned to the right analogue stick. This isn’t a turned-based RPG most attacks are dealt instantly at the press of a button.
Half an hour in with the new Crusader character and I knew that the long wait was absolutely worth it.īut what if you’ve never played a Diablo game before? Fear not, this is a perfect example of a game easing you gently into a genre. My patience was eventually rewarded by the next-gen version leveling up into the Ultimate Evil Edition complete with new characters to play as and the Reaper of Souls expansion pack.
Then began the waiting game, in which I would have had plenty of time to pick up the PS3 version of the game to whet my appetite. Console-based action RPG fans are generally an underserved bunch, so when Diablo III was announced for the PlayStation and Xbox consoles, those of us with an unquenchable thirst for loot were certainly excited.īut then Blizzard had to go and announce that in addition to the PS3 and 360 versions, the game would eventually make its way to the next generation on PS4 and Xbox One.
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