Sunday, 6 January 2013

Diablo III

I have waited a long time for Diablo 3 to come out. I was in love with the second one for a long time and the wait for the third one was killing me. I was equally excited and scared of the outcome. What I was hoping for is for the game play to stay very similar, improve the graphics, but for it to maybe have a few more enemies, weapons etc. And they did exactly it! They made the image very crisp, dark and scary to enhance the experience. For a game it's one of the best looking environments out there. They not only do a great job with the environments but also the characters, they look very real. The only disappointing thing about the beautiful environments is that they had to sacrifice the map generation for it, maps do not change every game, the layout stays the same. They've added a range of different enemies making it more exciting than constantly killing the same things over and over again. When it comes to the game play they didn't change much, they added one more difficulty level we now have: Normal, Nightmare, Hell and Inferno. Inferno being where all the enemies start out as a level 60 or above, making it hard because the maximum level you can be is 60. They changed the way you level up you no longer can choose which attributes you add to, it does it automatically, you can only pick the skills you have which is a bit of a disappointment. The thing I probably love the most about ii are the cinematics. It seems to me like sketchy, pencil and ink drawings made into like a flick book, turning into a really amazingly detailed animation. The fire, skin, hair and their movement makes it hard to believe they're not real.
I love how the story also starts in Lut Golein, and from there takes you East, which is exactly what happened in the second game. Also the music has been changed enough to notice the difference but not enough to change the feel about the game, it makes it clear they they're just continuing it from the second one instead of completely starting it from scratch which means instead of ruining it by adding completely different music they changed the original to remind you of the days and nights you spent playing the previous game, and hoping you'll feel the same about this one.

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