

"The core philosophies of this game are based on what we did with the franchise so far, and that's our launching point," explains Brian Morrisroe, self-confessed Diablo fanboy and Diablo 3 art director. These games are all about epic, large-scale battles with you (and maybe a pal or two) in the centre, or on top, of a pile of corpses.Įssentially, it's the isometric megainstance from hell. For those who joined the Blizzard fanbase with World of Warcraft, Diablo is a popular hack 'n' slash series where you slice up hordes of monsters, gaining experience in a multitude of randomly generated and static dungeons. Though every cocky conspiracy theorist this side of Irvine, California was telling us that this announcement was inevitable, in reality you can only try to predict Blizzard's plans, as their lips remain sealed until the moment when rumour and conjecture become reality.ĭiablo III is the real, true-blood sequel to Diablo 2 and its expansion, Lord of Destruction.
