Diablo III feature compilation

January 6, 10:52 AMPC Game ExaminerBryan Edge-Salois

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Diablo III - coming to a PC near you sometime in the future...maybe far future.

Here are a few tidbits about Diablo III that I've been keeping a running tally on. Many of these are already well-known, but I may add to this list as new bits emerge.

• There might be a cow level, or a similar secret-level.
• Diablo III will bring the Diablo story to a close, but it's not necessarily the end of the Diablo universe or series. (No, no one said anything about Diablo IV!)
• Necromancer is out, Witch Doctor is in...but the Necromancer may make some kind of return at a later date.
• You can play every class as either male or female.
• Even though the Art Director (Brian Morrisroe) for Diablo III left, the New Art Style (i.e. colorful) is here to stay. (Brian departed to form a startup company, incidentally.)
• The game takes place in Sanctuary  twenty years after the heroes from Diablo II saved the world and went mad for their troubles.
• You'll be able to go back to Tristram. 
• Deckard Cain will be back. (Anyone else wondering if Wirt will return as a grown one-legged man?)
• 3 of 5 classes have been revealed: Barbarian, Witch Doctor, and Wizard.
• There will be cooperative and PvP play.
• Quest mechanics and other details are still under wraps.

Also, according to an interview with Blizzard COO Paul Sams (by Greg Howson of The Guardian), a console version of Diablo III isn't out of the question. (Thought it's little more than a big question mark at this point.) Check out the interview -- it's well worth the read.

I'll confess to merely being a moderate Diablo fan. Actually, I was a huge fan of the story, but the repetitive nature of the gameplay didn't hold up for me very well. (I guess I just wasn't OCD enough).

Regardless, I can't help being excited about Diablo III -- and I fully plan to pick it up and play when it's available -- sometime in the future when I have a robot maid, most likely. I'll probably review it, but I can pretty much predict it will be nothing short of Blizzard's usual multi-million selling, critically acclaimed, cream of the crop releases that will blow everyone away. I'll go out on a limb and predict that it will get an editor's choice award from someone.

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