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GamerBlips#5 - It looks like a damnably friendly game
The new game has been streamlined to make it friendlier than ever, so much so that it can be played just using a mouse. There’s now a new hot bar at the bottom of the screen for easy access to special abilities, and mouse-driven moves can be juggled quickly with a simple tap of the tab key or flick of the mouse wheel.
And most interestingly, to give Diablo’s speedy brutality an extra boost, Blizzard have also dropped in an instant health recovery pick-up, as seen in any action game since the dawn of time. It’s dropped by dead monsters in the traditional way and kicks in as soon as you touch it, meaning that character maintenance won’t be the pace-killer that DMC and Ninja Gaiden fans might fear. In fact such is the speed and accessibility of the carnage contained contained within Diablo III that watching the Barbarian in action at times feels like watching a hitherto unannounced God Of War game for the PC.
#6 - Multiplayer carnage
As countless co-op games of Gears on Xbox Live have taught us, kicking arses is fun, but kicking arses with a friend is fun squared. Although it will naturally have a full single-player campaign, Diablo III, like its predecessor, is being designed with a heavy online multiplayer focus, and from what we've seen of the game so far it should be a riot.
Consider how effectively balanced the Witch Doctor’s attacks already sound. Now spread that sort of inventive gore-mongering over five completely different, player-controlled characters working together to slay everything in sight.
Yum. Yum is all we have to say.
