Diablo III Preview

In their latest “All You Need to Know” article, Big Download attempts to fill us in on the history of the Diablo series while also sprinkling in a few details about Diablo III.

Diablo III has a lot of elements pulled directly from the previous games in the series. Therefore, it would be more prudent to cover the background for the entire Diablo mythos rather than just Diablo III. After all, when everything is derived from the same set of characteristics, it matters not whether we are talking about Diablo II or III. It’s all the same!

Diablo’s story is a mixture of myths and gothic fantasy, and deserves recounting, starting with the first game. Possessing the body of the local king’s son, Diablo twisted and manipulated the kingdom into weakening itself for his invasion. With an army of demons below the cathedral located in the destitute capital of Tristram, Diablo started to consolidate his power for an attack on the mortal realm. However, a hero managed to traverse the entirety of Diablo’s vast underground lair and defeat him, shoving the stone that held the demon’s soul into his forehead. Driven mad by the twisting corruption of Diablo, the hero set out to the east, gradually becoming more and more lost to the powers of hell as he went. Following in his wake were a collection of heroes from every walk – from necromancers to amazons – intent on destroying his evil once and for all. Diablo’s journey turned out to be a quest to give the three Prime Evils of hell physical form in this world, and the heroes defeated all three: Mephisto, Lord of Hatred; Diablo, Lord of Terror; and finally Baal, Lord of Destruction. Diablo III takes place 20 years after the destruction of the Prime Evils, with evil once again seeping out into the world.

And then we have this sentence at the end:

There is no question that Diablo III will be a stellar game.

While my guess is that Blizzard will probably concoct an addictive formula for Diablo III, this does not a stellar game make. Maybe we should wait until the game is out before we start throwing praise at it?