Wow… Just friggin’ “WOW” is all I can say.
This is what we’ve all been waiting for years. Diablo 3 has just been announced by Blizzard at Blizzcon in Paris. I’m uploading the live demonstration video which just looks plain awesome.
The demo starts out with the Barbarian class who cuts through waves of mobs like a hot knife through butter specializing in powerful melee attacks along with some AOE stun attacks.
As the demo progresses, they introduce the Witchdoctor class who seems to specialize in disease based attacks (through a swarming cloud of locusts), summoning small minions, and lobbing big ‘ole fireballs. The locust cloud looks particularly cool as it blows out in a cone shape and then swarms to nearby mobs leaving only their bones falling to the ground.
The third phase of the demo simply introduces Femal toons for the Barbarian and Witchdoctor classes. It’s a little difficult to make things out in this movie, but the detail in these characters and in the armor/weapons is really blowing me away. It is obvious to me that the guys at Blizzard have been working a while on this game, and in typical Blizzard fashion, everything looks highly polished!
The final part of the demo shows all 4 of these live characters take on a humongous boss. Very cool; I think two of the Blizzard players die. And then… a swarm of (I’m guessing) 50 skeletons begin to climb out of the ground where the boss died in order to exact revenge on our heroes.
Just friggin WOW man….
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