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Diablo 3 Officially Announced

June 28, 2008 in News comments 16

Blizzard officially unveiled the long awaited sequel to their hit Action-RPG series Diablo at their Blizzard Worldwide Invitational event in Paris. The source provided is the flash page put up shortly after the announcement.

Explore a fully-realized Sanctuary – the living, breathing gothic fantasy world of Diablo III rendered in gorgeous 3D.

Battle the unholy forces of the Burning Hells with all-new character classes like the otherworldly Witch Doctor, or with re-imagined warriors from Diablo’s past: such as the fierce Barbarian.

Rain Hell on your enemies wielding the interactive environment as a weapon: lay cunning traps, turn destructible objects against your foes, and use environmental obstacles to your advantage - all powered by the Havoc physics system.

Experience the intensity of multiplayer Diablo III over an all-new, wickedly-enhanced Battle.net platform with numerous enhancements to make connecting with your friends easier – and cooperative gameplay more fun.
AznLiquid via blizzard.com »
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  • 0
    Super Vegeta Jun 28, 08
    Finally! God, this is exzciting.
  • 0
    Zerpent Jun 28, 08
    It actually looks kind of fun. I used to play Diablo 2 a lot back in the days... Well, it's worth checking out anyway.
  • 0
    Bale Fire Jun 28, 08
    With all the hints it isn't exactly a surprise. It'll be interesting to see how the plot is connected to the others
  • 0
    rummanzrulz Jun 28, 08
    i still play Diablo II: LoD... Awesome!!!! when is the release datE?!
    • 0
      AznLiquid* Jun 28, 08
      Blizzard doesn't set release dates that early. SC2 doesn't even have one yet.
  • 0
    Arcaida Jun 28, 08
    I just shat out fire. And my liver.
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    VeGiTAX2 Jun 28, 08
    Just a heads up, we just archived quite a bit of footage from the net onto neoseeker videos.

    http://videos.neoseeker.com/search.php?string=Diablo+III

    Mainly because Blizzard is a bit of a pain about things and likes to pull footage from Youtube fast in the first breaking period.
    • 0
      chautemoc Jun 28, 08
      Yeah, I uploaded some more..should be up within the next day or so.
  • 0
    Cybuster Jun 28, 08
    This is awesome.

    Now to pray it doesn't take a wrong turning into WoWville.
    • 0
      VeGiTAX2 Jun 28, 08
      If you've watched the gameplay it's still sticking to the Diablo roots, people did the same speculation on "World of Starcraft" even when the SCII footage was clearly RTS gameplay and magically it's still an RTS even today not an MMO.
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    AznLiquid* Jun 28, 08
    The Blizzard Worldwide Invitational event can be streamed live online here: http://www.blizzard.com/wwi08/streams.xml

    Complete with the schedule at the bottom.
    There will be a D3 panel on Sunday near the end of the event.
    Other highlights include the Starcraft, Warcraft and WoW tournaments. Video Games Live will be performing at the closing ceremony I believe.
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    Bandito Jun 28, 08
    yyyyeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssss! a gotxz it today it'z greatz!
    • 0
      AznLiquid* Jun 29, 08
      ....what are you trying to say?
  • 0
    Drogo Baggins Jun 29, 08
    That's pretty cool. Although, honestly, I'm a little disappointed that it's going to have nearly the same gameplay. I was really hoping for something "Oblivion-esque" instead of click till things are dead.

    It'll still probably be awesome.
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    Arcaida Jun 29, 08
    They're actually complicating things a little bit, so it won't be standard click-click. It's going to be more fast paced, skill-oriented, and even have useable environments, which is a trip. I'm sure it'll be a little more detailed and in-depth this time. Probably still a lot of clicking though, haha.
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    Drogo Baggins Jun 29, 08
    Okay, that's awesome, then.

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