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Diablo 3 Officially Announced

AznLiquid | June 28, 2008 | News | PC

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 Diablos 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.

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Super Vegeta | June 28, 2008

Finally! God, this is exzciting.
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Zerpent | June 28, 2008

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.
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Bale Fire | June 28, 2008

With all the hints it isn't exactly a surprise. It'll be interesting to see how the plot is connected to the others
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rummanzrulz | June 28, 2008

i still play Diablo II: LoD... Awesome!!!! when is the release datE?!
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  AznLiquid | June 28, 2008
  
  Blizzard doesn't set release dates that early. SC2 doesn't even have one yet.
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Arcaida | June 28, 2008

I just shat out fire. And my liver.
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VeGiTAX2 | June 28, 2008

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.
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  chautemoc | June 28, 2008
  
  Yeah, I uploaded some more..should be up within the next day or so.
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Cybuster | June 28, 2008

This is awesome.

Now to pray it doesn't take a wrong turning into WoWville.
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  VeGiTAX2 | June 28, 2008
  
  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 | June 28, 2008

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 | June 28, 2008

yyyyeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssss! a gotxz it today it'z greatz!
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  AznLiquid | June 29, 2008
  
  ....what are you trying to say?
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Drogo Baggins | June 29, 2008

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 | June 29, 2008

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 | June 29, 2008

Okay, that's awesome, then.