The visuals were obviously compromised in the original console versions, but on the PlayStation 4 they look like they’re running on a fairly powerful PC. Since these used to work by pressing the number buttons on the keyboard though activating them is more fiddly than it originally was.ĭiablo III’s backdrops become increasingly impressive as the game goes on, with the fixed camera making the best of the painterly art style. There are also passive skills, such as increasing your resistance to magic or speed, and other miscellaneous abilities which work on a timer. Skills can also be upgraded via runes, allowing you to further specialise your character. Which character class you choose makes a huge difference to the specifics of combat but the basics are the same for all: you have simple active skills which build up what amounts to a super bar and this powers stronger secondary attacks. ![]() But although its tactics and systems are never especially deep, and the enemies all fairly dim, the breadth of options in how you play is enormous. It’s easy to dismiss Diablo as mindlessly simplistic, especially if you limit your sample go to just a few minutes combat from the beginning of the game. Once the screen is littered with a suitable number of corpses you can then go about hoovering up dropped gold, weapons and clothing. Like the Lego games the most addictive element of Diablo III is collecting stuff. Controlling your character directly almost makes the game feel more like a clunkier version of God Of War than a real Diablo game, although perhaps the most tempting compromise is the Lego movie games. It’s not that anything doesn’t work but just that all the many abilities and weapons have been specifically designed with the assumption you’d be able to point and click exactly where you want to use them. The obvious problem with the gamepad controls is that they’re much less precise than when using a mouse. There are many tweaks and extras on top though, most derived from the many updates to the original PC version – which is why there’s no need for an Ultimate Evil Edition on PC. ![]() As a result this ‘Ultimate Evil Edition’ is close to half price on the last gen formats, since it’s essentially just the original game plus expansion pack Reaper Of Souls. But Blizzard has already tackled that problem once before, with the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions released in September last year. Not only that but the screen is filled with tiny icons and stats that while perfectly readable on a high resolution PC monitor are clearly not designed with a TV in mind. The reason Diablo clones are so rare on consoles is that their controls are usually based solely on using a keyboard and mouse. Diablo is a dungeon crawler, a role-playing game stripped to the bone so that its sole obsessions are fighting and looting – not storytelling.
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