Well, everyone's heard the big news by now. Diablo III then.

It sure looks good. Blizzard have always been great at movies and they seem to deliver here also. Their website design is also top notch and this new one offers quite a few goodies for fans, the best of which is, I think, the journal area. So kudos for that also. There's a certain WoW vibe evident in the screenshots but during actual gameplay it's not so noticable and it maintains a nice, dark and gritty look even though these were probably starting level areas so we can expect to see way more beautiful and also horrific views in the final game.

To the game at hand, I like what I've seen so far. It seems to offer the kind of fun fans of the previous games are looking forward to while at the same time it could actually attract some new audience as well since combat looks far more engaging and fun and reactive, that’s for sure. Not just holding down left click, hammering the potion hotkeys and the occasional right click for your assigned skill. When he starts using all the slams and jumpy attacks and wave blasts in a crowd of enemies it looks like a lot of fun, like some kind of console action title but in a good way. Certainly not like an outdated point & click controlled game at least, so they’ve done wonders with the interface and mechanics I guess.

I'll go ahead and boldly say that I actually found Diablo II very boring and the beginning of the gameplay video they showed off made me think it's just more of the same. I soon changed mind once I saw that barbarian rip through hordes of monsters in the way I described above.

I look forward to seeing the rest of the classes though I was hoping for more than 5 (even pre-expansion, heh). Perhaps we can have sub classes similar to WoW's different possible specs though I don't expect to see any pure tanks or healers here as everyone is probably able to dish out some major dps in order to keep the series' gameplay spirit alive and well for everyone. A tank or healer would probably have a hard time in the single player at least, heh.

Overall, I'm certainly intrigued by the possibilities though I'm still not certain I'll be buying this considering we know next to nothing about pricing, multi player capability (I expect some sort of small fee is possible for example) and many other important factors and, like I said, I was really not fond of Diablo II. We'll see...