The caution I’d make then, is this: if you’re in this for the long haul, Diablo 4 will keep up with you. I’ve no doubt that given the care applied to other areas, the endgame will eventually provide enough challenge to fully differentiate the character classes and keep high-level players on their toes. In the interest of transparency, I should point out that the play time available to me wasn’t enough to reach the endgame.

We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. For more information see our Privacy Policy. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. It all feels less like a gauntlet, more like a slot machine. It’s just a shame there’s so few encounters that support this.

Diablo 4’s art, sound design and worldbuilding all go to extraordinarily impressive lengths to convince you that this is a grim, dangerous world. It makes for a strange disconnect between atmosphere and play. But once I had accrued some decent armour and protective spells, I found myself more or less on autopilot for hours as the hordes of hell fell before me. It’s all suitably impressive to look at, with nary a dropped frame in sight as the action gets busy with pyrotechnic flair. I went with a caster that stuns with sheets of summoned lightning. Even from those first few precious skill points, it’s clear that you could take the Druid in a few distinct directions – make them a slow and devastating werebear, for example, or a wolf-pack leader. It is, like junk food, exceptionally tasty, but oddly insubstantial, like a doppelganger of something much more real.Īn example: I most recently tried out the Druid class, a beefy frontline fighter with access to shapeshifting, animal companions and a host of lightning spells. This might be exactly what you’re looking for: a vivid and well-realised hellscape to escape into, one that bites back just enough for you to feel present, but never really tested. Diablo 4 may look and sound ominous, but in practice, it all goes down a bit too easily. Illustration: Blizzardĭecades’ worth of talent and knowhow have been spent here on boiling down moreishness to a fine science. ‘Diablo’s world feels, well, like a world again a place with history and tension’ … Diablo 4 screenshot.

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