It'll even sound much the same as the 1996 Diablo, thanks to the welcome inclusion of Matt Uelman's original score. The framerates will get chopped down, and it'll limit you to using the rigid eight directions of the original. On paper, it leaves the faint aftertaste of one of Blizzard's famous April Fool's jokes, leading one player to remark that 'I actually thought it was a prank before the real announcements.'Ī filter Blizzard playfully refers to a 'glorious retrovision' will blanket the whole thing and downsample its graphics to the rough edges familiar from the Bill Clinton years. Strangely, it'll only be around for a month or so every year before retiring to the Blizzard crypts to await reanimation at a later time.Įxciting stuff in theory, but on the whole it sounds like the current game briefly masquerading in a new set of duds as if for Halloween. That's likely the Butcher, the Skeleton King, Lazarus, and Diablo himself.
As announced at Blizzcon yesterday, players who own both the base Diablo 3 game and its Reaper of Souls expansion will get to play a 16-level dungeon called 'The Darkening of Tristram' that's based on the original Diablo and its four main bosses.
