Diablo III: Standard Edition

This review is from: Diablo III: Standard Edition (Computer Game)

Diablo 1 and 2 was a great Action-RPG game. Sadly, Diablo 3 is just an action game. Everything is done for you. Strength/Dexterity? They increase those automatically with each level. Character skills? They give them to you when you level (need need to choose what skills you want). The difference between my level 40 Barbarian and your level 30 Barbarian? NOTHING. Well, you may have better armor, but that's all -- our skills and attributes are identical.

Hey, look, I found a cool armor I can't wear yet. Why? Because it's just a level limit. That's all. If I want my Wizard to wear a super heavy plate armor, I no longer need to increase strength to wear it -- I either need to be high enough level or Blizzard simply makes in "unusable" by my class.

It's as if they took all the stuff from World of Warcraft and threw a Diablo Interface on it. Seriously -- I have to spend gold to increase my Stash-size? Really? I need to dis-enchant magic weapons and use the raw materials to create new enchanted items? Really? They simply took the Enchanter class from World of Warcraft and turned it into a shop keeper. Heck, did the Diablo 3 programmers ever actually PLAY Diablo before?

The answer is yes, because so Act 1 is an exact clone of the other games. Seriously, why am I still fighting bats, goat men, skeletons, and zombies 13 years after Diablo 2 came out? And you brought back King Leoric (with a terrible voice over) too? Really? I have to spend 2 hours fighting in the Tristan woods, Cemetery, Cathedral, and Den of Evil. Sound familiar? Yup, because that's what I had to do Diablo 1 and 2. Is there no creativity left at Blizzard? You guys really can't figure out how to create new world? It seems Blizzard literally took the monsters and areas of Diablo 1 and 2, and gave it a 3d-graphical-upgrade. It's like playing the original Pac-Man, but with newer graphics -- no real innovations at all.

Take a look at the Diablo 3 gameplay closely. Deep down inside, it's shallow.