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Diablo III

byBlizzard Entertainment2012

Diablo III is the third installment in Blizzard's franchise. The game, like its predecessors, is a dungeon crawler in which the player fights against hordes of enemies ranging from beasts and undead to actual demons. The game has four acts, two game modes (normal and hardcore) as well as four difficulty levels: Normal, Nightmare, Hell and Inferno. ...

Release Date

May 14, 2012

Developer

Blizzard Entertainment

Publisher

Square Enix, Blizzard Entertainment

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Blizzard's first console game in 15 years turns out to be quite spectacular - and delivers perhaps the greatest couch co-op play of this generation.

Sep 4, 2013 Read Review

Your children, like it or not, are attracted in their weaker years to the occult, and a game like Diablo III fuels their imagination and makes them feel special, while drawing them deeper and deeper into the bowels of El Diablo! Eek! Satan!

May 29, 2012 Read Review

Blizzard knows how to set the stage and keep gamers coming back, day-in and day-out. Whether it's to marvel at the sights by your lonsome or tackle challenges with friends, there's always something that'll give you that itch for one more click in Diablo III.

May 21, 2012 Read Review

With atmospheric graphics, a stirring soundtrack, deeply customizable characters, and non-stop action, Diablo III is the king of action-RPGs and a crown jewel in the late PlayStation 3 library.

Sep 5, 2013 Read Review

We've spent the past few days hacking and slashing through hordes of monstrosities, hoovering up loot, dazzling fellow adventurers with grandiose spells, instilling fear into the hearts of our enemies, and preventing Hell from consuming the world. Not literally, of course – we are referring to Blizzard Entertainment's latest RPG and its first in-house console production since The Lost Vikings II on the SNES: Diablo III for the PlayStation 3.

Sep 16, 2013 Read Review

The world of Sanctuary has once again been infested with demonic creatures. Does Diablo III come out unscathed, or should it be banished into the depths of hell?

May 17, 2012 Read Review

The true power of Diablo III lies in its replayability thanks to its versatility, which is the greatest kind of ability there is for a game like this. Playing through once from Act I all the way to Act IV’s conclusion isn’t going to be enough for most gamers and that’s perfect because it’s the way it’s meant to be. With all those dungeon randomisations, boss events, challenging difficulty, co-op play, loot gathering and the general mayhem of monster slaying, Diablo III is a ride th...

May 28, 2012 Read Review

Diablo III is a maths game. It’s also an RPG but, somehow, that feels much less important to the never ending quest for statistical perfection. Diablo itself is much heralded as the greatest of all dungeon crawling games, a peculiar genre that focuses less on story and more on exploration and treasure snagging. It is basically designed to appeal to anyone with even the slightest hint of OCD and does so very well and, for a game that came out on PC a year ago, it has finally made the progres...

Sep 19, 2013 Read Review