At Blizzard Worldwide Invitational Diablo III is demonstrated on stage. For several days there we teaser images and finally they have revealed it.
Here are some details from live blog from this presentation:
12:40 Okay, the MCs are back and talking about how we're the first peeps to see Diablo3 in action. Now they're asking for people from various countries to give a shoutout. It was really quiet when asked "anyone from Portugal"?
12:35 Now all four peeps are fighting giant evil trees. Afterwards, a bossfight against a bigass demon called the Siegebreaker assault beast (descriptor: living siege engine of hell). It's charging around the area a lot. The barbarians are jumping wihle the witch doctors are firebombing. The boss just instant-killed someone by biting and tearing a la the Rancor from Return of the Jedi. It takes a bunch more beatins before dying. Mad applause right now after it does down. And now a ton of skeletons advance forward as the title screen shows up.
12:33 The Witch doctor also has a firebomb spell to deal damage and a mass confusion for crowd control. He also has a grody wall of zombies spell. Now, female barbarian and witch doctor has joined the group.
12:31 Out of the dungeon and into the forest. He uses the locust swarm to take out crowds of enemies. He conjures up the Mongrel pet (well, four of them), and gives them additional disease damage by casting locust swarm on them. Witch Doctors can sort of suicide-bomb their near-death mongrels. Even though his mongrels are dead, the witch doctor uses horrify to put fear into the enemies.
12:30 Introducing the witch doctor class. He's got pets and mind control abilities, and is the second player for co-op in the demo.
12:27 Now taking on some skeletal archers. He needs to use his jump to stun them and take them out while they can't shoot. Now he's taking out some possessed dudes who are described as "ticking time bombs." The wall just came crashing down while the mercs are panicking behind the barbarian. Some chicks in a circle just exploded (probably as a sacrifice) to make the Thousand Pounder, who is a hugely fat dude with two maces (his descriptor is "Gluttony Incarnate").12:26 HOLY SHIT DECKARD CAIN IS IN THE DUNGEON TOO!!!!!111 Cain tries to get you to stay awhile and listen, but the barbarian cuts him short. The barbarian is using Cain's mercenary guards as backup now.
12:24 He took out the four dudes and got a full set of armor from the trapped chest.All gear is custom designed for unique look. Barbarian can still leap about. He just knocked a wall down to take out zombies, and is now using whirlwind.
12:22 New red orb drops now are used to heal without use of potions. He's fighting berserjkers right now. He's dual-wielding on some fools. Environmental destruction allows for stuff to be knocked around. Now he's tripping a trap that causes four duders to spawn into the room.
12:20 Yep, he's a barbarian. Pure brute force, exemplifies design philosophy of "no such thing as too much power." There's now a hotbar wherethe potion bar used to be, to use your skills easily. Can now quickswap between skills with mousewheel. Looks like the same sort of upgraded isometric a la StarCraft 2. Now he's using frost-enchanted gear.
12:19 Lead designer Jay Wilson is on stage to demo. There's a barbarian-looking guy stomping around, saying "this place has the stench of ghouls."
12:16 Middle eastern music, and a girl talking about people in fear and stuff. And praying for a quick death. Now there's images of castles and battles and stuff blowing up. DIABLO III just showed up. AIRSTRIKE APPROVED.
12:15: OH DAMN some guy is playing an acoustic version of the Diablo theme!!!!1111 Now it's time...
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New update - Diablo 3 web site look as you would expect from a Blizzard, beautifully crafted and already hosting gameplay video and cinematic teaser. If you can get anything from that site that is. It is overloaded and this is not a surprise.
This is an example of what to expect in game
More to come tomorrow morning...
