At the same time, the game’s general structure and loot-based reward system has been copied by everything from Borderlands to Destiny.Īs you might gather by the fact that it’s the sequel and not the original that’s been remade, that legacy is primarily down to Diablo 2, which refined and expanded the formula and is still regarded by many fans as the best entry in the series. Technically it’s a dungeon crawler – a top-down action role-player – but even if you didn’t realise it, games like Path Of Exile and Torchlight are so similar they could almost be official sequels. Apart from an oft-forgotten PS1 version of the original the franchise as a whole completely ignored consoles until the 2012 release of Diablo 3, and even that was still much more popular on PC (in fact it was the fastest selling PC game ever, at the time).Īs relatively minor a franchise as it may seem to console gamers, Diablo is one of the few series left that is so influential that anything similar to it is simply referred to as a Diablo clone. Considering how few new games the two publishers release each year they’ll no doubt be worried at how all the negative press is going to affect their most important Christmas releases, namely Call Of Duty and this remake of 2000 PC game Diablo 2.ĭespite its huge success on the PC, and subsequent influence on the industry at large, Diablo 2 has never been released on any console. Diablo 2: Resurrected – everything but the mouse click (pic: Blizzard)īlizzard remake 20-year-old dungeon crawling classic Diablo 2 for consoles and PC but is it just another Warcraft 3: Reforged?Īt this point it’s impossible to start the review of any Activision Blizzard game without reference to the ongoing suite of lawsuits, alleging toxic workplace conditions and widespread discrimination.

Diablo 2 gameplay screen shot