Heaven can wait - I need ten more minutes in hell! PETER HOSKIN reviews DIABLO ... trends now
Diablo IV (PlayStation, Xbox, PC, £69.99)
Verdict: Addictive as hell
Pleeease can I have just ten more minutes battling the denizens of hell? I promise I’ll go to bed straight after!
Sorry, don’t know what came over me there. Or, rather, I do — because I’ve spent practically ever waking minute of the past few weeks playing Diablo IV, and it’s brought me right back to my teenage dependency on the original Diablo.
If a more compulsive game is released this year, my marriage will be in trouble.
In many ways, this new Diablo is much like its predecessors. A moody demon lady in a plunging dress has risen to engulf the fantasy world of Sanctuary in… yadda yadda yadda.
As the chosen hero of this realm, you still have to frantically click-click-click your mouse to battle waves of hoofed monsters.
In many ways, this new Diablo is much like its predecessors. A moody demon lady in a plunging dress has risen to engulf the fantasy world of Sanctuary in… yadda yadda yadda
As the chosen hero of this realm, you still have to frantically click-click-click your mouse to battle waves of hoofed monsters
If a more compulsive game is released this year, my marriage will be in trouble
But Diablo IV is also the perfection of the form. Sanctuary itself is beautiful, a series of colourful diorama-esque landscapes and dungeons.
The options for personalising your character are thrillingly extensive. The story is great, schlocky fun.
Even all that clicking seems somehow… fine tuned, as though it’s been designed to stimulate particular nerve endings.
There’s just one nagging question: is Diablo IV too perfect? Perhaps.
It’s such easy, mindless enjoyment that it feels like gaming’s equivalent of empty calories; really, really good junk food, but still junk food.
The inclusion of both an extensive endgame — new challenges for when you’ve completed the main story — and a shop for spending real money on digital
