While the beta only allows you to explore the game’s first act, it’s clear that Diablo 4 will encourage more exploration than Diablo 2 and even Diablo 3.

Instead of being ferried from location to location, players have more agency over where they go and what they do. Instead of the randomly-generated levels found in some old Diablo games, Diablo 4‘s world is as sprawling as it is nonlinear.

Speaking of the world, the game’s level design is, for the most part, an evolution of the dungeon-crawler genre. The world of Diablo 4 once again feels as if it’s barely hanging on, and every level and enemy helps get that feeling across. While Diablo 3 took a break from that aesthetic (at least until the Reaper of Souls expansion), Diablo 4 has gleefully returned to it, albeit with slightly stylized results. The franchise started as a gothic grimdark fantasy where the world feels as if it’s on the brink of the apocalypse, and fans quickly fell in love with that look. Diablo 4’s World Is Dark, Massive, and Filled With Adventuresįirst off, I have to congratulate Diablo 4‘s artists.

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