Never thought I’d say that to a former PC-only title that the master race champions.ĭespite these improvements, Diablo 2 is still the same 2000s game you loved and eventually tolerated for its “old-school mentality”. Blizzard did a bang-up job in making controller support painless as possible, to the point where I don’t really use the keyboard-mouse setup anymore for Diablo 2. Most players only need up to 4 skills to spam throughout the four major Acts and their respective escalating difficulties, so the controller serves that well be it the Nintendo Switch, the PS4 DualShock, or the Xbox gamepad. Mapping skills to your face buttons and using potion hotkeys via d-pad is painless and they work really well after getting used to it in less than 5 minutes.

You have full control over your character instead of using a mouse pointer to direct them, which means you can move them around flawlessly through obstacles, enemies, and projectiles that can probably one-hit kill you in Hell difficulty. Granted, Blizzard took cues from past action RPGs that were made for consoles dating back to the late 2000s onward (like the X-Men action RPG games and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance series), but it works here. Whether it’s your Druid’s Molten Rock and Fissure spells wombo-combo to the Assassin’s sentries and traps AoE fiesta, you’ll have a blast killing demons and the Prime Evil’s Sanctuary-invading hordes in this new coat of paint, now looking like their devilishly Sunday best.Īnother lovely addition to the remaster is controller support: it’s pretty much flawless.

How does it do so? By dressing it up with 3D graphics made for a lovely-looking isometric action RPG complete with spectacular pyrotechnics and flashy particles from your characters. But to bring it back in its original form, quirks and all (from its punishing learning curve to potions-heavy gameplay), is not going to make current action RPG players see the value in its heritage.ĭiablo 2: Resurrected, the remaster of the 2000-era action RPG classic, is basically the remedy that solves the conundrum of bringing new players into the granddaddy of all action RPGs. Genre: Action RPG brought back from the 2000s eraĭiablo 2, as well as its expansion Lords of Destruction, is the most influential and most-packed action RPG for the PC back in the day. Platforms: PC (version reviewed), PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

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