So Blizzard finally did it, it’s been a long time since we jumped into the world of Diablo 2, and even longer for Diablo 1. As of this morning, Diablo 3 has been officially announced. Currently there is no release date (at least none that I found, if anyone knows of one, let me know!) as well as zero information on beta spots.  If you go to their website, you can watch the teaser video (The one thing Blizzard can still manage to do right in my eye, make one hell of a hot looking video) and a game play video that shows off some of the new controls.

They have added some new ways to switch your attacks and new ways to make doing attacks easier. You can now use the mouse wheel to roll between different melee attacks and at the bottom where the potion bar use to be, now you can place your skills for easier use. (Now where have I seen that done before…)

As with all old titles being brought to new, the game play, point of view and everything else we loved from the previous titles will look exactly the same, but with fancier graphics! However, from the game play video I saw, there does appear to be much more gore…. much more! I’m talking during the boss fight, the boss picked up one of the players, ate his head right off the body, tossed the body.  The original Mortal Kombat would be proud.

There are some new classes, although as of right now they have only stated Witch Doctor and Barbarian. Along with apparently the option to finally make either sex of any class. As they showed off the female Barbs and Witch Doctors standing next to the males for the boss fight.

Environment looks to have a play in the game play now, as they exampled the Barbarian hitting a wall and watching it come falling down on top of a group of monsters.

So my final thoughts? Does it look good? It looked just as I said, Diablo 2, better graphics, more lighting. But I loved Diablo 2 and the graphics, so yes I think it looks good.

Game play? Once again, looks pretty solid, although I’m not so sure I’m a fan of the new easier skills.

Will I go to the midnight sale of Diablo 3 like a crazed little kid?  Duh!

Oh… one last thing.  One of the Witch Doctors spells, Wall of Zombies!  That’s right, a whole fucking wall of Zombies going for your brains!