You're seemingly as likely to wander across live enemies in the world as dead ones that someone else has already eliminated, which provides a distinct feeling that while the humans of Sanctuary are on the brink of destruction, there are still plenty of warriors around fighting back. In a practical way, those extra bodies in the world help create a lot of, well, extra bodies.

Wandering toward the village of Corbach, I started running into other players as they thrashed through monsters and interacted with distraught and forlorn villagers. Once out in the world, Diablo 4 presented what felt like a more awful, desperate Sanctuary, but one that was also more alive. Not only do you have your cooperative teammates, but in the demo we saw, the world was also alive with other players fighting just as hard to dispel undead fiends and demonic creatures. You're a warrior fighting off hordes of evil creatures throughout the world of Sanctuary, but you're not alone. The most striking element is the game's use of ideas similar to what's seen in games such as Destiny 2 or Dark Souls. Diablo 4 will include elements of shared-world games, broadening the cooperative experience and making Sanctuary more of a living world.Īfter the announcement, Blizzard made a short demo available on the show floor, where we played about 10 minutes of Diablo 4.

While Diablo helped inspire the genre of loot-chasing games that have recently arisen, for Diablo 4, it seems Blizzard is borrowing some ideas from the games that have followed it. The unveiling of Diablo 4 at Blizzcon 2019 gave a sense of how the next installment of Blizzard's action-RPG franchise will be very different from its 2012 predecessor, Diablo 3.

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