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The new Diablo 3 game is now in beta testing do you want to download and play Diablo 3?

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Diablo III : First Impressions

I am a big fan of Diablo II, loved the story, the co-op gameplay, collecting inventory, everything. And I have been waiting for Diablo 3 to come out much like people have been waiting for Duke Nukem.

So thanks to Joeydaioh, I went to ForceD3strategy and from there I checked out all the Diablo 3 videos. 

I must say I am very impressed with the graphics and look and feel of the dungeons. They look crisp and the environment seems to react quite well to motion of the characters and spells etc. Of course, I wouldn't expect any less :D. 

This is a very small slice of the game that has been disclosed. The rest will be revealed only when the game becomes available. However, I think some of the stuff was just lazy. They just seem to be taken right out warcraft3. I am told that there would be like 30 spells per class and let's hope that they are more imaginative than the ones in the demo.

Let's look at some of the spells 

Demon Hunter has fan of knives, which is the same that of the warden ( animation included ), Bola is like Incinerate of the Firelord. Entangling shot, on the other hand, was interesting.

Monk seems to be Ryu Hayabusa ( Ninja Gaiden ). But then again, what other powers he has remains to be seen.

Wizard is the vanilla mage from the old series, with fire, cold and lightening attacks.

Barbarian appears to be mix of Tauren Chieftain and Blademaster, Ground Stomp, Seismic Slam == War Stomp. Cleave == Cleaving attack, Whirlwind == Bladestorm.  

Witch Doctor was different.

Now, I can understand that there are only so many things and the mind will always find parallels but I think Blizzard has shown that they can make wonderful games and I don't think that they would be sloppy with such an essential part of the game.