Diablo III

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4.2

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 10199 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 5,711 out of 10199
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  1. lion_
    Jun 5, 2012
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Very unhappy with it. 10 years of development for that? I think we could have expected much more. Graphics, Sound, Game-play. What's really bad is the forced internet connection and the unavailability of their servers. Ok, they sold millions of copies, but...this was expect able. I want to play, when I want to play. 10 minutes or 10 hours, during the day or during the middle of the night. So come on: Give us a offline mode!… Expand
  2. DeviMon
    Jun 5, 2012
    10
    I simply love it! I remember playing diablo 2 alot, and I also tried many mods for it, and diablo 3 really brings the good memories of the game. Its the best diablo out there, and the best hack and slash type game ever.
  3. dannaz
    Jun 5, 2012
    9
    Game was fantastic, multi-player and single-player alike. I enjoy doing co-op with my friends on the hard difficulties like Inferno and Hell. However the game does have some balance issues and is a bit slow to start up. Farming the higher difficulties doesn't feel like a chore like D2 did (especially if you are with friends). The classes are all really unique and the cut scenes lookGame was fantastic, multi-player and single-player alike. I enjoy doing co-op with my friends on the hard difficulties like Inferno and Hell. However the game does have some balance issues and is a bit slow to start up. Farming the higher difficulties doesn't feel like a chore like D2 did (especially if you are with friends). The classes are all really unique and the cut scenes look absolutely fantastic. Story wasn't anything fantastic however the game-play is absolutely amazing.… Expand
  4. nwmcswen
    Jun 5, 2012
    0
    I thought all the negative reviews were out of touch angry nerds until I bought the game and tried it. I know you're thinking with blizzards' awesome track record of fun games it can't be all bad - I have news for you: events are handled with blizzard servers and not locally thus lag outs are common, there is no stats, no skill tree, nothing just linear button mashing and unlocking of new attacks.
  5. thehappycheese
    Jun 4, 2012
    3
    Poor story elements, rubbish voice acting, reduced RPG elements, the auction house and forced online gameplay all ruined it for me. This game has the distinct feeling of a warcraft 3/starcraft 2 custom-map and all the bright colors, generic sound effects, and crappy character/in-game-cinematic animation that goes with that.

    This game didn't have the character, heart, or soul of its    Poor story elements, rubbish voice acting, reduced RPG elements, the auction house and forced online gameplay all ruined it for me. This game has the distinct feeling of a warcraft 3/starcraft 2 custom-map and all the bright colors, generic sound effects, and crappy character/in-game-cinematic animation that goes with that.

    This game didn't have the character, heart, or soul of its predecessors. I give it a 3 for the few hours of fun I did have with the core gameplay - hitting demons with a hammer.    … Expand
  6. cinderboy
    Jun 4, 2012
    1
    I am not being harsh here. For someone who skipped school just to queue up for Diablo II back in the days, the franchise was always in my heart since the early days when my cousin introduced Diablo I to me. Not only does Diablo III not live up to its predecessors and improve on the supposed flaws, the new development team insisted on stamping their delusional thoughts on what is best forI am not being harsh here. For someone who skipped school just to queue up for Diablo II back in the days, the franchise was always in my heart since the early days when my cousin introduced Diablo I to me. Not only does Diablo III not live up to its predecessors and improve on the supposed flaws, the new development team insisted on stamping their delusional thoughts on what is best for gamers by implementing a series of anti-gaming features.

    I am not against the RMAH, but building the game around it is just wrong and no words can justify the design decision.    … Expand
  7. nelsor57
    Jun 4, 2012
    3
    Everything is based around the AH, you cannon progress into INFERNO unless you spend millions of gold on items, to many exploits, terrible in game lag, lots of hacking, botting, spammers... just like d2.
  8. Obliterator
    Jun 4, 2012
    0
    I'm a diablo fan, and i have played over 140 hours in this game, i really want to love it, but the more I play the sadder i get. Really, this game is lame, I can only hope they fix it in patches in the future.
  9. Gobotz
    Jun 4, 2012
    2
    Serious disappointment. Takes everything fun about a loot-em-up and strips it away. Let's put aside the technical issues that have been plaguing users - days of downtime, auction house barely functioning or frustrating to use due to bugs (disappearing listings, placeholders, improper sort-by results) and just dive into the game. You can play this game for dozens and dozens of hours andSerious disappointment. Takes everything fun about a loot-em-up and strips it away. Let's put aside the technical issues that have been plaguing users - days of downtime, auction house barely functioning or frustrating to use due to bugs (disappearing listings, placeholders, improper sort-by results) and just dive into the game. You can play this game for dozens and dozens of hours and make no progress in the improvement of your character - I can count on one hand the number of gear drops I've earned for myself in 60 levels of play. Everything else: purchased on the AH. Nothing fun about that, but if you don't do it, good luck progressing. So now I'm in Inferno and I have the choice of either dying to 95% of the elite packs I meet while trying to earn better gear - or mindlessly grinding gold on lower levels like a human meat battery in the Diablo matrix to buy drops someone else was disappointed by when they couldn't use the item on their main. I'd love to play this game and gear my lil' guy through finding gear mostly on my own. As the game stands now, upgrades will almost never come from your own gameplay, unless you count the thrilling gameplay of grinding gold until the number on the screen is finally high enough to thrillingly bid on AH gear and then thrillingly mail it to yourself. This game is pretty bad, and I've played some real bad games in my 25+ years of PC gaming. The saddest part is that there's a kernel of great game here that seems to have been brutally beaten into submission by poor technical execution, saddled with online servers, and anchored to an auction house system that has become (instead of a support system) the meta game you are playing. It's Auction House III, featuring a special guest appearance by Diablo. Sad let down for a once-great title.… Expand
  10. NGl
    Jun 4, 2012
    6
    Presentation 6
    Playing multiplayer is easy but only 4 players in a group? The story is really short & suck.The new skill bar is limited. Aways online play but they provided a very poor network service.
    Graphics 6.5 Diablo III looks only OK. The video is not very impressive as a morden game. Sound 7 The background music is boring makes you sleep. However voices were good. Gameplay    Presentation 6
    Playing multiplayer is easy but only 4 players in a group? The story is really short & suck.The new skill bar is limited. Aways online play but they provided a very poor network service.
    Graphics 6.5
    Diablo III looks only OK. The video is not very impressive as a morden game.
    Sound 7
    The background music is boring makes you sleep. However voices were good.
    Gameplay 4.5
    No distribute point makes everyone is the same but your weapons & armors get from your real money. Game eperience is much worsen than the Diablo1&2.
    Lasting Appeal 5.0
    You may find the game is fun when you first time playing. After few days you will find the game is frustrated as you will surely struggling in inferno difficulty. The numerous difficulties and endless loot mean you can wast your whole life and your entire money in it.

    5.8 OKay    … Expand
  11. Beauboy93
    Jun 4, 2012
    8
    I was really looking forward to Diablo 3, after several years of waiting, I was expecting something amazing. The game is very well done, but I just feel that the story could have been better and the world more immersive (no world map)? PVP will be interesting to see when it comes out. The AH was also done very well. Overall great game, but leaves some to be desired.
  12. CorbeauNoir
    Jun 4, 2012
    0
    Blizzard treats you, the paying customer, as guilty until proven innocent and disguises it with a weak excuse involving the inventory system. Enough said.
  13. Humboldt1337
    Jun 4, 2012
    0
    Oh Activision, how you have utterly ruined the greatest gaming franchise in history.
    This entire game is based around Activision making money with the in-game real money auction house.
    Any opinions to the contrary are simply wrong. There was no motivation other than greed for making this game. This game plays like a version of D2 that was made for 5 year olds. No customization, vastly    Oh Activision, how you have utterly ruined the greatest gaming franchise in history.
    This entire game is based around Activision making money with the in-game real money auction house.
    Any opinions to the contrary are simply wrong. There was no motivation other than greed for making this game.
    This game plays like a version of D2 that was made for 5 year olds. No customization, vastly reduced loot tables, legendary items are terrible, set items are impossible to find.
    There are absolutely zero redeeming qualities to this game.
    Do NOT buy it.    … Expand
  14. Stuka
    Jun 4, 2012
    0
    This game is NOT good. It may please a few hardcore players, asians and gold sellers, but in the overall, its a very crappy game.

    - The story sucks, a lot; - The loot table is completely ridiculous; - Tons and tons of bugs, glitches in a game being developed for 10 years from a company with more then 30 years of experience; - A very healthy environment for gold sellers who spam the    This game is NOT good. It may please a few hardcore players, asians and gold sellers, but in the overall, its a very crappy game.

    - The story sucks, a lot;
    - The loot table is completely ridiculous;
    - Tons and tons of bugs, glitches in a game being developed for 10 years from a company with more then 30 years of experience;
    - A very healthy environment for gold sellers who spam the general chat and ruin the economy;
    - Stupid items with incompatible stats;
    - Too short, it seems that only act 1 received some attention, the rest is just a breeze and act 4 is so short it hurts;
    - Graphics could be better, suitable to the year the game was launched;
    - The combination of skills found in elite packs in Inferno is stupid, you will kill them, but you will die A LOT. Also, they will NEVER drop something to make it worth the amount of time you spent on them;
    - Repetitive, neurotic and obsessive gameplay, driving you to do the same things over and over again.

    I could keep going. The game is addictive for those with a lot of time in their hands, but its completely crap for casual players. Hell, even Bejeweled is better than this.    … Expand
  15. Crazyrage
    Jun 4, 2012
    3
    Game is horrible. Blizzard should be embarrassed. Horrible story, horrible secret level. Inferno is a total joke not hard just lame. The game is clearly geared towards the RMAH so Blizzard can make BUCK.
  16. pesto81
    Jun 4, 2012
    4
    Story: 6 decent but has plenty of gaps and nonsense. Too similar between different classes.
    Graphics: 9
    Replayability: 3 shallow story and too light "randomization" of maps/events mixed with easily changed talents and no risk of not planning the character to encourage restarting. Skill ramp-up: 1 There is little difference between first three difficulties and then you meet impossible mobs    Story: 6 decent but has plenty of gaps and nonsense. Too similar between different classes.
    Graphics: 9
    Replayability: 3 shallow story and too light "randomization" of maps/events mixed with easily changed talents and no risk of not planning the character to encourage restarting.
    Skill ramp-up: 1 There is little difference between first three difficulties and then you meet impossible mobs in inferno
    Debugged release: 1 terrible release of unfinished product. QA should be fired
    Itemization: 1 overly randomized loot system leads to forced auction useage to push players to the real money auction house eventually
    Community interaction: 5 friend play is great but chat system and public grouping needs many improvements    … Expand
  17. pazmacats
    Jun 4, 2012
    0
    What could have been a fairly good standard hack'n slash turns into a complete and utter failure by implementation of a real money auction house that forces players to buy equipment there, because drop rates have been reduced dramatically in order to prevent the real money market from being flooded by too many items.
    The items you CAN find are fubbish 99% of the time. Servers are not very    What could have been a fairly good standard hack'n slash turns into a complete and utter failure by implementation of a real money auction house that forces players to buy equipment there, because drop rates have been reduced dramatically in order to prevent the real money market from being flooded by too many items.
    The items you CAN find are fubbish 99% of the time. Servers are not very stable. Overall the game annoys the hell out of me and I stopped playing it after 2 days. 0-/10    … Expand
  18. LuckyBob
    Jun 4, 2012
    10
    Great update to a legendary franchise. All of the Diablo 2 hack and slash action in a more streamlined package. My only complaint is the addition of the DRM. It's a slap in the face to gamers everywhere. Pirates are always going to find a way to pirate games and all DRMs do is frustrate paying customers.
  19. Lambchop1975
    Jun 4, 2012
    1
    Diablo 3 is a shallow experience, If the game price was 20 dollars i would score it a 7. but the premium price should have a premium experience. The terrible launch day was one thing, DRM is another, and Jay Wilson is another reason D3 fails. The incorporation of so much WoW is pretty bad, the lack of skills, the lack of character creation as you level is pathetic in an ARPG. All in all aDiablo 3 is a shallow experience, If the game price was 20 dollars i would score it a 7. but the premium price should have a premium experience. The terrible launch day was one thing, DRM is another, and Jay Wilson is another reason D3 fails. The incorporation of so much WoW is pretty bad, the lack of skills, the lack of character creation as you level is pathetic in an ARPG. All in all a very canned linear experience is only broken up by tedious loot grinding, that is ruined by an auction house, that is ruined by goldfarmers. D3 is a poorly executed WoW clone, that lacks a rich multiplayer experience. All of the customers have spoken, and most of them are saying BOO!!! (excluding the WoW fanboys.) In closing I would like to say that D3 is not just a flop, it was an attempt to capatalize on the biggest name in PC gaming. An epic failure to be sure, when the only people who are happy are the ones that left WoW to play.… Expand
  20. Karsa
    Jun 4, 2012
    10
    So, 74 "critics" give Diablo a B+ (essentially), and 5000 users give it an F. Kinda makes those critics look foolish, doesn't it? My question is, why'd it take Blizzard so many freakin' years to come out with D3? You definitely don't see the time, effort and money onscreen. In fact, the game is not noticeably better than Diablo (1). Major drawbacks from my standpoint: game is too short,So, 74 "critics" give Diablo a B+ (essentially), and 5000 users give it an F. Kinda makes those critics look foolish, doesn't it? My question is, why'd it take Blizzard so many freakin' years to come out with D3? You definitely don't see the time, effort and money onscreen. In fact, the game is not noticeably better than Diablo (1). Major drawbacks from my standpoint: game is too short, too easy on normal mode, some old favorites are gone (no secret rooms, etc.) and there's not enough diversity in environments. Gotta say, I'm disappointed after so much hype and such a long wait.… Expand
  21. Capivara
    Jun 4, 2012
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Definitely a game to remember. The new Diablo mechanism with 6 active skills to be distributed and 3 passive skills is pretty great. I believe it was based on Guild Wars. The single player game is a great entertainment in normal difficult. The Nightmare is when the game really starts. In Hell, it is basically when the game calls for a multiplayer experience, which is great, by the way. The only problem with this game that makes the score a 9, not a 10, is the story. It's not a bad story, it is a normal story that the good wins, differently from Diablo 2, which Baal wins on normal game and the worldstone is corrupted on the Lord of Destruction expansion. The fact that all goes bad and on the end everything is alright is the problem of the story. What happened is something really huge and amazing when it happens, but the simple way that the "hero" solves the problem makes that problem appears really weak, which it is not. In terms of story, Diablo 2 is tremendously better, but it does not makes Diablo 3 a game to be forgotten. The gameplay and online experience will be there to hold a lot of players.… Expand
  22. Zeruel
    Jun 4, 2012
    5
    i dont like it at all but i have to play it cause i bought it... i dont wanna refund already waste hours on it i so, but still sad, about the gameplay its fine but at the endgame it becomes pretty rigid forcing you to play one way
  23. saaji
    Jun 4, 2012
    0
    Absolutely raw, not finished, disbalanced and overpriced product. If you want to get tons of connection errors, and then get a story line worth just 10 hours of play - then this is a game for you. If you don't - don't buy it.
  24. Hahalo
    Jun 4, 2012
    3
    In summary, this game is half the fun & perfection of D2. It doesn't bring any new stuff to the Diablo series, and yet failed to understand what made D2 fun.

    Blizzard obsession of making more money has taken a toll on the game. Permanent online requirement (Not a problem until Inferno when Elite 1shot you during sudden lag spike), Now your Single player char is at risk of being hack,    In summary, this game is half the fun & perfection of D2. It doesn't bring any new stuff to the Diablo series, and yet failed to understand what made D2 fun.

    Blizzard obsession of making more money has taken a toll on the game. Permanent online requirement (Not a problem until Inferno when Elite 1shot you during sudden lag spike), Now your Single player char is at risk of being hack, which force you to purchase Blizzard authenticator. Poor Loot systems so rare items can be sold in AH for cash transaction where Blizzard will take a cut. Char level until 60only max, expect future "expansion" that probably cost another 10USD.

    It feels that Blizzard put so much effort and ideas of milking all the possible penny from us, that they forget the core important of making Diablo 3 a good game.    … Expand
  25. Sheo
    Jun 4, 2012
    0
    For all who don't know yet,whatever good and creative part there was in Blizzard is long gone.Now they are just reaping the profits off the work of people who are not working there anymore since around 2005. Any new game from blizzard will never ever be the same as their older games because the creative minds that made those games and their atmosphere left blizzard years ago so do yourselfFor all who don't know yet,whatever good and creative part there was in Blizzard is long gone.Now they are just reaping the profits off the work of people who are not working there anymore since around 2005. Any new game from blizzard will never ever be the same as their older games because the creative minds that made those games and their atmosphere left blizzard years ago so do yourself a favor and don't buy their new games because you liked the old ones,you'll only be disappointed!… Expand
  26. olimpusmons
    Jun 4, 2012
    0
    I give a 0 score because this is the only way I can protest against the on-line single player thing. Just imagine that you pay for something what's only playable as long as Blizzard supports it. Blizzard may go bankrupt one day and you can then wipe your ass with the 60â
  27. marousha_n
    Jun 4, 2012
    0
    Very dissapointed, the music, atmosphere, stats, skill trees and awesome gear are gone... I am glad i found Torchlight, feels a lot more like Diablo than this.
  28. Amulrei
    Jun 4, 2012
    1
    This game has some nice idea and good potential but ended up a rushed, sloppy and lazy attempt to cash in on the series success. A whole sea of bugs, security flaws and server issues ruin what would otherwise be an enjoyable game.

    Don't be fooled by the "professional" review sites shamelessly paid off as per usual for Blizzard games. Give this one a miss until Blizzard get their act together.
  29. Arogvat
    Jun 4, 2012
    1
    Awfuly boring gameplay, primitive graphics, many connections errors... IS this a BLIZZARD GAME ? NO !
    And "This game sucks big time and it's a disgrace compare to the original Diablo games from Blizzard North".
  30. ViralKillsBrain
    Jun 4, 2012
    1
    Listing everything wrong with this game would be giving it more attention than it deserves. It's a terrible game and Blizzard should be ashamed of themselves.
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Metascore
88

Generally favorable reviews - based on 86 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 81 out of 86
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 86
  3. Negative: 1 out of 86
  1. Thunderbolt
    Aug 31, 2012
    90
    My one major complaint is that the game never feels very difficult, especially on Normal. There are frustrating moments, hordes of baddies, and increasing difficulty levels, but the same feeling of utter defeat never really happens as it did in the past.
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  2. Hyper Magazine
    Jul 18, 2012
    80
    For all the game's missteps, though, you certainly can't accuse Blizzard of phoning it in - if anything, the game suffers from the tendency to try a little to hard at times to evolve the design. [Aug 2012, p.61]
  3. PC PowerPlay
    Jul 3, 2012
    80
    When it works, Diablo III is the best of the Diablo games. When it doesn't, all it does is make you mad. [July 2012, p.54]
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