Blizzard is putting together the latest Diablo game, and we were given six minutes of gameplay recently The company took to their blog and posted videos exploring the world of Diablo 4, and it looks like it'll be an excellent follow-up to the previous Diablo games. The game looks like a "return to darkness" with its grim graphics. The game's art director Chris Ryder explains in the blog post how Sanctuary is "a dangerous and dark medieval gothic world."
Blizzard revealed that it aims for a dark and oppressive game with crisp, clean graphics. Associate art director Brian Fletcher talked about how there will be over 150 dungeons that all have their own identity.
"In order to support over 150+ dungeons, we've had to shift the way we make environment art so that it's flexible enough to be used in multiple locations and not just in a single dungeon," Fletcher says – and the way the team is going about making sure the new environments are made to support that certainly sounds interesting.
"New dungeon features such as seamless floor transitions or traversals are exciting, but my favorite new feature is what we call tile-set transition scenes: these are scenes that allow us to connect two different tile-sets together in the same dungeon. Imagine running through a crypt, only to find a hole in the wall that seamlessly leads you deeper into a vast underground cave network. All while keeping the randomized layouts that change with each dungeon run."
Both Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 were announced back in November of 2019 during BlizzCon, but neither has a release date. Activision Blizzard has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons because of allegations of a toxic and sexist workplace. Microsoft agreed to acquire Activision for $68.7billion earlier this year.
VG247 took the time to put all gameplay videos together for better viewing. Check it out below:
