• Player character now interacts with characters in dialogue scenes.
• Old characters like Deckard Cain return.
• Plot:
  • It has been twenty years since the events of Diablo II. Of those who faced the Lords of Hatred, Terror, and Destruction in the battle over the fate of Sanctuary, there are few still living who can bear to remember the horrors that the Prime Evils wrought upon the world. And of those who did not witness the terrible events firsthand, most believe the stories to be little more than myth. But something evil is stirring once again in Tristram, and it may already have claimed its first victim: Deckard Cain.
    (Source: Blizzard.com)

  • "In the previous two games, Diablo and his two brothers, Mephisto and Baal, were the three Prime Evils of a world called Sanctuary. Where we start off in Diablo III, it's twenty years later and the brothers are gone, they've been vanquished. Essentially everyone was kind of geared for Hell to actually invade. At the end of Lord of Destruction, the Worldstone was destroyed, it left a giant crater and everyone was expecting the hordes to come pouring out of it and nothing happened. So, Deckard Cain is one of our main characters from the first two games, he's spent the last two decades trying to find out where the last two Evils are, what they're doing and why the invasion didn't happen. A lot of the rest of the story focuses on Tyrael, the Angel of Justice, and what's happened to him since that event as he was actually the angel who destroyed the world." (Source: Kotaku)

• World Locations:
  • New Tristram
    
    • Town formed by merchants looking to make a profit off of the legends of riches found in the cathedral.
    • Fell into decrepitude after the cathedral was looted.
    • Now comprised of "depressing shacks" and the old inn.
    • Cain says that there is still value in the cathedral in the form of ancient tomes.

• Caldeum
  • Located in Kehijstan.
  • Rivals Diablo II's Kurast in size.
  • Began to decay after Kurast's nobles fled their city and took up residence in Caldeum and brought with them a sense of entitlement.
  • When the unifying Emperor of Kehjistan became ill and died, the Zakarum returned and the city fell into chaos.
• Confirmed Zone: Leoric Highlands
• Confirmed Dungeon: Forgotten Tombs

9. Screenshots and Video

• Teaser Trailer (Streaming, Download)
• 20 Minute Gameplay Video (Streaming, Download)
• Artwork Trailer (Streaming, Download)
• Barbarian Attacks (Streaming, Download)
• Witch Doctor Attacks (Streaming, Download)

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