![]() The Pandemonium fortress and surrounding areas return from Diablo II and looks more than suited to serve as the home base of the evil Malthael. The Blood Marsh is a harsh swamp with suitably disgusting-looking creatures. Westmarch’s streets are littered with corpses, burning ruins and possessions that were left behind by the population who tried to escape the reaper invasion. The new areas in Reaper of Souls are outstanding examples of Blizzard’s attention to detail. Reaper of Souls’ story picks up some time after the main adventure from Diablo III ends and follows the player character’s quest to defeat the angel of death, Malthael, and his evil plan to absorb the souls of all living beings by using the black soulstone which the player used to trap Diablo at the end of the base game. The Loot 2.0 system has greatly increased the chances of dropping epic loot, so expect to see many more Legendary items than you may have if you played Diablo 3 back at launch. One can’t review Reaper of Souls without first looking at the massive changes brought to the loot system by the “Loot 2.0” update: I replaced almost all of my Demon Hunter’s gear within the first 30 minutes of fighting through the new content. It changes so many aspects of the base game for the better: Difficulty levels work in an entirely different way, the paragon system (introduced not long after Diablo 3’s launch) now applies to every character on your account instead of on a per-character basis and last but not least, the real money auction house is gone. The game still relies on the server-architecture introduced in the base game: lag spikes are frequently an issue and no offline play is available.ĭiablo III: Reaper of Souls, along with the numerous free updates which were rolled out before release, is exactly what long time Diablo fans have been waiting for.New Crusader class offers yet another way to play the game.New Loot 2.0 system makes the quest for epic loot so much more rewarding.Free pre-expansion patch (free to all owners of Diablo III) improved the game a great deal. ![]() Good soundtrack that suits the mood of the game well.Continues the already great story of Diablo III.If we had to give it a numerical score: 9.0/10 Diablo III: Reaper of Souls is everything an expansion should be and has, in combination with the free game updates, made Diablo III a much, much better game than it was two years ago.Īlso available on: PS4 (TBD 2014) and Xbox One (TBC) I hated Diablo III at launch, but I’ve fallen in love with Reaper of Souls. ![]()
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