![]() ![]() The entire simulation, the engine for this game, that lifeblood of this game, is right underneath. It’s right there, underneath the surface. ![]() “We’re not reverse-engineering it we’re not rebuilding it and trying to make it look and sound like. “This isn’t a remake,” Rod Fergusson, executive producer of the Diablo franchise at Blizzard Entertainment, told Polygon in a recent interview. In 2021, the original looks like something Minecraft vomited up - a murky smear of pixels and jerky motion. The fact that Diablo 2 suddenly looks like a modern game released in 2021 isn’t a missed opportunity it’s a gosh-danged miracle.ĭiablo 2, in 2000 and in my memory, was a gritty, violent take on loot-based adventure games. Frankly, the whole thing felt like a bit of a rip-off.īut then I hit the button that lets me hot-swap from the updated graphics to the original, and my jaw dropped. The game plays the way that I remembered it, and at first, I also thought it looked the same. I’ve been playing the technical alpha of Diablo 2: Resurrected to get a sense of how the game is coming along, and what I’ve seen after only a few hours makes me hopeful for the full release.ĭiablo 2: Resurrected is another one of those Blizzard games in which the remaster is kept as close to the original as possible, while updating the look of the characters and environment. ![]() Not how it was, but how you remembered it When done correctly, that sort of rerelease always feels like a magic trick. Everything about the game’s graphics has been updated and improved, without touching the soul of the experience itself. I have no idea why they’re expecting me to pay for it again. Yep, this is the game I loved back in the day. Diablo 2: Resurrected also looks similar to other hack n’ slash games available today, so my 2021 brain just accepted things at face value. I didn’t think these games looked like murky, blocky messes when I originally played them, because they looked similar to every other game on the market at the time. I’ve experienced this effect before, most recently when playing Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2. I wasn’t surprised because it looked so good I was surprised because it looked exactly as I remembered it. Diablo 2: Resurrected shocked me in the opening minutes of play. ![]()
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