Immortal’s artwork has the same richly colored, golden glow, the combat is the same intoxicating firework display, and the clang and splatter of the sound effects offer the same deep, Pavlovian satisfaction.

Beyond that, Immortal has clearly been built on the Diablo 3 engine and uses that game’s assets, retaining the feel and atmosphere of Blizzard’s 2012 game. The series’ trademark isometric perspective, frantic combat with swarms of monsters, and fountains of loot are all present.

On the other hand, for any Diablo player - particularly any Diablo 3 player - Diablo Immortal will feel comfortingly familiar. These are all huge sea changes for Diablo. It is co-developed with a Chinese company, NetEase, and, more than any Blizzard game before it, it has been made with an eye on Asian markets. It’s a massively multiplayer online game with a shared world, where you see other players running around. Several new contexts, actually: It’s designed primarily for mobile devices with touchscreen controls. In their way, both these ratings are right.ĭiablo Immortal is not just a new entry in Blizzard’s storied action role-playing game series, it frames Diablo in a new context. “Finally, a mobile game done right!” comments one user. On Apple’s App Store, however, Diablo Immortal has a rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars. “Disgustingly designed,” reads one typical comment. A month after it launched, Diablo Immortal has among the lowest Metacritic user review scores of all time: 0.4 on iOS and 0.3 on PC.

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