In the past, Blizzard Responsible did not have proven a golden hands when it came to making their old gaming milestones accessible to the old fans and a new generation of players in a revised version. The first Diablo is only available as a retro event in Diablo 3, for Starcraft Remastered, the developers only made the necessary and also Warcraft 3: reforgan was a shot in the oven because the finished product hardly do something with the major lane promises of the company had (and you could not play the original simultaneously).
With Diablo 2: Resurrected, Blizzard wanted to make it better, and was looking for an experienced partner for the implementation of the new edition: at Vicarious Visions were shortly before the successful Remastered versions of Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Tony Hawk s Pro Skater 1 + 2 developed. But the coup succeeds? Can Diablo 2: Resurrected capture the fascination of the original and yet exist next to modern action role-players? We have played all the file of the new edition, offline and online mode tried and tell you!
Graphically the perfect Remaster
Diablo 2: Resurrected is a Remaster and no remake such as Final Fantasy VII from 2020. So you expect a new edition with a more modern technical scaffolding, which is hardly different in terms of gameplay but hardly different from the original. What differences there are and how we evaluate these, we will come later. However, we devote ourselves to the graphical surface, because here the developer succeeds remarkable: The look of D2R acts modern, detailed and effective. How much has actually done, can be easily detected at any time with a push of a button when we switch between the graph of the original and the new robe back and forth.
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It becomes even more impressive when we use the new zoom function and approach very close to our character. The degree of detail of the models and environments is enormous. At the same time remain the gloomy atmosphere and mood of Diablo 2. Who Diablo 3 was too colorful, who is likely to be happy here. There s a thumb up from us also for the modernized Cutscenes, with which Blizzard promotes between the files the story, told the prologue and leaving the final. Within the game we expect the well-known set of dialogues that most players - as at that time - probably already skip the first run.
Offline or Online
Blizzard has also revised the technical foundation of Diablo 2: Resurrected. Also makes sense, after all, a lot has also been done at the good old Battle.net in the last 20 years. One of the advantages of the new technique: You can also play Diablo 2 resurrected on the various consoles, the controller control works comparably good as with Diablo 3 and offers even small advantages in the activation of skills compared to the PC variant with keyboard and mouse. Or when inventory management. And if your D2R has on different versions, your characters and their progress are equally available everywhere.
You have to do without the TCP / IP support and thus also on the wealth of modifications that make the original gambling value until today. As a reason, Blizzard calls the security issues of the interface that can not just be so drop. After all, your values for offline characters, items and opponents can be customized directly into the installation files, or use the memory states of your old Diablo-2 stretch for offline mode. Diablo 2 resurrected in the test: Clean entire screens with the traps of the Assassine, just mood. Source: time Apropos: At that time, the menu structure of Diablo 2 fell quite confused. There were the options Single Players, Battle.net, Gateway: Battle.net and Multiplayer 2. This somewhat confuse structure the developers have tidy with D2R. You only choose between offline and online, where you can easily play online simply alone. In addition, you can choose if you want to play a hardcore character with just a life or just the basic game without the extension Lord of Destruction. If you prefer to go to the Item Hatz in company, finds potential comrades, groups and trading partners in the lobby. So at least on the PC. On consoles, your friends list uses your friends list or automated group search, where you can use all sorts of filters to find the right teammates. Optimal the latter is not.
Browned Launch
As well as the Technical Scaffolding of D2R basically pleases, so serious were the problems with the launch and beyond. Partly characters disappeared simply, partly the progress relied back or there were crashes and login problems. The developers worked with high pressure to fix the worst problems, but even after several maintenance work as well as hotfix packages continue to achieve messages that players do not have access to all their characters because they should already be logged in.
The author of these lines was lucky, certainly, too, because he was on the first few days only in offline mode to test the file in a timely manner, which were not available in the course of the beta. Rough bugs that have a negative impact on the fun, he could not discover away from some Ki Schnitzer. On the contrary, even a bug was resolved, which gave it in Diablo 2 to the last - we think about the traps bug of the Assassine, which made it that fewer boss groups are in the current area, if you shortly after the Accession of the area makes a trap on the ground.
Fall out of time ...
Now enough with the trumber: how much fun Diablo 2 in 2021 does? The answer to this question is not so easy to answer. If we only look at the entrance and hide a little the joy we had with the beautiful graphics (with comparable Diablo-2 atmosphere), then a hack & slay representative remains left, which comes very slowly into the corridors and with All sorts of mechanics and conditions annoys. For example, you can activate capabilities on the PC until you manually assign them one of the two mouse buttons. You may define short buttons for the skills, but you only switch to the function of the mouse buttons. All the die-hard Diablo-2 fans has long been in meat and blood to make these additional clicks. Neuties, which were spoiled by the control systems of modern action RPGs, are likely to act in the zeal of the battle quickly the wrong skills or accidentally set up a city portal instead of driving out an attack. Diablo 2 resurrected in the test: After a while, you automatically scans such loot masses automatically after the most important finds. Source: time city portals, however, deliberately consciously summon you at the beginning of your adventure. The inventory is far too small, at the same time there is genre-typical booty in abundance. In addition, many consumables, jewels and runes can not be stacked, and that the enchantments that grant you permanent bonuses will eventually take away a lot of space. The famous flight from Lote and Levels is in Diablo 2 at first no one, because you always have to engage in a forced break in order to sell in the local dealer Kram (or to increase mana and healing drinks).
And even the endurance mechanics initially broke out quite well. Each Diablo-2 fighter can sprint, but he consumes so endurance. If this is completely used up, it goes into the tough stream mode and it takes a few seconds until the endurance is refreshing. Experienced players therefore pack endurance fixing into the inventory as soon as they deserve the first gold pieces. Who does not do that, annoys about the tough game flow, especially if you leave long distances again through already cleaned areas.
... or timeless classic?
However, many of these criticisms play no role in the later course of adventure, for example, because they then have enough endurance for continuous profit and land only particularly valuable bags in your inventory. At the same time Diablo 2 resurrected plays over time and better the strengths of the original, which were groundbreaking at that time. Let s just take the character progression. Each of the seven available classes each has three different talent trees that enable very different game styles. In every talent, whether active ability or passive bonus, can be packed up to 20 points. In addition, the synergies come between the talents or the resistance of the opponents, which also make hybrid builds make sense (so that they are caused by fire, for example, lightning damage). Diablo 2 Resurrected in Test: The first of many Baal Runs. There are memories high! Source: time The choice of talents is essential for every player, as they do not just influence the style of play, but because there are in addition to strong also weak builds that see no country on the higher levels of difficulty nightmare and hell. It does not help to sign up that the possibility of carbillows is only limited.
Of course, this is not a problem for the many Diablo-2 connoisseurs. They probably have bothered months ago, whether they want to play a Javazon, a Hammerdin, a Poison-Necro or an ICORBORC first, which specializations then follow and with what class you build a magicfind build for farms.
Diablo 2 Resurrected in Test: Diablo 2 Resurrected you can not only buy for different platforms: PC, XBox, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch. Blizzard also provides several editions for purchase. Source: Blizzard The character progression is of course not only defined by the talent tree, the steps and attribute gains. The focus is also on the equipment of the hero, and then like today it is simply a comfortable feeling when a deemed enemy falls a green set part or a unique praise piece, one picks up a valuable rune from the ground or a gray item with the desired one Socket figure finds. From exactly such an object that looks a little spectacular at first glance, with a rune word a powerful armor or weapon to conjure up, that already has something.
And exactly when it comes to this hunt for the best possible items, Diablo 2 still unfolds the well-known only one run enthusiasts in 2021. Only a visit to Diablo, visit a visit to Baal or clean the iconic cowlevel - best with seven other players, which increases the level of difficulty, but also the experience point yield. And in the end then the ultimate challenge will survive in Uber-Tristram and earn a hellfire torch, or reach level 99 with all classes. Game goals are definitely given to the story campaign.
Adjustments in detail
Incidentally, the developers have made smaller adjustments in order to increase comfort or easier to play without torping the feeling of then. For example, in the resurrected character window, we learn more about our heroes, the warehouse box is significantly larger and has been extended by rider to which each character of the account has access. You can link skills in the chat and use objects, rune words and dice recipes in the normal game, which there was only in the so-called ladder area (today one would say seasons). Oh, and if you drive over gold, you already collect the currency without having to click extra. This saves a lot of clicking! Diablo 2 Resurrected in the test: The storage box of D2R offers you much more space than in the original. Source: time In addition, you no longer fear that inactive characters will eventually be easily deleted or that you achieve a maximum upper limit for the creation of game sessions. All these are meaningful adjustments, but we would like (at least as an option) even more comfort and modern. The range for automatic collection of gold could be greater. In addition, stackable runes and gemstones as well as an extra area for enchantment would relieve the arg little inventory. And also an automatic sorting function as on console would be worth gold. If only we are likely to wish one thing, but that would be a contemporary capability bar, which we can directly activate all the skills of our hero.
That brings the future
The good news: The D2R team is already thinking about which improvements and other content could be implemented during the coming months and years. In a survey, among other things, they also counted on our requested wishes in order to ask what the community would hold their implementation. However, there were also additional options for encryboes, timer for strengthening effects, an Ingame recipe book for the Horadrim cube or completely new content such as recipes, objects, rune words and spells. Even an adaptation of the class balancing is in the room. All these or some of these things could then be active only for a ladder season, because one is already certain: Blizzard wants to bring back the ladder and tie us players long-term at Diablo 2 Resurrected, similar to the original and at Diablo 3.
A masterpiece with ages
If we bring all the pros and cons under a hat, will hopefully clear to you: Diablo 2 resurrected captures the fascination of the original from 2000 incredibly well and can inspire in the best moments as well as then. At the same time Diablo 2 is of course also a product of his time. What was comfortable or groundbreaking then, it is no longer today. In fact, the genre has hardly changed at the core gameplay loop in the last 20 years. However, many modern genre representatives master the entry into the entry. The flow and the pace is higher there. In other areas, Diablo 2 resur rated can still keep up with the competition today: keyword: Character progression.
Diablo 2 resurrected in the test: rating and opinion
Diablo 2 resurrected (PC)
Pro Contra
Graphically a great Remaster Great character progression Very high playback value Meaningful changes in the small Variety of exciting builds
Grown launch Zough entry Some old-baked systems / mechanics No TCP / IP support
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