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Each sub area you travel to – barring the very first from your encampment – has a portal for fast-travel back to base to offload anything you may not want to use, freeing up valuable inventory space. After that, you’ll automatically start the Lord of Destruction Act 5 with another new base camp and large map, until you reach the final confrontation with Baal. After a few areas and quests, you’ll fight the boss and then carry on from a new base camp at the start of each act, until you finally reach Diablo. Each area continues to the next, like a huge expansive map. You start out at the Rogue Encampment and it is one long journey from start to finish. You are following The Wanderer (said character from the first game) and his path of destruction always to the East.ĭiablo II: Resurrected has the same core gameplay mechanics as the 2000 release.

At the time it was great stuff (and still is) with highly addictive gameplay, and not forgetting a resolution boost to 800×600 over the original 640×480.ĭiablo, the Lord of Terror has once again risen after the events of the first game where your character absorbs Diablo’s soul at the end to try and contain his evil.

Then the Lord of Destruction expansion landed, adding Act 5 to the story in the Northern Mount Arreat/Barbarian Highlands area and two new characters the Assassin & Druid, as well as new runes, weapons and armour. Such an awesome game with many hours to play and different characters to master. I remember the original release well, and spent many hours after finishing work around 1am, playing into the early hours of the morning, often seeing daylight before heading to bed. Diablo II: Resurrected shows that Diablo II is back after 21 years!