Are they a player who remembers the game from childhood and wants to revisit it, a die-hard fan who never stopped playing, or a fan who fell in love with the franchise with Diablo 3 and are looking to experience the prior installment for the first time? That final group may have the most interesting (and possibly frustrating) experience with the core Diablo gameplay loop, but with far less direction and a much steeper initial difficulty curve than in Diablo 3. The level of entertainment that Diablo 2: Resurrected will provide largely depends on how gamers are approaching the title. It's purely optional but still impressive. The one-button toggle between legacy and remastered graphics is far more entertaining than it ought to be and quickly swapping back and forth to see how a tree or the wall of a dungeon originally looked makes every session a fascinating look at how graphics have changed in the last two decades.

The ability to quickly toggle between the updated and legacy version of Diablo 2 is the game’s strongest feature. RELATED: Diablo 2: Resurrected - How to Use Cairn Stones That being said, all of the gameplay quality of life improvements can easily be toggled off for players who prefer an experience that more closely matches the original. Most quality of life upgrades in Diablo 2: Resurrected stick to improving the convenience of online and co-op play, although there is also an auto gold pickup option that is turned on by default. The remaster of the 2000 title follows more in the vein of WoW Classic than the Warcraft 3 Reforged approach by attempting to deliver an almost identical experience to the original with only visual upgrades and a few minor quality of life improvements that stop short of making the game any easier or harder. Some massive changes were made to the franchise gameplay loop and baseline difficulty level with the 2012 follow up ( Diablo 3 and its post launch content), but fans of the original experience are getting a major visual and auditory upgrade with the launch of Diablo 2: Resurrected.

It’s been twenty years since Diablo 2 launched and, like many classic Blizzard titles, the game still boasts a massive fanbase and an incredibly loyal community.

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