As the name states, you’ll be playing as a master of the dead, and thus you’ll have a lot of grim magic at your disposal, ranging from summoning skeleton soldiers, mages and golems, to casting curses, blood spells and bone magic, to make sure the hordes of monsters meet their end in the most gruesome way possible.

We were eager to revisit and try out the newly revamped necromancer.Īs mentioned in the lengthy introduction, this review will mostly be handling the new character class in Diablo III, namely the Necromancer. This time we get another blast from the past, namely the Necromancer has returned to the barren lands which have once again been affected by Diablo’s evil presence.

Of course, this doesn’t mean that Diablo III isn’t a great game, it was just different for many, and with the introduction of the Crusader, a lot more gear and more endgame content, it seemed that the developers were on track of recreating the feeling of nostalgia. Before long, it was clear that many Diablo II players longed back to the PvP, the 8 player games and the characters from the second game, and while Blizzard did their best to recreate the feeling of the Diablo universe, it fell short pleasing said fan base.

With the release of Diablo III, it felt as if the Witch Doctor had to serve as a replacement for the skeleton summoning spell-caster that we came to love in Diablo II. The heroes in the Diablo series haven’t always been your average run of the mill, but when Diablo II introduced the Necromancer, a character that is often depicted as an evil entity, it pretty much shook up the basic notion we had of a hero.

Diablo 3 review 2017