Nor is the story likely to keep you pushing through. There’s a level of strategy involved, but it’s no Dark Souls. The only skills involved are in working out which of your currently equipped skills or attacks is likely to be most effective against the current crop of monsters, making sure you maintain your health and avoiding the heaviest of incoming attacks if you can. Diablo III is full of beautiful scenery and superbly-designed monsters, but there really is very, very little to do except make your way around each maze-like area, battering everything that moves and a few things that look like they might move if you took your eye off them for a second. Why? Well, it’s not the exploration or the combat. This remains one of the most addictive games ever made. And by this point, of course, Diablo III will have you in its grip. Played the PC version? For the first half hour of play the console interface might feel strange, but within an hour or two it’s second nature, and after three or four hours you’ll forget that you ever used a mouse. Even the D-Pad gets a look in, cycling through new loot so you can decide what to keep, what to equip and what to drop.
A quick tap of the touch panel summons the Inventory and character screens, while the bumpers take you left and right through pages for managing inventory, skills, followers and quests. Squeeze R2 or hold a pertinent face button and you’ll keep smacking away with the relevant attack until your enemy is out cold. Flick the right stick in any direction and your hero rolls or backsteps out of harm’s way.
You can move your hero with the left analogue stick, firing off attacks and spells, ranged weapons and protective moves with the face buttons, bumpers and triggers. With the DualShock 4 in hand, gone are the days of endless clicking. You might find some areas, like selecting skills or managing inventory, where the PC version still comes up trumps, but the biggest surprise of playing this Ultimate Edition is that the PS4 now feels like Diablo’s natural home (the same almost certainly holds true for Xbox One, but we haven’t had that version to check). This is all of Diablo III, with two years’ worth of patches and changes rolled in, plus the additional content and enhancements from the Reaper of Souls expansion, all dolled up with console-friendly controls and matching interface tweaks. It seems like heresy to describe this as the definitive version of Diablo III but – hey – let’s just say it anyway. Available on Xbox One, PS4 (version tested), Xbox 360, PS3
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