
Loot - items collected while adventuring - is a key element, with players able to not only sell gear they don't need to in-game vendors, but also put it up for sale in online auctions, where other players can bid on it using virtual currency collected while playing. Players will spend most of their time engaged in brutal, bloody combat, employing a wide manner of attacks and skills to dispatch an enormous number of monsters. It is soon revealed that the world has become imperiled by the ancient and evil lord Diablo, and that you - and potentially your friends, should you choose to play the game in cooperative multiplayer - are its last hope. Players choose one of five heroes - a barbarian, mage, demon hunter, monk, or witch doctor, each with their own quick back-story - before heading out to investigate the disaster.

The action begins with series mainstay Deckard Cain, an aging scholar, seemingly killed when a fiery explosion destroys the ancient cathedral in which he is studying.

In the making for nearly a decade, the long-awaited DIABLO III is set about 20 years after events of the second game.
