Many players prefer it to repeated runs through the game's rather long-winded campaign, and Stilwell said that Blizzard expects many people buying the game on Switch to be seasoned Diablo 3 players who would rather skip the storyline - a reasonable bet at this late stage in the game's life (it was first released in May 2012). Adventure Mode is the free-form, fast-paced and extremely moreish playstyle, structured around quick-fire bounty quests, that was introduced in Reaper of Souls.

More significantly, the Switch version of Diablo 3 will for the first time allow players to dive straight into Adventure Mode without completing a campaign playthrough first.

The Ganondorf armour set as it appears on a Barbarian. There's a cosmetic 'transmog' armour set modelled on Zelda villain Ganondorf, a cucco (chicken) pet, a Triforce portrait frame and a set of wings for your characters to wear. It has every feature of the existing console versions, which themselves are very close in feature set to the PC version of the game, although they play a little differently.Īs is becoming customary, Switch owners get a little extra Nintendo fan-service, too - Legend of Zelda-flavoured, in this case. Diablo 3 for Switch will be a port of the recently released Eternal Collection edition, which includes both the Reaper of Souls and Rise of the Necromancer expansions. The news was shared with press this week under an embargo which was broken by one outlet yesterday, though we can now reveal some additional details - and we'll be able to bring you hands-on impressions from Gamescom next week.Īs per the leak, this full-featured port includes all expansion content to date, as well as several Switch-exclusive bonus items, and the release date is 'tentatively fall this year', according to senior producer Pete Stilwell. Blizzard has confirmed that it is bringing Diablo 3 to Nintendo Switch, as Eurogamer reported earlier this year.

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