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The [[Siegebreaker Assault Beast]] is a large and powerful [[boss]] monster in [[Diablo III]]. He was revealed in the WWI 2008 gameplay movie.
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|spells= Swipe<br>Charge<br>Trample
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}}[[Image:Mon-siegebreaker1.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Now he's a big one.]]The Siegebreaker Assault Beast is the first large boss monster revealed in [[Diablo III]] and he blows away all of [[Diablo II]]s {{iw|Act_Bosses Act Bosses}} and {{iw|Uber_Monsters Uber Monsters}} added together, by sheer mass and power. He's so large that the concept of a single character fighting him is kind of laughable. It's like a mouse taking on a large dog, except that this dog has six legs with metal spikes on the front two. Of course (On the other hand, the mouse has magical spells, armor, and weapons, so maybe it's not such a mismatch after all?)
Siegebreaker is purely a [[melee]] fighter, with an avalanche of a charging attack and a three-hit, punching attack that deals horrifying damage with the huge blades on the back of his hands. He has some sort of stomp or trample attack as well, one that tears up the earth and creates clouds of smoke from the earth in front of him.
===Fatalities===
[[Image:Mon-siegebreaker-decapitation.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Siegebreaker biting off a [[Barbarian]]'s head. A [[death|spectacular death]].]] Besides his gargantuan size and speed, the most talked about feature of Siegebreaker's appearance in the [[WWI 2008]] [[gameplay movie]] were the [[Death#Special_Death_Animations|fatalities]] he delivered to two of the four characters fighting him. The most memorable was the [[death]] of a [[Barbarian]] when Siegebreaker picked up the hero and outright bit his head off, then threw down the decapitated corpse with a howl of rage. In result of this action, Siegebreaker's jaw was covered with blood and body parts until the end of the battle. A [[Witch Doctor]] was similarly destroyed, not by a bite, but by a spike to the ground, after being picked up and howled at.
===Death Spawn===
[[Image:Mon-siegebreaker-corpse1.jpg|thumb|left|100px|Life fire dies out.]]Another interesting trick of Siegebreaker's is his death animation. He crumbles down to pieces in a very pretty way, like a decaying, hollowed volcano, but then sends out five jets of red light, which swirl around the screen for a moment before crashing to earth. Where the lights land, in the cemetery where the battle took place, great numbers of [[skeletons]] spawn. It's not clear why a giant centaur-dog beast like Siegebreaker would spawn human skeletons when he dies, but it is certainly a cool effect.
Add this section if you need to discuss Diablo II game monsters of the same name/type.
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==WWI Demo==
Siegebreaker was the star monster in the WWI (June 2008) gameplay movie, and while Siegebreaker will be found in the final version of Diablo III, it's unlikely that the plot build up to his appearance, or the cemetery location for the final battle, will be present in the final game. The dungeon and other locations seen in the June 2008 WWI gameplay movie were created specially for that demo as part of Diablo III's debut, and are not necessarily indicative of the quests and events in the final game.
Prior to his charging battle appearance at the end of the demo, Siegebreaker is seen inside the dungeon that the Barbarian explores. During that opening segment of the demo, an NPC soldier is yanked through a wall by Siegebreaker's hand, and there are several moments when the ground shakes and rocks crumble and fall when Siegebreaker stomps past, just seen in the distance. These quest elements excited fans, but as with the other demo content, it should be remembered that these elements were created just for the demo, and may not be seen in the final game.
===Behind the Scenes===
Diablo III Community Manager [[Bashiok]] commented on the creation of the video demo in a forum post in April 2009. [http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=16102301213&postId=161359213803&sid=3000#5]
::t is indeed the siegebreaker's giant hand that grabs him. It was an extremely difficult and trying shot to create and capture. The way the interior and exterior sections were set up and shot it made it necessary to capture them uncut.
::The hand shot just wasn't working that well, so we'd tweak it, hope that the physics would move the debris properly. Shoot, it didn't work right. Tweak it again, reshoot the entire interior run, something else might go wrong, etc. Over and over. In the end we had to settle with what would appear to most as a wall collapse simply because we didn't have time before the announcement to keep tweaking it and reshooting everything to make it more clear that it was a hand busting through the wall and grabbing him. Especially when the one we went with had some very perfect moments in it (zombie corpse landing on railing).
::I'm glad that someone caught it though, a lot of work went into those animations, and unfortunately we just ran out of time to showcase them.
