After playing through Diablo, we looked at D2 and tried to figure out what we did right there. The game continued with the horror vibe, but it expanded the universe. D1 was about Tristram, and took place in a very limited area. D2 opened that up into a grander world. It explored lots of areas in the universe, and that's what we wanted to push in d3.

An interesting thing we found in D1 and D2, from an art standpoint, was that our memory was different than actuality. Visually speaking we remembered very dark and colorless games. Playing through though, we discovered a lot of vibrancy and creatures and environments, and we wanted to expand on that in d3. To embrace the core values of the franchise, and still move forward.