
Set shortly after the events of Diablo, the player controls a new hero, attempting to stop the destruction unleashed by Diablo's return. The game was developed over a three-year period, with a crunch time of a year and a half. The producers were Matthew Householder and Bill Roper. The game, with its dark fantasy and horror themes, was conceptualized and designed by David Brevik and Erich Schaefer, who, with Max Schaefer, acted as project leads on the game. It requires a copy of Diablo 2: Lords Of Destruction to play.Diablo II is an action role-playing hack-and-slash video game developed by Blizzard North and published by Blizzard Entertainment in 2000 for Microsoft Windows, Classic Mac OS, and macOS. You can download Median XL for free via a downloader on its official site. If you're new to Diablo 2, I'd still say you should start with the base game, but Median XL is ideal for anyone already experienced.ĭiablo 2 Resurrected is promising its own revamp of the classic hack-and-slasher this September, but if you don't want to give Blizzard any money until they treat and protect their staff better, then Median XL 2.0 is coming at the right time. Next month, version 2.0 will bring a lot more extra content and tweaks to accomodate modern computers, but features like worldwide multiplayer are already popular in 1.8.0. Over ten years, Median XL has been further expanded and refined, and if you haven't played it before then the currently available version 1.8.0 is worth trying out right away. For a lot of other people, Median XL succeeds where Diablo 3 fails, by vastly expanding its character skill trees and loot while remaining within the original spirit of the series. You can find the trailer below ahead of its August 27th release.įor a lot of people - Alice Bell included - Diablo 2 remains the peak of action RPGs.


A trailer was released last night for Sigma 2.0, the mod's "largest engine and content patch." It'll bring new skills, progression changes, endgame content, and quality-of-life features including a revamped UI, colour blind mode, and 4K rescaling. Median XL is one of the oldest and most popular mods for Diablo 2 - and it's still being updated.
