Baal to destroy world next week
Diablo II add-on set for June 29th release
A year after the successful launch of Diablo II, Vivendi Universal Interactive Publishing has just announced that Blizzard's add-on pack for the game, Lord of Destruction, has now gone gold and will be shipping worldwide on June 29th. Thanks to the massive popularity of the Diablo series in Europe and Asia, the game will be available simultaneously all around the world in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Klingon. Ok, we made that last one up. A Macintosh version of the pack will also be available, but only in English and Japanese. I guess the Pole's just don't think differently enough.
Lord of Destruction will add new skills, spells, weapons, equipment, character classes and monsters to Diablo II, as well as featuring an entirely new single player episode. This will take you to the barbarian highlands of the north to fight the evil lord Baal, who is trying to corrupt the Worldstone that "protects the whole of the mortal plane from the forces of Hell". Which is obviously not a good thing. Throw in higher resolution graphics, increased inventory space and other improvements and the add-on is sure to be a big hit, building on the four million copies Diablo II has already sold worldwide.