Diablo IV
Blizzard Entertainment ➜ PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PC ➜ £70
Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo games started life in 1997 and have remained at the pinnacle of the isometric dungeon crawling genre ever since, no matter how many clones have come and gone in the meantime. Now Diablo IV has arrived and it's superb – alesson in gameplay over gimmicks and, in some respects, fancy graphics.
That's not to say it's not pretty (in a gloomy and dark way), but everything great about the Diablo franchise is in effect. You get to play as one of several character classes – barbarian, sorcerer, druid, rogue, etc – but never really get that close to them visually. Instead, like its original inspiration, Gauntlet, you control them from afar,…