Diablo 3 Beta Weekend!

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So as of yesterday afternoon, Blizzard has allowed the world to download and install Diablo 3 Beta.

My screen capture on my iMac. Took 1.5hrs to download.

I ended up playing last night with a couple of friends via Battle.net. I can say this game is already just as fun and addicting as Diablo and Diablo 2! I played as the Monk character for four hours straight and didn't really realize it. I can see why they put the actual time in the top-right corner of the HUD within the game!

So if I were to give a quick review of this, I'd say it in point form.

• It feels nearly identical to the previous Diablo games
• Because I'm running this on a five-year-old iMac, all the settings are set to low, so graphics-wise... I looks like the old Diablo games! But, with this type of game style, it's not graphics one should care about. 
• You literally feel like you walked into a sequel. Everything felt natural - and that's after not playing the game for nearly 10 years.
• I've only tried the Monk class, but two friends were with me - one with the Demon Hunter, and the other a Barbarian. From what I've seen of the three, I think the Monk is the coolest - so far. All that can change with higher levels. The highest level I went up to before beating the beta was 11.