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Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred review - a spirited expansion pack in the classic Blizzard style

The Eurogamer review of first Diablo 4 expansion Vessel of Hatred. This is a charming, polished upgrade that puts its claws into you.

Blizzard in particular was famous for what we'd now call "post-launch DLC", updating the likes of StarCraft, Warcraft and Diablo with incredible upgrades that extended beloved storylines while adding on much-needed polish and complexity for players in love with their games. To my intense joy, Vessel of Hatred is very much a Blizzard expansion pack in that classic mould, continuing the cliff-hanger ending of Diablo 4, adding on a wickedly fun new character class and cleaning up some of the cruft that had accumulated over five seasons of play. Attribution Unlike the original game, I never found myself dying in what I perceived to be an "unfair" way - there are still matyrdom-from-Call-of-Duty-style explosions, blobs of fire or poision that can wipe out your health in an instant, but they're well telegraphed and are only a real issue in extremely confined spaces.

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