Advantages: Familiar Diablo Setting, (readying for no#3?) Great Writing, Amazing Atmosphere. Disadvantages: Not an Exciting Plot (becoming Game Cannon), Story Unpolished in Places.
I have a confession to make… I’m rather the Diablo junkie, which possibly explains why I read this officially sanctioned book set in the computer game world of “Sanctuary” on the day it was released; and possibly also why I’m so confused it wasn’t reviewed by someone way back then. ;>
But perhaps my confusion at the lack of Ciao-publicity this book received is more understandable when you consider the context? The most recent instalment of the Diablo ... ...year rumours have begun to circulate very thickly about the holy grail of “Diablo 3“.
Adding fuel to the chaotic inferno of player-passion, the author recently commented in a webchat that what he was writing would become Sanctuary “cannon” and that he wasn’t writing for a “dead game”. This book then, seems like a publicity exercise by Blizzard to incite naturally edgy players into a frenzy of sleepless nights…
As stories go, “Scales of the Serpent” ...
dragonhelmuk 23.04.2007
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