Kotaku has a great rundown of how the classes are shaping up. The beta itself covers the first eight levels of the game-which apparently can be completed in around an hour if you rush-and lets players use each of the game's five different classes. But the cost of these online features is that the game will always have to be online in order to be playable. As Eurogamer reported, the game will save your characters in the cloud and utilizes a banner system to display your in-game exploits and experience. According to reports, the game is as deep and polished as we've come to expect from Blizzard, though it doesn't come without a few hang-ups.Ĭhief among said hangups is the fact that the game can't be played offline. Blizzard is expected to release a beta of Diablo 3 later this year, but a group of journalists were recently invited to the developer's California headquarters to get an early look at what the rest of us will be playing.
