Mark Built Diablo 2 as a First-Person Game in Unreal Engine 5

Mark of I Make Games, chose to rebuild Diablo 2 from the ground up in Unreal Engine 5, but with one major difference: the entire game is played in first person. A clean heads-up display lies at the bottom of the screen, displaying your current location, an experience bar that ticks upward as you fight monsters, skill slots, glowing potion icons, and a stamina meter that drains anytime you push yourself too far.

Mark has been adding spells to the mix as well, with Fireball letting you watch the projectile arc through the air and detonate on impact, and Teleport doing exactly what it sounds like, making your character vanish and reappear somewhere else in the blink of an eye.

There’s also sliding, which allows you to glide down slopes or across slippery floors to maintain speed, because you never know when you’ll need to escape quickly. Climbing allows you to scale narrow ledges or sneak into concealed routes, which is ideal for continued exploration. Meanwhile, dismemberment is already at work on the evil guys, so when you smack them hard enough, their pitiful limbs just fly off.

Teleport, of course, allows you to simply walk through walls for a variety of nefarious purposes, and then there’s Whirlwind, the hapless barbarian spinning around in circles with blades out, mowing down all comers. Lightning is the other new ability, which fires bolts back and forth between targets with impressive visual effects to keep you on your toes. Both were slightly tweaked to ensure proper timing. Mark does use a few pre-made character meshes to save time, but for everything else, he browses the Unreal Marketplace like a kid in a candy store.

During testing, you can switch the camera to third person for a brief look, but Mark prefers to maintain the focus on the first-person experience. Visual effects will have to wait till things are a little more established. As it stands, Mark is only adding new regions and powers to his channel one at a time, creating a gradual but constant trickle of advancement, and the followers are already getting antsy; who knows, maybe one day they’ll get to check it out for themselves.
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