Sane Trilogy and the note-perfect Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 remake. In recent years it's focussed almost exclusively on next-and-current-gen remakes, bringing together the delightful Crash Bandicoot N. It has long-standing pedigree for remaking and reworking existing games, dating back to the magic it worked bringing the likes of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skateboarding and Jet Set Radio to the Game Boy Advance. While the reduced autonomy of a once-powerhouse studio like Blizzard’s seems troubling, the newly-merged Vicarious Visions may be the perfect team for the job. Now, with Team 1 gone, Activision has brought in its former subsidiary Vicarious Visions, merging it with the development operations of Blizzard, and ( as we reported last year) apparently tasking it with taking on the Diablo 2 mantle. Instead, it disbanded Team 1 (which had already been pulled off ongoing StarCraft 2 development, and had seen its hero-shooter Heroes of the Storm fade to obscurity). Team 1 had been tasked also with reviving Diablo 2, but a Bloomberg report suggests that Blizzard’s owners Activision got cold feet following Warcraft 3: Reforged’s reception. It currently sits among the worst user-rated games on score aggregator MetaCritic. But its release in 2020 was not well received, with missing features and problematic terms and conditions putting off what should have been a thriving map-making and modding community. Blizzard’s ‘Team 1’ development team had been working on the real-time strategy remaster, another beloved game.
To understand why the announcement took so long, we first need to discuss another Blizzard remake – Warcraft 3: Reforged. However, BlizzCon 2021 finally confirmed the game is coming this year, and that Diablo 2: Resurrected will be available on every platform you could hope for. Rumors of a Diablo 2 remaster have been circulating for years – many hoped that it would coincide with the games 20th anniversary in 2020, but that came and went with Blizzard focusing on Diablo 4 and the Diablo: Immortal mobile game instead.
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