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Diablo III is a dark fantasy/horror-themed action game by Blizzard Entertainment, the third installment in the Diablo franchise. The game, which features elements of the hack and slash and dungeon crawl genres, was released in North America, Latin America and Europe on May 15, 2012 and is scheduled to be released in Russia on June 7, 2012. Before its release, the game broke several presale records and became the most pre-ordered PC game of all time on Amazon.com.. Diablo III subsequently set the new all-time record for fastest-selling PC game by selling over 3.5 million copies in the first 24 hours of its release.
The game takes place in Sanctuary, the dark fantasy world of the Diablo series, twenty years after the events of Diablo II. Deckard Cain and his niece Leah are in the Tristram Cathedral investigating ancient texts regarding an ominous prophecy. Suddenly, a mysterious star falling from the sky strikes the Cathedral, creating a deep crater into which Deckard Cain disappears.
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Leah: [Leah stands at the Diamond Gates of Heaven] Even in the heart of Heaven, angels... can still feel fear.::Imperius: [Imperius calls on his spear and leaps down to the entrance] My old enemy. You cannot hide from me, no matter what form you choose to wear. Let your true self be revealed... Diablo!::Diablo: [Imperius blasts Leah with his spear, causing her form to change... into one more monstrous] Our long war ends TODAY, Imperius!::Diablo: [Imperius charges in, and is tail-swiped by Diablo; his spear is destroyed, and Imperius stabbed through the stomach with a spike on Diablo's wrist] Take one last look at your shining Heaven, Imperius. For soon, nothing of it shall remain... but MY laughter!
Leah: [Leah helps lay her uncle, Deckard Cain, to rest outside Tristram; she places a book on his chest] It was all just stories... my uncle saw what he wanted to see.::Tyrael: Deckard sacrificed much to protect this world, but his work is not over.::Leah: What would YOU know about sacrifice?::Imperius: [In reply, Tyrael grasps her arm gently - showing her a vision of himself as an angel, before the Angiris Council] Tyrael, the ancient law of the High Heavens strictly forbids us from interfering from the mortal world... yet YOU have done so! Brazenly!::Tyrael: All I am guilty of, Imperius, is bringing Justice - while you hide, cowering, behind your throne!::Imperius: SILENCE! [Imperius leaps from his platform, his spear appearing in his hand, as he grasps Tyrael and lifts him from the floor] You will now answer for your transgressions!::Tyrael: [Tyrael and Imperius wrestle across the Council chamber, until Tyrael stands over Imperius, spear in hand] You cannot judge me! I am Justice itself! We were meant for more than this - to protect the innocent! But if our precious laws bind you all to inaction... then I will no longer stand as your brother!::Leah: [Tyrael slams the speartip into the floor of the chamber, causing Leah - seeing the vision - to fall to her knees] You CHOSE... to be one of us!::Imperius: [Leah touches Tyrael's robe, seeing the rest of the vision - of Tyrael shedding his angelic status] Sacrilege!::Tyrael: [Tyrael is pulled through the Council chamber's floor, falling in the night sky like a meteor] Thus, I fell, willingly... because humanity is the only hope for this world.::Leah: [Leah rests a hand on Cain's forehead, and takes up his book] I never believed. All your crazy tales... the work you never finished. I will finish it, Uncle. I will carry on for you.