Diablo III Opening Cinematic Revealed and it Kicks Some Butt

http://www.diablofans.com/news/1015-diablo-3-opening-cinematic/

Love that style at the beginning. Also, an army of Tyraels - yes please!

ive never played diablo I or II and have no idea what was going on in the trailer, but i really want to get it.

Some explanation is in order! In the world of Diablo the humans are stuck between the Angels and the Demons, who are in a sort of supernatural cold war. Most angels don't give a damn about humans, because humans are the offspring of an angel mating with a demon and thus are "tainted" in the angel's eyes. The demons just want to eat the humans.

The two human characters you see are Decard Cain, pretty much the last survivor of an ancient order of sorcerers who once battled the demons, the horadrim. As the last of the horadrim, Decard has been desperately trying to discover when and how the demons will begin their invasion of Sanctuary (the planet where the humans live), with his niece. As Decard gets closer to the truth, his niece continues to be haunted by constant visions and nightmares of the coming war. The game begins with the girl seeking out heroes (you) to rescue her uncle from the depths of the monastery, which is full of undead horrors, after he gets blown to the depths below by that spell.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/game/whats-new

You probably could have posted this in the Diablo 3 thread.

There's a diablo 3 thread?

Yeah. Funnily enough, it's called "Diablo III".

I just realized that this forum has a "search forum titles" feature. Oops. Yeah, go ahead and lock this and I'll repost the video in the Diablo 3 thread.

thanks, the tvtropes page doesnt really do a good job of explaining the story.