Diablo III: Reaper of Souls
| Diablo III: Reaper of Souls | |
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| Developer(s) | Blizzard Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | Blizzard Entertainment |
| Writer(s) | Brian Kindregan |
| Composer(s) | Derek Duke Neal Acree Jason Hayes |
| Series | Diablo |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows macOS PlayStation 3 PlayStation 4 Xbox 360 Xbox One |
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Microsoft Windows, macOS
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| Genre(s) | Action role-playing, hack and slash |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Diablo III: Reaper of Souls (Collector's Edition Soundtrack) | |
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| Soundtrack album by Derek Duke, Neal Acree, Joseph Lawrence, Russel Brower, Glenn Stafford, Jason Hayes | |
| Released | March 25, 2014 |
| Genre | Video game soundtrack |
| Length | 69:47 |
| Label | Azeroth Music |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 87% |
| Metacritic | 87/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| GameSpot | 8/10 |
| IGN | 9.1/10 |
| Polygon | 9.5/10 |
Diablo III: Reaper of Souls is the first expansion pack for the action role-playing video game Diablo III. It was revealed at Gamescom 2013. It was released for the PC and Mac versions of Diablo III on March 25, 2014. The expansion pack content was released as part of the Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition version for consoles on August 19 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. That edition expanded the base Diablo III game on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and brought the game for the first time to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
After Diablo is defeated by the Nephalem (the player character), Tyrael recovers the Black Soulstone that contains the essence of all seven of the Great Evils. Knowing it is too dangerous to leave it in the hands of mortals or angels, he and six Horadrim take the Black Soulstone back to Sanctuary and attempt to seal it away where it can never be found - deep in the tomb of Rakkis, the first King of Westmarch, the kingdom established to the west of Khanduras. However, the group is ambushed by Malthael, former Archangel of Wisdom and member of the Angiris Council, who had disappeared after the destruction of the Worldstone after it was corrupted by Baal twenty years earlier (at the end of Diablo II: Lord of Destruction). Now calling himself the "Angel of Death", Malthael kills all but one of the Horadrim, incapacitating Tyrael in the process, and takes the Black Soulstone.
Tyrael sends the surviving Horadrim, Lorath Nahr, to locate the Nephalem. Nahr encounters the Nephalem outside Westmarch City, which has been overrun by the Reapers, Malthael's army of enslaved spirits and renegade angels. With the gates blocked, the Nephalem fights through the city sewers to the Zakarum cathedral in the city center, where they encounter Tyrael. Tyrael reveals that with Diablo gone, Malthael sees humanity as a race of demons based on their descent from the original Nephalem, the offspring of angels and demons; by wiping out humanity, Malthael hopes to end the Eternal Conflict, the long war between Heaven and Hell. A sliver broke off from the Black Soulstone when Malthael took it, and Tyrael attempts to use it to discover Malthael's plans. The Reapers deploy two soul crucibles into Westmarch City to claim the souls of the dead, and the Nephalem locates and destroys them, earning the ire of Urzael, Malthael's chief lieutenant, who awaits the hero in Westmarch Heights. The Nephalem tracks Urzael down to the Tower of Korelan and defeats him in a gruesome battle.
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