Aside from World of WarCraft and StarCraft 2 being the big hitters at this year's BlizzCon, there's also the much anticipated Diablo 3, which Blizzard were more than happy to show off, here in the form of two trailers showcasing the "Monk" Class character along with a host of screen shots. Check the Monk trailers here and here, and the screenshots here.

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ta for the screenshots

this'll be a good play I'm sure

looks good

can't wait for this!!!

The first trailer is unbelievably corny.

Someone is responsible for some amazingly bad story trailers at Blizzard lately.

The gameplay trailer fortunately was awesome!

what the hell

the diablo 1 cut scenes looked better

erm it was a cinematic rendered ingame

I think I found my D3 class.

erm it was a cinematic rendered ingame

I wasn't criticising the graphics in the cinematic. They were using models from the game which in proper 3rd person distance look sweet.

The creative direction and result just left a lot to be desired. I've seen them do really, really good game-engine cinematics - the one in-game from the Northrend WoW expansion quest should be the benchmark. This is woefully below that standard.

then the ingame cinematic looks s***

Yeah that gameplay trailer makes the class look fantastic. Can't say the cinematic was any good though

the one in-game from the Northrend WoW expansion quest should be the benchmark. This is woefully below that standard

That is not in game. They use a s***load of post processing to get it to look like that.

A fragile melee debuff class? Not so sure on how that sounds. Be interesting to see what they do with it I suppose.

A fragile melee debuff class? Not so sure on how that sounds. Be interesting to see what they do with it I suppose.

That was pretty much the assassin in D2, three-strike combos and all...

Wasn't the assassin the weakest class overall?

i reckon that class looks fkn good, wizard still is my first character tho.

so one character left to announce... surely its gotta be a ranged hunter/rogue type, or will they go the druid?

That is not in game. They use a s***load of post processing to get it to look like that.

Umm, to be blunt - so what?

I don't give a s*** how they made it great, they should do it with other cinematics if they don't want people to think thye are s***house?