


After seeing this (and ostensibly being one of the few still left alive), he for reasons unknown to himself follows the Wanderer on his journey. He starts by explaining that he met the Wanderer in a tavern where the evil within had caused the Wanderer to let loose hellspawn and lay waste to the place, burning it to the ground. Marius recognizes the man as Tyrael and recounts his ordeals at the hands of the fallen hero carrying the soul of Diablo, whom he refers to as the Wanderer. The game opens with a figure in a robe walking into what appears to be a prison or sanitarium in order to speak to a crazed and emaciated man by the name of Marius. The plot is relayed via a sequence of cutscenes that take place between each of the four major acts of the game. Having become the human embodiment of Diablo, set out to find his brothers, the Prime Evils Mephisto and Baal, in order to free them and attempt to retake Sanctuary. We are told by Deckard Cain that while the town celebrated the defeat of Diablo and the return of peace to the town, the hero struggled with the evil spirit within until finally it overcame him. The hero emerged from the labyrinth under the town of Tristram having defeated Diablo and carrying his Soulstone in his head, in order to contain Diablo's dark spirit. The story picks up at a point not too long after the defeat of Diablo in the first game. Even to this day, the game is well-populated on and the announcement of a third title in the franchise in 2008 led to another significant increase in sales. The game found great critical and commercial success - in the year of its release, it was named by the Guinness Book of World Records as the fastest-selling computer game ever. It is the sequel to 1997's Diablo, once again taking place in the fantasy world of Sanctuary. Diablo II is an action-RPG by Blizzard Entertainment, released in 2000 for the PC.
