Gameplanet takes a look at the controversy surrounding the recent announcement of Diablo III and many fans" contention that it looks too much like World of Warcraft:

"Finally the official announcement was made.

Diablo III was indeed the mysterious game, and it would retain the game style that helped make its predecessors so popular.

With Starcraft II still a distant speck on the horizon, despite its official announcement coming in May of last year, fans knew they"d have a while to wait. This didn"t stop them from flaming each other to Hell and back on discussion boards around the world when the first screenshots and gameplay videos from Diablo III were released. "Vivid colors, beautiful forests with colorful vegetation, shinny (sic) and beautiful waterfalls" were among the features that would allegedly bring about Armageddon.

The claims were that Diablo III looked more like World of Warcraft than Diablo. I don"t know where these people got their impressions of World of Warcraft, because in all the Diablo III material out there, I have yet to see a bipedal cow in a wedding dress attempt to seduce a pink-haired gnome in the ancient forest of elves."