← Back to stories
Gaming

Modder Turns Diablo 2 Resurrected Into a VR Game, But You Probably Can't Play It

Diablo 2 is already a game you could lose thousands of hours to, but what if you could truly lose yourself in the world via VR? Well, a modder found a way to translate the isometric ARPG to a first-person VR game.

Reddit user fantasticauthor2736 created the mod, using an existing 3D conversion mod, FlatVR and BodyWalk. While the mod itself hasn't been published quite yet, there are a few videos of it in action, and while it doesn't look like a fully polished VR game yet, it does seem like a cool way to play the game.

All of the videos posted so far, though, have been in the first couple zones of Diablo 2, and while they haven't shown any particularly intense combat so far, it's easy to see how it works in theory. You just point your motion controller at an enemy and shoot fireballs at them. Easy enough.

The modder was also able to redesign the …

You're reading a preview. The full article is published by IGN on their website.

Read the full story on IGN