Its not open like DD, which I hated. If you forget its supposed to be the sequel then its pretty good, I enjoy it. If they would have make it on a world like DD then it would be a great game, even better than DD, but it isn't, you don't have towns that you can run to and explore, but you still have towns in some acts, but once you leave the act you can't return and they are not connected, I hated battlefield as well, makes things too repetitive. Id give it a solid 8.3, without considering it a sequel to DD, this one feels more like diablo than the prequel.