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Summary: This is a GREAT game
Review: This is one of the best games I have ever owned. In my opinion its the best computer game out there. The original Diablo 2 was great and the expansion makes the game MUCH better. I had several hours after hours of fun only on single player but in multiplayer the fun never ends. The new things about the Expansion are all the new items(for example the new weapons on this game are unimaginable compared to the first game) there are several new unique items and now the items are basically endless.There is the new act which is great and several new monsters in the act. the stash is twice as big and the new druid and assassin are awesome. If you own Diablo 2 buy this game. If you care at all about role-playing games, buy this game.
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Summary: Fantastick Game
Review: This game is a perfect ending to the Diablo series. I just had to finish it. A muist have for all role playing fans.
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Summary: Diablo 2 is the best by craig
Review: This game is literally the best. This game has it all, the game play, the graphics, and the characters. I suggest if you get this game start of with necromancer or the druid. So you can build a large army of skeletons with necromancer or turn into beasts with druid. The game is aneed to get game.
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Summary: Warning
Review: The game is great but many of the features listed on the box have been turned off by Blizzard Entertainment. Horadric Cube recipies for example, are the same as they were in classic D2. Evey few moths the company releases patches that totaly change the gameplay..so any character you have started might possibly be useless after a patch.
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Summary: its the best yet
Review: this game is really fun. if u where going to get a game i reccomend this one. my brother said this game [was not good] until he playd it. i also reccomend half life counter-strike.
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Summary: Leaving D2 Forever . . . (but I am sorry I have to leave).
Review: I must say, I started playing D2C (Diablo 2 Classic) 14 months ago. I bought LOD (Lord of Destruction expansion) on its release date. Both games, are, if like nothing else,... There are many features and aspects of the game that will make you come back to play over and over again, as indeed I've done, often to the exclusion of many other important things in my life. Which is why this coming weekend, I'm giving both D2C, and D2:LOD away (CDs and online Battlenet accounts) to a friend, and I will never play again. Why do I depart from something that is so much fun? Because it is not always so fun. There are as many features of the game that I hate as I enjoy. A full explanation would require a thesis sized document, but I'll hit the highlights. 1: Hackers and Cheating: Computer hackers who exploit loopholes in online-network-play computer code achieve stunning advantages for themselves, both in game play and in creation of false "duplicate" items. Dups, as they're called, are literally materialized out of thin air through trickery for the purpose of avoiding actually playing the game for long periods of time (the best items in the game drop rarely). Hackers thus either build up large inventories of fakes (which can disappear later like mythical fool's gold), or create temporary dups for use in trading in order to trick people into giving up their "real" high-quality items for nothing. 2: Bad Attitude: There are a lot of socially maladjusted computers geeks and eight and nine year old children running around in online play (actually, they come from all walks of life). They share one common trait, plain outright rudeness, a complete lack of consideration for others, and a lack of any detectable self-respect. For instance, a wide-spread activity online currently (04/24/02) is begging. Yes, begging. Begging has always been a part of the game, as low-level characters (played by the highly lazy or highly impatient) go around asking for item hand-outs from high level characters in order to jump-start the progress of their characters through the game. However, now, a new form of begging has become vastly predominant. Begging for "rushing". "Rushing" is an activity that's been around for a while, but now it's nearly universal. A high level character joins up with a brand new character, and uses their enormous stats to carve a path directly through the minimum requirements necessary to complete every part of the game at standard difficulty. With the infamous Map-Hack (see my discussion of Hacker and Cheating above), a high level character can take a low level character through the whole standard game in ten to fifteen minutes, sometimes less if lucky. The next two higher difficulty levels (where the monsters are all tougher and meaner), are also quickly disposed of. The purpose of doing all this (what do you do with a low level character at the end of the game where one hit from the weakest monster would splat the character into a bloody pulp . . .)? 3: Gaming Environment: The way the game is currently set up, there is enormous incentive to simply have a low level character rushed through all three difficulty levels of the game, and then create a special game in what was previously and usually a one-shot joke/bonus/feature called the "Secret Cow Level". This highly amusing area of game play features upright walking cows wielding very large axes (pole-arms, actually, to be accurate). These cows run around the board, and moo-moo sound effects are going off left and right, it's all good for great laughs. There are lots and lots of Cows, a huge density of monsters in packs, and they deal enormous damage and can be quite dangerous. However, if you avoid killing the "Cow King" special monster, you can play again and again. Why? It's the monster-density. There are more monsters in a single area on the Secret Cow level than anywhere else. This huge density of monsters yields up large amounts of experience. Joining this game at very low levels can cause a new character to advance many levels in a single game. In only hours, a character can be two thirds of the way toward maximum level, and have only had the character sit off in a corner, not participating, "leeching" experience away from active participants. Yes, that's another feature of the game, people can advance their characters on the backs of other player's labors. It falls under Bad Attitude above, and is a problem so bad that I skipped detailing it so I could cut this down by a page or two (along with also skipping the reason people go around duplicating items so rampantly, so they can sell them for actual $$ on ebay, some people have reported raking in $20,000; so there is substantial motivation to cheat this way, which further affects the Game Environment, and results from Cheating and Hacking and Bad Attitude). 4: Lack of Character Management: This whole game is about advancing your character by playing the game. You kill the monsters, and pick up cool items to equip your character so they can deal with ever bigger and more dangerous threats until all three difficulty levels are completed (three runs through the game facing ever tougher and meaner monsters). However, each character has very little "room", or storage space to hold onto these items. If you find something that might be useful for another character you have, you must resort to a variety of non-completely reliable methods of moving the items around (which can often result in heartbreaking disappointment when that unreliability rears its ugly head and erases your hard won items). There is, simply put, no feature of the game to alleviate this, and as far as I can tell, there never will be. The pack rat in me simply can't take it. The good stuff I find, I must keep, and that's simply quite impossible in D2. 5: Time: Finally, as I mentioned above, D2 is taking up vast amounts of my time . . . yes, that's right, despite the problems I've outlined above, I still played, just not anymore.
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Summary: Diablo 2 LOD waste of time after Diablo2
Review: Diablo 2 is the best game when you start it up and the story is good up till about 1/2 way through the 1ST Act. It declines in quality very rapdily beyond the start of the 1ST because everything is the exact same old routine, just different wallpaper and different moving graphics to click on . . With Diablo 2 LOD you still can NOT interact with the environment in ANY way -> the code for barricades would use a monster FLAG such as this: Can Not Move or Damage Player = 1 (ie the barricade = a non-moving, non-damaging monster). Programming for monster artificial intelligence is still, basically ...: Monster Attacks Player Mindlessly = 1, or: Monster Uses Ranged Attack on Player Mindlessly = 1. To sum up Diablo 2 LOD offers nothing new. The end guy in Diablo 2 LOD is FAR EASIER to kill than in Diablo 2 and as a result the ending is an anti-climax. The map sequence for LOD is pretty much an L shape rotated 90 degrees to the right. That's it. An L turned 90 degrees clockwise. I can do that in MS paint! No puzzles, no traps (buckets that explode for no reason are NOT traps), no drama (medium-res pictures of the protagonists and the story, for example as a minimum), no mystery etc. Tonnes of useless items lugged around by creatures with Bags of Holding (seriously, how can a rabbit-sized leprechaun carry a Tower Shield or Plate Mail!!! (:O The best items of course are so rare that you lose interest in the game WAY before you can appreciate 2 or 3 of them. This all makes me highly suspicious of Warcraft 3 now, and I think the only major difference between it and Starcraft is just different graphics and stats for units. The trailer is very cool however, ALTHOUGH it is a MAJOR SHAMEFUL rip off of the Final Fantasy The Spirits Within dream sequences. You'll see --> just download it. VERY shameful because it cheapens the PC game and film animation industry AND undermines their own work, that can be very good, because it reveals that they have no concsience about capitalising on other people's originality and creativity. Diablo 1 was very ground-breaking, but somehow Diablo 2 and LOD [disappoint] after a very short time. Games companies must stay innovative to cultivate respect these days.
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Summary: Great Game now better.
Review: A good game has got better. Adding 2 characters(assassin and druid)and adding lots of new weapons. Also doubleing your stash size so u can hold more and more items. If you just want to play single player don't buy this game. The main fun is partying with people and dueling them. Pvm(Player vs monster) is dull and repetive, but dueling and helping other people is not. The put backs on this game are hacking, cheats ect. It makes all of the legit players have to try to find more items to even compete.
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Summary: Good, but...
Review: Ok, I've been playing this game for over a year now. It was realy good untill they patched it a few times. It used to be that rare items were better then uniques, but it's back wards. The people that you can play are unbalanced, and there ae hacks every where, you don't know what your getting, a dupe or a legit item. I'm not saying that it's a bad game but Bilz has made a lot of disapointing changes to the game lately. I used to want to go and play on B.net all the time, but now I don't care if I do that or mow the lawn. Maybe it's because that I'm in need of a new game. Well, I hope this helps.
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Summary: Great game, but then again...
Review: ok, why the low rating? Well, this game is extremely unbalanced. If you play this online, most likely the reason why u keep playing is that u r hunting for items to sell on ebay. This is truely sad sad thing to see. People now adays only play this game for its items, not for the game itself! well, the game dun have much of itself. Online Players are rude, and they will try to scam you for ur account to get ur items. No security at all. People hack, duplicate items and sell it on ebay. This game brings out the worst in people. Play it if u r a fan of Diablo, the CG movies are excellent! But i won't recommand you to get to involve in its Multi Player option.
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