Diablo 2

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Summary: EXCELLANT
Review: The hype for this game last summer was well worth the game. This game was done VERY well. Use a 3dfx with Glide and you can see the tree's animate as you walk by. Who says that the best graphics have to be first-person shooters? This game is not for the faint hearted (or the babtist?), this game takes up a ton of time. Beating Diablo is a long hard path, it's best to have a friend along the way. Even more fun than the original Diablo!

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Summary: What Diablo 2 really is all about!
Review: Alright, I have played the Diablo series for over 2 years.. I have never, ever gotten bored of it. The replay value is infinite and it is very balanced.. The graphics are technically top of the line... While it is only played in 640x480 resolution and 256 colors they render it to look beautiful like that.. The reason it is only 640x480 and 256 colors is for the simple fact that there are sooooooo many animations that if they we're at least 16-bit color they couldn't fit them all on the cd.

The colored lighting is great, if you have a 3d card (which every gamer should). The game is plenty long. The music isn't as awsome as Diablo 1 but it's still very good. The NPC's have a great amount of feeling in them and you actually really get to get a sence of how they really are. The sound fx are great quality. All the graphic fx are beautiful..

However.. this game does have it's flaws.. Most will be fixed very soon though.. These being: For one, the barbarian is a bit too strong, in higher levels you get bored of being (in my case) the only level 60 sorceress along with 7 other level 60-80 barbs.. Battle.net, as good as it was, now is very often lagged.. however, still playable. There is also a problem with getting into and making games but this all will be fixed. Blizzard, however, is fairly slow in fixing these anoying bugs... There really aren't alot of problems with Diablo 2 for the most part.. I've played Diablo 2 since the beta and Diablo 1 for over two years and as an experienced player I can say this game is well worth your buck or I should say.. this game is well worth your buck, if Blizzard fixes the small anoying bugs which put scratches in this masterpeice.

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Summary: Excellent Game - Terrible On-Line Service
Review: The programmers and Game Designers that created this game did a great job, the game itself is very enjoyable.

However if you want to play the game in a secure multiplayer environment (battle.net) forget it. The Diablo 2 on-line realms are virtually unplayable at this point due to lag, server instability, and software bugs. Blizzard has over the past few months continued to ignore the problems and has been tight lipped about communicating with customers relative to what the real problems are.

If you're looking to buy a game to play in a secure (i.e. cheat/hack-free) multiplayer environment - I'd recommend skipping Diablo 2 until blizzard gets its problems fixed.

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Summary: Mandatory Replayability
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Blizzard has taken the position that allowing gamers to save their games is a form of cheating. Instead, they have autosaves at certain points in the game. When you die, you start over from the previous autosave. Sometimes, however, the time between autosaves is HOURS of gameplay. If you die prior to reaching the next autosave, expect to play the same scene over and over until you reach it.

One of the highlights of D1 was that you could walk around and adventure a bit. If you walk around and adventure in D2, you risk getting killed and reverting back (possibly quite a long ways) to your previous autosave point. Hence, D2 requires frantic running from autosave-point to autosave-point with a couple hundred monsters on your tail in order not to keep replaying the same scene over and over and over. Players who are into adventuring and mapping and basically treating the game like they might the real world are punished. Players who like to finish games quickly by running from point A to point B through to point Z will enjoy D2.

Needless to say, this gets tedious in a short while. I've only got about 10 hours (20 if you include replays) on the game but I haven't played it in months. Blizzard-If people want to "cheat" by saving their games every 5 minutes, who cares? Why make the game artificially more difficult? Have the autosave be an option only in a "difficult" setting. After such a long wait (I remember the screenshots from about 3 years ago) D2 was a terrible disappointment.

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Summary: this is an awesome game!
Review: this game is killer, and with the planned expansion, it will make it that much cooler! i love Diablo 2!!

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Summary: Good Time Waster
Review: Overall its a great game. The gameplay is very addictive. When I first got it I ended up playing for hours on end, and still do. There are 5 characters you can be, however, they are very unbalanced. Barbarians will kill anything, while if you anyhign else you will have to work a little. The graphics are nothing special, but they arn't horrible. The one problem is there is not much replay value. The Nightmare and Hell dificulties get boring rather fast since its the exact same game as normal dificulty, but harder. It's basically the original Diablo with a lot ore bells and whistles.

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Summary: Diablo II is the role-playing game.
Review: After such a wait Blizzard Entertainment has been able to conquer the software World of Role-playing again. Diablo II is not only entertaining to play but also very realistic. The scenes and details (shadows, background noises, creature attacks, etc.) were some of the best I played. The playability of the game was very understanding and easy to get use to. I used two characters on my excursion to kill Diablo. I used the Paladin and the Sorcerer. I found that the Paladin had an easier time to kill and move forward in the game. Although he did not have the combination spells' which that made the sorcerer fun. The 1st scene of the game, Rogue Encampment, was a time to understand the various new tools and capabilities that the game had to offer. As I mentioned I had some trouble getting use to the sorcerer. The Paladin plowed through the levels. The quests and the way that they lead in the game were intuitive. The 2nd scene, Lut Gholeim, was very impressive in the desert. The method that Blizzard changed the scenery was very creative compared to the previous version. Instead of going lower and lower in the ground they kept the game above the surface. I liked the fact that you can speak to more people, who gave you hints on how to play the game and find new items. I will not give the whole game away but I must say that if you want to finish the game fast play with the Paladin, or if you prefer a challenge then go with the Sorcerer. Have fun !!

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Summary: Jumps over the competition
Review: This game is, in a 3-letter word, FUN. Nothing less. Yes, its hack-and-slash, and it doesn't have an awesome story (it does have awesome movies though). But, what do you expect, its not Planscape Torment. The characters are each really fun to play and the skill system is really well made. The game kept me awake for hours into the night at times (particularly when I got close to Diablo). The 4th act was really well placed and gave you the feeling of being in Hell (with a capital H). And the items... oh man. I loved customizing my characters with different items and I loved the trading system. Darkstone? Rage of Mages 2? No way. Buy this game.

PS by this time, Bnet is sooo much better.

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Summary: It's here - the Relic of (slop)...
Review: I was hoping for a game that would keep me up nights.

I got a game I wanted to return for a refund.

Essentially, I found it dissapointing. The delivered, boring, buggy product was a far cry from the much-hyped "RPG" style hack and slash game.

At the core of it, it lacks fun - there's nothing there that makes me want to stick with it. It's lackluster - for all its polish, it's dull at the core.

Multiplayer is really only playable with a really fast Internet connection, and due to the problems that plague a stressed Battlenet, you're having a good day if a T1 can get a good game for you.

The quests are trite, and I can't work out how the game is so big when there's so little to do.

It'd be a shame if your fifty bucks this month were blown on this game when there's so many more deserving titles - Baldur's Gate II and Neverwinter Nights, to name two.

And if you really need that hack-and-slash? Buy Darkstone, it's a better Dibbles II than Blizzard made.

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Summary: total waste of cpu cycle
Review: diablo is indeed a great game ...but with my p3/450_224mb_rage128fury_40LG/cdrom...some times it slows down to the point tthat i would think "my computer is going down" luckly diablo2 has not yet broke my system ... problem #1 : why the hell in gods name did they put a lock on the cdrom that is not easily duplicated to a virtual cd software.. problem#2 : too big..full install needs 1.1gig problem#3 : frequantly tortures the hardrive(realtime save) problem#4 : unless i upgrade to a voodoo i will never be able to enjoy visualefects (now thats where they suck)although 3dfx is great blizzard aint. problem#5: traditionally ? diablo doesnt support saving game (now thats some thing notgood) problem#6:most important for those none voodoo users .. d3d is supported however ,but anyone knows d3d is a waste of cpu & vga card compared to opengl..& diablo2 prooved it. thanks to blizzard. viva quake_engine ! reason to buy #1 : good design artwork and music. reason to buy #2 : good and simple story line. reason to buy #3 : exellent net work? gaming. so what am trying to say ? if you have enough storage,cpuspeed, ram,fastvga or voodoo try it.