Diablo 2

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Summary: Take your mouse, move it over to the "Buy it now" icon...
Review: To tell you the truth, i wasn't to crazy when I first saw Diablo 2. When I took a first look at the Graphics in Diablo 2, it made me wonder if this was being released in 1983. Boy, was I wrong. When I opened up Diablo 2, I was treated with a ghoulish sound, meaning that I had put the disc in the drive! After it installed, guess what, I started up the game! I then watched the brilliant opening cinematics, then started the single player game. I then found myself staring at 5 different warriors to choose to battle Diablo. Whoa, in Diablo 1 you had to be the "wanderer" and nothing else. And guess what, these graphic were amazing! Best graphics I had ever seen for this type of game! After I chose the Paladin, I suddenly appeared in a camp, and a guy named Warriv came up to me, and so the story of Diablo 2 started. This game will take you a LLLOOONNNGGG time to finish, but hey, what's the rush? The combat system is both fun and addictive and the best I've played, ever! The manual does a keen job of explaining the fundamentels of the game. And as for multiplayer? Plenty of it. You can go online and complete quests with a few fighters, or you can do it alone. What are you waiting for? As a gamer, it is your duty to own Diablo 2!

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Summary: DEAR GOD BUY THIS GAME
Review: THIS IS THE BEST GAME I'VE EVER PLAYED, IT'S HUGE, AND THE STORYLINE IS AWESOME, BUY IT, BUY IT

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Summary: My name is Rob and I'm a Diabloholic.
Review: If you liked the first one, say good bye to your wife and friends for a while....this one is going to consume you. I've tried many a RPG including the Fallout series, the Baldur's Gate, etc., etc., but none have every wrapped me up to the extent this series has. It is the simplicity combined with story combined with the interface combined with the...well, you get the point. It's the perfect mix!

At first glance, I wished the graphics could have been better (they do get better as you go) and I've had a couple of minor issues with the game itself. But, such is the fate of the impatient ones who can't wait until the bugs have all been worked out before diving in. I've played the game mostly in single player, although I hope to find a support group online before long.

Buy this game without hesitation!

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Summary: Not a lot of extras
Review: The game is fun to play and it continues on with the Diablo game play. But it really doesnt deserve to be a version 2 but an expansion pack. Yes the dungeons do change a plus but I have tried all five characters and each got the same quests in the same order

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Summary: ADDICTING! JUST PUT IT IN MY VEIN!
Review: Great Game! This game has so many different weapons, armor, and skills that everytime you play its a new game. With the addition of socketed weapons, shields, and helms you can get different gems that alter the items abilities. 1-4 poisen damage, 4-16 cold damage, 3-6 fire damage, 2-8 lighting damage. Those are just the weapons, the shields and helms alter dextarity, strength, vitality, and stamina. Plus damage rating, and defense rating. Depending on what gems you get you can totally customize your character, not to mention all new magic items and unque items. The landscape is huge. Where as in diablo the whole game basiclly took place under ground, in Diablo 2 most of it takes place above ground. 5 New player classes. Amazon warrior, Necromancer, Barbarian, soceress, and Paladin. Each of these different player class has its own skill tree. Skills that you can learn with every new level. Combat skills, War Cries, Combat Masteries, Curses, Offensive Auras, Defensive Auras. The game is absolutly worth buying.

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Summary: Good...but it should have been great.
Review: I loved Diablo. My wife and I played it relentlessly for months. We were both extremely excited about Diablo II, and rusjed out to buy it the first day it was released. We've played through it several times as several different characters....and we're disappointed. There are many things the game does well, like great music and voice acting, good quests and locations, good monsters, but there are too many things that obviously just weren't thought through. Many people have complained about the lack of a save system. add my voicee to that. also, the fact that one can only store a limited amount of gold and there's rarely, if ever, anything worth buying. Dying, and then having to make your way back to your corpse without benefit of armor or weapons is just stupid, and really detracts from the pleasure of the game, as does the fact that you can't change camera angles, meaning that your character, or the monster he's fighting, is frequently invisible behind a pillar or something. Technically, the lag time that this game experiences is enough to drive me nuts. After the glacially long wait that we all experienced, I expected much more. Blizzard really blew it on this one.

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Summary: get it
Review: greatest game made by blizzard. Tons of monsters to kill. Loads of weapons. Fairly smart enemies. Tons of spells.

I love going against other gamers online. You can take their money or lose yours.

Getting it installed on our new computer was tricky. The patch was a pain.

All in all, I would tell anyone who like role playing games to grab a copy of this one!

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Summary: Dissapointed, but not surprised
Review: When i first purchased Diablo i thought it was the greatest game ever, i have always been a rpg fan and i was in heaven. I played Diablo relentlessly until i conquered it a few times. it was not too long afterwards that somebody told me Baldur's Gate was better and i laughed at them. But as is it turned out, they were right. After playing Baldurs Gate i felt that Diablo was a very shallow game in Comparison. So when i heard of Diablo II i was interested but i was thinking it would probably be much like Diablo, brainless hack and slash that although fun, was very shallow.

I purchased the game and was not surprised to find that the game was as i expected. The plot was a bit more involving than diablo but still could not compare to the plot of Baldur's Gate. I also felt very little freedom about where i chose to go. one of the marvels of baldurs gate was the ability to just go rompin off in search of adventure. Another thing that was sorely lacking was the lack of character development. There was really no history or anything about your character. I was just "Level 22 Barbarian." Now that isnt so bad but it was hard to come away from the complex plots and hundreds of subquests of baldurs gate to diablo II. And to my further dissapointment, the graphics had not been improved and were not much to look at.

My Advice? Go BUY Icewind Dale or Baldur's Gate, or Both.

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Summary: Not so great for the single-player-oriented...
Review: Besides having all the system requirements necessary and still not being able to run the game, my biggest problem with it is not being able to save the game state. This completely ruins it for me--and probably for anyone else interested in the single-player aspect. It is truly awful to have to go back somewhere to get items that were perhaps left behind, only to have to fight everything that you already killed once all over again. Sadly, this ruins the game and storyline for me. I know other folks who aren't bothered by this at all, however. For me, though, it's just a terrible way to have released the game. I honestly think that they should've kept that save feature in the game, even if it meant releasing the game later.

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Summary: Worth the wait, but system and memory hog
Review: For those of us who enjoy fantasy role-playing adventure games, this is an excellent choice. Featuring astounding graphics, fantastic cinematics, and exciting play, I feel this title was worth the 2 year wait.

The game is much more exciting and scary than the first one, and the addition of ambient sound effects really give it a feeling of atmosphere. The 5 character classes in this game are much more distinct than Diablo 1, with differing skills that can only be gained if you are that class. The game is much longer and the terrain and monsters are varied enough to keep it interesting.

Cons: Huge memory hog. The full install with all of it's multi-player capabilities requires nearly a gig of space! Even the bare minimum install is about 650 megs. Also, the game is a little buggy, and sometimes crashes or stalls, even on power machines. Go to blizzard.com to download the latest patches (including Direct X 7.0) and watch out for DVD software conflicts.