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Summary: This game will blow your socks off!!
Review: If you liked the original Diablo, then you'll love Diablo II. If you don't have the original Diablo, you'll still love Diablo II. Diablo II has a decent single player mode but gets boring quickly, while the internet more then makes up for it. It has an amazing amount of replayability, letting you make many different types of one class. For example the Paladin, you can make many many different types like a hammerdin or a zealot. With the Barbarian you can use a spear or throw gigantic axes and many other different weapons. While on the internet you can make friends with people around the world and play charecters together with as many as 8 different people in one game compared to 4 with the original Diablo. This allows for you to gain levels very quickly at first, which can make it difficult to know where to put all of your skill and stat points, but makes it very addicting very quickly. The character screen, skill tree screen, inventory screen, buying/selling screen, and the quest screen have all been added or improved since the original and made much easier to use. The new skill tree alows you to specialize in different weapons and magics depending on what character you are. With hundreds of armors (now including boots and gloves) and weapons (with 2 handed weapons for barbarians) to choose from it makes it rather difficult to find a perfect character which also ups the replayability. I've had this game for about 1 year now and I still find it as a thrill to be able to go the internet and beat up bad guys and battle my way through 4 acts each with 6 different quests (except for act 4 which has 3) that are each unique and usually have a great reward, eventually getting to the big D himself, Diablo, and slaying him after a 15-30 min battle to the death, then winding up in act 1 again, but in Nightmare difficulty this time. After Nightmare comes Hell difficulty which, as it's name implys, is very difficult. Overall this is one of the, if not the, best games I have ever played in my gaming history. Diablo II is a must have for any true gammer.
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Summary: Diablo II will kill you with BOREDOM
Review: Blizzard has fundamentally ruined the playability of the original Diablo by removing your ability/responsibility to regularly, explicitly Save your game.In the original Diablo, if you didn't explicitly Save your game at frequent intervals, you faced the likelihood of *real* loss (of time, accumulated treasure, attributes, etc.) if you were unexpectly killed. In the original, once you were under attack the attack was often so fierce that it was too late to Save -- you were dead before you could complete a Save. And, even if you did Save at that point, when you resumed play you resumed right back in the heat of battle and, appropriately, were likely to be slaughtered within a heartbeat. In other words, you faced something akin to real death when exploring the dungeon and that produced an element of real fear. In Diablo II, your game is continuously, automatically "Saved" for you. You can get out of ANY difficult situation by summarily quitting play -- when you resume play you'll find yourself automagically back at your safe "base camp" with your character, and all accumulated treasure, inexpicably intact. The authors don't try to "explain" this bit of absurdity -- probably because they know they can't. The problem is made even worse by the fact that the monsters -- at least in the first 3 quests, which is as far as I've gone so far -- are hopelessly outclased by your character from the get-go. In my first eight hours of play I haven't come close to dying once -- and, believe me, I've tried (anything to relieve the boredom). I LOVED the original Diablo and I expected to love this sequel. I don't feel good panning this game but I'm SO disappointed. I expected to see more detailed graphics and plot (quests), but with the fundamentals of play preserved. Instead, graphics and game plot appear unimproved and game play has been absolutely butchered. ...
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Summary: Great
Review: I first played this game at my neighboors house. The day that I played it, I knew that it was a must buy. Even without the internet, it was tons of fun, and when I got the net, it was even funner. However D2 has some flaws. If you dont have enough ram, it is quite possible that you can die because of time used while the computer thinks. Battle.net on this game is great. Blizzerd made it so there is almost no lag at all when you play. You need to buy this game!
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Summary: Same Old Diablo
Review: Some of you may be familiar with the first Diablo game a fun game to play untill everybody and his brother figured out how to hack their characters. Pretty soon everyone was in "GOD MODE" the game was no longer fun to play. So now we have Diablo 2 a fun game to play and Blizzard even figured out how to end "GOD MODE" they created the "Realms" where you are safe from all the "hackers". The way the "Realms" work is your character is not yours no it is the property of Blizzard and it is maintained on their computors not yours. Your Character and all the items on him/her not yours Blizzards. This should be fine you can't really take your character with you. He has no use other then to play Diablo 2 right? Thats what I thought too. Until my lvl 61 character showed up one day with NO items. Mine and about a thousand other players. Our characters were hacked into and after hours of play we are forced to continue with nothing start over and hope it does not happen again or quit. What does Blizzard have to say? Well the items were not ours anyways. Remember?
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Summary: A Great Improvement
Review: You remember that game Diablo? You know, the original. That was the one with the repetitive dungeons and tiny overworld that bored you to death after about 3 days of playing. That was the one that, after realizing that there wasn't gonna be some kind of twist that sent you into another land (besides Tristram), you shut it off in disgust. What sums up Diablo? One word. Repetetive. Well, someone must have slipped Blizzard the word, cause they definately improved all that with the release of Diablo II. You start in a Rogue Encampment, which is about the size of the town of Tristram. At first I thought, here we go again. But then I entered the Blood Moor... then the Cold Plains... then the Burial Grounds... and at that point I realized that Diablo II takes place on a massive overworld with dungeons scattered throughout, instead of being piled on top of one another. I completed the first quest, and now I am already addicted to a game that I really didn't expect much from. Don't listen to reviews that call Diablo II a game identical in gameplay to the original. Heck, I am about 2% into the game and already I have been through more of an overworld than 100% of the original. BUY THIS GAME!
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Summary: As addictive as the first one!
Review: This game does not break any new ground in computer technology but it is addictive. The new character classes and ways that skills are built challenge the player to make sure the right path to power is pursued. My only complaint is that in the storyline of this game the first Diablo was in essence played for no reason, your character really accomplished nothing more than a delaying tactic and on some level that bothered me!
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Summary: Very good game but not the best.
Review: Evrething is great or only good but to hard i mean you atack one of those beast thing and all the possble monsters at that level FOLLOW you! I am a (in my opinion) very skilled RTS player but I havent even gotten past the cold plains, other then all those things its really fun.
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Summary: Can't keep a bad devil down
Review: What can be said about Diablo 2 except: More of all that you love in the original Diablo, only better! It's been said that the graphics are no better than Diablo 1. DON'T YOU BELIEVE IN! The resolution and color palette are the same but the graphics are far better, especially in the cinematic scenes and especially if you have a 3D accelerated- compatible video card. The user interface is easy to learn and use, more streamlined than the original and with more perks, like a more transparent automap and an experience meter that lets you know when you're close to the next level without having to go into your character sheet every few seconds. The skill tree system personalizes each character, especially since the limited number of skill points gained over the course of a game requires specialization in a few skills instead of dabbling in many. Music and sound effects are very appropriate for the dark setting of the game, and the quests range from the short to the huge! The five main NPC's in the starting town at the start of the game, each also give a personalized greeting to a specific character class, further doing away with the "generic hero" mold. (For example, Charsi has a thing for Barbarians and has a special introductory speech for any Barbarian that speaks to her for the first time, while the slick-tongued Gheed detests Necromancers and lets all Necromancer characters starting a game, know this in no uncertain terms, just before announcing that you alone will be treated as a friend and get the same "special deals" everyone else gets.) The anti-cheat system of multiplayer and the way the different classes compliment each other in battle, make multiplayer more appealing to cheat-hating Diablo 1 fans, and beware, since each additional player in a game strengthens the dark minions of evil! As of the time of this writing (12/27/00), lag seems to be largely taken care of (though my cable modem may be responsible for this), but think twice about rolling a Hardcore character unless you have no lag problems and preferably a broadband connection. My biggest gripe about battle.net is that practically all the channels are filled with people who do far less talking, than hawking items for sale or trade. It makes finding and making friends a difficult task, especially for the "newbie" who has nothing to trade. The fact that hunting with a high level character as a guide and teacher, advances your character far slower than hunting alone or with someone of comparable experience, and letting them show you a quest causes your character to be permanently marked as having completed the quest, is a mixed blessing: you learn valuable tips on how to hunt and may gain some nice items but you can miss out on some of the experiences of the game and find yourself still at the beginning levels of experience. Diablo 2 isn't perfect but it's still a great game and a good buy for the money.
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Summary: Very Addictive
Review: This game is the best game I have ever played. Once you start you can't stop. Sure after a while it gets old but it is fun while it lasts. If you stop and start again you get back into the swing of things so don't worry if something else comes along while you are half way through killing Diablo. The new characters are of a wider variety than the first game. I would recommend this game to anyone who wnats to play a long addictive role-playing game.
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Summary: Bigger, badder, and better than the original!
Review: There is enough action to keep you busy for several weeks! Several days if you play day and night :) Cinematic cut scenes are almost photorealistic, the story is actually part of the game. The game graphics and background give it a certain realism. Levels are more detailed and way bigger than the original, let's just say that it's three to four times bigger than Diablo 1. The music is awesome, especially in Jehrin's castle on Act III. If you've played Diablo 1, you'll appreciate the cameo Tristam quest; Let's just say that "it ain't what it used to be". The best features of Diablo 2 are the ability to run (amount of running time is limited by your character's "stamina"), and the ability to travel between several pre-defined "waypoints". Together they save a large amount of time wasted going over areas already cleared. The diversity of levels, characters, non-player characters, and items are Diablo 2's second best features. Different weapons/armor produce different graphics, and certain attributes can change the color of the weapons/armor. While all characters lose the ability to cast any spell, each has special capabilities called skills to which you can improve on. You have to fight your way through villages, temples, forests, jungles, dungeons, sewers, deserts, limbo, and Hell itself. You're up against mages, zombies, skeletons, shamans who ressurect their minions, corpse spitters, bugs which lay eggs that hatch to become more pests, cat people, goatmen, mummies that ressurect their minions, beetles, ghosts, walking tree-like creatures, and many more. Enemy boss characters have special abilities, and are actually challenging. A 3-D accelerated graphics card is great for the lighting effects (you get colored lighting with 3D acceleration, otherwise you just get white lighting), but the perspective mode is not very impressive. Perspective mode scales down graphics at a distance, scales up the objects towards you, and everything in the middle is drawn at normal size. Instead of achieving a 3-D effect, it looks like a weird lens has been placed over your monitor. If you like the original, you'll love Diablo 2, so stop reading and hit the order button!
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