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Summary: Fun, but frustrating!
Review: I have to say the only thing wrong with this software is its lack of quality control. I own a TNT card, and even after the 1.01 patch and the new drivers for the card, it is still buggy. Coupled with a new save feature that respawns all your enemies when you save. Blizzard needs to fix the bugs and the save features, because after crashing every 10 min, you would be upset.
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Summary: Great Game - Multi Player Not so good.
Review: Ok I have read a lot of reviews on this game. There are only two things to keep in mind:1) It is Diablo and is great fun. The character updates alone are worth the purchase price. It has a story, which adds to the flavor of the game. 2) Multi-player has problems. You have no doubt read that there have been several patches. These patches are for MULTIPLAYER! Blizzard is doing a great job supporting the LAG and Server issues. Don't worry about it. They will get it fixed. Until the multipayer problems are fixed I can give DII only 4 stars. Why? The reason to play is to be able to play with freinds and family.
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Summary: Almost Perfect
Review: Diablo 2 is almost everything I had hoped for in a sequel, If it wasn't for the dissapointing graphics and the game lags at the WORST possible time, I would have given it a 5, even including these flaws its still an EASY 4. The new character classes are excellent and as diverse as you could get while still playing the same game. The number of different weapons etc boggle the mind with the addition of Gems, Set Items and Rare items to add to the Magical and Unique items found in the original game. If you liked the original, you owe it to yourself to buy the sequel.
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Summary: AWESOME GAME
Review: This is just simply facinating in every aspect!
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Summary: Second thoughts
Review: I sent in a review two weeks ago - and gave Diablo II a very ordinary review. Last night I spent several hours back playing Diablo 1(Hellfire)to get a stronger sense of contrast. Several differences were very apparent: Diablo 2 has firing on angles down perfectly - if you ever thought in D1 that you had an opponent highlighted, only to find a fireball or arrow miss completely, D2 wont do this: tricky angles or not, if they're highlighted BLAST 'EM. D2 characters can run - what a bloody relief! This alone makes D1 pale by contrast. D2 dungeon graphics are good - better than D1. Though the wilderness graphics are suprisingly poor, the D2 dungeons have a great feel to them: far richer and more engrossing than D1. Dealing with non-player characters (NPCs) in the various towns is much better in D2. Not having the same damn greeting said over and over as you buy something is great - and separate visits to an NPC during the one town visit are handled almost as one long interaction: nice one. A definite hassle though is the time needed to play the game - no more "a quick 20 minutes play before we have to go" : you have no choice but to play for large contiguous periods; a decidedly misguided piece of programming. This comes about because of the games insistence on completing a quest/scenario before it is safe to save. And having to go back through constantly regenerated areas is very dull - thank goodness for the ability to run (and run... and run... and run...) One final point - with the money they must have made from D1, why couldn't Blizzard hire someone to write a decent story line? Yet again we have an aimless, purposeless story that means nothing in the broader context of the game. I strongly suspect that the programmers and animators were responsible for the story, rather than a Writer.
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Summary: Excellent game but buyer beware!
Review: After playing D2 since it's release and closely monitoring the forums I have a few comments to make about the game. First and foremost certain users will encounter less than favorable results. I will list these first. #1 Dell Computer Users /w GeForce 64mb DDR video cards will be unable to run in Direct 3d until patched. #2 Those of you that are lucky enough to get Direct3d to run with regular 64mb cards will not be able to play on bnet in d3d due to long load times. (This includes GeForce 2 users) #3 Some CD-rom owners may not be able to play do to a undetectable CD error. #4 DVD-rom owners may also encounter these problems. #5 Battle.net is nowhere near as stable as it was for Diablo I and Starcraft so don't go in optomistic. #6 Hacking is already apparent in open battle.net games but is unheard of on closed battle.net games (realm games) downfall: realms are slow and frequently offline. With that out of the way I would like to say that the game is by far improved over the original Diablo with many new skills and features. Graphics, large acts, bosses, and many other new features will keep you engrossed for many hours. Bottom Line: As soon as the bugs are worked out (currently ver. 1.2) and battle.net stabalizes this is the best game you can spend your money on. Whether you are on RPG fan or not, Diablo II is the creme de la creme.
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Summary: A must have....
Review: I finished D2 last night around 2 am, I can tell you that this game kicks! Yeah we all know that it lacks better graphics and it has some trouble with all the patches and glitches, but trust me that once you get to Act 4 and kick some Diablo Butt, you think that it ends there and yes it does until you see the epilogue....and all I can say is that Blizzard Entertainment rules and I commend all the people who made this Diablo series a reality to us role player addicts like myself and now the wait begins for Diablo 3. Keep up the good work Blizzard! Luis
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Summary: It's okay
Review: Well, my whole opinion of this game goes like this, the game itself <plot, characters, and gameplay> is what makes me give it 4 stars. However despite all of its pros I have noticed that the cons made me give it ONLY 4 stars, such as it's lag time and it's non improvement in it's graphics. I really like the game overall and am happy with the purchase of it.
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Summary: It was worth the waiting!
Review: This game really rocks! I'll tell you why... GRAPHICS: 3,5 STARS The graphics are pretty good, but not shocking. The animations are fine and the spell-effects look good too. But, I expected more of the graphics. I don't really care that the graphics aren't the best I've ever seen, because... GAMEPLAY: 5 STARS ...the gameplay is devilishly good! You'll be playing this game for months! The storyline is very good, and the multi-playermode is even better than the singleplayer-mode! There's a great variety in weapons, and each character has a really different kind of gameplay. CONCLUSION Buy this game! It's great! PERFORMANCE-TEST PI 200 mhz, 32 MB RAM, 4 MB onboard-videomemory, 24 x cd-rom, singleplayer-install (650 MB), low detail: 1/12 (awfully sluggish performance) PII 233 mhz, 64 MB RAM, Voodoo 2 12 MB, 44x cd-rom, singleplayer-install (650 MB), medium detail: 5/12 (reasonable performance, but not good enough) PII 350 mhz, 64 MB RAM, Voodoo 2 12 MB, singleplayer-install (650 MB), 32/4x DVD, high detail: 7/12 (more than reasonable performance) PIII 450 mhz, 128 MB RAM, TNT 2 32 MB, singelplayer-install (650 MB), 44x CD-ROM, high detail: 10/12 (good performance but not perfect) If you want to buy this game, I'd recommend a PII 400 mhz, with at least a Voodoo 2, and 64 MB RAM (more is much better!)
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Summary: DOS days are here again
Review: The game has many flaws in it making it almost unplayable. The most notable is the Anti-copy feature on the CD's themselves making it impossible for some CD and DVD drives to read. At present Blizzard has no plans to fix this feature. Also the graphics and lag time in both online and single play are bad. In order to get the game to play you will need to tinker with the drivers and system options to get it to work. Reminds me of the old days of DOS where a Boot Disk had to be created to change your memory options. The box reports a minimum of 32Meg of memory, I would think it is closer to 64Meg. If your character incounters a large amount of monsters it will bog way down and the monsters will kill you before you get a hit in. If you must absolutely have the game I would wait a month for the problems to be fixed. There are already 2 patches in less then 2 weeks with number 3 in the works.
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