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Summary: Best Game Ever
Review: Diablo II is easily the greatest computer game ever except for possibly counter-strike, but that is in a whole different genre. People who critize this game for being a simple hack and slash game are probably the same people who play a game for 5 minutes and if they dont like it, return it, and complain to everyone they know how its the worst game ever. If u try to play Hardcore Mode, where if ur guy dies, hes gone permanently, by just clicking the mouse over and over, ur guy is gonna be dead by level 12. The game requires immense strategy and item choice. U must make sure u make the right skill choices throughout the game and use the correct weapons, armors, etc.. to make ur guy as powerful as possible. O, and dont forget, the game has many thousands of different unique, rare, and set items to try to collect, use, and trade. If u give this game a chance, ull become addicted to it, and find urself playing it everyday for like 6 months, like me
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Summary: Fun and challenging
Review: I played the original Diablo on the Mac and this version on a Wintel system. The game is varied and challenging. I tried the Barbarian class and found it to be a lot of simple, zombie smashing fun. If you like action in a fantasy setting Diablo II is a great ride.
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Summary: Do I really need this much practice with the mouse?
Review: Point, click, point, click, point, click. Need I say more? Incase you missed that it was point, click, repeat. THIS GAME SUCKS! I doubt the expansion will be any better. I guess if you are twelve and you get your rocks off by having super items and being able to kill anyone in the game then it's sorta fun, but where's the challenge? It took me ten minutes to master this game! I cannot say enough bad things about this waste of money.
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Summary: good good and great
Review: I think its great if you are 18 or or less very good levels and a bust buy here
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Summary: Best RPG ever created
Review: A massive achievement in the world of computer games. This was one of the most anticipated games in 1999. I played the original Diablo and was absolutely dazzled by the storyline and creativeness of the producers. Diablo II is much better with much improved variety of monsters and realms. If you would like to know my characters, Barbarian-48, Sorcress-24, Paladin-59, Necromancer-30, Amazon-29. If you would like to trade with me, whisper to "Demonaric" in closed Battle.net.Graphics/Setting:B+ Incredible scenery, but the graphics are still two dimensional. Gameplay:A Awesome items, rare, unique and magical, I got 3 SOJs anyone want to trade?
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Summary: Good for a couple weeks...
Review: This game is ok for a few weeks but then it becomes a real bore and is a total waste of money
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Summary: What's all the fuss about?
Review: I admit that I waited a while to get this, but I wasn't missing much. It's hard to believe the massive following this game has. It's just silly. Hack, hack, hack! At what point do the blowgun-weilding Flayers or whatever go from insanely annoying to utterly intolerable? It can be very frustrating, single-play anyway. There is some fun to be had here, though. It's almost worth playing through the sheer drudgery of hacking to see the phenomenal cutscenes. They really are great. The game is colorful, even if the graphics are rather sub-par. It's hard to quit playing once you've started, but once you finish, the desire to keep playing is certainly waning. And to make matters worse, you can't get the best skills until level 30, and you'll probably finish the game before you hit level 25. The magical and unique items are rarely anything to get excited about. But multi-player is fun, if you like multi-player Diablo. The bottom line is, this game engages one part of your body, your mouse finger.
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Summary: All right...
Review: The 3 stars I've given are for cutscenes and graphic alone. The game play is fine, but the save-and-exit system is beyond horror. I don't understand people who say that the quesets are fun the the storyline is great. I suppose they don't know what 'RPG' means. Let's see in detail... Storyline : It's completely and utterly linear. The kind of 'hero-of-the-day-save-the-world-from-evil-dudes'. Oh yes, most of the games use this kind of plotline, but it depends on how they relate the story, not just 'I'm a hero, so I decide that it's my duty to punish this evil lord'. NPCs: The voice acting is undeniably good, but otherwise they're mindless ragdoll. All cities (and areas) have only a small number of NPCs, each of them has his/her duty, be it selling stuff or giving quests. But all in all, when you have no chioce in dialogues, what are they if not mindless ragdoll? Gameplay: What part of body do you use except yout fingers to click, click and click? You don't even need strategy, just hack and slash. Quests: One of the worst point of this game. All of them are either 'Go there and fetch this for me' or 'Go there and defeat that for me'. Can't we have anytihng more intriguing? Graphic: The only thing that I give this game credit. It's good and beautiful. Monsters: Yet another downpoint. Monsters look just no different than they did in other areas, just change the color and, lo and behold, we've got stronger monsters! Replayability: Some say the the maps are random and give more replay value but, come to think of it, it's just change this think to that direction, left to right, north to south, two rocks instead of one, five trees instead of none. You call that 'replay value'? And, oh, if anyone want to argue or flame me, please do so with my open invitation. I love to argue anyway. :P
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Summary: Great game for a limited amount of time.
Review: It's really hard to nail down how good or bad this game is. When I first got it, I thought it was fantastic. And for awhile I played it every day. But I think it gets old more quickly than it should. In comparison to the original Diablo, Diablo 2 is a better game on all fronts. Higher resolution graphics presented in fantastic detail. High Blizzard standards hold true for the voice-acting. And absolutely fantastic cinemas that continue the storyline between Acts. The 5 classes all stand on their own very well, each utilizing different strategies to complete the same game. And even better, the classes work well with each other in multiplayer. The spells and skill trees add a new level of depth and complexity that is a welcome change from the static growth of the original. The list continues to cover every fact of the game. Of the two games, this is the Diablo to get. The bad side of all of this is that I felt it should have been more. In a way, it's wrong to feel that way. It is just more of the same with some upgrades. The repetitious hacking and clicking wore on me to the point that I stopped playing. But that is what Diablo is and what I loved about the original. But I tired of the original a long time ago and this one kept my interest only long enough to finish the game (so I could see the final cinema). Aside from that, the graphics appear dithered and dated in comparison to what we are used to. The use of 3D acceleration seems to be tacked on as a buzzword more than anything else and in many cases the software rendering is superior to the 3D accelerator rendering. And at that, it's only for some of the spell and lighting effects. Multiplayer was a mixed bag for me. I got the game when it first came out. The Realms were plagued with problems and I gave up trying to use them. I have a consistent group of friends whom I played TCP/IP games with constantly. I never played the game in single-player mode, can't imagine why anyone would want to. But I have no basis to judge the Realm servers on. As they are the only means, aside from trusted friends, to protect yourself from playing with or being victimized by hacks, you'll have to decide on them for yourself. It's all free, so it's well worth an attempt. Had it come out closer to the original, I think my review would have been better. But after so long, I expected something more, perhaps wrongly so. Nonetheless, it is an excellent hack n'slash game with fantastic cinemas. I'd recommend it to anyone with some warning of what to expect.
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Summary: Sweet game, always a 5-star
Review: The first Diablo was almost universally hailed as the game of the year. Since it came out (geez, has it really been years?), I, and all the Diablo fans, have been waiting for the sequel. If you missed the first one, go get it. It's still great, and fairly cheap now. In it, you played the role of a hero out to destroy the lord of evil, Diablo. In the end, all you could do was contain Diablo by plunging his soul gem in your forehead. Well, guess what. During your journey east to destroy Diablo, you lost the fight. Now your previous character serves as the latest host for the demon, who now continues the journey east to awaken his brothers, Baal and Mephisto. Once united, they will destroy the world as we know it. However, as luck would have it, you once again are thrust into the role of hero, playing one of 5 types of characters, and now you must not only stop Diablo, but his buddies as well. The character classes are great, with skills and spells customized to the character type. The game is in an isometric perspective (top down, from an angle), and is in a much larger setting than the first. The graphics are not bad; basically, the same as the first game. You will travel to several towns, each with several wilderness areas, laid out in a linear fashion. By this I mean you generally must progress through one to get to the next. You can jump directly to certain locations once you have visited them by the use of waypoints. This leads me to what I consider the major flaw of the game. The reason these waypoints are necessary is that the save game feature is not quite normal. Your character stats, items and current quests are saved, but your location and monsters are not. Now, read that again, because it means something important. It means that if you save and quit (the only save option also quits) halfway through a quest, all the monsters will regenerate. You will have to fight your way through again. This is a major flaw in an otherwise excellent game. The gameplay is addictive, as was the first, and multi-player is a blast. However, the save game feature seriously detracts from the single player game, and causes a five-star game to lose it's luster. Still good, still worth playing, but not perfect.
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