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Summary: Diablo 2
Review: This is quite possibly the GREATEST collection of Pc games EVER!!
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Summary: Diablo Astounds all
Review: Diablo is a very popular game by Blizzard Entertainment. This game is reccomended for people who like gore, like medival games, and like action/adventure. This game has good graphics and is fun for many people like my cousins.
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Summary: It is fun...but way too hard!
Review: D2 has a LOT of good features. The graphics and sound effects are great. The character development is better than any which I have ever seen (I played AD&D for the last twenty years, and I think that D2 has developed a better character system). The game is divided into four acts (five with expansion). The first three acts are fun, challenging, and not too hard. The fourth and fifth acts are just rediculously difficult. I find myself running my characters around in the third act in an attempt to beef them up, only to still find them far too weak to stand up to the hordes of far-too-difficult monsters in the fourth act. The only reason I have even SEEN the fifth act is because I have some "hacked" characters, which are ultra-powerful (one is a 93rd level paladin with about 3500 HP, and yes he has been killed on the hell difficulty level). The difficulty goes to the extreme with the Nightmare and Hell difficulty levels, and I don't know how anyone could ever beat them. A typical monster has over 1000 hp, and does hundreds of points of damage. At the same time, the experience point demands for advancing levels becomes sky-high. While the ammount you get for each monster becomes miniscule in compairison. All in all, a good game that needs to have the monsters toned down a bit.
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Summary: Sweet
Review: wow Diablo,Diablo II,Lords of Destruction,and the strat guide for only 50 Bucks! and delivered in 24 hours.. I can say if you are the ultimate Adventure/RPG gamer get this!!!!!!!! hehe i'm off to kick baal's butt
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Summary: SLEEP BECOMES OPTIONAL
Review: "If I can just make it to the Arcane Sanctuary, I'll call it a night." How many times did I say this, only to see - out of the corner of my eye - the sun come up?
Both Diablo I & II are insanely addictive, so keep that in mind when buying this as a gift for loved ones. While the Diablo II expansion included in this set [Lord of Destruction, or LoD] keeps the game fresh, Diablo I is essentially outdated. Diablo I was an amazing game during the pentium era in which it was released, but times have changed, and ultimately there is no reason to spend much time playing Diablo I when you have the sequel and it's expansion in your hands. (There is an expansion available for Diablo I, called HellFire - but again - why not just play the far superior LoD?) It should be mentioned that Diablo II is far outshined by LoD, but you need the Diablo II program on your computer in order to load up LoD, so that's why this package isn't completely redundant. The strategy guide included in this set is for Diablo II; it is somewhat useful for beginners, but advanced players would rather have the LoD strategy guide [not included in this set]. I recommend that players download the latest patch from Blizzard, to get the most out of the game.
While Diablo II & LoD are linear in their game play (you follow the same path every time to get to the end of the game), it is nonetheless impressive how character development can go in so many directions. Seven character classes are offered, and each class has 3 different "skill trees" to progress in. Focusing on certain skills within a tree can itself change the way in which you relate to the game; characters can become so specialized that names have been attributed to them (lexicons can be found on the Net). For example, if you choose to play a character of the new Druid class, he can be differentiated into a Shifter, Summoner, Elementist, Botanist, Windbreaker, Bowling Druid, etc. [lingo used by Diablo addicts, these aren't terms that the game itself uses]. It could be said that choosing different paths renews the playability of the game, as you are forced to figure out new strategies to survive. Once you beat the game in "Normal" mode (i.e., finish all 5 "Acts"), your character may venture into "Nightmare" mode, which adds new dimensions and incentives to continue investing time in your hero (it gets worse: after Nightmare mode there is Hell mode, a level of difficulty that literally makes your character's life a living hell - sounds like fun, no?)
I've been playing this game since its release, have at least one character from each class, and can hardly believe how much I still have to learn. Lately I've discovered several websites devoted to the game, and features of the game that previously made little sense now are revealed as worthwhile to me. The soundtrack for Diablo II & LoD is so good that I've downloaded [for free] all of the music from Blizzard's awesome website. If you are getting the impression that this game can create a black hole in your weekly schedule, then I think I have gotten my point across. Be warned, this is not kid's stuff...I once watched a girlfriend's 10-year-old son break into tears as he realized he could not defeat Baal, the endgame foe. I counseled him on spending his skill points more sagaciously, but it didn't matter: he found some hacked items on the Web and consequently sailed unimpeded thru the game. I like how Blizzard keeps patching the game, though -- countering the hacks, with each patch moving the original version of Diablo II closer to perfection. Sure, it's a ridiculous game in many ways, but when you reach the Nightmare and Hell difficulty modes what you come to care about is survival, not how much sense it all makes...
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Summary: Diablo 2 good/or bad
Review: I have played Diablo 2 but not lord of destruction, and when i played LOD it was cool, specially the new characters -Druid and Assasin were really cool. Its a great buy
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Summary: I'm Addicted to this Game
Review: Diablo was a fun game. I enjoyed beating it, but the game had it's flaws. I picked Diablo II up a couple of months ago, because I finally found the Battlechest for a price I felt I could pay. I wish I wouldn't have been so cheap. This game is awesome. It blows the first one away and they hard to even compare.
Diablo II is kind of like an RPG. You don't fight in the normal RPG way, but your goal is to complete missions and work your character up to a high enough level so you can slay the Dark Lord. In the original game there were only three character classes to chose from. That has changed in this one. You can now select from an Amazon, Necromancer, Sorceress, Paladin, Barbarian, and with the Expansion Set a Druid and Assasin.
All the characters have special abilites that none of the others do. The abilities hold true to the idea behind the character. They had a new fun element to the game play. Magic is done a lot more realistic in this game than it was in the first one.
The gameplay is pretty fun. I've beat Diablo, but haven't finished beating the Expansion set. I'm almost to Baal and I'm loving every second of it. Some of the quests I found to be quite fun. The guys did a good job writing the storyline. Some of them did get a little old and I was very happy once I completed them.
The real thing that makes this game shine though is Battle.Net. You have to give Blizzard there props. Battle.Net should be prescribed with a warning label. Every Blizzard game I've ever owned has always been better on Battle.Net fighting with other people and this one holds true to that. It isn't as fun as Starcraft on the Net, but it's not to far from it.
This game is addictive. You will lose all sense of time and place when you play it. You will want to beat it. You will want to beat it again. So don't be a cheap skate like I was and go pick this one up. You won't regret it.
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Summary: A bit of the subject
Review: This is a bit off the subject but if you are one of those people like me who love to save money ; this is the game for you it, is free unless you want membership which is $5.00 a month and is sweet. This game is more realistic it has such things as pking in wilderness , smithing , mining, monsters(loads of them all differnt lvls)etc... and hrs of fun!! my player is lvl 75 and if you ask me this game still hasnt made me bored and it is fairly easy to make me bored. Diablo is basically a rubbish version of www.runescape.com nothing can beat this game as i have played all the best rpg and online games ever and this game is the epitome of multi player free and p2p games
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Summary: Why can't you talk to people?
Review: Diablo is way cool but the problem is that the Diablo in this set is a shareware disc. So you can't play any character but the warrior unless I just really screwed up installing it. It won't let you talk to the people in the villiage either. Moving on to Diablo II
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Summary: Timeless
Review: Diablo 2 is, quite simply, one of the greatest games ever made. Four years after its release the entire package (graphics, music, gameplay... etc) still holds up beautifully and it remains the pinnacle of the hack-n-slash/rpg hybrid genre.
To this day I continue to get the "D2 bug" every now and then and I just have to install the game and play it! I also recently picked up this "battle chest" as a gift for a friend and I can guarentee you that you're getting an excellent value for your money! (All 3 official Diablo games and the strategy guide!)
I recommend this without reservation!
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