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Summary: Some good parts, but mostly worthless.
Review: I'm going to keep this short and sweet. The ability to cast Apocalypse and Nova and other high-level spells is great fun, but the added levels are a waste of time. In addition to that, I think Unique items are programmed to show up more frequently, which isn't as fun as the patient search for them was in Diablo. Get it for cheap if, and only if, you want to.
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Summary: Diablo fans must own
Review: If you are a hard line Diablo fan, you must get this expansion otherwize your collection would be incomplete. I dont even have to play the game to enjoy it, just knowing I can play it anytime I want is good enough.
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Summary: If Diablo then Hellfire!
Review: If you love Diablo then why not add to it! There are two dungeons with an extra four levels. This gives you the ability to gain power and weapons before you get to the big guy! The Monk character is weak but interesting if you can make it work. If you know some of the codes for the command file you can get the rogue character to wield two weapons and watch the double damage fly! There are tons of new weapons and armor as well. This is worthy of your hard earned cash, especially at the current price!
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Summary: Don't bother
Review: If you loved Diablo like I did then you will probably be disappointed at the lack of invention that typifies this add-on. The "new" levels are quite unimpressive and the "new" spells don't do much for me (with the single exception of the search spell). The new character (the Monk) is nothing more than a composite of the three previous character types. Don't waste your money - save up for Diablo 2.
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Summary: good...but can get boaring...
Review: im surprised that there only selling a used 1 4 $20(can.And i realy like it because u can get a barb and a barbarian from just downloading a file!by the way...the Ka-rul(the evil guy in the game)doesnt match the story...like who heard of a guy named Ka-rul!but there are 8 new levels and new Quests...but is it worth it?I dont feel like getting diablo battle chest 4 $40(can).
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Summary: ok I guess...not really worth it though
Review: Luckily I got this from a friend for a few dollars, so I didn'twaste bucks on it. If you haven't guessed, its not worth it. Theonly good additions are the ability to choose difficulty levels on single player games, and the new weapons and spells. The added characters are worthless, for all intents and purposes, and the added levels are pretty bland and not representative of Diablo. to make it more interesting find any diablo cheat site and look for hacker tricks to do interesting things like add a guy in a cow suit to the game. Otherwise, its a pretty dumb add-on.
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Summary: Good Considering the Space They Worked With
Review: Many people comment on how Hellfire isn't worth it because of the shear lack of attention and detail they put into the expansion, but there's a perfectly good reason for this: much of the expansion (including the Monk character class) was ALREADY in the original Diablo. Why can't you use them in the normal game? Simple: Blizzard decided to surpress these elements, probably to give them something to release for an expansion. This is also the reason that people have been able to hack the multiplayer game to include the Monk, because he was already in the game. There is still a lot more to the expansion, however. And personally, I think that it breathes a LOT of live into the single player game, which I play a lot more often than Battle.net since I don't have unlimited phone line access in a multi person household. I would recomend this to any hard core Diablo fan out there.
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Summary: Add more life - and death - to Diablo
Review: System on which this was tried out: Pentium III 733 MHz, nVidia TNT 2 Pro, 128 MB RAM, Win98, with a monitor with 1024 x 768 resolution. Hellfire must be installed on top of an existing Diablo install, and requires the Diablo disc rather than its own to actually play.Being a Sierra product, the installer will install Sierra utilities in your startup menu if you don't already have it, with no option to skip them (although you can uninstall it separately); the utilities are the Sierra-typical uninstall/readme/support/auto-update. Auto-update, if invoked, asks you to connect to the net, searches your system for Sierra products, then queries Cendant Software's site to check for any patches or other updates, including updates to the Sierra utilities package itself. (The original Hellfire release must be patched for the town characters to properly interact with you, for instance - otherwise their Gossip mode will be stuck.) The Sierra utilities wind up under Program Files on drive C, no matter where the user asked the actual game to install, and the icon for the utilities is added to the start menu. Once you have Hellfire installed and patched, you'll see some differences from (actually, additions to) baseline Diablo right away as you start your next new character. A few new character types have been added. (For a basic Hellfire install, only Monk has been added, but if you download and apply the Purgatory modification on top of Hellfire, you'll get Bard and Barbarian as well; their icons look like Warrior and Rogue, respectively, but they have a different mix of skills.) Also, a new game can be started at any of 3 difficulty levels - but a weak character has little chance against the higher levels, so prudence is recommended. A nice bonus is that Hellfire gives you the option of *running* in town, regardless of your character. You'll also see new types of items to pick up.
- Oils. Some allow you to repair your weapons without running to the blacksmith, while others improve their statistics, such as Oil of Accuracy and Oil of Fortitude.
-"Runes". These aren't related to Diablo II's runes; they're plain-looking gadgets that cast a single spell when set off, like crude grenades, such as Rune of Fire, or Rune of Stone.
- New types of scrolls, such as Search (*very* helpful for locating any loot in your vicinity; Search temporarily gives them an aura and marks them on your map). Hellfire also adds 8 additional levels. A new farmer character has been added to the town of Tristram, and he has a problem that he won't discuss with you until he knows you fairly well - that is, your character must have a minimum expertise before he'll give you the explosives you need to break open the Hive south of town. The Hive is 4 levels deep, and contains 2 new quests that you'll always receive leading to two Level Bosses. Defeating the final Level Boss in the Hive will give you the key needed to enter the remaining four new levels, via a crypt in the cathedral's graveyard. The Hive's monsters are mostly variants of giant insects covering several different physical types with different kinds of attacks. As well as scorpions, spiders, and boar-like monsters, there are monsters that spit poison or acid, and giant floating orbs with tentacles that shoot energy bolts at you - and hunt in packs, of course. The Hive's labyrinth generates random mazes, as does the original Diablo engine, so the replay value is very high, and its atmosphere is well done - the 'walls' look like a wasp's nest, and instead of breaking open barrels to hunt for goodies, the Hive offers pods. The Vault has an even wider range of new and interesting beasts: lichs (undead beings with a ranged attack), satyrs, Anubis-like creatures that look like animated metal statues, firebats like those who appeared later in Diablo II. The final Vault level is something of a set piece because of the Level Boss' prison. The Vault also provides the Cornerstone of the World, a place that is the same in all worlds - that is, a mechanism for allowing different single player characters to exchange items.
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