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Summary: Um... wow
Review: What you are getting here is an awesome game, an even more awesome game, and two indispensible strategy guides.The first game, Diablo, is simply incredible, plunging you into a world of a town under siege by Diablo and his minions. As you seek to destroy diablo, you encounter demons and undead, and you'll run into lava-tossing lords, fire-spewing winged demons called Balrogs, gargoyles, and a menagarie of over 150 monsters and some nasty terrain situations which you'll need to put on your thinking cap to get out of. Then you play Diablo II, which is a totally different game than its predecessor. The terrain is open, but the seemingly endless variety of monsters and magic (over 150 spells) will keep you coming for more. The five charachter classes are five completely different play styles, and on top of that endless sub-varitions on the charachter styles will keep you transfixed. E.g, The Amazon can be split into many different styles, including the javelin-tossing breed, those who use spears, those who fire as fast as humanly possible, those who specalise in elemental (fire and frost) attacks, etc. Not to mention the strategy guides, who are to be kept at even the most casual gamer's computer-side, even if the second one is poorly written. Simply put, this game is "darned" addicting, pun intended. I actually uninstalled it because it transfixed me too much to focus on work. Let the serious student beware! Simply put, once you enter either game, your gaming life will never be the same. Buy or don't buy accordingly.
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Summary: Expands on the Original
Review: I received DII for my birthday and just started playing it. It has some of the same familiar controls as Diablo. Game play is just as easy. What's different? DII gives you 5 character classes to choose from. Each class has it's own "Skill track" to develop unique powers as it increases in level. The game also has a nice variety of indoor and outdoor landscapes for adventuring - not just the dungeons of the first Diablo. That's great. There are also many new monsters to battle. They're ugly and fun. Characters can also carry gloves, a belt and boots in addition to the helmet, armor, weapons, amulet and rings. That's more magic stuff for you to enjoy. What keeps this from being a 5 star game for me is the Save feature. When you save a game, and go back, you begin back at camp. You are not placed back to the spot where you saved. That's kind of annoying. Also, if you're killed, you lose all your equipment (the stuff that's on your body) and gold. When you re-start, you can go back to the spot where you were killed and retrieve your stuff (minus the gold). These are minor inconveniences worth mentioning, but they won't keep me from continuing on my adventure. I'm going to forge ahead to destroy Diablo and save the world.
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Summary: Great Stuff
Review: This is a very very good game it has a realistic form of killing I know the demons and things like that are not real butttttt the whole idea that what if that could happen or is happening what would one have to go threw to stop the pain... This game is the common hero wins always buttttt it also has the hero can die part to it... I remember in the few hours that it took for me to beat it that I was clenching my teeth from time to time hopeing that I will survive... Well after i beat it i figured what the hey lets have fun with the data it took to make the game... so i changed a few lines in the game to make it where i am invincible and i have any and all the weapons and unlimited space to place my items that is when it got really really fun... it wasn't the easiest game to make that way buttttt i did it just to say i could... any ways the game is a must get don't play any other role playing game with out trying this one.....
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Summary: Corrupted Brain Cells!
Review: At first it is rather amusing to beat swarms of bad guys into piles of pulp, but after the 10,573rd kill, one realizes that there seems to be little more to the game than pointing and clicking really fast. There's lots of bad guys out there, each of which gives you the most infitinesmal amount of experience. I get the idea that evil has taken a hold on these lands. After you've fought corrupted porcupines, corrupted crows, corrupted supermodels(that you regrettably have to slaughter by the bushel), corrupted fly swarms, corrupted blacksmiths, corrupted vultures... After awhile one can't but ask if the evil corrupted CHAIR is next. After awhile of playing, the small things get you. How can you resurrect a human skeleton from a porcupine corpse? How can you attack a swarm of bugs with a sword? Why does this 'special' corrupted bug swarm have an individual name and how does it drop magic items when you kill it? Why does that 9'7 550 pound guy pop like a water balloon filled with red paint if you hit him once or twice? This is nitpicking, but most game designs have at least some attention to detail. And one would think the highest aspiration in the game is to kill the very lords of hell. No! The greatest challenge is to take on the ferocious halberd wielding cows in the 'secret' cow level! That's when I decided to put in an end in my assault on the demonic forces. No matter what my little character does, he has to get corrupted at the end so there can be a sequel.
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Summary: Good...but it should have been great.
Review: I loved Diablo. My wife and I played it relentlessly for months. We were both extremely excited about Diablo II, and rusjed out to buy it the first day it was released. We've played through it several times as several different characters....and we're disappointed. There are many things the game does well, like great music and voice acting, good quests and locations, good monsters, but there are too many things that obviously just weren't thought through. Many people have complained about the lack of a save system. add my voicee to that. also, the fact that one can only store a limited amount of gold and there's rarely, if ever, anything worth buying. Dying, and then having to make your way back to your corpse without benefit of armor or weapons is just stupid, and really detracts from the pleasure of the game, as does the fact that you can't change camera angles, meaning that your character, or the monster he's fighting, is frequently invisible behind a pillar or something. Technically, the lag time that this game experiences is enough to drive me nuts. After the glacially long wait that we all experienced, I expected much more. Blizzard really blew it on this one.
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Summary: This is the best game for the PC by far
Review: diablo 2 adds on to the gretaness of its predecessor the original diablo. it has all new character classes and new weapons too. youll probably lose hours of sleep over it and probably a girlfriend on the way
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Summary: Okay 4 years ago
Review: I liked this game a little, but I had to quit playing it, to prepare for the Y2K scare.
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Summary: Okay 4 years ago
Review: This game was pretty good, but I had to quit playing in preparation for the Y2K scare.
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Summary: Wow. Awesome Game.
Review: I have recently had the amazing world of Diablo 2 revealed to me. I played the original Diablo, but after reaching about the sixteenth level, i got really tired of it, as fun as it was. Now, playing Diablo 2 with its vast environments, i feel like im in heaven. Diablo 2 is not just a cool game, but a well made one too. The gameplay is slick and fast, but so fast that you feel overrun. The storyline is amazing, the environments are interesting, new, and occasionally quite creepy, and the inventory system is wel thought out. The new addition of your "private stash" immensly aids the gameplay. Other additions, like the gems, ethereal items, and mercenaries make the game even more enjoyable. My only real complaint is how poor the graphics are. They pretty much just are plain old bad. They could have made them much better.
All this said, I think that Diablo 2 is one of the best RPG's i have played in a long time, worthy of being compared to modern hits such as Elder Scroll 3: Morrowind and Baldur's Gate. Even with its poor graphics, its still one of the greatest games ever, and it should be played by every PC gamer out there
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Summary: An unregretable buy
Review: The thing about diablo 2 is that it is one of the best, and most addictive, games ever. You can say all you want about how it is all hack and slash and repeats and the bad graphics, but when it comes down to the enjoyment of the gamer, this is the game. I recieved this game 3 years ago, and today, I still play it over new games that have been very highly rated. I recently recieved Tony Hawk Underground, Return of the King, Eye Toy, and NBA Street vol. 2, and yet this was the game which I was playing the next day, trying to get better. Diablo has kept my attention so long for many reasons. First is the incredibly addictve gameplay No matter how good you are, you can always get better, and this creates a constent need to get better. Whether it's stats, skills, or weapons, there is always an improvment to get. The quests are simply a side thought, but they are still helpful. And the hacking just adds on to the fun, because even though it is fun to not cheat, sometimes you just want to go out and destroy all those characters that are giving you so much trouble in the real game. Overall, great game, so don't get it if you want to (your loss), but if you do consider it, stop looking at all the technical stuff and just buy it. The technical stuff tells you nothing, but just playing this game is as fun as a videogame will get.
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