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Summary: Good game
Review: A lot of people have criticized this game because of its lack of high-resolution graphics. At the same time, a lot of people are praising this game saying it was the best thing ever. I really like the game, not because of the graphics, not because it is a sequel, but because of the gameplay. I spent thirteen hours straight playing this game. I have never done this before.For those of you who are after cutting edge graphics, this one may not be for you. But if you actually like to play your games instead of only watching the cut-scenes, this is a good game to get. 4 out of 5 stars because no game is perfect.
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Summary: The wait is finally over
Review: Being a game freak of the first Diablo, I must admit that I am once again with Diablo 2. This game is very addictive and time will evaporate in a blink of an eye! I am already on Act 2 and currently a level 21 Paladin. I really enjoy using the "bash" & "multiple hit" skills and these have helped me advance further faster in game play. Okay, now for the bad stuff... First the load time takes forever! Over four minutes on my system and I don't know why! I have loaded different drivers for my Voodoo Banshee but no help there. I am not sure if this is just my system so I hope no one else has the same problem but when it loads it runs perfect. When you die you have to find your corpse. This can be very annoying considering that when you die all weapons, armor, etc. are left with your dead body so you have to search for it. Or basically just quit and sart again and your corpse is in town. When you save your game do not expect that your town portals will remain as well. Be sure that you activate all your way points to help you along. Monsters will regenerate so you will have to fight them again or run to get back to where you town portaled from. I have had to repeat some quests twice. I dont know this happens but it is bothersome. Overall considering I am about half way through this game, it is very entertaining and addictive. I would give this game five stars if they would have give you the capability to save the game without quitting.
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Summary: WARNING: Severe Life Damage May Occur!
Review: Ahh, Diablo. Once again, Blizzard Software has proven their ability to make a game that absolutely engrosses the user and raises the bar for other developers out there. Diablo I spawned a slew of clones following the success of it's action/RPG hybrid, but the only game that could really dethrone Diablo was, you guessed it... Diablo II. Gameplay first. Blizzard has expanded the number of available character types to 5, with more mage-type classes and a fighter/mage Paladin. As you gain experience points, you are still able to place your experience points in general categories that boost your mana, strength, dexterity, etc. It helps in placing your experience points to know how you want your character to develop. For example, if your Paladin is going to be a fighter, you'll want to boost his strength and dexterity. Still, you'll want to boost his mana as well in order to take advantage of his magical abilities. For the Necromancer and the Sorceress, Mana is clearly the way to go. For the Barbarian, strength, and for the Amazon, Strength and Dexterity. The skill tree is also insanely expanded, with unique skills for each class. There are so many skills, you need to pick a few to specialize in so that you can rock with them when the time comes! Spread your skill points too thin, and you'll be kinda good at too many things, and not good enough at anything. The skills alone make for a replayable game, but there is much, much more to DII. The terrain is once again randomized, but much more so than the original. I've started four separate games, and the terrain has been different every time. The quests are more of a driving force in DII, causing you to focus on your task while sweeping through the huge levels. The entire act I is bigger than the first game. There are a plethora of unique and magical items, none of which I have seen repeated yet. THere is also the new concept of "socketed" weapons and armor, which allows the player to socket magical gems into their weapons and gain bonuses from fire damage to life-stealing. THe unique items also change the way your character looks, which means the player has more of a connection with their character and keeps them on the lookout for items which may look cool when placed on the character. The monsters are excellent, varying widely in size, shape, type and ability. There are plenty of unique monsters who drop nifty magical and (sometimes) unique items. And if all that wasn't enough, the story is artfully woven into the game, told between acts with beautifully rendered cutscenes and in-act by NPCs and events as they unfold before you. In the first act you connect with some of the people from the first game, though you may notice some differences! I have been playing this game so much that you'd think I was sick of it by now. Guess again: I'm just raring to get back home and play some more. And finally, if the single player wasn't engrossing enough, Multiplayer coop mode is excellent and quite enjoyable. You can party with as many as seven other people (though it does get crowded! ), and share experience points as you clean out the levels. All in all, Diablo II has enough replayablilty for the next three years of my gaming life. And finally, the graphics. Well, many people have slammed the graphics, saying they haven't changed at all. Not true, especially if you own a good 3D card. While it's true the game runs in 640x480 / 256 colors, if you stop and think about it, could this game really work at higher resolutions? Many items are already tough to pick up, let alone see (though the ALT key makes that MUCH easier in DII), and at 1024x768, the game might be invisible. Plus, there are nifty spell effects for us 3D card owners, and once you get out of the first act, the game stops looking so much like Diablo I and starts really taking shape. Bottom line: Buy it. Play it. Join me.
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Summary: It's like a drug...
Review: I get on the computer as soon as my kids are asleep, and when I go to bed, I still see the scenes behind my eyes. My fingers twitch all day long with the urge to leave work early for just a little more game time... The graphics are Great - a lot of imagination went into making things look interesting. The world is HUGE! and I love the fact that it's split up into four acts. I have caught a glimpse of some of the screen shots from acts II, III & IV and can hardly wait to get there myself... Buy this game - it's worth the money!
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Summary: An Excellent Sequel To The King Of All Adventure Games!
Review: Diablo II does more than deliver on all the promises, it lives up to all the EXPECATATIONS that fans of this game, the original of which was voted Game of the Year by two separate organizations, had for it, which is an accomplishment in and of itself. The graphics aren't tremendously improved, but loading times, gameplay and the story itself are. It has more of an RPG feel to it, which is nice, but still doesn't leave you feeling unsatisfied when you're looking to be standing in a pool of blood and body parts. The creatures get tougher at a reasonable rate, and death can be nasty if you die in a bad area (you actually have to go retrieve your body and equipment!). You can avoid this by exiting the game and restarting, so your body appears in town next to you, but while you get your equipment, you've lost all your money (make GOOD use of your Stash in town! Save some money!). Overall, a WONDERFUL game that will provide many hours of role playing excitement (and many late nights; the caffeine industry ought to give kickbacks to Blizzard!).
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Summary: Blizzard for President
Review: After experiencing WarCraft II, StarCraft, their add-ons, and Diablo, I'm not at all surprised that Diablo II is a great game. Though I'm scarcely through with 1/4 of it, I could sit here all day and list all the great things about this game: e.g., inventive storyline; cool monsters; great music, sounds, and voice acting; very good (if not great) graphics; incredibly friendly (Blizzardian) interface; utterly addictive playability; need for catheter, NO-DOZE, back rub; etc. Though only one of the three discs is a play disc, this game is huge; if the smaller original Diablo has endless playbility, Diablo II's playability is "endless plus." Since it's pretty violent, I won't let my kids watch me play it. But that's a good thing; otherwise, I might play it too much. Based on what I've played, there are a very few "cons," if you'd call them that: e.g., I at least initially dislike the Save feature even less than that of the original; I don't like having to kill all the same monsters over and over. There is little if any improvement in the graphics over the original, but that ain't all that bad. Also, in the original I enjoyed littering Tristram from one end to the other with all the stuff I would find in the dungeons. With Diablo II, you have to sell the stuff you find to Gheed, store a measly bit of it in your stash, or else lose it all when you exit the game. But really, this might turn out to be a minor criticism. So was D2 worth the wait? Yes, I think so. Blizzard knows what it is doing. I just hope that it never becomes a subsidiary to a greed-based parent co. whose philosophy condones churning games out before they're ready. If and when that happens, the Blizzard magic will be lost. Meanwhile, I look forward--likely a LONG WAY forward--to WarCraft III.
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Summary: FUN ... PERIOD!
Review: Unlike most pc gamers, I never played the first Diablo. With all the hype and how much my friends enjoyed the first game, I figured this would be the game to buy. Well, it is. The fun and reaplayability factors definitely make up for the less than stellar graphics in this game. The controls and gameplay are superb. The sound and music is some of the most realistic I've ever heard (except for some of the recent FPS games). I haven't played on Battle.net yet simply because I'm having too much fun playing my own game and TCP/IP'ing with my buddies. Me and my friends started our game after we were halfway through with Act 1 in our own games, and we were amazed at how much fun we were having even though it was our second time through Act 1. When you play online with others it proposes a whole new slew of options like trading, etc. (teamwork!). What makes the game so replayable is that everytime you play it, it's different. Even if you play as the same character, you will end up getting weapons in a different order. The weapons and magic are just AWESOME by the way. It's so cool how killing the same enemies over and over (and over) again can be SO MUCH FUN! Usually I HATE normal RPG games, but this action RPG stuff is my bag ... baby!
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Summary: Welcome back Diablo
Review: The inovative Diablo is back. This game is a worthy sequel to a game that has lead to many a wasted hour. This game possess is great the first time you play it, it's action packed, and exciting( a quality that more then a few Role-Playing games lack)and it has a great story, I was actually in a hurry to find out what was going to happen next in the story, the movies between Acts are wonderfully done. And the best part is the game has great replay value, with five classes to choose from, and two modes to play after you beat to one before it. Each level of play is harder (much harder) the the level before it, and although you know the story lines if you play the second to levels, the challage of the quest are still there with the increased difficultity of the enemies, in short wide varity of play plus the online mutli-player aspects, make for hours more of wasted time in front of your computer, enjoy
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Summary: Very Good
Review: In my opinion this is a great game. A lot of people are complaining that the graphics are too much like the first Diablo. Well I am glad for that. My old computer is just good enough to hold this game on it and if the graphics were too much better and more dazzling, well I wouldn't be writing a review because I couldn't play the game. The story line is very good and so are the cinematics. No blocky jerky stuff on them at all. I haven't played any other classes other than the barbarian, which I beat the game with yesterday, so I cannot expand on classes, but the new skill trees are quite nice. And so are the quest boxes and the addition of way-points. The game has a few down falls to. The only way to save the game is to exit to. So instead of having the same option you have the "Save and Exit" option. Another down fall it that the monsters respawn when you leave the game. So if you are in a place with no way point near, but you have to go, you're going to have to work your way back to where you were before. The stash option is very nice, but there isn't alot of room. So stuff I'd normally just drop on the ground has to be sold or kept in my inventory taking up space. If I leave things on the ground, they will dissapear when I save and exit. Although this game is missing a few features I liked from the first game, it is still much harder and very addictive (until my eyes get droopy and I get a head ache from the screen) :) I think this game deserves the 5 stars I gave it. One thing: I got the Special Edition version of the game (the game itself is the same) and it came with a DVD that I cannot get to work on my DVD-drive. Any help?
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Summary: Another Classic to add tothe first
Review: With the same interface as the origonal, I really appreciated the familar hit keys, with the addition of new ones. The run feature as well as the alt key to see items on the ground make Diablo II a great game. It has 4 parts, each as long as the origonal Diablo, and a lot more challenging. If you like the origonal Diablo, I'd highly suggest purchasing it's sequal. If you havn't played it, and you like RPGs.... I would recommend trying it at least from a friend who owns it. Look on the box for all the need little things they've added, there's not enough room to mention them here... I'm very picky when it comes to sequals, and this one rose above my expectations.
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