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A good, simple, fun, violent game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: November 19, 1999
Author: Amazon User

It's a great way to bash, shoot, and fry demons and monsters. Game basics aren't very original; Tunnels of Doom for the TI 99/4A looked a lot like it in '82. But the graphics and multiplayer aspect make it stand out.

A Great Classic...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Although by now, Diablo is beginning to show it's age in the gaming industry, it remains one of my favorite games of all times. The combat system is very well done in which you choose your armor, weapons, magic rings/amulets, and spells in a menu and can change these based on what you go into combat with. The countless possibilities of combinations are numberless, and there is a slight variation in quests each time you play.

The theme is basically a medieval one in which you venture deep into an underground labyrinth to battle monsters and such that you've heard about, and you end up having to face monsters of mammoth proportions (The Butcher), Magical Skill (Lazarus), and a combination (Diablo). The game really shouldn't be intended for kids that are at an age where gore and such could sicken one, as there are themes of death, sacrifice, and unholiness in the game.

I found the game very enjoyable however, and at the moment it's at a bargain price. If you have played Diablo II already, you'd probably like the first Diablo, although Diablo II is much better. I'd still suggest playing the first one before taking on Diablo II. There are numerous spells and such that you can learn to aid you on your quest, and items appear randomly after battling Monster bosses (regular monsters with special powers...i.e. one with magic resistances). The game implores you to learn the lay out of the dungeon, and you begin to press deeper into the valleys of heck.
The degree of difficulty is not too bad, where after you get used to the game, you realize that all you really need is time to beat it, and plenty of saves. The usefulness of the shops and magic items also turns the tides against darkness in your favor. I'd recommend this game to anyone who's out of elementary school and doesn't mind the gore and violence to reach a game with great gameplay and a relatively detailed storyline, with interesting quests.

A gaming classic that's still lots of fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Diablo is now looked on as the classic RPG that brought great storyline and replayability to the world. It's still as fun as it was when it came out.

It's hard to remember now, with so many dark games out, but Diablo was really one of the first that had truly evil forces to contend with.

The graphics might be a little blocky compared to current day games, but it's still amazingly fun to play. The levels that are different each time you play, the various character classes, the assortment of armor and weapons you pick up, all add up to great fun both the first time and tenth time you go through.

Plus with on line play, you can build up a character and head through quests with your friends from around your neighborhood or around the world.

If you're a fan of Diablo 2, Dungeon Siege or other hack-and-slash RPGs, you really might want to pick up Diablo and see where they all came from. You should be able to find used copies of the game pretty easily, and even buying it new is at a discount price!

One of my favorite games!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Let me first say, Diablo may be over 10 years old, but its still great for hours of enjoyment! My boyfriend owns the game and turned me onto it, and WOW! I couldn't believe how great the graphics were for such an old game.

The story line rocks as well. You have to journey to the depths of hell to kill. Diablo has escaped from hell and is destroying the town. You get to choose from three types of characters to complete your quest: the Warrior, Rouge, or Sorcerer.

The great part about this is that once you beat the game, you can try the other types of characters.

Love the story and the game! Highly recommended!

An action classic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game was and still is a fun adventure. While the game mechanics are fairly repetitive, click to hack and slash, it does offer random maps, a large assortment of items, and strategy in the form of monster resistances/immunities.

By today's standards this sounds weak, yet in reality it has the simple style that makes it easy to learn and hard to put down. Quickly, you get sucked into doing just one more level since you flew through the last one so quickly, only to spend an hour or more carefully picking your way through, so as not to be overwhelmed.

Easily accessible and playable again and again by yourself or with a group of friends, keeps Diablo a worthwhile value.

A True Classic!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game! it was fantastic!(and still is) It may be old...but thats not the piont! I think this is a wonderfull game..i rencently bought Baldurs Gate and think this is just as good if not better! And yes i Realize Diablo 2 is great and all, but personally I enjoy this one better(personally, ok so dont hate me '-_- )T...well anyway this is a must buy for hack-and-slash and RPG fans love ya!

Wonderful game, excellent price.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: September 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I bought Diablo for the price. I figured, "$9.99 for a game that was a best seller and that has a sequel coming out, what can go wrong?" I was right. I got Diablo and I was hooked. After the first few hours I could leave. I was an avid player of Warcraft II and Diablo was even more exciting. The graphics are good, the story is good, the game is good. It was like a good book, I just couldn't put it down. Get the game. Every level poses new enemies and new weapons that you had never thought you might get. The best $9.99 I ever spent.

Gold and Gloryhounds

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: September 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Diablo is the best game I have ever played. There is no silly role playing and impossible mazes. It incorporates an excellent atmosphere with exciting gameplay. You have to be careful playing it alone because it can get quite scarey. I know a certain bloke who we will call "Liam" who actually got so scared he had to take a few days off work and eventually wound up selling his house on acount of a dark corner in the basement that reminded him of the catacombs level.

Anyhow two player action is excellent and I recomend conning your sucker friends to playing the warrior character while you pick the Rogue character. The warrior has to get in close to do any damage to enemies. The Rogue character is best at bow and arrows so you can kill plenty enemies without fear of taking damage. If you follow my advice you let your sucker friends engage enemies first then you can either pepper the melee with arrrows or run around picking up gold and items. The only drawback can be if your friend is like my friend Liam who has eyes that literally light up at the sight of gold or sweet looking swords and other items. I suspect he has a large case of gloryhoundism. He swoops in and grabs the good stuff doublequickspeed leaving you with nothing. All you can do is try to abandon him in a melee fight then when he gets good and dead you slip in a rifle his smelly corpse for loot. Liam gets quite upset at this but fair is fair. Plus I think he is just greedy when it comes to the gold on account of he just got told by his real life wife he's only allowed to spend sweet cash on essentials like clothes, food and stuff for the kids. Jokes on him though, wifey outsmarted him and grandfathered the clothes catagory into the rules so she can spend loads on shoes and clamdiggers with no fear of breaking her own rules.

This one time Liam made me so mad that I slammed the bathroom door when I went for a wizz, this silly little clay lizard he got from Mexico fell of the wall thanks to his shoddy nailing job. Anyhow my reflexes were hyped up from a killer diablo session plus I was angry about being cheated out of my rightful share of the gold. Anyway, as soon as the lizard moved I thought it was actually alive, I was a little boozed too, and I'm a littl ashamed to admit that when I'm on the booze I like to beat stuff up. Well I layed a beating on the lizard quicksnap. I think I broke it's leg off or something. Liam was plenty sore but it's his own fault for getting me so riled up and not monitoring my boozin'.

I made it up to him by turning him on to this awesome band known as the Streets. They are his favorite now and he would still be listening to Def Leppard and their crappy one armed drummer if it wasn't for me.

watch your back

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: September 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is a lot of fun. It is even more fun (and less scary) if you play it with a friend. If your friend is Joe the "Duke of Winona" you best be watching your back though. Joe like to play the rogue and Joe isn't fussy about who he shoots his arrows at. I can't count the number of times my character lay dead beside chest, back full of arrows while Joe jumped up and down beside me yelling "Yahoo! More Loot!" He wasn't careful about drinks on my new sofa either.

uncareful + new loot = spilly joe

One time he even broke some wooden lizard I brought back from Mexico. It was hanging on the wall and he was a bit dizzy on account of too many beers and it being way past the time he usually retires for the night and he bumped into it and it fell.

Another thing Joe does is hang back a lot. I'd call him "old hang-back joe" because he'd wait for you to clear out a room and when you're standing there trying to catch your breath, in he'd sweep and collect all the loot.

Instant Addiction!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'd beaten Baldur's Gate (+TSC), but rather than basking too long in that glory, I rushed back to the nearest Electronic Boutique, only to find there was nothing that appealed on their shelves (I refuse to pay full price for just released games, so Torment was out). The helpful assistant, when quizzed as to what someone who loved BG would like to play, mentioned Diablo - "an oldie but a goodie"; they didn't have it in stock, but it had recently been added to the "budget list" (30 of our miserable Aussie dollars, which just now is equal to about 10 cents US). My mission for the rest of the day was to track it down - 5 stores later, $30 poorer, it landed on my PC. And the next two days were lost.

As someone else mentioned, this is not your traditional RPG - the nearest thing I can compare it to is AD&D's Dungeon Hack (all those oldies out there might remember it - I must have played that about a zillion times all those years ago). Each new game you play has the same end result, but the replayability comes in how you get there. Each new game spawns a dungeon filled with different items and a different combination (8, I think) of the 15 possible quests. You only have three classes to choose from, and the class stats are always the same, but that means character generation is as simple as choosing a class and thinking of a name.

After BG/TSC, which took me I don't know how many hours over about 3 months to beat, I was fairly surprised when my warrior knocked it over in about 10 playing hours (and one star is lost from my rating because the final conflict was surprisingly easy, but then I did have a kickass weapon, pretty fantastic armour, the Mana Shield spell and plenty of Mana potions!), but I immediately generated a rogue and set off again!

This is the kind of game you can play single character for a spare hour without having to get too involved in any plot consequences - the only strategy is kill or get killed! Beats playing patience every time!

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