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4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I played Diablo, Diablo II, and the expansion pack. These games are good at what they do, which is provide your character with plenty of things to kill and plenty of stuff to take.

There isn't a whole lot of story, and very few subplots. What plot there is totally linear. Neverwinter Nights, or Knights of the Old Republic were more enjoyable for me. But this is still a fine game and I had a lot of fun playing it.

Most Addictive Game of All Time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I originally bought Diablo II when it was released in summer of 2000. I heard that the first was good but hadn't played it. I played offline characters taking them online to trade (that way I could play without lag but still trade items online). I was having a lot of fun until I realized people were cheating (hacking and duplicating items). After giving up the game for a week or so, the dormant addiction kicked in and I went ahead and tried the Blizzard servers (which were then entirely cheat-free and even today, if you play a ladder character cheating is insignificant if it exists at all). Despite having a 56k connection the cheat free battle.net servers immediately brought all the fun back. Plus there were a LOT more people playing on these so called "realms".

Since that time, I've logged countless hours playing this game. I played it at least 8 hours a day for 5 months straight in 2000, and again in 2001 after the expansion was released. Since then I've played the game for at least a month every year. With 7 character classes, numerous potential builds per class, randomly generated levels and the ability to keep developing your character over the course of three difficulty levels the game may be the most replayable game of all time (particularly for a game that isn't focused on player vs. player multiplayer, although PvP is definitely an option).

Diablo pretty much defined hack and slash and Diablo II perfected it. Even 6 years after its release, Diablo II is still the benchmark for all hack and slash games. It's not just a classic, it has truly not been surpassed yet. And it probably won't be until Blizzard releases Diablo III. No World of Warcraft doesn't count.

This pack comes with D2, the expansion and even the original Diablo (which is worth a play through only if you're a hardcore fan already; otherwise skip straight to D2). The expansion pack adds an extra act, two extra classes and a ton of items. It completely changes the experience and is pretty much necessary to playing the game at this point (all of the online updates and gameplay balancing for the original game stopped once the expansion was release)

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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: December 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

best game ever!!!!!!!

Lost in transit

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: May 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I loaned this game to a friend before summer of '03 when his brother loaned it out to someone who left the state. He is just now recieving my game after it was ordered around January and is going to give it to me tommorrow (May 18 2004). This was a wait of 5 months to recieve this product. but having played it before I am very pleased with this game. I find such a wait worth it.

wow

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: September 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I receiced my purchase in great condition, and super fast! Heck, I've almost waited longer for take-out fast food!

This is an awsome game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is cool because single character games are better than army(well there close) but you can kill people with spells and that is very cool. .... d2x is the best. the only thing i dislike is battle net. the only reason is pepole scam you. but offline , i think is way better. people who like to kill people this is the perfect game for you. i really recomend this game.

Has Alot Going for it...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: June 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I must say, at first I didn't like Diablo II. I hated it to be exact. But, it does grow on you rather quick. I might as well get all of the bad features out of the way first.

To begin with, unless you're collecting all the Diablo stuff, Battle Chest can easily be passed up. The regular old Diablo II, without expansion was good, really good, I didn't lag much, never had a connnection crash, etc. All of this stopped when I upgraded. Constant lag when playing online, it will crash quit often.

The mechanics of the game itself isn't very amusing. You get an overhead view, and you basically walk around, clicking on monsters you want to kill, while dungeon trolling. If you're thinking about playing it offline, get ready for an extremely dull and tedious time. Time. Another factor. This isn't the sort of game where you can put 10 minutes a day on. You really need to devote yourself to it. Graphics. While the cinematics are superb, the environments themselves are rather lackluster. There is no varied colors, or awesome sights to see. There is a desert, plain, forest/swamp, snowfield, and underground hellish place. The atmosphere is almost always dark, day or night, not much to look at.

On the other hand, it does come with some great benefits. First, Battle Chest is cheaper than buying each included seperately. It comes with Diablo I and II, Expansion, and Strategy Guide. Well worth the fifty dollars. I cannot stress enough that online playing is the best way! Get together with a few friends in one game, and watch the hours fly by. Yes, this game is addictive. I should clear up what I mean. Like most games, multiplayer is a great way of having a ton of fun. It's hard to describe, but interacting, talking, fighting together, it's much more...exhilirating I guess the word would be. Expansion version makes your inventory twice as big, adds several hundreds of new items and variations. The story is cool, it has cut scenes, not much in terms of development though. There are several characters to choose from, a variety of skills they can learn, and each world is randomly generated. The music is by no means superb but it's par.

Well, to put it simply, you'll either love it or hate it. Online with others is the best way of having a good time, but by now there are better games out, though this is still classic. I would strongly suggest trying this out for awhile, since a large portion of people that get this game buy it because of the hype.

Best Game I've ever played

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: January 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I've played a lot of games in my time, but this game above all others has taken up more of my time than possibly even sleep has.

If you have the Original Diablo, and if you liked it... then you'll love the battle chest. It features both Diablo 1 and 2, as well as Diablo II Lord of destruction which is simply an expansion pack to number 2. It features a new warrior, and a few more levels (characters etc).

You are a warrior sent from afar, destined to defeat Diablo the lord of Terror before all of mankind is consumed by his toturous hell spawning creatures.

In DiabloI you venture into town as a Warrior, Rogue, or Wizard only to find that the town water has been spoiled by an unkonwn source below the grounds of the town cathedral.

Make that first step into the dungeons of chaos, and you'll never return.

Diablo II: Diablo has returned to the underworld. You are now free to roam the planet surface where the hell-spawned army of Diablo has infiltrated the country side. Clear the country side and find Diablo.

As a footnote: the game is on a scale of 1-10 a 9.9. However, when you realize that the games potential (for entertainment) rises like the sun in tristran, you'll find that playing online with friends (or people you don't even know) to be the best online gaming experience ever, bringing that total to well above 12 out of 10...

Good at it's time, but has some serious problems.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: May 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Diablo II and its expansion are of the simple type. You click to move, talk, and attack or pick an item up. Believe it or not it's actually quite fun, and the high degree of customization allowed by the spell trees guarantees that every character will be different. The game has, for it's time, ok graphics and sound. The storyline is... there... It's ok, but don't expect an epic story such as in Blizzards other games like Starcraft or Warcraft. Their are several different character classes to select from, and they are all vastly different, which gives some incentive to try each of the classes. But here's where the good stops and the bad starts. Diablo II has some of the WORST online play I have ever seen. This game suffers from some of the worst lag spikes ever. I have Dell's new XPS system and I can play Battlefield II on maximum settings with virtually no lag at all... I fire up Diablo, and within a hour, I have come across "black walls" where lag is so bad that part of the environment isn't even loaded up, meaning that if the online lags too bad and these "black walls" appear all around you, your screwed, and your only option is to exit the game and come back, and deal with all the respawned monsters. Another case of horrible lag occurred and I found a whole cave of foes that weren't moving or doing anything. I couldn't do anything as well; I couldn't attack them, drink a potion, log off, or even port back to town. After waiting for a minute, the game stopped lagging and I saw myself dead surrounded by a huge horde of monsters. When a game this old lags like this on a brand new very powerful computer, I tend to have issues. Also, another big problem are the PEOPLE online. Blizzard ingenuously made the game to where any player can declare hostility on you whenever they want. So what's to stop that level 99 sorceress from killing you and your other level 15 buddies over and over again until every single bit of your money in your inventory and your "safe" stash has fallen out onto the ground for them to pick up? Nothing. And nearly all of these high levels WILL do this for little or no reason. I finally got to where I only played with people I knew on a pass worded game, simply because I was tired of getting killed over and over by a bored level 99. But it's not just the PK'ers (Player Killers) that ruin the online experience. Constant, page filling adds by people advertising websites to buy items and such fill the chat area, making it very tedious to carry on a conversation, and hackers run amuck everywhere. Whether hacking your corpse after they killed you to make you drop all your gear, or hacking themselves up gear that is impossibly strong, or just stealing your account and destroying all that time spent leveling your characters and getting them powerful gear, hackers also make the online game incredibly unfun. The offline is fun for a while, but it gets tedious and boring after a while. I realize that most of my complaints are to the community, not the game, which s why I rated the game a four out of five. But in terms of fun, this game gets a three. The offline simply is not enjoyable enough to make up for the dismal online experience.

diablo

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: September 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This was supposed to be a "new in box" game, however, it HAD been opened. Even though it had been opened, the game worked and the serial number worked. I have had many hours of fun playing. Thanks. Shipping was also very fast.

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