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Addicted...it figures

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My brother talked me into buying this game. I had no interest before since I am mainly a Command & Conquer fan. I bought it only so we could play together online and by crossover direct connect. Once I installed it and started playing, I play it all the time...when I get home from work, on the weekends when I don't absolutely have to do chores, and just about any other time I can squeeze in. I read reviews about the game before I bought it and I thought it funny that this one guy said his wife would casually walk by, glance at him playing the game, and tell him he was addicted. I've never had my wife tell me that until now...ironic. This is my warning to anyone who hasn't yet bought this game, "be careful or you may get divorced, broke, unemployed, hated, insomnia, lethargy, etc. and not neccesarily in that particular order". Consider yourself warned...great game though!

Get ready for Diablo 3!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

To put it simply, Diablo and Diablo 2 are the best available games of their kind. In spirit, they are successors to the classic game "Gauntlet", where a small group of heroes (each controlled by a separate player) hack their way through some huge number of monsters. You take control of a character of a particular "class" and then proceed to kill monsters, gaining stats, abilities, and equipment along the way. A lot of the enjoyment in these games comes from playing with other people (whether they be your friends or random people on the Internet), so it's really great that Blizzard's online service battle.net is free and easy to use. The price of this collection has apparently been slashed from forty to twenty-five dollars, which is a great deal for these excellent games.

The main draw of these games is their carrot-on-a-stick design: there's always something for you to do to increase the power of your character just a little bit more, whether it be farming for better gear, or simply gaining experience. The game (at least Diablo 2) can also be rather challenging, with the hardest of the three difficulty levels being particularly so. The variety of classes and, within each class, skill builds (again, for Diablo 2) also greatly adds to the re-playability of this game, since no two classes play alike. This sounds rather similar to the gameplay of most popular MMOs (massively multiplayer-online games), but the action in the Diablo series is considerably faster and more complicated.

Blizzard has shown itself to be unusually dedicated to the support of its older games. Both Diablo 2 and Starcraft still receive patch updates to this very day, despite being eight and ten years old, respectively. The online Diablo community has always been active, although since the announcement of Diablo 3 there has undoubtedly been a resurgence of interest in Diablo 2. It's still easy to find up-to-date Internet resources about these games, as well as online games on battle.net.

The graphics in these games is rather primitive, since they were released so long ago, but the gameplay is still the best of its kind, despite the numerous copycat games that the Diablo series has spawned. If you're new to the Diablo series and wondering what the hype is about, buy this collection and see for yourself. More likely than not, you'll be pleasantly surprised, and will be eagerly awaiting Diablo 3 like millions of other gamers out there.

Preparing for the Future

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

As someone who is waiting for the wondrous third installment of the Diablo series, I found going back to the original two to be refreshing. The gameplay was still fantastic and the graphics, although leaving a little to be desired in today's market, were still crisp and pure.

Even though I have played this game to death and run through both the original, DII, LoD, and Hell, I still found it to be a very fun game. Challenging enough to go through it again, but familiar enough to be easy. I do recommend this product if anyone hasn't yet played the series and for those who are hardcore, consider it if your old discs were dying like mine were.

A++

The Battle Chests are always awsome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Blizzard entertainment came out with the fist Diablo in 1998 and the gaming hasn't stopped sense. With one of the first on-line, multiplayer games blizzard hit it off big time. Now with World of Warcraft (WOW) everyone knows Blizzard, however, these games helped to set the tone off the massive multiplayer online game. The first and second Diablos and the expansion to the second one "Lord of Destruction" are all here and are very simple to install and play. Both games are simple point and click, with everything basically explained in the guidebooks and installation instuctions. They are fun, easily played, and fairly addicting. I wouldn't recomment this game for young children, but anyone over 12 could easily play the game, seeing as the basic theme is good vs evil and you play as the good side. Overall, I love the games and enjoy the online free play as well.

Golden!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the greatest games of all time. The hack n' slash action is incredibly addictive; and the online play is as good as ever(8 years or so after the game's launch). I had to buy this game again, because I lost my discs. The price may seem a little high, but I assure you it is worth it!

D2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Even though it's several years old, it's still a great game. Very addictive, though :)

Great set of games!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this a few weeks ago after the explosion of news, screens, and videos that was Diablo III. I grew up playing the Diablo series with my dad and hold the series very dear to me. It brings back a lot of great memories and this set was great for a nostalgic like me. I've owned other copies of the games over the years but this is by far the definitive collection for fans of the game.

As you may know, the collection includes Diablo, Diablo II, Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, and the Brady Games strategy guide for the second game and it's expansion.

The games are both fantastic and have received much critical acclaim over the years. The original Diablo started the franchise off to a great start. In the game you are investigating recent "mysteries" in the town of Tristram. You'll eventually find yourself fighting into the very bowels of hell itself on a hunt to destroy Diablo. Diablo II expanded on the first game a good bit by offering varied environments and experiences. Where in the first game you spend much of your time underneath Tristram in the dungeons and caves, in Diablo II you'll venture outdoors more often. The expansion added some great new additions to the gameplay, new character classes, new items to collect, and a higher resolution to boot.

The Brady Games strategy guide does a great job of introducing you to the world of Diablo. In the first half of the guide, you get a ton of information about each character class, their special abilities, and how best to utilize those abilities. The only thing I found lacking in this section is that only the new character classes added on in the expansion, the Assassin and the Druid, get in-depth strategies for skill-building. It would have been nice to see write-ups on the other classes as well, but this is a minor nitpick.

Overall, the package is a blast and chock full of Diablo goodness. For fans and veterans of the series, this collection helps to replace all of those old forgotten Diablo discs and gives you a nice convenient package to store them in. For newcomers and fans of RPG's who have never played the Diablo series, this set is a must-have in my opinion and something that you owe to yourself to experience. Be warned though, one you're drawn into the world of Diablo, it's hard to get back out!

Great classic

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is a great classic for the PC. I remember years ago playing it every day, for so long trying to get to the highest level and get awesome gear. Even coming back to it years later, it's still as fun as ever, as if I hadn't even left.

Some new things since that day of course but all in all it's one of the best RPG experiences I've had to date. People online are mostly friendly, the game is easy to pick up. And there's no real consequence to not knowing how to build characters. No matter how you decide to develop your character, it's generally going to be good and powerful.

The only complaint I would have is online, on Battle.net, all of the ad bots that now populate the game lobbies and even join games for 20-30 seconds tops, advertising for some site to pay for items. But who can really stop that? They'll always find a way around the anti-bot mechanisms.

Also end-game (post level 90 and above) is somewhat lacking, in my opinion. Most people use their characters to find better stuff or duel others. I myself have no interest in dueling, and the trading economy can get a little boring. But hey, unless you try to power-level, the trip from level 1 to 99 can take a long time.

Ridiculously Overpriced

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

These games are excellent, but Diablo II was released in 2000, and the expansion was released in 2001. Diablo I is even older, and that game was little more than a stripped down clone of Rogue (a free, open source computer RPG) with some prerendered graphics added and a cheezy story.

So in essence, the idea for the game is unoriginal, and the latest content in this package was released 7 years ago, which is fast approaching a decade. Yet, they want us to pay $40 for this. I'm sorry, but that makes absolutely no sense; at best this entire package could be valued at $20, though in all practicality it could be sold for less than that (republished as a $15 single-disc).

Blizzard is ripping you off. Show them how you feel by not buying it--borrow it from a friend.

A great Classic

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I had played the first Diablo years ago and loved it then. Finally got a little extra time to try out Diablo II along with it's Expansion Pack. II was better than the first.

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