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Still Amazing After All These Years

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Though I am reviewing games that were made over 7 years ago, they are still amazing. I am actually reviewing 3 games total, which are Diablo, Diablo 2, and Diablo 2: Lord Of Destruction. When the first Diablo was released everyone was so happy many copies of the game were sold and it was a hallmark in gaming because it has brought so many ideas, though this game is a hallmark its "magic touch" has went away and it kind if rapidly gets boring, the thing that is best about it is the story and the characters you can interact with there are plenty of them, but my favorite part of the game is definetly the the many different types of monsters, for when it was made the monsters were amazing. Now the Diablo 2 review. When Diablo 2 was created in 1999 it was amazing and I am glad to say that it still has its "magic touch." It has an amazing selection of monsters to choose from. It has a good warriors to choose from. In the first Diablo when you got something like a magic weapon when you wear it wouldn't show anything except a normal weapon, but now in Diablo 2 you can see difference like the color or even the look. The graphics are even better then Diablo and amazing for its time. It is much more longer than Diablo, and has a great story behind. Somehow it kind of is violent, for example dead bodies of mutilated people and people exploding. This game has is amazing and will remain amazing. Now Diablo 2 LOD (Lord Of Destrucion.) This game isn't much different from Diablo 2, except for that you have 2 more character classes, a new part in the story, and a little more armor and stuff. WARNING: If you have beat Diablo 2 and you are thinking that you can use your file from Diablo 2 On LOD then you cannot do this. It is recommended that you just play LOD instead of normal Diablo 2, because of the extra content. I forgot to mention probably the best part of the game, Battle Net it works on all 3 games and it makes these game even more fun, it lets you play online sort of like a MMO like game and lets you play with friends and beat the game with them. These hallmarks in gaming are great and shouldn't be missed, if you don't have these games now, it is highly recommended that you buy the games.

a classic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Diablo and Diablo II are classics.

The games are hack n' slash; very mind numbing and stress relieving. No thinking necessary. There's very little storyline to either one, which is part of the appeal. User-friendly and straightforward, with none of the character appearance customizations or frills of some more recent games.

Sure, the graphics can't stack up against the more recent RPG type games, but the game play is great. I stayed addicted to the games for a good couple years. Fond memories.

One of the best games I have ever played...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Diablo 2 has taken many, many hours away from my life...but it was too addicting, I couldn't help it! For anyone who likes 2-D style dungeon-crawls (Bulder's Gate, Champions of Norrath, Diablo 1, etc) this is THE game for you! The replayability of this game is phenomenal. There are so many items (various types of weapons, armor, charms, amulets, rings, etc.) and monsters that every single time you play, the experience will be different! You play underground, in deserts, ice caves, forests, jungles, castles, so many places. It can take hours to beat each act (5 in all) and there are three difficulty levels to play (15 Acts total if you play all the way through). Hell is the hardest difficulty setting and VERY challenging. There are many sidequests to play, though your main goal is to kill Mephisto, Baal, and Diablo.
The characters are more fun than any dungeon crawl type came I have ever played because each class has its own sepcific skills, spells, and auras (30 for each of the 7 classes) that it can learn. Because of that, even one class can have several different styles of character by the end of the game.
Many people still play this game online, though I have only ever played it offline, single player. I have talked with peopl who play it online, and if you have a fast connection (I only have dial-up) they say it is a lot of fun.
So if you want to go back to the classic days before everything was in 3-D, and on massive online servers, Diablo 2 with or with out the expansion (which adds the fifth act to each level of the game), is a fun and challenging way to whittle away hours of your life on the computer!

The perfect game to while away those stolen hours

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 56 / 60
Date: April 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have played the whole Diablo line since day one. I have put up with lots of abuse, both from wife and kids, about being "addicted". Hah!!! Then one day.... after I poked my head in the room and ran right back out to see if anyone would chase me.... :)

Seriously, this game has it all. On most of the lower levels, the game is the equivalent of 'Freecell'. It is motion oriented solitaire, kind of mindless and entertaining. As you move up to the harder levels, surprises come and mental challenges. And of course the guy factor... all those new toys!!! (We even like the nifty clothes... errrr, I mean armor :))

The story lines are interesting, the players can be developed in soooo many different ways and actually have to develop different battle modes that translate well to their individual "characters" (Ever see a barbarian with a bow??)

I highly recommend this game, regardless of age or sex, single or multi-player... it rocks!!

Award Winning Action Packed Gift Set!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 26 / 27
Date: February 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This my friend, is an award winning gift set collection for any hardcore gamer. Novice or expert, with Diablo and it's following titles this is a great buy for your money's worth! You get the first-ever action-packed Diablo game, it's following ancestors, Diablo II and Diablo II:Lord of Destruction, and you also get Diablo II and Lord of Destruction Strategy Guide, and a cool poster all for currently twenty dollars! Don't miss out on this awesome gift set collection. In Diablo, you are destined to slaughter the lord of terror, Diablo. You get lots of fun filled quests with an epic story line, challenging bosses, great weapons, lovely items, and good graphics. In Diablo II, the lord of terror returns and again, you must go out and hunt Diablo. Diablo II has more items, weapons, better graphics, four acts, and great new challenging monsters and bosses that will keep you playing. Then, after you beat Diablo II, you must install Diablo II:Lord of Destruction. Diablo II:Lord of Destruction is the expansion pack for Diablo II. In Lord of Destruction the lord of terror doesn't return, but you must seek and destroy a new enemy, Baal. Baal is the big boss, the lord of destruction people say. In Diablo II:Lord of Destruction you get thousands, not hundreds but thousands, of new items, lovelier weapons, lots of new monsters, tons of great big bad bosses, and a brand new act to complete, to seek and destroy the lord of terror, Baal. If you have trouble you can always turn to the Diablo II Strategy Guide that comes along with this great gift collection, and who knows, you may learn something new. Diablo Battle Chest is a great gift collection for anyone who loves Blizzard's other award-winning titles, novice or expert, all non or current Diablo fans will love this gift collection. Why? Because it has the first award-winning title that started it all, Diablo, then Diablo II and Diablo II:Lord of Destruction, two manuals, one big fat Diablo II Strategy Guide, a cool poster, and most important of all, addictive hot sweet sweet sizzling non-stop action that will keep you riveted. So for your average gaming buck, it's not a bad deal, so I say buy this item now, or you'll regret it! :)

"What I saw next was not meant for mortal eyes"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 26 / 29
Date: July 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Diablo Battle Chest includes Diablo, Diablo II and the expansion pack, Lord of Destruction. This is a fun game to play online (World of Warcraft, this is not). You get to play as a hero to fight the forces of Hell. This is a well thought-out game, worthy of being the best RPG of all. I've played AD&D (and still do), but Diablo has some stuff that AD&D doesn't.
Diablo II is separated into 4 acts (five with LOD). Each of the 5 acts begins with a movie. The voice-acting is great. If you're an RPG fan, than you owe it to yourself to play this game.

This Set is a Great Purchase.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: November 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

First of all, this set is great because you pretty much get Diablo I for free, and even spend less than you would buying D2 plus the expansion pack separately. Diablo II is the most addictive and well put together game I have probably ever played. The expansion pack makes it even better. This single set represents literally months of really enjoyable gameplay.

An Old Patron Of The Popular and Extremely Addictived PC Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 14
Date: August 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This whole package includes the first Diablo and the full set of Diablo 2. All together about 5 discs taking about a total of 1.5 GB of harddrive space for not full installation meaning only game and not cinematics, expansion disk require for play. Note: Diablo 1 isn't required for Diablo 2 installation so 1.5 GB is from Diablo 2 alone. Diablo 1 only takes a couple of MB. The main reason anyone should get this is to play it on multiplayer mode with other players through 3 or so different relms-USWest, USEast, and Europe. Different relms just mean different time zones and people supposedly.

Players that should play it nowadays would come upon the option of playing 7 different characters with the expansion set installed. Characters such as: The Necromancer(Summoner/Caster), Sorceress(Spell Caster, taken from D1), Amazon(Melee Bow or Spear related, taken from D1), Barbarian(Pure Melee hand to hand combat), Paladin(Part Caster/Part hand to hand combat, taken from D1), and the two new expansion characters the Assassin(Melee/Caster) and Druid(Summoner/Morpher/Caster). Each one has their own different spells, item functions and looks when equiped, different advantages and disadvantages when it comes to enemies and when versing other player character types and gameplay overall, etc.

Playing this online now would give you the option of either choosing to put your character on normal mode, ladder mode, or hardcore mode. There are more, but I'm not familiar with them. Normal is just as it is, just playing simply for playing it. However, on ladder mode, you get a larger variety of items, the gameplay is different in some situations, things cost differently, and there are seasons in which after each season ends(about a year or so) and all ladder characters get resetted to NORMAL. So ladder is more based on time. Hardcore is hard to the fact that after you die, thats it, just serve for more of a challenge for the risk takers and probably more advance players. Currently ladder season during the making of this review is 2 and 3 is coming soon.

Now, for an online review:

Playing online requires you to be witty and to know your price in the market/trading area. Being witty includes not falling for cheap scams, knowing a good trade from a bad trade, taking advantage of a good situation when they come up, and so on. This is the thing about the game. To become decent you must play about 2 hours a day, to become good you must play about 3-4 hours daily, and the rest are for lifeless people. By the way, anyone here heard about the Korean boy that died from playing this game several days straight without sleep, bathroom breaks, food, etc? It was in the news. Thats another reason why this game becomes a bit shallow later, when the player realizes that no matter how much you play, its hard to get everything you want. Its like going on forever for not much at all. A good player can make about a few profitable trades a day. Gameplay online can also be very laggy at times, the pop error has been fixed. Rushing isn't as easy as you now need to get to level 25 to be rushed and leveled successfully. By the way, you can no longer go all the way to hell cows or nowadays Baal run and go from level 5 to 99.

Expansion therefore has added Baal as the last boss, however, in my opinion, Diablo is still the hardest. Making it a total of 5 acts. Each act contains objectives. Boss goes as follow: Andariel(Melee/Poison), Tal Rasha(Melee/Ice/Poison), Mephisto(Fire/Melee/Ice), Diablo(Fire/Thunder), Baal(forgot, uses some sort of nova and blast). Any further information go to battle.net. This also excluding the secret cow level. Act one, in town, requirements:Warts leg at the town of tristrum, a scroll of town portal, and the cube from act 2.

I remember when I was first introduced into this game around the time of version 1.09. Unfortunately I found out that I was slightly late for one of the most memorable version, version 1.08. 1.08 by the way, was the version of legendary items such as the constricting ring (100resist all, 100magic find ring), 1.08 Valor(over 249+ to vitality from what I remember at lvl 99 ), vampire gaze, shako, stormshield, etc. They make most of their later versions pale in comparison.

I played for a few months in the beginning, got totally addicted to the game, but gave up after the pop error occured during a pvp (player vs player). Pop error is the error in the game during those later versions in which the character would be naked after losing, during the time when you go back out to get your body back, you end up picking up an item and being killed right after, resulting in your main body with all the items that your character was holding to explode and your item laying all over the ground for other people to grab. In this case, my most prized possession at that time, my windforce which took me weeks and 40 SOJS (stone of jordans ring) to get.

Eventually going back to it, however, quitting several months later due to college and complaints from family and friends about my addiction. Sold account for $120.

Just beware, this game can make you swing two ways, make you totally dismiss it or suck you in. Its hard to control yourself. If you have kids that need to do their school work, don't get them this game. Otherwise, get them it, its pretty good and should easily entertain you for months. Nice day everyone.

Now THIS is my kind of video game...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: October 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

...And it's a GREAT value!! To tell you the truth, I haven't played it a whole lot, so I can't rattle off all sorts of neat facts, but I can tell you it kicks the "you know what" (...) out of most games.

The graphics are improved with the expansion pack included, allowing you to have 800x600 resolution even on the original Diablo II, which is cool. There are two new character classes, and they are both welcome additions. Act V with 6 new quests I believe, is on the expansion pack.

Like I said before, this is a...value. At first, I bought Diablo II for [$$]. Then I planned on buying Lord of Destruction for another [$$], but then it hit me...that, my friends, is a [joke]!! I got my money back for Diablo II, and then bought the battle chest which includes Diablo, Diablo II, Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, and an awesome strategy guide...but the best part is....IT'S [$$] LESS THAN THE DIABLO II + EXPANSION PACK COMBO!! Go for the battle chest, it's worth every penny.

It's the best!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: August 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I love Diablo. In my opinion D2's the best game ever made. I've played with my boyfriend's copy but my birthday's coming up and I'm hoping for the battle chest. I've played D1 and D2 before, just not D2x. D1 isn't really so great. People say it has a better storyline but I disagree; it has an insane storyline that revolves around the items you have to give to people. It didn't click with me. However, I love everything about D2. The graphics are great for when it was made, and are still very fashionable by today's standards. It's just not 3D, which puts some people off, but it's a very good looking game and the MOST FUN to play.

And to the person who said that the game is horrible because there are scammers and people with hacks on BNet, it is all true. Playing on BNet is horrible if you don't congregate with people that you know. They all use hacks and steal items and scam you. But there is no problem if you choose not to interact with these people. Besides, this is irrelevant to the GAME itself; this is the fault of people, not Blizzard. The GAME is great but people are not. It is simple as that. The game still deserves 5 stars because it's the greatest game ever made! Very VERY addicting.

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