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Um, no skill required.....?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: February 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The Diablo series must be the worst I've ever played. Come on, you click on the monster, the guy on the screen swings at it (with cheesy "swoosh!" noise to boot!), the monster gurgles & dies. Repeat. Diablo II? same thing! except better graffics &, uh, more variety in "swoosh" noises & who makes them. that's about it...yay......If you want role playing, stick with Dungeons & Dragons (the pen&paper kind), if you want strategy, stick with StarCraft, Red Alert, & Age of Empires.

battlenet

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: June 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have played this game since it came out..Unfortunately battlenet has not improved at all over the years, magic drops are low and bad(personally i think servers get cut of ebay sales)and the gameplay would be good if battlenet would clean up the frequent problems they have with lag and droping u from games, yes i have a high end comp, with a high end card and connection so dont ask.

Same Old Diablo

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 20
Date: January 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Some of you may be familiar with the first Diablo game a fun game to play untill everybody and his brother figured out how to hack their characters. Pretty soon everyone was in "GOD MODE" the game was no longer fun to play. So now we have Diablo 2 a fun game to play and Blizzard even figured out how to end "GOD MODE" they created the "Realms" where you are safe from all the "hackers". The way the "Realms" work is your character is not yours no it is the property of Blizzard and it is maintained on their computors not yours. Your Character and all the items on him/her not yours Blizzards. This should be fine you can't really take your character with you. He has no use other then to play Diablo 2 right? Thats what I thought too. Until my lvl 61 character showed up one day with NO items. Mine and about a thousand other players. Our characters were hacked into and after hours of play we are forced to continue with nothing start over and hope it does not happen again or quit. What does Blizzard have to say?

Well the items were not ours anyways. Remember?

A real unbiased review

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: September 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am a Blizzard fan, I have bought many of the previous games that the company released like Starcraft and Warcraft 2, both of which are not only some of the best games I have ever played, but in the case of Starcraft, the single best game I have ever played and a game which I probably have played more than any other game. So I had high expectations of Diablo 2.

Diablo 2 feature pretty impressive sound, good multiplayer, and is a mildly fun game. The only real problem though, ends up being the downfall of the whole game. Diablo 2 doesn't have a real good story and is almost totally linear, not involving many tasks that are not part of the storyline. Now a lot of times this is not a problem. However, in Diablo 2, it's linear nature is a huge problem because of the pedantic gameplay. The gamplay is fun for a couple hours, but by the time you reach act 3, you will be totally sick of just hacking through millions of monsters at every turn, and i'm not kidding, there are monsters everywhere in this game. Now the game being linear, there is nothing to take away from the boredom and frustration of fighting millions of monsters.

After I beat this game I decided to check out the game on the internet, as this is usually where blizzard games shine. Unfortunately, in Diablo 2, there is no real difference between the internet gameplay and the single player gameplay. On the internet, you and other players are stuck in games of about 8 people, where the mission is to journey through the 4 stages of the first person game. That was a major shock to me, as I thought that if blizzard had made the multiplayer game include new maps and more pvp combat with allies against allies and goals to accomplish it would make up for the bad single player experience. Unfortunately blizzard did not do this, and I gave up playing the game totally because after playing the levels on the internet with a new character i had to level up from the beggining, I realized that it was more of a chore than fun.

In the end I can say only a couple good things about this game: one the cinema scenes are spectacular, and two the multiplayer network is so solid from years of hosting diablo and starcraft that even though i did not like playing the game, i would play every once in awhile by getting sucked in through talking with people in the battlenet chat boards.

If this isn't your opinion, fine, but I have been fair in this review to the best of my abilities.

Diablo II

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 18
Date: November 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is addictive. You'll spend hours after hours on this game and You'll never get tire of developing your characters... It's like seeing people developing their pokemons on gameboys. I would not recommend people with bad time management to play this game. One thing dissapoints me about this game is that it has one ending only...

Expands on the Original

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I received DII for my birthday and just started playing it. It has some of the same familiar controls as Diablo. Game play is just as easy.

What's different? DII gives you 5 character classes to choose from. Each class has it's own "Skill track" to develop unique powers as it increases in level. The game also has a nice variety of indoor and outdoor landscapes for adventuring - not just the dungeons of the first Diablo. That's great. There are also many new monsters to battle. They're ugly and fun.

Characters can also carry gloves, a belt and boots in addition to the helmet, armor, weapons, amulet and rings. That's more magic stuff for you to enjoy.

What keeps this from being a 5 star game for me is the Save feature. When you save a game, and go back, you begin back at camp. You are not placed back to the spot where you saved. That's kind of annoying. Also, if you're killed, you lose all your equipment (the stuff that's on your body) and gold. When you re-start, you can go back to the spot where you were killed and retrieve your stuff (minus the gold). These are minor inconveniences worth mentioning, but they won't keep me from continuing on my adventure.

I'm going to forge ahead to destroy Diablo and save the world.

play games!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 33
Date: September 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

this game is just awesome.. everybody gotta play this.

Got me Into RPG's

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 18
Date: November 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I had never played an RPG before Diablo II, they had never interested me. I have always been a fan of strategy/war games and simulations. I found Diablo II impossible to put away. The first time through single player experience is so rewarding it's not even worth discussing. What really sets the game apart is the mltiplayer (free) and continuing single player options. You could still be trying new things out when Diablo III comes out (knowing Blizzard that should be around 2004).

This game is awesome!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 30
Date: September 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I just play and play and play. It never gets tireing and you just can't stop. Its totally worth it!

Good Good and a lot more good

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The games inside this are very interesting, you do require some skill (#1 mostly) Diablo 2 tends to have a lot more items, spells , the new charectors, a lot more enemies, and a TON of bosses. Also #2 tends to start of easier than in the first.(which is med at start)it then gets harder and harder.Unfotuenetly #2 isn't as hard as 1 most likely because in #1 the items were a lot weaker. As in 2 the items are more damage inflicting.So personally #2 is a better start for begginers, but the storyline falls apart..it is entirely up to you.Both strategy guides are very good but in order to beat the game you need skill more than anything.And finnaly I deeply suggest you by this product, you WILL be HAPPY after purchase.

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