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Nice addition if Sierra would offer better support.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: November 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Before Diablo II came out I played Diablo quite often. I thought HellFire would be a great addition, but after installing it the game would crash or lock up my system. I tried installing HellFire on a different computer with the same results, and Sierra's patch was no help. I'm not suprized since I've had similar problems with Caesar III and Pharaoh.

Sierra has great ideas, but falls short on support after the sale is made.

A Bust as big as they come

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: July 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This has to be one of the worst expansion pack's to one of the greatest games of all time. How do I know, because neither Blizzard or Sierra ever mention the expansion pack on their website--a means to distance themselves away from it.

For example the graphics on the hive level for some of the monsters are absolutely terrible. You have small toad/pumpkin like creatures that attack you WTF? Large Spiders? It doesn't fit the Gothic essence of the game. Not to mention Diablo can again be easily killed, so easy that you don't have to do it, just summon a golem-the same can be said about Nal'krul. The new spells are not attractive either, you have spells that help you search (umm okay), you have spells that you can summon to take you back to the entrance (how is that suppose to help), and such spells as "beserk" only work for the barbarian, which can only found by hacking the command file.

Secondly lester the farmer is a joke...beyond retarded...In order to get to the Cow Quest, or unlock the barbarian (looks exactly like the warrior) you have to hack the command file. And by updating from 1.00 to 1.01 you loose the ability to play multi-player. And I don't understand the point in creating the monk--his best skill is hand to hand combat with the staff....a degenerate version of the Sorcerer.

And the promise of great items, such the King's Swords and the Godly plates are extremely hard to find. Unfortunately to get them you have to use a trainer. I can't believe that the expansion pack now runs for almost $50, what a rip! If I had a thousand I'd sell it all for free.

Lame

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 28
Date: June 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was expecting something good from the expansion even though it isnt multiplayer, the only reason to play diablo is the multiplayer. Dont buy this. Go get diablo ii

Don't bother

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 28 / 34
Date: November 29, 1999
Author: Amazon User

If you loved Diablo like I did then you will probably be disappointed at the lack of invention that typifies this add-on. The "new" levels are quite unimpressive and the "new" spells don't do much for me (with the single exception of the search spell). The new character (the Monk) is nothing more than a composite of the three previous character types. Don't waste your money - save up for Diablo 2.

Lousy add-on to a great game.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 19 / 23
Date: February 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I really expected something special when I bought this and I was disappointed. It takes up more space on the hard drive than the original game, but adds little. Pluses: the ability to run in town saves time; search spell is useful; a few new weapons and spells.

Minuses: The first 4-level expansion dungeon, the Hive was really boring and incredibly annoying visually. Picture gold colored brains and that is what you get - piles of gold pieces blended in too closely with the background. Monsters in this level were boring and easy to kill, even the big boss at the end. The Crypt level was better but still lacking in excitement.

The monk character was uninteresting and unfortunately the other two characters are hidden and must be activated by codes. I do not feel comfortable with typing any key words into my computer's operating system or software and therefore did not access these extra character types.

When I upgraded my computer and needed to re-install Diablo on a newly formatted hard drive last summer, I did not bother installing Hellfire.

ok I guess...not really worth it though

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Luckily I got this from a friend for a few dollars, so I didn'twaste bucks on it. If you haven't guessed, its not worth it. Theonly good additions are the ability to choose difficulty levels on single player games, and the new weapons and spells. The added characters are worthless, for all intents and purposes, and the added levels are pretty bland and not representative of Diablo. to make it more interesting find any diablo cheat site and look for hacker tricks to do interesting things like add a guy in a cow suit to the game. Otherwise, its a pretty dumb add-on.

Some good parts, but mostly worthless.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: September 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'm going to keep this short and sweet. The ability to cast Apocalypse and Nova and other high-level spells is great fun, but the added levels are a waste of time. In addition to that, I think Unique items are programmed to show up more frequently, which isn't as fun as the patient search for them was in Diablo. Get it for cheap if, and only if, you want to.

Good and Bad at once

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

How do I start? The monk is a nice addition but the fact that the 2 better characters are hidden in the game WITHOUT 'skins' to make them visually appealing was a drag. Network play is also available via using a text file with specific wording. The Barbarian was probably the most useful out of all 3 of the characters available in this expansion pack. I was very diappointed by the terrible levels added on to this. They did not fit in with Diablo at all. The new weapons and spells however ROCKED. ANd well.....Running in town ...that was worth the 20 bucks alone!

Diablo fans must own

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 14
Date: April 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you are a hard line Diablo fan, you must get this expansion otherwize your collection would be incomplete. I dont even have to play the game to enjoy it, just knowing I can play it anytime I want is good enough.

Hellfire Patch Won't Work on 64-bit OS

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The 1.01 Hellfire patch, which is difficult to find but IS located on Sierra's FTP server, is a 16-bit executable. It will NOT work on 64 bit operating systems.

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