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AT LAST, THE LORD OF TERROR IS LOOSE FROM HIS PRISION

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 31
Date: June 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

AFTER THE LONG WAIT THE LORD OF TERROR HAS RAISEN LOOSE AND IN SEARCH FOR HIS BROTHER TO CAST CHAOS UPON THE MORTAL REALM...DARK GOTHIC FATNTASY WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU ASK FOR?TRUST ME ON THIS ONE, THE GRAPHICS SURE LOOKS GREAT, DONT HEAR THE OTHER GUYS THIS GAME REALLY IS AN UPGRADE FROM THE 1st!THIS IS A MOST HAVE TITLE..AND ABOUT NOX IT DOESNT RUN THE SAME RACE AS THIS 1...

Addictive Fun (2-4 years) but online only

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: July 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is of my favorite games of all time you'll be addicted so bad you cant sleep.
*WARNING*
THERES ALOT OF HACKERS WHO RUINED THE GAME

WARNING: Severe Life Damage May Occur!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: July 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Ahh, Diablo. Once again, Blizzard Software has proven their ability to make a game that absolutely engrosses the user and raises the bar for other developers out there. Diablo I spawned a slew of clones following the success of it's action/RPG hybrid, but the only game that could really dethrone Diablo was, you guessed it... Diablo II.

Gameplay first. Blizzard has expanded the number of available character types to 5, with more mage-type classes and a fighter/mage Paladin. As you gain experience points, you are still able to place your experience points in general categories that boost your mana, strength, dexterity, etc. It helps in placing your experience points to know how you want your character to develop. For example, if your Paladin is going to be a fighter, you'll want to boost his strength and dexterity. Still, you'll want to boost his mana as well in order to take advantage of his magical abilities. For the Necromancer and the Sorceress, Mana is clearly the way to go. For the Barbarian, strength, and for the Amazon, Strength and Dexterity.

The skill tree is also insanely expanded, with unique skills for each class. There are so many skills, you need to pick a few to specialize in so that you can rock with them when the time comes! Spread your skill points too thin, and you'll be kinda good at too many things, and not good enough at anything.

The skills alone make for a replayable game, but there is much, much more to DII. The terrain is once again randomized, but much more so than the original. I've started four separate games, and the terrain has been different every time. The quests are more of a driving force in DII, causing you to focus on your task while sweeping through the huge levels. The entire act I is bigger than the first game.

There are a plethora of unique and magical items, none of which I have seen repeated yet. THere is also the new concept of "socketed" weapons and armor, which allows the player to socket magical gems into their weapons and gain bonuses from fire damage to life-stealing. THe unique items also change the way your character looks, which means the player has more of a connection with their character and keeps them on the lookout for items which may look cool when placed on the character.

The monsters are excellent, varying widely in size, shape, type and ability. There are plenty of unique monsters who drop nifty magical and (sometimes) unique items.

And if all that wasn't enough, the story is artfully woven into the game, told between acts with beautifully rendered cutscenes and in-act by NPCs and events as they unfold before you. In the first act you connect with some of the people from the first game, though you may notice some differences!

I have been playing this game so much that you'd think I was sick of it by now. Guess again: I'm just raring to get back home and play some more.

And finally, if the single player wasn't engrossing enough, Multiplayer coop mode is excellent and quite enjoyable. You can party with as many as seven other people (though it does get crowded! ), and share experience points as you clean out the levels. All in all, Diablo II has enough replayablilty for the next three years of my gaming life.

And finally, the graphics. Well, many people have slammed the graphics, saying they haven't changed at all. Not true, especially if you own a good 3D card. While it's true the game runs in 640x480 / 256 colors, if you stop and think about it, could this game really work at higher resolutions? Many items are already tough to pick up, let alone see (though the ALT key makes that MUCH easier in DII), and at 1024x768, the game might be invisible. Plus, there are nifty spell effects for us 3D card owners, and once you get out of the first act, the game stops looking so much like Diablo I and starts really taking shape.

Bottom line: Buy it. Play it. Join me.

It's here - the Relic of (slop)...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: October 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I was hoping for a game that would keep me up nights.

I got a game I wanted to return for a refund.

Essentially, I found it dissapointing. The delivered, boring, buggy product was a far cry from the much-hyped "RPG" style hack and slash game.

At the core of it, it lacks fun - there's nothing there that makes me want to stick with it. It's lackluster - for all its polish, it's dull at the core.

Multiplayer is really only playable with a really fast Internet connection, and due to the problems that plague a stressed Battlenet, you're having a good day if a T1 can get a good game for you.

The quests are trite, and I can't work out how the game is so big when there's so little to do.

It'd be a shame if your fifty bucks this month were blown on this game when there's so many more deserving titles - Baldur's Gate II and Neverwinter Nights, to name two.

And if you really need that hack-and-slash? Buy Darkstone, it's a better Dibbles II than Blizzard made.

Boring....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: December 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I really did not like this game. First of all, the fact that you HAVE to do every single quest and there is only about 20 quests makes the game very narrow. After playing any of the Fallouts and any of the Baldur's Gates game, you can see how pathetic Diablo quests are. Once I beat this game, i tried to replay it. It was so monotonous i could not finish it. The redundancy of only having a certain amount of quests and the utter fact that its just a repeat of itself is totally boring. When i played, Battle Net for Diablo 2 was so overloaded even though I had DSL, i lagged a lot. I tried the expansion which was fun....for a week, b4 it got so boring i had to admit i wasted another $30. From now on im sticking to Interplay and Black Isle games.
Im a heavy RPG'er and I say buy Baldur's Gate 2, for it is infinately better.

defective graphics, shoddy customer service

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: May 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I haven't yet actually been able to play Diablo II. The installation went fine, and the opening movie held so much promise...but the screen that appeared immediately after was so garbled I couldn't make out what it was supposed to be.

I contacted Blizzard's tech support, fully described the problem and provided them with the system information they requested on their convenient on-line form, and waited for the answer they promised would be delivered shortly. And waited. And waited.
I wrote to them again, citing their own website's claim of their commitment to quality products and the satisfaction of gamers in an attempt to goad them into demonstrating that those claims weren't a hollow marketing ploy.

I've been waiting for a reply for a month. If what they truly intended to demonstrate was their contempt for their customers, they've done an admirable job of it.

This is the best game for the PC by far

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: February 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

diablo 2 adds on to the gretaness of its predecessor the original diablo. it has all new character classes and new weapons too. youll probably lose hours of sleep over it and probably a girlfriend on the way

good graphics but bad game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: September 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I had played this game beofre and trying again and i now remeber why i threw it out the window before. First off the graphics are good, I cant complaine there,also the point and click is good, But everything else [is bad]. You have to play for hours just to save from point to point. EX.in act 3 from the one way point (where you can save) to the other you have to play for about 3 hours! If you play for and hour and decide to quit and didnt hit the next way point when you start over you have to kill all the creachers you just did for the past hour. Why cant you save annywhere and keep the creachers dead. Also in the forest you come across manny MANNY of these small creachers that swarm you (from 10-15) you dont stand a chance. Ok then you die. You end up back in town with NO gear. You have to go back to where you died (far away) touch your body to get it all back. But useually there are manny creachers there and you cant get to it. Everything is verry expencive. multiplayer my be better i did not try that.So i guess this game [is bad] in my point of view. Even though i players diablo 1 manny times and LOVED that game.

Diablo II ...... buy it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: October 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

if you have 50,000+ income each year, DONT HESTITAE! BUY IT!

if you have 10 hours each day free, DONT HESTITAE! BUY IT!

if you have a good mouse that you will want to break, DONT HESTITAE! BUY IT!

if you have a hobby of repeative, DONT HESTITAE! BUY IT!

if you love hack and slash and no roleplaying aka brain (for 50 hours) DONT HESTITAE! BUY IT!

if you love to get bored, DONT HESTITAE! BUY IT!

if you just love to kill endless identical monsters over and over, DONT HESTITAE! BUY IT!

dude, even my mom can beat this game. she doesnt speak english, and she cannot read neither. it is so easy that she got bored when she was fighting diablo (the last boss). and she yelled at me: "I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU SEPNT 10 DOLLARS ON THIS CRAP!" (i lied to my mom that Diablo II is only 10 dolars. I dont want to die, you know?)

well, Blizzard is always my favorite game company, but it is really a company that suited best for strategy games, look at Starcraft and WC II, they r awsome.

if you are a gamer happend to look for a roleplaying with balanced battle system, and a great developed story line. i recomand you check out Planescape Torment and Baldur's Gate II. but if you are just as i described above......BUY IT!

It's not that good......

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 92
Date: May 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

It's not that good cause well.... the graphics ar just as bad if not worse than the origanal and the gameplay is dffinitly worse and so is the sound so I would stick with "Diablo" classic

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