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This game is Poetic Justice!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Diablo 2 takes off where the prequel ended. The wanderer, namely you from the original, became possessed by Diablo himself. Now he is on a mission to revive his brothers, Mephisto and Ba'al, for the ultimate onslaught.

The story used here basically allows the advancement from one town to the next via an amazing motion video sequence. The game itself is a mix of R.P.G/hack'n'slash, but don't be put off, it is highly addictive and extremely recomended. No longer do you just click on everything you see to fight, but through advancement in character levels, you assign skillpoints to skills through a skill tree. Each of the 5 character classes are unique with their own set of skills, so it is completely replayable.

I finished it in single player mode, but can't get enough, and log in each day to Diablo's free server Battle.net where you can go co-operatively or head-to-head with other players from around the world!

POEM:

Diablo 2 is extremely addictive.

Buy it now if you wanna have fun.

But don't expect to move from the screen.

Never again will you see the sun.

Diablo II it was worth the wait

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

For all you diablo fans, diablo 2 is going to really rock your world.It has four new acts many towns and great new graphics..The paladin, necromancer, sorceress, barbarian, and amazon all have many unique skills and their own weaknesses. If you play with all of the characters you can figure out how to make your character stronger against some weaknesses. I havn't recieved my copy yet but ill be sure to be playing it 24/7 see you all on battle.net

HTK~IRA

Hooked on Diablo II already!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game had me hooked even before I started beta testing for Blizzard. I was still playing Diablo until I got the e-mail that I was going to beta test! That was the first time I ever uninstalled the first Diablo from my system.

The new games add a ton of new features. The best I think is the skill tree that allows you to mold your skills that you want. Up to 30 different custom skill tree branches to follow.

The collectors edition is the only way to go! You get the 25 minute widescreen DVD & 70 minute soundtrack packaged with the greatest PC game of the year!

Thank you Blizzard Enterainment!

Pushes the envelope in Role Playing games!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Definitely a great sequel to popular Diablo. Its very tricky to update the game enough to improve features and functionality and preserve the original theme at the same time. The folks at Blizzard North did an excellent job of it!

Playing the Beta, the only problem I noticed was that the graphic rendering was painfully slow. I am hoping that this is endemic to the Beta version. It takes about 3 minutes for the game to load on a Pentium 450 with 128MB RAM and a 16MB TNT nVidia Video Card.

Otherwise, the visual and audio effects of the game are breathtaking and the game play is very interesting and more intuitive than the original version.

The wait is finally over

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Being a game freak of the first Diablo, I must admit that I am once again with Diablo 2. This game is very addictive and time will evaporate in a blink of an eye! I am already on Act 2 and currently a level 21 Paladin. I really enjoy using the "bash" & "multiple hit" skills and these have helped me advance further faster in game play. Okay, now for the bad stuff... First the load time takes forever! Over four minutes on my system and I don't know why! I have loaded different drivers for my Voodoo Banshee but no help there. I am not sure if this is just my system so I hope no one else has the same problem but when it loads it runs perfect. When you die you have to find your corpse. This can be very annoying considering that when you die all weapons, armor, etc. are left with your dead body so you have to search for it. Or basically just quit and sart again and your corpse is in town. When you save your game do not expect that your town portals will remain as well. Be sure that you activate all your way points to help you along. Monsters will regenerate so you will have to fight them again or run to get back to where you town portaled from. I have had to repeat some quests twice. I dont know this happens but it is bothersome. Overall considering I am about half way through this game, it is very entertaining and addictive. I would give this game five stars if they would have give you the capability to save the game without quitting.

We've spent the whole year in worthless struggle of waiting!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

It has been almost a year or even more since I found out about Blizzard's new project...Since then there wasn't single moment that I didn't think of an excitement that this game will bring(well not in such extreme way, but still). And finally two weeks ago there it is, brand new on the shelf, so long awaited and...so not worth of waiting. I do agree with most about the great cinematics and good graphics, but for the sake of a good RPG, advanced 3D technologies and good plot line, what happened to the tradition of Diablo...why the greatest hack 'em up, get cool stuff and spend good time game turned to be a boring decade old idea...Tell me, what was so bad about monsters just staying dead and not reapearing every time you save, and why the character has to appear in town every time you save and hack through all those hordes of monsters again(including Quest monsters...Mephisto, Smith, and etc.) The items in every town are so expensive but give not a very good advancement before the truly hordes of monsters that there are out there...Those endless lacking any innovation sandy or forestry planes, where some of them with inclusion of some dungeons and labyrinth are not related to the game in any way...I played Torment before this game and in comparison the puny 15 quests which I finished in less than a week, the easy to kill Mephisto and Diablo(even easier then other lesser magic monsters...say with stone skin)just weren't worth that nervous waiting and the truly briliant legacy of Diablo!

Diablo 2 = Good Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If your like me and haven't played diablo 1, but your interested in RPG's then Diablo 2 is right for you. D2 is great, i played for 8 hours and it seemed like 15 minutes. the gameplay is VERY addicting and will keep you wanting more. the first act is a little dull but the rest are FANTASTIC. my friend says this version has less satan involved which i think is better, because it wasn't needed to make the game better. buy this game.

Diablo 2 - A more involved Gauntlet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Diablo 2 is really a more pumped up Gauntlet. (Do you remember the game with the famous sayings, "Warrior needs food badly"?) That said, I can't remember playing a game that is so consistantly enjoyable. A personal prefrence that I make in my gaming choices is that I don't like to spend hours figuring out puzzles and mazes. A little brain work is ok, but get me to the action, the monsters, the different weapons and levels quicker. Diablo 2 succeeds overwelmingly here. Non-stop action, yet still quest based. The game guides you through effortlessly, but never just gives everything away. A must-buy for casual and avid gamers alike.

Another increible Blizzard's production

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Lord Of Terror
When Diablo came out almost 4 years ago, it was the surprise hit of the 1997. One day there wasn't Diablo, the next it was on store shelves, and the day after North American productivity plummeted 25%. Although Blizzard liked to classify it as a RPG, it wasn't really one. More like an action-RPG, since so much of the game relied on reflex and mouse-clicking. The story development was slim and roleplaying aspects non-existent. Yet the simple, addictive gameplay hooked us all and had us begging for more.

After years of development, a few promises, a few leaked features and dozens of delays - Diablo II is here. The Second Coming of Hell and another dip in all IT stocks came to my desk less than a week ago, and grudgingly I accepted the job of reviewing the game.

For those of you who've been in a timewarp the past 5 years and never heard of Diablo or Diablo II, let me give you a brief rundown on both.

Diablo
Diablo was a game where you played a hero of one of three character classes - Warrior, Sorcerer or Rogue. This hero operated out of a small town called Tristram, underneath which Hell itself was opening up. At first simply trying to clear the local corrupted Cathedral of vermin infestation, the hero soon discovers that something much more sinister is afoot. Hence you keep going deeper and deeper through the game until you discover that none other than the Lord of Terror himself - Diablo - is at the root of all the problems. You see, he, along with his two other brothers - form the Three Prime Evils. They got banished from Hell by lesser evils and then rampaged around the world until they were captured in soulstones given to mortals by the angel Tyrael.

Through 4 different dungeons having 4 levels each you fought, died, and recovered your own corpse. You'd restart the game when it got too hard to gain xp in easier areas, and go back in again. It was all about getting to the next level, getting the next spell, getting the next better weapon or armor. It was simple to the point of being idiotic. Click the mouse to move somewhere, then click-click-click-click-click at some monster until it dies, and move on to kill more. That's an over-simplified description, of course - but the point is that Diablo was extremely addictive.

Welcome back Diablo

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The inovative Diablo is back. This game is a worthy sequel to a game that has lead to many a wasted hour. This game possess is great the first time you play it, it's action packed, and exciting( a quality that more then a few Role-Playing games lack)and it has a great story, I was actually in a hurry to find out what was going to happen next in the story, the movies between Acts are wonderfully done. And the best part is the game has great replay value, with five classes to choose from, and two modes to play after you beat to one before it. Each level of play is harder (much harder) the the level before it, and although you know the story lines if you play the second to levels, the challage of the quest are still there with the increased difficultity of the enemies, in short wide varity of play plus the online mutli-player aspects, make for hours more of wasted time in front of your computer, enjoy

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