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Awesome game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Diablo II is the best game i've played. I'm currently playing world of warcraft which is great but this game tops it just because of how fun it was. I played this game for 7 years and would play it again if I still had my old account.

It took 2 years of rehab to break the addiction...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

What a great game! Seriously, Blizzard is a company that seems to always make a better game each time they make a sequel or another game. Diablo II is certainly no exception. I spent about 7 years on and off playing this, and I'll tell you why. It's an almost perfect hybrid of action, PvP, and a role playing game. With that, and an almost unlimited number of items, thanks to an item stat randomizer, this game is continuously playable.

With that said, I will say this. This game is not, I repeat NOT worthy of much replay if you are playing single player. It is fun, but you will probably not get many good items unless you cheat, and your experience gain will not be sufficient most likely to let you live in the two higher difficulty levels.

Playing online is great for three reasons. For one you can trade items, secondly you have people to play with and get more exp, and finally it's free! After playing online, I promise you will get hooked. It's not like an MMO like Warcraft, but 8 people play at one time, and can chat in the rooms beforehand. Even though the monsters are the same, it's fun to try out different skill combinations, duel other players, see if you can get the rarest items, etc.

My only con about this game, is that it is addictive. I got so many people hooked, I almost feel bad. :) But do yourself a favor, and pickup a copy of this in a discount bin, preferably the battle chest with the expansion.
$19.95 is a small price to pay for such bliss, I assure you.

Diablo II

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I originally started playing this game so that I could do something with my sons. Now I like it! It is def. a very cool game. I am not a hard core gamer and I find it to be challenging but not so hard that I am totally discouraged.

This was a real challenge.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Even though Diablo 2 is the predecessor to Lord of Destruction; I found it hard to level-up due to many hard to kill enemies. Overall, I found this a real test of my skills.

Diablo 2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Overall a fun game. The main drawback is that they replaced the character classes from the first game instead of expanding on them.
Being someone who loved Fable:The Lost Chapters, I really liked the socketed weapons and armor.

This Game is the Stuff

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Simply put, this game isn't the type of RPG that you will get a heart touching storyline or even a rewarding sense of completion once you beat the game. Once the story is over, the real game begins. The endless battle to the top of the ladder will keep you hooked for months. It will haunt you at work, in class, and durring your bathroom breaks.
This Game has what all these new MMORPGs are lacking, and thats Basic Combat. If I wanted to slice a monsters head off with a sword, there won't be a 3 second attack delay for me. I would swing that S**T harder and faster than Barry Bonds. I could mince a monsters head in 3 seconds. The MMO's these days are slow, boring, and for players who are afraid of getting killed and losing loot. So they start a guild with other little girls because they can only win in numbers.
Diablo 2 is the stuff. When you click, you slice. Its easier than breathing. As far as character creation goes. I don't want to make a bulky warrior woman, or a gay elf that has magical healing powers. The Set character Design is perfect for its individual class. I give this game two thumbs way up. And I will kill myself if they make a Diablo 3 like World of Warcraft.

Deluxe Gangsta

One of the best PC games ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The Legendary Diablo2.
7 or 8 years after its release... the genre defining Hack-and-Slash RPG. Still played by many. Addictive, epic, and fun.

1.Combined with the expansion, The best item/loot system in any game, EVER.
Simply speaking, this game is about items, obtaining them, using them etc... they can make or brake a character (combat-wise). They can increase your mana or HP pool 10 times... they can make your skills several times more powerful than if you wouldn't had them, etc. Items ranging from ordinarily common to so rare and unique you may never see them drop.
The range and spectrum of stats/attributes on items is enormous.

2.Skill/abilities system second only to Guild Wars (imo).

3.Amazing art style (graphically). Lots of shiny J

4.Simple linear story. There are about 20 quests altogether and most are obligatory for advancing the game.

5.Difficulty ranges from stupidly easy to insanely hard.

6.Max lvl is 99 and because of exponential lvling curve it takes lots of grind to reach it.

Online economy in this game is complex. It suffered lots of abuse and different kinds of exploits by less then honest players.
Game patches/updates changed many things in the game over and over again.

The Best PC game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game was really fun. I enjoyed playing online with other gamers. The boss battles were intense and challenging, too.

Simply a great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
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 (12 Acts total if you play all the way through, 15 with the expansion pack). Hell is the hardest difficulty setting and VERY challenging. There are many sidequests to play, though your main goal is to kill Mephisto, Baal (with the expansion), 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 5 classes, 7 classes with the expansion) 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!

Better than "Diablo", way better than "World of Warcraft".

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

"Diablo" was fun but it could have been much better. My biggest gripe about it was on single player. Once you killed the monsters, they were gone forever and so you could only get up to a certain level before being FORCED to face Diablo, and of course you weren't ready. I also hated how slow the guys walked, having trouble clicking on something on the ground to pick it up, the cost of elixirs (which upped an attribute permanently), the cost of books, how far between waypoints were and probably a few other things that I can't think of at the moment. However, it was still fun.

Oh, another thing that kinda sucked was in multi-player every character was 100% cookie. At best maybe a sorcerer used a Nova staff instead of an Apocalypse one for example. Everyone use the same gear, like, the EXACT same gear. Look how many people used Dragon's Ring of the Zodiac. However, what was nice about this was the EASY duping system. It was so easy it was a joke. No skill was required and neither was a hack/dupe program. H**l, when I had nothing guys would give me godly gear for free. That's how easy it was to dupe.

However, with "Diablo 2" everything's improved. More classes, better graphics, faster gameplay, more variety really. However, the original is only played by those who like the harder game play as in the original you don't have as much godly gear as you do in the expansion, such as rune words. So unless you're one of these types who like the harder but much simpler game play, you'll also want the expansion.

The only thing that sucks about multi-player is in order to get godly items these days, unless you don't mind spending countless hours (which is something I was doing for a while and got wise and cut way down on), you need a bot to do MF runs. Otherwise, your character will never be good as far as PvP is concerned.

Oh, that's another nice thing about this game. It's pretty much impossible to get backstabbed. No more of that situation where you're running with your "ally" and all of a sudden they can kill you. Blizzard added a lot more barriers to being able to backstab someone so that it's pretty much impossible if not completely impossible.

As for how it compares to "World of Wacraft", well, at least with this game you won't be taking half an hour to find a place and it doesn't take 30 seconds to kill each monster, which you can only fight one at a time. This game won't require you to give up your life or social life and you don't have to pay to play it online. "World of Warcraft" (I refuse to call it "WoW"!) is stupid for many reasons, including the ones I just listed. Get this instead. It's faster and more interesting and much more laid-back. Plus you don't need to sacrifice as much to get somewhere.

"Diablo 2" > "World of Warcraft"

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