Product Description
Five Bold New Character Classes:
Battle Hell`s minions as the Amazon, Sorceress, Necromancer, Paladin or Barbarian, each with unique skills and abilities.
Powerful New Weapons and Magic:
Summon and command nightmarish creatures, harness the elemental powers of nature and master the energies of light and darkness through arcance spells and enchantments.
Four Expansive Realms:
Storm a vast underworld… More >>
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This game is must have for many people’s collections. It is a fast and furious game which transports you to a world where evil is trying to take over.
You can be one of 5 different classes, and although the story line is the same for each – there is a huge variety in the style you play (amazons stand back from the fray, while barbarians throw themselves in!).
This game is a huge improvement to Diablo 2 (which I wasn’t a big fan of) so it should appeal to old hands as well as newcomers.
Character development is simple, as you kill things you gain experience, once you have reached a certain amount of experience you will raise a level. This gives you one skill point (to put on a skill of your choice) and five stat points (for you to distribute between various stats). This gives you a huge variety and no two characters are alike.
There is a huge variety of items which are classed as either, normal, magical, rare magical, set or unique. The uniques are very in demand on the online games (so you can use them for a spot of trading!)
The multiplayer is probably the best bit, playing with other people over the internet is great, (and you can also get some good free items off other people!!) you can kill each other or aid in a quest it’s completely up to you!
Contrary to what some people have written, this game is not designed to be a strategy game, it is basically a hack and slash. The only aspect of strategy is which armour you will wear, which skill points will be put where. Not “how do I get out of this stupidly huge dungeon”.
The one fault I could find is that it is slightly repetitive – you have to play the whole game three times to finish it totally!
Apart from this though the game is a really good buy, I have had it since it came out and I am not sick of it yet!
Rating: 5 / 5
One of the greatest games of all time, with an addictive skill and ability upgrage system that means bedtime becomes very late.
Now (at time of writing), £6.66, does someone at Amazon have a sence of humour!
Rating: 5 / 5
One of my favourite hack-and-slash RPGs finally gets converted to Mac! A gem of a game that every serious fan of the genre needs to own.
In true RPG style Diablo 2 offers you the chance to pursue all of the classic roles associated with RPGs; the spell-binding Sorceress; the mighty Barbarian; the holy Paladin; the evil Necromancer and the ferocious Amazon!
Apart from nicely rendered graphics and a gripping storyline, a large part of the fun in Diablo 2 is being able to watch your character grow: getting a new spell for your sorceress or a new creature-summon for your necromancer soon adds a necessary high to your gameplay.
Another interesting element in Diablo 2 is that you are largely in control of your character’s development. The creators of the game evidently took a leaf out of strategy games’ book by including a kind of “technology tree” for when your characters level up. Their development is not linear – you must choose where to specialise. Perhaps you want your sorceress to have ultimate control over the realm of fire, foresaking perhaps her knowledge of lightning and ice magic.
The range of weapons in Diablo 2 is practically infinite. As you fight enemies and creatures of increasingly high levels, so your chances increase of finding an equally high levelled weapon or armour. In this way, you have complete control over what kind of character you fashion. You can play into the strengths of each character set or, for an interesting spin, play against them and see what happens.
That’s all part of the fun with this game – you have control and you take your characters’ development where you want it to go.
Great game! I would most definitely recommend to Mac users.
Rating: 4 / 5
Diablo II is undoubtedly a very well made game and it is tones of fun. It’s not as open-ended as some of today’s RPG titles with little else to do other than the main quests and the occasional side dungeon for loot or levelling, but its playability makes it one of the easiest games of its genre to jump into. Most of the action is controlled by the mouse buttons or a decent on-screen menu system and the simple stat based levelling up makes Diablo II perfect to pick up and play for half an hour or a big 3 hour slog.
Single player is fun, but can become tiresome and repetitive if you sit at it for too long. The game however, shines online. Even nearly nine years after its release Diablo II still has a thriving online community and you can easily find players of a similar level or set up a private game to play with your mates. The online gameplay is well thought out. Its’ here that the character classes come into their own and you’ll want a good spread of different types in your group to stand a chance against hells minions.
The game does have the occasional bug, the graphics are out dated and there is the occasional bout of lag online, but I’m over looking those and palming them off to the age of the title. For Windows Vista users there’s decent help on the Blizzard website and patches to download if you want to play the game on the operating system.
Overall it’s a brilliant title and perfect if you’re new to the RPG/Hack and Slash genre or if you want to prepare for the release of its sequel coming later next year.
I strongly recommend it.
Rating: 4 / 5
I have played both Diablo and Diablo II – both are brilliant. This is however, taken to another level with the addition the the Diablo II Lord of Destruction Expansion pack. The game is so interactive challenging both on and off-line that you’ll never be able to tear yourself away.
Brilliant best game ever!
Rating: 5 / 5
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