Customer Reviews
One of the best PC games ever 
2007-08-16
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 2007-07-03
This game was really fun. I enjoyed playing online with other gamers. The boss battles were intense and challenging, too.
Simply a great game! 2007-05-17
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". 2007-01-23
"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"
Kills WoW 2007-01-14
With my WoW review unfairly deleted by Fascist Amazon, I must instead post a review of an infinitely better game, Diablo 2. Not only does it take skill to play this game, but the story is 10000000000x better than WoW's. Instead of grinding, you go on exciting quests, treasure hunting, and dungeon crawling. And what else is that its FREE to play online. Thats right, once you pay the games charge, thats it. No fees for servers or anything. Not only that, but the people who play are better. No more lame 13 year olds who say lol too much, these are hardcore players. Instead of killing lame boars or wolves, you fight hellspawned demons, freshly arisen undead warriors, and everything inbetween, even PO'd evil Cows!
So, in short. Stop playing WoW. Get this game and enjoy it, its cheaper and better in every which way.
Awesome game 2008-05-06
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.
Diablo II 
2008-02-27
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. 2008-01-07
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 2007-12-24
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 2007-12-04
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
