Diablo 2 - Bestseller Series for Windows
- ESRB Descriptor: Animated Blood Animated Gore Animated Violence
- ESRB Rating: M - (Mature)
- Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment
- Genre: Adventure
- Platform: Windows
- Game Series: Diablo
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Diablo II As Great As the Original and Best Overall RPG
Pros
MAJOR variety of characters, skills, items, enemies, etc. ensures addictive and constant gameplay.
Cons
New save format is inconvenient; occasionally repetitive gameplay.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
Diablo II is extremely varied and entertaining, two factors that ensure that most owners will play it consistantly for weeks, months, and even years in the future.
Very few video games have driven me to addiction; Diablo II is definitely the foremost.
Diablo II offers five different character types with very different character traits and accompanying strategies. Four major boards comprise the "world," and players can tackle said world within three different levels of difficulty. Therefore, there are even three different varieties of addiction to enjoy: playing to the end of the quests, tackling a more difficult level and further enhancing your character, and even starting all over with a completely different character. And because the worlds change between levels and new characters, variety is ensured.
Whether beating bloody bunches of baddies as a barbarian or slaughtering slews of scum with sorceress spells, Diablo II is a LOT of fun, period.
However, it is not sofware perfection. Blizzard changed the save format and now games are automatically closed whenever saved, and once opened again the character is in the latest "headquarters" with all enemies alive and well again. Hence, if a player dies while attempting to slay Diablo, they must spend another one to three hours making it back to their second chance to fight Diablo instead of just reloading the game and attempting it again immediately, as was the case with the original Diablo game.
The second (and final) drawback to Diablo II is that gameplay is occasionally redundant. Though it supplies a large variety of opponents, weapons, character traits, spells, etc., it's still feels like redundant clicking sometimes, especially during the "Secret Cow Level." But this is a special situation, and the majority of the game varies and challenges the player enough to guarantee continuous play if at all interested in role-playing games.
I'm still thoroughly addicted to the fast-pased and extremely exciting gameplay, even after beating the title character twice.
Breakdown is as follows...
Advantages:
- Five extremely different character types
- Four large quests to complete
- Three levels of difficulty
- Graphics (gameplay and movies) are excellent
- Enormous variety of items, spells, skills, targets, etc.
- Randomly generated games ensure future playability
- Easy to install, learn, understand, and enjoy
Disadvantages:
- New save-format forces games to close, and significantly lengthens post-save battles that were already completed; frustrating.
- Gameplay is sometimes reduced to redundant left- and right-clicking, especially within the secret level.
Diablo II offers five different character types with very different character traits and accompanying strategies. Four major boards comprise the "world," and players can tackle said world within three different levels of difficulty. Therefore, there are even three different varieties of addiction to enjoy: playing to the end of the quests, tackling a more difficult level and further enhancing your character, and even starting all over with a completely different character. And because the worlds change between levels and new characters, variety is ensured.
Whether beating bloody bunches of baddies as a barbarian or slaughtering slews of scum with sorceress spells, Diablo II is a LOT of fun, period.
However, it is not sofware perfection. Blizzard changed the save format and now games are automatically closed whenever saved, and once opened again the character is in the latest "headquarters" with all enemies alive and well again. Hence, if a player dies while attempting to slay Diablo, they must spend another one to three hours making it back to their second chance to fight Diablo instead of just reloading the game and attempting it again immediately, as was the case with the original Diablo game.
The second (and final) drawback to Diablo II is that gameplay is occasionally redundant. Though it supplies a large variety of opponents, weapons, character traits, spells, etc., it's still feels like redundant clicking sometimes, especially during the "Secret Cow Level." But this is a special situation, and the majority of the game varies and challenges the player enough to guarantee continuous play if at all interested in role-playing games.
I'm still thoroughly addicted to the fast-pased and extremely exciting gameplay, even after beating the title character twice.
Breakdown is as follows...
Advantages:
- Five extremely different character types
- Four large quests to complete
- Three levels of difficulty
- Graphics (gameplay and movies) are excellent
- Enormous variety of items, spells, skills, targets, etc.
- Randomly generated games ensure future playability
- Easy to install, learn, understand, and enjoy
Disadvantages:
- New save-format forces games to close, and significantly lengthens post-save battles that were already completed; frustrating.
- Gameplay is sometimes reduced to redundant left- and right-clicking, especially within the secret level.
