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2 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 This is a great, 2005-09-22
It takes place after the end of the original Diablo. At the end of Diablo, Diablo, the Lord of Terror, was defeated. The hero then takes Diablo's soul stone (a device that is used to bind the soul of any demon or angel) and puts it into his own body, hoping to contain his soul for all eternity.
2 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
Sucking my life away, 2005-09-13
Since I installed the game I have been wasting much of my life playing it. If you are running OS X you need to get the updater 1.11 to carbonize it so you are not using os 9. I find it challenging as a solo game. I still haven't used it to play over the web.
3 of 10 customers found the following review helpful:
 laggy, frustrating online play, 2005-09-08
I've been playing this game since it came out in 2000. The game really is a lot of fun, and somewhat addictive, and it has great replayability. That said, the online experience has gotten sufficiently bad that I'm giving it up. I'm writing this review to warn prospective customers NOT to waste their money on this game.
The problems with internet D2 play are twofold. First, there's a lot of lag since the most recent patch came out. I mean -- a LOT of lag. It's serverside. Apparently Blizzard decided to economize on the support for D2, because it does not provide a monthly revenue stream the way WoW does. It's not clear how they did this, but a good guess would be that they set up a scheme that allows servers to steal cycles from individual games in order to run more games on each server. Whatever the mechanism, the result is that there are constant "lag spikes" running through games, sometimes causing play to freeze for as much as 15 or 20 seconds. It's not fun. The long lag spikes often cause player death, and the short ones are so numerous that some player activities (like "teleporting" by sorceresses) can be annoyingly jerky, with the character sometimes appearing to cast the teleport skill repeatedly without moving at all. It's now quite common for a player to have to press a skill button twice to get the selected skill to change, or to have to click on an NPC in town two or three times to interact. Very frustrating, and no probability Blizzard will fix the problem. After all, as mentioned, D2 provides no revenue stream.
The second problem is hacks, cheating, and "botting" by unscrupulous players. Despite assurances from Blizzard that online play on "the realms" is "secure", hacks and cheats are endemic. Blizzard's response has been at best ineffectual. They have finally settled on an "anti-bot" strategy that relies on the simple expedient of penalizing everyone. For example, it's now inevitable that a player repeatedly creating two-minute games to do magic-find runs will at some point receive a temporary ban from online play that lasts for one to several hours. More severe violations, like making successive games less than a minute apart , result in punishment much faster. This means that if you create a game, and it's a really horrible lagfest where your character can hardly move and you don't dare leave town, you're stuck with the game for three full minutes. As like as not, ditching the laggy game within the first minute to try creating a new one will get you banned for an hour. And if your game dies, as happens all too often in the new battle.net, you'll be treated to both a rollback that loses some of your experience AND a stint in the "penalty box" where you won't be able to create games for as much as an hour.
Sound like fun to you? Didn't think so. Despite the enjoyment I've gotten from this game, my advice to you is to avoid it unless you have a sky-high tolerance for frustration.
1 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
Diablo 2, 2005-08-18
Excellent game! Much better than the first game. It's even more entertaining with the expansion!!
3 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
FABULOUS FABULOUS FABULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!, 2005-08-11
This game is the ULTIMATE game ever invented(other then Fable, but Im sure you already know I LOVE Fable, having read my other reviews). Diablo 2 Has soooooooooooo many good things about it, I dont even know where to begin. Actually, assuming you are a very busy person and dont have time to read CHAPTER BOOKS, I will just say this:play it yourself and see for yourself if this isnt the best gaming expierence youve had in your life. Trust me, If you get me started I wont even stop talking bout Diablo 2, dont believ me? just ask my poor sisters haha. But seriosly though, the best part of this game is the REPLAY value. On a scale of 1-10, the replay is 10000000000. Im serios and you dont even know(unless youve played it, then you probably do know) See ya later, reader, and BUY THIS GAME!!
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