Diablo 2 : A diabolic idea!
Written: Aug 23 '01
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Pros: multipul classes, simple, fun, and multiplayer
Cons: a bit too bloody, at times. Can get monotonous.
The Bottom Line: Diablo 2 is simple, popular, and a 'bit' gory. If you want to play a simple DnD then this is as close as it gets.
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| unit11's Full Review: Diablo 2 for Mac |
Yes, every one has writtin reviews for this game already, but why shouldn't I write one anyway?
In the original Diablo, you are a hero who has chosen to try and defeat the Lord of Terror, Diablo. In this game, it would turn that fate wasn't quite on your side - in fact, the hero from the last game(chosen to be a warrior, for conveniece, I guess) was actually demonicly possesed, by Diablo himself. When going from town to town, evil follows, as the Lesser Evil's reawaken to Diablo's, Baahl's, and that Other Guy's call.
Once again, a hero has chosen to combat the forces of evil, except this time you can be any of 5 classes, all with their own unique skills, appearences, and, of course, strategys. I will touch up on all of these.
Barbarian
The barbarian is the point and kill character, as his basic strategy is run in, whack, hack, slash, and run out. Some skills are masteries, which means that he can get higher accurecy and damage on them. He looks like a brawny white guy, who enjoys showing off his muscles.
Necromancer
As his name implies, he is a death mage(necro = doing w/ death and Mancer = magic user), soumenning the dead to fight for him. He can also create goloms, which are considerably stronger then the weak skeloton. Curses and poisen spells, such as Iron Maiden, which cuases enemies to hurt them selves, and poisen nova, which shoots poisen in all directions. He looks almost like a corpse, with white hair, skin, bone armor, and is very thin.
Paladin
The paladin is a valiant, strong warrior of god, useing holy protective and combative aura's, like healing(heals people in range), or holy flare(hurt enemies w/ fire in range). Also, he has combative skills, like those that increase his damage. He is a mostly straigt forward fighter, but also is a true leader, aiding party member's in combat with his auras. He is black, and wears armor.
Amazon
Following stereotypes, the amazon is a woman(no complaints), and uses spears, and arrows. She can also use skills to help her dodge and upgrade her arrows or spear attacks. Her strategy is basicly hit and run. She looks like a tall, blonde, skantily clad, muscular female.
Sorceress
A physicly frail girl, whose spells make up more then enough for it. She can cast spells from three elements : Fire, Electricity, and Ice.(Destruction, Chaos, Control...sorta) She is another hit and run type, since mana has this way of running out. A high level sorceress would probaly win against a high level barbarian, if the barbarian was still a lower level then her. Mainly a support player in my opinoin, but I'm not as into spells, sometimes. She looks like an asian, and seems to be the only one that smiles...aside from the barbarian.
One last thing before moving on - I know I gave the shortest descriptions to the black and asian characters, but please be aware : I am not racist! I swear! Now to continue on with the review.
The Game
1 = low
5 = high
Graphics 4.4
Blizzard could've chosen a higher resolution, but they set Diablo 2 to run a 640x480 res. still, the graphics are very detailed, and well done. Also very colourful, since special monsters and champion monsters are an odd color.(example : one monster = red ||| champion might be green or blu.)
Sound 4.9
Diablo 2's sound is amazing, really. Complete voice overr for almost all text, almost an indevidual sound for each spell. Each monster set carries their own sound set with them!
Gameplay 5.0
It is very simple and easy! First it starts as point and kill, but by moving up with experiance points, you can gain abilities, like raise skeloton, or magical missile(miss isle not missle). Also, you can buy mercenarys to help you on your quest, though they cna die pretty easily, sometimes.
Multiplayer 5.0
This is where diablo2 was meant to be played - with friends. Make teams like necromancer and sorceress back up, supporting a leader paladin. Or an amazon knowcking off enemies at a distance, and the barbarian supporting her by takeing the close range targets. If you've played on battle.net before you know the procedure. If not, let me explain. Their is the main chatroom, but by clicking on the "join" button, you will see a list of game to join up to. If you hit create, then you will be shown the creation screen, all the stuf that is on it is pretty self-explanitory, but, in short, you give it a name, select max# of players, and then start playing a game. People will join up eventualy.
Space Requiered 2.8
I hate the amount of space it takes up, though. It takes 400+MB for sinigle player, and 600+MB for multiplayer, and 1200+MB for complete install.
Overall 4.6
I think Diablo 2 is a great buy for anyone who is a fan of game that do dungeon exploration. It can also be a good game for those who just like to create death, destruction, and have lotsa gore...although, it you fall under the last group, go get a good phychiatrist. Really.
Recommended:
Yes
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