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Diablo 2 |
| Date: |
22/09/00 (132 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: Excellent Fun
Disadvantages: Monsters regenerating
The first Diablo was almost universally hailed as the game of the year. Since it came out (geez, has it really been years?), I, and all the Diablo fans, have been waiting for the sequel.
If you missed the first one, go get it. It's still great, and fairly cheap now. In it, you played the role of a hero out to destroy the lord of evil, Diablo. In the end, all you could do was contain Diablo by plunging his soul gem in your forehead.
Well, guess what. During your journey east to destroy Diablo, you lost the fight. Now your previous character serves as the latest host for the demon, who now continues the journey east to awaken his brothers, Baal and Mephisto. Once united, they will destroy the world as we know it. However, as luck would have it, you once again are thrust into the role of hero, playing one of 5 types of characters, and now you must not only stop Diablo, but his buddies as well. The character classes are great, with skills and spells customized to the character type.
The game is in an isometric perspective (top down, from an angle), and is in a much larger setting than the first. The graphics are not bad; basically, the same as the first game. You will travel to several towns, each with several wilderness areas, laid out in a linear fashion. By this I mean you generally must progress through one to get to the next. You can jump directly to certain locations once you have visited them by the use of waypoints. This leads me to what I consider the major flaw of the game. The reason these waypoints are necessary is that the save game feature is not quite normal. Your character stats, items and current quests are saved, but your location and monsters are not. Now, read that again, because it means something important. It means that if you save and quit (the only save option also quits) halfway through a quest, all the monsters will regenerate. You will have to fight your way through again.
This is a major flaw in a
n otherwise excellent game. The gameplay is addictive, as was the first, and multi-player is a blast. However, the save game feature seriously detracts from the single player game, and causes a five-star game to lose it's luster. Still good, still worth playing, but not perfect.
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