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| Diablo 2 | 
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| From: Blizzard Entertainment
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $12.66
You Save: $7.33 (37%)
New (15) Used (19) from $10.21
Avg. Customer Rating:  551 reviews
Sales Rank: 2893
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows Xp, Mac Os X, Windows
ESRB: Mature
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 71547
Model: 70929
UPC: 020626715478
EAN: 0020626715478
ASIN: B00002CF9M
Publication Date: 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: *NO CALIFORNIA SALES* Included 15 pages printed manual & 3CDs. **FREE** UPGRADE TO EXPEDITED SHIPPING EXCEPT CALIFORNIA/APO address. Brand New Factory Sealed DVD BOX by Blizzard Entertainment UK. Ship daily via USPS w/FREE delivery confirmation & shipment notification. Platform: Win2000/XP/ME/98/95 and NT 4.0 SP5 or greater/Mac OS 8.1 or higher, CD Rom Drive. Expedited shipping is required for APO address/California Sales.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Fun overall game November 10, 2005
This is a freakin fun game I've been playing it for a couple years now and I'm still not bored. The expansion set is better but this is a once in a life time game!!!
GO 76ERS!!!!!!!!!!
Ratchet deadlock is another game I recommend.
This is a great September 22, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
Sucking my life away September 13, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
 laggy, frustrating online play September 8, 2005
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
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.
Diablo 2 August 18, 2005
Excellent game! Much better than the first game. It's even more entertaining with the expansion!!
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