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| From: Blizzard Entertainment
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $28.20
You Save: $11.79 (29%)
New (7) Used (8) from $19.99
Rating:  198 reviews
Sales Rank: 1480
Platforms: Windows 95, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Macintosh, Windows Nt
Genre: Role Playing Games
ESRB: Mature
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 7.4 x 1.4
MPN: 71730
Model: 71730
UPC: 020626717304
EAN: 0020626717304
ASIN: B00005N6K3
Release Date: December 14, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 DIablo II September 7, 2008
I am an old Diablo player, and i purchased this after having the craving to play again, and its been great all over. The package is fun, includes the original diablo which is memory lane as well, overall good purchase for the price
Addicted...it figures August 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My brother talked me into buying this game. I had no interest before since I am mainly a Command & Conquer fan. I bought it only so we could play together online and by crossover direct connect. Once I installed it and started playing, I play it all the time...when I get home from work, on the weekends when I don't absolutely have to do chores, and just about any other time I can squeeze in. I read reviews about the game before I bought it and I thought it funny that this one guy said his wife would casually walk by, glance at him playing the game, and tell him he was addicted. I've never had my wife tell me that until now...ironic. This is my warning to anyone who hasn't yet bought this game, "be careful or you may get divorced, broke, unemployed, hated, insomnia, lethargy, etc. and not neccesarily in that particular order". Consider yourself warned...great game though!
Get ready for Diablo 3! August 22, 2008
To put it simply, Diablo and Diablo 2 are the best available games of their kind. In spirit, they are successors to the classic game "Gauntlet", where a small group of heroes (each controlled by a separate player) hack their way through some huge number of monsters. You take control of a character of a particular "class" and then proceed to kill monsters, gaining stats, abilities, and equipment along the way. A lot of the enjoyment in these games comes from playing with other people (whether they be your friends or random people on the Internet), so it's really great that Blizzard's online service battle.net is free and easy to use. The price of this collection has apparently been slashed from forty to twenty-five dollars, which is a great deal for these excellent games.
The main draw of these games is their carrot-on-a-stick design: there's always something for you to do to increase the power of your character just a little bit more, whether it be farming for better gear, or simply gaining experience. The game (at least Diablo 2) can also be rather challenging, with the hardest of the three difficulty levels being particularly so. The variety of classes and, within each class, skill builds (again, for Diablo 2) also greatly adds to the re-playability of this game, since no two classes play alike. This sounds rather similar to the gameplay of most popular MMOs (massively multiplayer-online games), but the action in the Diablo series is considerably faster and more complicated.
Blizzard has shown itself to be unusually dedicated to the support of its older games. Both Diablo 2 and Starcraft still receive patch updates to this very day, despite being eight and ten years old, respectively. The online Diablo community has always been active, although since the announcement of Diablo 3 there has undoubtedly been a resurgence of interest in Diablo 2. It's still easy to find up-to-date Internet resources about these games, as well as online games on battle.net.
The graphics in these games is rather primitive, since they were released so long ago, but the gameplay is still the best of its kind, despite the numerous copycat games that the Diablo series has spawned. If you're new to the Diablo series and wondering what the hype is about, buy this collection and see for yourself. More likely than not, you'll be pleasantly surprised, and will be eagerly awaiting Diablo 3 like millions of other gamers out there.
 Preparing for the Future August 18, 2008
As someone who is waiting for the wondrous third installment of the Diablo series, I found going back to the original two to be refreshing. The gameplay was still fantastic and the graphics, although leaving a little to be desired in today's market, were still crisp and pure.
Even though I have played this game to death and run through both the original, DII, LoD, and Hell, I still found it to be a very fun game. Challenging enough to go through it again, but familiar enough to be easy. I do recommend this product if anyone hasn't yet played the series and for those who are hardcore, consider it if your old discs were dying like mine were.
A++
The Battle Chests are always awsome August 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Blizzard entertainment came out with the fist Diablo in 1998 and the gaming hasn't stopped sense. With one of the first on-line, multiplayer games blizzard hit it off big time. Now with World of Warcraft (WOW) everyone knows Blizzard, however, these games helped to set the tone off the massive multiplayer online game. The first and second Diablos and the expansion to the second one "Lord of Destruction" are all here and are very simple to install and play. Both games are simple point and click, with everything basically explained in the guidebooks and installation instuctions. They are fun, easily played, and fairly addicting. I wouldn't recomment this game for young children, but anyone over 12 could easily play the game, seeing as the basic theme is good vs evil and you play as the good side. Overall, I love the games and enjoy the online free play as well.
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