Diablo II

The Good
Good Points:

1.A lot of game content: huge areas chock-full with monsters and items;

2.Cool, imaginative, well created and animated monsters, with great sounds;

1. Incredible cinematics (the best in any game so far, and sure worthy of some kind of award...)

4.A whole lot of items, armors, weapons...

5.Skill system, which really adds a lot to character customization;

The Bad
Bad Points:

1.Average graphics;

2.Gameplay that is, with the exception of the skill systems and the added classes, identical to that of Diablo 1; and this is a double-edged sword, meaning that if you liked D1, you will love D2, but if you hated D1, you'll feel the same way about D2.

The Bottom Line
An improved, polished, and simply better Diablo. If you loved the first, you will certainly love the second. If you hated the first, well, don't buy this game. Personally, though, I had a hell of a lot of fun with it...

The Good
Well, here's a vague attempt at making my former review more apetizing, but since I'm not feeling like writing an awful lot like last time let's just stick to the basics, ok?

What's good about the game?

It's fun....the first 5 minutes.

The action figure line rocks.

There is good variation between different character classes.

The game has amazing production values (good quality on almost everything).

Action is fast and furious, even with lots of critters onscreen.

The Bad
Gameplay is boring and repetitive beyond belief.

Storyline is predictable and has virtually no conection to your actions during the game (sense of reward=NONE).

Graphics are not so hot.

Rpg? being able to customize your slayer doesn't make it an rpg.

Too long, too annoying.

Way too over-hyped.

The Bottom Line
Anyway, if you like lots of repetitive gameplay with some flashy stuff added to it, go and get it. Otherwise there are cheaper and better means to entertain yourself.

The Good
Every now and then, you like to relax you brain with a "stupid" game. Kill everything, collect gold, get better equipment... that kind of stuff. Diablo II provides such a gameplay.
Graphics are not stunning, but more than decent
Sound effects and music are as spooky as they should
The pre-rendered movies are cool
The environment is random... which adds replayability (but only in the unlikely event you want to actually go through the game again)

The Bad
Diablo II is long, and that's good, but every part of the game is the same with different graphics. The gameplay is just too repetitive to entertain you until it ends. I gave up just before reaching the middle of the game.
Some character classes suck when they should be great. Take the necromancer : it sounds cool : command an army of squeletons and golems. Yeah, but either your "army" is too weak and will be of absolutely no use, or it is strong enough and then the game is just about walking and watching your squeletons kill the enemies, which is such a dull experience.
The environment is random, which means... that no-one puts any design in them. So some parts of the game will end up being too easy, while others will be frustratingly impossible to venture through.


The Bottom Line
Diablo II sounds fun, and at first, it is great fun.
But it fails to be an entertaining experience in the long run because of its repetitive gameplay and lack of balance.