Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #940 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Blizzard Entertainment
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platforms: Mac OS X, Windows XP
• Number of items: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Not content to merely add on additional levels, the Diablo II: Lord of Destruction expansion pack improves the entire Diablo II game experience and concludes the story. The expansion has been described as both an "add-in" and an "add-on", and it truly is a must-have for Diablo II players.

The add-on is the new act, which tells the story of Baal's destructive trek through the Barbarian Highlands. You must stop him before he corrupts the magical Worldstone and opens Hell. The add-in is all the improvements to the core game. The most obvious improvement is with graphics. Lord of Destruction lets gamers ratchet up Diablo II's graphics resolution to 800 x 600. This means both prettier graphics and the ability to see more of the battlefield at once, which effectively increases the range of spells and missile weapons.

The graphics boost is nice, but hardcore players will really appreciate the gameplay enhancements. It's hard to pick the single best element from a long list of substantial improvements that includes a larger character stash, more socketable items, more unique items, new classes of weapons and new Horadric Cube recipes.

Entirely new features include the ability to craft unique magic items, runes (which function like gems but can be combined to form powerful runeword combinations), totems (which add ability, combat or resistance bonuses but take up space in inventory) and hireling inventory (hand down your old equipment to your hireling). All these improvements are applied to both the new act and the four acts in Diablo II.

Even experienced Diablo II players get to appreciate the improvements to acts 1-4 because the two new character classes (Assassin and Druid) must complete all four acts in Diablo II before they can be used in the expansion. The Assassin is a stealthy warrior and wizard slayer who uses martial arts, traps and mental discipline to defeat Hell's minions. The conclusion to one of the best-loved and most-played games of all time is satisfying and well worth the hours of sleepless nights and the blurry-eyed mornings. --Mike Fehlauer

Customer Reviews

AMAZING
ive been playing Diablo for years but the Expansion (especially on patch 1.11b) is incredible. It blows your mind away. With the two new character classes-druid and assassin- and hundreds of new items, this addictive game is a great play and can keep you going for hours.

buy this game.
you will never get bored :)

The Best Game EVER
Diablo II was amazing; the expansion puts a few cherries on the already beautifully iced cake. (Mmmm, cake...)
LoD introduces runes, jewels, more weapons, a new act (Where you have to kill Baal) and further levels of difficulty, allowing you to obtain Elite versions of weapons, like the Phase Blade - a Crystal Sword with much higher damage and a far-increased speed.
Update to version 1.09 and you have perfection installed on your PC.
You won't complete the game in a week - SOLID. It takes forever. And before you do, you'll find you're addicted to it. You'll finish it in normal mode, then nightmare, then hell. Then you'll relapse a year later. I'm addicted to this game like Robbie Williams on Coffee - I just can't put it down!

This is a good hack em' style RPG.
Diablo2 has been my favorite online game for many years, the simple yet entertaining hack and slash style of playing makes the game have a great flowing feel to it.

Although the grapics are now dated and look dire compared to newer titles such has World of Warcraft, you wont find another RPG that is in the same league in its style.

Basically you look down on your chatacter, which can be any of the the five oringal characters or the new Assassin and Durid. Click where you would like to move away you go on quests and treasure hunting. You can equip loads and loads of diffrent items to your character and with the Expansion, all new one class only items.

Each character is tottaly diffrent yet very well balanced. Has your character levels you will gain attributes ponits and skill ponits, with which you can customism and a create a personalised build for your character, some working better than others.

The best thing about Diablo2 has got to be the great online gaming, which may i add is 100% free. You can have up to 8 players in one server, which you can create or join. So you and your friends can quest together. Making things like power leveling possible.

Leveling is nice, 99 levels. So it it isnt slow to level at the start of the game, where you can set the basics for your build but has you hit the 60 mark levels become more and more difficult. Myself have never hit the 99 mark.

You dont need a good pc to run this game, nor 100s of hours of free time. Its a very layed back, well made RPG which i recommend to anybody who likes a good RPG.