Diablo
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Diablo is an isometric top-down dungeon crawler with a Gothic theme.
Status
I own this game for Windows and have beaten it as a warrior, rogue, and sorcerer.
Review
Overall: 7/10
Good
- Ignoring the cheats and exploits, the game engine is pretty solid.
- The monster AI is varied and interesting allowing for different tactics. Fallen Ones can be scared away by killing a monster in front of them, scavengers can be delayed by making corpses for them to eat, etc.
- The ambient music is creepy and the town music is quite nice.
- The palette is nicely dark and foreboding fitting the mood of the game.
- The prefix/suffix system for items and dungeon randomizer allows for a lot of replay value.
- The dungeon generator is nicely designed for various environments.
Bad
- The story is pretty lame.
- The pre-rendered 3D graphics aren't very good. I would have preferred hand-drawn sprites.
- The cut-scene animations aren't very realistic.
- Once you've explored the town and find it has little to offer, it becomes tedious to navigate.
- Farnham and Gillian are entirely pointless NPCs.
- There is a lot of recorded dialog for quests among NPCs, almost all of which is unimportant and wastes your time.
Ugly
- Nothing.
Links
- mobygames.com/game/windows/diablo - MobyGames.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_(video_game) - Wikipedia.