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Diablo 2 is fast. In spite of all the sophistication in its character creation and multi-faceted item game, the rune word along with all the other features, D2R Items plays with brutal simplicity. When you play with a keyboard and mouse but only having two different skills at a time with the mouse buttons and have to use function keys to switch the other players in.

It"s not often, depending on a single attack in all situations and enhancing your character"s build and gear around it. At the mercy of swift creatures, you hammer away furiously blasting potions, ensuring your mana and health through more difficult fights.

(Console and gamepad play allow players to assign different skills to the buttons on the face, like Diablo 3 style, and it can expand the range of your combat abilities and ease your style of play. I would recommend giving it a go, but wouldn"t call it changing the game. )The combat can still be exciting in its intensity, and hardy in its bite.

There"s plenty of math occurring in the background of this madness obviously, but there"s a reason (and this is true of other Diablo games to be fair) the ever-shifting tower of numbers that are increasing tends to fall from simple, painless chaos to teeth-grinding dismay with the snap of a dice roll.

That describes Diablo 2 up - it"s one of those games that can be described as binary. It"s either the other: hard or easy to play, minimalist or gluttonous, in-your-face action or deep theoretical thinking. I"m thrilled that it"s kept exactly the way it always was in this nearly flawless, well-specced revival.

It"s not Warcraft 3: Reforged - it"s been completely rebuilt CG cut-scenes and remastered audio, as well as cross-progression from formats, the works.But I"m not certain if it has aged that well.

Diablo 3 got roundly criticised as not being Diablo 2, and indeed it"s not. It features fluid, elastic, rhythmic combat that emphasizes situational awareness and a complement to the other skills. Its character development gives you the freedom to play around and to express yourself.

Rather than having you go online for a custom build in case you get an error and ruin your character for the next dozen hours. D2R Ladder Items Buy even shows a bit of self-awareness of Diablo"s twisted style of edgelord.