Diablo II 2000

Is it still worth playing?

Blizzard North's 2000 action role playing game for Windows. It is set shortly after the first Diablo, and you hunt a corrupted hero called the Dark Wanderer and the demons that follow him. There are five classes, Amazon, Necromancer, Barbarian, Sorceress and Paladin, a level cap of 99 and three difficulty tiers, Normal, Nightmare and Hell. Items come in normal, magical, rare, set and unique qualities, sockets take gems, and the Horadric Cube combines items into new ones. Up to eight players can share a game over a LAN or Battle.net, and Hardcore mode makes death permanent. It was the fastest selling computer game at its release. The item system keeps it worth replaying now: tiers, sockets and the Cube allow so many builds that two characters are rarely built alike.