DIABLO (1997)

Blizzard

My friend Sam told me to download the demo to this new Blizzard release called Diablo. I logon to their web site and..."50 Megs!!?!? For a freakin' demo!?!" I bit the bullet and did it anyway. When it finally finished about 5 hours later, I didn't regret it one bit. You are trust into the part of an adventurer in a town that has been plagued by demons. I remember the graphics were impressed and the characters just begged to spoken with about their lives. What was the most attractice part about Diablo? The replayability! All dungeons and items were completely randomly generated from a bank of stats guaranteeing a new adventure every time you boot up.

Once again, I had to turn to Dad to buy me a copy of this before it was too late and the world sold out of them. He said he would get it to me for my birthday. "What?!? Thats 3 weeks from now! Noooooooooo!" Well he ended up giving it to me a few weeks early, conviently while my friend Ed was staying the night. So we turned to Diablo instead of working on the school project he had come over to work on. Well in that first night, this enemy called "The Butcher" was giving us problems but we eventually muscled through it.

Sam and I played this game multiplayer for a while and I finally did get that level 50 sorceress everyone strives for. Good game? It was fantastic? Would I play it now?...Not with Diablo 2 out there!