Diablo 2.5

User Rating: 8 | Legend: Hand of God PC
Even though it has all the trappings of a Diablo clone, the game still proves to be fun.
Visually the game has some little tricks up it's sleeve with HDR and Motion capture animation for attacks.
Control of your skill trees is on par with Diablo. Before you start playing though you select paths. You either are a warrior, caster, healer, ranger, etc. Then as a bonus you select a second tree (for example I was a Wizard/Healer), which gave me Fire attacks, yet I could heal myself without the annoying need for potions.
A really great equipment screen (zooms in to your character and allows you to mouse over various items to check their attributes)..shows you all the items you equip as well.
Quests are straight forward and the map is ok, but nothing to write home about.
I enjoyed the fact that I could control rotation by mouse instead of arrow keys, not unlike WoW or Guild Wars.

It is fun and a good interim release until Diablo 3.