Hellfire: Diablo Expansion

Diablo is one of my all time favorite games, this expansion adds the Monk (and the Barbarian if you know how) and also adds the Hive and the Crypt levels and tons of stuff and spells. Also it allows you to run in town, sounds like not much but that is a big deal to me.

Its Wednesday now and Packaged arrived Wednesday 2:09 amhopefully i get my order today also being 25 miles away lol..

This has to be one of the worst expansion pack's to one of the greatest games of all time. How do I know, because neither Blizzard or Sierra ever mention the expansion pack on their website--a means to distance themselves away from it.For example the graphics on the hive level for some of the monsters are absolutely terrible. You have small toad/pumpkin like creatures that attack you WTF? Large Spiders? It doesn't fit the Gothic essence of the game. Not to mention Diablo can again be easily killed, so easy that you don't have to do it, just summon a golem-the same can be said about Nal'krul. The new spells are not attractive either, you have spells that help you search (umm okay), you have spells that you can summon to take you back to the entrance (how is that suppose to help), and such spells as "beserk" only work for the barbarian, which can only found by hacking the command file.Secondly lester the farmer is a joke...beyond retarded...In order to get to the Cow Quest, or unlock the barbarian (looks exactly like the warrior) you have to hack the command file. And by updating from 1.00 to 1.01 you loose the ability to play multi-player. And I don't understand the point in creating the monk--his best skill is hand to hand combat with the staff....a degenerate version of the Sorcerer.And the promise of great items, such the King's Swords and the Godly plates are extremely hard to find. Unfortunately to get them you have to use a trainer. I can't believe that the expansion pack now runs for almost $50, what a rip! If I had a thousand I'd sell it all for free.

On paper Hellfire seems like a great idea. Take a really good game, add a couple additional levels, quests, items and monsters, put in a couple of new classes, and bam: instant winner.Sadly that doesn't pan out in practice. Part of it is that the Hellfire design feels largely uninspired and lacks the cohesiveness, balance and ingenuity that went into original Diablo. In fact there are only two really good features in Hellfire. The first is the "Jog" toggle that allows your character to run in Tristram. Too bad it doesn't function in the dungeons. The second is the "Search" spell that helps you locate items on the ground. Unfortunately it's a spell, so you have to spend mana on it. Blizzard rolled up both these features in Diablo II in much improved form. As it stands they end up not benefiting Diablo very much.The rest of the additions are just mediocre or worse. The new character class is fun, but kinda unbalanced, and doesn't really add a lot of depth. Lots of stuff feels tacked on and has an inconsistent art style that doesn't match Diablo's polish. There aren't really a lot of new quests. One (of the two) new area is downright annoying. Some of the best features can only be enabled by editing a special file outside the game.The worst part of Hellfire is that playing it means making a tradeoff. It is not a seamless expansion to Diablo - it's almost like a separate game. Your Diablo characters aren't portable between Hellfire and the original game, so you have to roll new ones. And while Diablo went on to gain five more patches after Hellfire's release - Sierra only patched their game once... so Hellfire players have to contend with bugs long-fixed in Diablo. In addition to those bugs, Hellfire brings a set of its own, which never got resolved. Hellfire players can't (without hacking the game) play multiplayer. This expansion is not playable on Battle.net. The music in new areas is lacking, and because it isn't read from the CD, the game glitches whenever an item is picked up. The drop system is bugged out the wazoo, to where finding some of the new unique items is actually impossible.I would really recommend this one only to die-hard Diablo fans. Those without it are not missing out on anything. Sierra tried to pull it off but they just couldn't match that Blizzard standard set by the original game, and the new features aren't worth fighting the bugs and irritants brought on by this expansion.

The 1.01 Hellfire patch, which is difficult to find but IS located on Sierra's FTP server, is a 16-bit executable. It will NOT work on 64 bit operating systems.

Diablo is the game that changed everything. I had high hopes for this expansion. This expansion was published by Sierra not Blizzard, and it shows. The install insists on installing bloatware. The Monk is added to the playable characters, but is not well thought out. A monk should be a hand fighter, but instead it uses the staff like a wizard. The special ability, to locate treasure is nice, but because the "search" skill can be learned in a book it is not unique like the trap finding of the rouge, or the smithing skill of the warrior. The monk is a disappointment. There are a lot of new items, mostly traps. Because it adds items, the player does not find as many good items, as it raises the probability of finding them. I did not find any new quests. This is a very old game, and while fun, it won't run in Windows 7. I had to dig out a very old XP computer before I could play it. I am glad that Blizzard has not allowed other publishers to create expansions since. I am glad to have played this expansion, but I don't think it was worth the price. The seller however was wonderful. I would recommend him.

Have yet to play it yet but is everything I wanted and asked for. Thank you

This expansion to the original Diablo game is exceedingly difficult to come by. Diablo I comes in the battle chest but curiously not this expansion (which greatly enhanced the game). I absolutely LOVE the Diablo series and their expansions!