Torchlight 2 PC game

I have read from other review sites that stated, "This is what Diablo 3 should have been." Really? This game IS Diablo 3 - re-skinned.That being said, if you have played Diablo 3, and liked it, this game isn't going to give you anything you have already gotten - except a pet.If you played Diablo 3 and DIDN'T like it, there is no point to trying this game, as it is the same game.The GoodYou get a pet. You get to pick which pet you want, which there are some good ones, and outright silly ones.It will fight for/with you and go to the store for you. That's about it though.Game is well coded. I never experienced any glitches, and runs very fluidly. Except AI pathing - more on that later.It is easy to play. You don't have to use a plethora of skills. Setup your number keys with mana and health potions, and 3 or 4 skills and zombie heads will roll.I will say the graphics are "good" because they are balanced, meaning everything fits together nicely. They don't add or take away from the game, they just give you that good gaming experience.The BadOriginality - zero.This game is about as original as a new brand of bottled water. I expected the game to have some aspects that were "oh, this is a cool idea!" It doesn'tWell, there is "fishing". You catch fish that will turn your pet into a monster (with some buffs) for 5 to 15 minutes (rarely you will get one that has a semi-permanent affect).And you occasionally catch a health potion, or a magic pair of boots. Nothing else to do there. I listed this in the "Bad" section because, this is all the original content they could come up with.Pet pathing. This will annoy you highly. Your pet will get stuck on a wall or ledge trying to get at a monster he can see, but can't get to, while right next to him is you - getting your face eaten by a swarm of zombies.The Ugly*SPOILER* Story. What story? The story goes like this. "OK, there's this bad guy, and you need to defeat him." So, there you have it. I spoiled the game right there.Really though, the main story is about as deep as a bird bath. The act 1 boss fight was - I didn't know I had fought the act 1 boss fight until I found myself in act 2.Quests. Random people around maps that are "trying to get something they can't obtain - and need you to get it for them."Really? If they can't do it themselves, they need to go back to town and get a job making pottery. Reminds me of the whiners in MMO's in the global channels "Need a high level to run me though a dungeon because it is too hard for me!" This game is full of those people... but these are your quests. Yeah!Graphics. I don't get the graphics in this game. They are EXREMEMLY low poly count models I haven't seen in 6 or 8 years. The textures aren't that bad... but they definitely not that good either.While I mentioned that the graphics are "good" as they serve the game play well enough, they give you little to no immersion factor. I found myself staring at them on occasion going "wow, this looks kind of lame. This game came out in 2012? Really?"I managed to play this game for 3 or 4 nights before I had enough. Of course, I bought it from steam - download. Had I purchased a mail order DVD and had to wait for it, I would have been even more let down.I tried to give it 3 stars (It's OK), but couldn't get myself to. The game is not ok, it is a 100% rip off of other peoples ideas and concepts.I would say you will only like this game if you Absolutely LOVED Diablo 3. Otherwise, you're going to have that "I have wasted my time on this" feeling - like I did.So after this, if you are still thinking you might like the game, download it from Steam, don't buy a DVD. But I warned you! hah!Hope this helped.

First, this is just a review of Torchlight 2 the GAME. This item seems to be an import physical copy, and at this price there is no reason to buy- it can be had on Steam for less than half the cost.Now, the game.Torchlight 2 was rather famously pushed back to avoid competing with Diablo III. As it turned out, D3 was a huge seller but a bit of a long-term dud, and hack'n'slash fans were left wanting more. T2 fits that void very nicely with huge areas, tons of sidequests, exciting boss fights and oceans of loot. It basically takes everything that was good about the first torchlight, expands on it with overworlds and a better item customizing system, and loses the really bad elements such as continual linear dungeons, dodgy environmental collision detection, and the first game's rapidly declining difficulty. Torchlight 2 is everything a sequel should be- similar to the first game, but BETTER. Runic has also trotted out the graphic bells and whistles if your PC can handle them, but the game still scales nicely and has the original's "fantasy RPG in the Team Fortress 2 universe" look.There are some nitpicks- skills are rather poorly explained, and it's hard to respec if you screw up a build because of this. Bosses have huge collision areas while the hitboxes on the small fry are tiny, meaning you can easily mis-click when you attack regular enemies and generally end up always attacking bosses in packs. These are small complaints- the core game is tremendously solid with responsive controls and immense stability. If you were let down by Diablo III or even Torchlight 1, give this a shot and you probably won't be disappointed.PROS:-More classes, better enchanting/socketing, nicer graphics, bigger areas than Torchlight 1-Unlike certain other ARPGS, cannot be beaten in 2 hours by a sneaky player ;)-Immense build customization encourages repeated playthroughs-Multiplayer comes to Torchlight!-Cheap! (Unless you import the German DVD release, heh)CONS:-Unclear skill descriptions + limited respecs = frustration-Builds dependent on high-level skills can be VERY frustrating at first-Randomly rolled spellbooks and enchanters can make the early game very hard or easy based on luck

First, just as other have said: buy it on Steam; it'll cost you 20 bucks.Secondly, you'll get all the hack and slash joy you mistakenly believed you'd get from Diablo 3, w/o the disappointments caused by Blizzard's money grubbing and poor implementation. This is true not least b/c you don't have to be online to play it. But if you want to get online, who better to handle it than Steam?FWIW, I also like the sense of humor and aesthetic written into TL2 better than Diablo3, but that's a matter of taste. For 20 bucks, you can well afford to judge for yourself.