The game was conceptualized and designed by Stieg Hedlund, with Blizzard North founders David Brevik, Max and Eric Shaefer acting as project heads for the other disciplines. Including Diablo II, the Diablo series has sold 17 million copies. It has also become one of the top thirty best selling computer games ever. Diablo II may be played as a single player game, multi-player via a LAN, or multi-player via, with the latter being the most popular.
Major factors that contributed to Diablo II's success include what fans found to be addictive hack and slash gameplay and free access to. Diablo II was developed by Blizzard North.īy April 2001, Diablo II had become one of the most popular online games ever.
It was released for both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS in 2000 by Blizzard Entertainment. As with Diablo Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.ĭiablo II, sequel to the popular game Diablo, is a dark fantasy-themed Action role-playing game in a hack and slash or 'dungeon roaming' style. The list of authors can be seen in the page history.