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| Draak's minions come in many forms - [[trolls]], [[orcs]], skeletons, spiders, scorpions, wyverns and many others. Each of these types has variants - for example, some skeletons use swords while others have bows and still others may attack with fireballs. | | Draak's minions come in many forms - [[trolls]], [[orcs]], skeletons, spiders, scorpions, wyverns and many others. Each of these types has variants - for example, some skeletons use swords while others have bows and still others may attack with fireballs. |
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| ==Comparison to ''Diablo''==
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| There are many similarities between the two games. Both use the same concepts of health, mana, scrolls, spellbooks and so on; the point-and-click interface is almost identical; even the [[hotkeys]] have the same function in many cases (for example, "i" opens virtually identical character inventory screens, and the Tab key toggles the map display). There are some major differences between Diablo (the original version, not Diablo II) and Darkstone:
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| * Diablo's screens are very richly detailed but only one viewpoint is provided. Darkstone's screens are less detailed but allow four "camera angles". F10 switches to overhead. F11 switches to [[Isometric projection|isometric]]. Left and right arrow keys freely rotate the camera around the selected character. Up and down arrow keys zoom. Ctrl+ up and down arrow keys move the camera angle up and down.
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| * Diablo has three character classes; Darkstone has eight (four male and four female).
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| * Darkstone allows players to control two characters at one time.
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| * Diablo characters can only be moved to a location visible on the screen. In Darkstone, when outside the dungeons the player can view a map of the land the character is in, and clicking on the map causes the character to move to the location. At any time the player can view a list of significant landmarks that have already been visited and return the character to any of these locations by clicking on it.
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| * Diablo's gameplay takes place in (about) 16 levels of dungeons divided into four regions (the Dungeons, the Catacombs, the Caves and Hell). Darkstone takes place in (about) 31 levels split between eight separate dungeons each with four levels.
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| * Darkstone characters created in solo games can also be used in Multiplayer games, and vice-versa. This is not true in Diablo (Diablo II offers a feature where solo characters can be converted to multiplayer, but this operation is irreversible). Since [[Blizzard Entertainment|Blizzard's]] decision to do this in Diablo appears to be a deliberate anti-[[cheat code|cheating]] measure, it may be that allowing this in Darkstone opens the game up to cheating (the game does have some anti-cheating features, such as the detection and removal of duplicate items).
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| * Diablo has a Quest Log screen that summarizes the current open side-quests. Darkstone does not provide this - instead it allows the player to review all the conversations with NPCs. Since all such conversations are logged, locating a particular message associated with a quest can be time-consuming.
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| The designers of Darkstone stated that they are big fans of Diablo but when designing their own game decided to change some aspects of the earlier game that they felt were weak. The earlier Diablo is still thought by some to have superior graphics, music and atmosphere.
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| ==External links== | | ==External links== |