Miscellaneous comments.
I played a couple of hours yesterday, and all day today.
Hack and slash. If you like that this is the game for you. After the 1st area, there are monsters every 40 feet in some places. And they respawn--not immediately, but you can never truly clear an area. The game is harder than the demo. I dabbled with all chars. except for the Vamp. Most of today on a trapper Dark elf--very powerful. Fog the enemy, then poison mist and chop them up. Took him up to lvl 12. Starting up a Wood elf now.
Skill and "combat arts" setup is quite different from D2 or DD which makes it interesting..
The map is vast. All those monsters can make exploration a drag though unless you have a special ability on your gear that automatically kills monsters at lower lvl than you. There are numerous quests of the go fetch variety. The map helps you find your way, pointing out where the quests are.
SP party play is possible. You have no control of party members and so have to adapt your play to them. Eg. some are wimps and don't fight so you have to keep them from harm. Some are highly aggressive; The elves start out with companions who don't die--eventually you have to part ways though.
I haven't played MP yet other than to take a short quick peek.
The game runs smoothly on my laptop--ati mobile 9000, 1994 MHz, 512 RAM. A couple of very minor bugs so far--nothing that really hurts gameplay.
