I donno, I thought median was really awesome when you get on with the game. Lots of mods start out crappy in low-level play, but as you get up into Nightmare and Hell they get significantly cooler. Hell Unleashed was cool, that's true, but at the same time it is pretty much just like a harder version of D2.
Off topic, is there any way to harass this game into working on Vista? I love me some D2, but as far as I know, it doesn't work on Vista.