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Great fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: November 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Hellgate: London is a blast. That is the easiest way for me to put it.

I am no Diablo fanboy, having never played the game. I am a veteran MMOer and this isn't typically an MMO, but more an action game that is able to be played online with others. So while people only enter public areas to sell then head back out on missions, that is because the game doesn't actually require a community. Instead, it has simply provided us with an online community to play with that is more easily accessible than the online community of other action rpgs such as Titan Quest. But since the offline version is identical to the online version, it should be easy to tell that this isn't a typical MMO that actually requires a standard MMO community.

I hear some of the complaints, like the graphics being dumbed down in some ways; but ultimately, I came to this game for 1 thing... carnage. I wanted to log on, team up with my wife and my brother, and run through the streets and the sewers obliterating everything in sight. On that count, this game has delivered more than any game I have played in a long time.

I come to this game most recently from Vanguard, which requires you to find a group for much of the content. Due to the low population on that game, finding a group for many of the dungeons was nearly impossible. So when I log onto Hellgate and get to just start killing things, that makes me happy.

Is this game ground breaking? Not really. Is this game going to change the face of gaming? Not really. Will I be playing this game a year from now? Not likely. But the online subscription is optional, so it isn't costing me anything more than my initial purchase money to play. Is it worth that money? Absolutely. I will probably play through this game several times with several character classes, see all there is to see, and then move on to something else. But in the mean time, I am having more fun on Hellgate: London than I have had on any game since the first 6 months of WoW. This game is fun. It delivers carnage. The weapons upgrade system is extensive and interesting. And there is nothing like being surrounded by 20 demons and just blasting your way out. I love it.

Fun Factor 5 stars/ buggy rollout makes for 4 stars

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: December 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I purchased a couple copies of Hellgate London for my wife and I. I only opened mine to give it a bit of playtest before I inflicted a possibly buggy and unplayable game on my wife. (based on the online reviews I'd read)

Guess what, after an hour or two of playing, my wife was bugging me to install it on her machine so she could play. She's playing a marksman and is having a heck of a time trying to snipe creatures before I can get to them.

It's a lot of fun charging a demon horde with with my sword and watching their ranks start to evaporate as she picks them off one by one. The graphics effects scale up as your damage increases and are based on the times of damage your weapon does. Little glowing bits of demons flying everywhere can be suprisingly satisfying. :)

I keep debating whether to give 4 or 5 stars to the game since it needs additional patching, but I'm going to go with 5 since the issues I've encountered are few an far between enough that they haven't interfered with how fun the game is.

I do think they should have made the levels in Act 1 less drab to help draw people into the game. (The first several quests are all running around in sewers and basements)

Overall, I'd recommend buying it based on my experience and have recommended it to my friends.

Boring. Every map looks the same.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: November 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I never played Diablo much but I know this: Every sewer in this game looks the same. Every building in this game looks the same. Every city area in this game looks the same. That's it. 3 maps, basically. And monster variety? PLEASE. I could count 5 monster-types you'll see 80% of the time. And, this is a huge huge turnoff for this game, there is NO RESPEC. Read. Investigate. Study. Spend hours and hours reading because when you put a skill point somewhere, you ain't never gettin' it back. No way. No how. And so if you screw it up, you'll say 'oh well, trash this character let's reroll! Yeah! Same maps again? Are you kidding me? Hell yeah I wanna do those again!!' Not.

ALMOST as good as Diablo

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Hellgate: London is the lastest Action Role-Playing Game for the PC. It was released on October 31, 2007. It's story revolves around a post-apocalyptic London in the year 2038. You take the roll of a character and have the choice of being many classes including - Engineer, Evoker, Summoner and more. The one thing I like about this game is the fact that it is very RPG feeling but also has action aspects. Characters and enemies have HP and you gain levels but it has a very action based battle system. Another cool thing is the online multiplayer aspect - you are able to group up with other users online and play through the game's zone. If I had to compare this game to any other I would compare it to Blizzard's Diablo series. Overall I'd highly recommend this game to any Action RPG or Diablo fan.

Strangely addicting but buggy

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Hellgate: London was an impulse buy. I succumbed to peer pressure, and bought it after 4 of my friends did. I knew it was buggy, but I was curious to see what the creators of the legendary Diablo 2 cooked up under Flagship Studios.

First things first. The game is BUGGY. I have a fairly powerful machine with 2 gigs of ram, and I occasionally get a "memory exhausted" dialog box, which crashes the game. Before that, inventory items start to disappear, and characters don't render properly. I do, however, get in a good few hours of play before this happens. It's almost like a warning to stop playing. The other bugs are fairly minor, and are almost amusing. Mobs will disappear, group members will be invisible at times (fixed in the latest patch), other group members will appear to be running inside a wall when they are actually in a different zone - the list goes on. None of these are impediments to having fun.

Gameplay: The maps, though randomly generated, are very repetitive. Mob types are sparse. Fortunately, as soon as you begin to tire of the same environments and baddies, the game tosses in something fresh, e.g. a new type of zone, a boss, etc. Furthermore, Hellgate supports many styles of play, even within the same character class. I have a marksman, and I enjoy rushing into the middle of a battlefield, wreaking havoc on enemies while injecting myself with health packs so that I stay alive. A friend of mine also plays a marksman, but enjoys sniping from afar. Yet another friend plays a medium-range marksman specializing in grenades. How you play is up to you.

All in all, the game is not without its flaws, but without a monthly fee (of course, you can choose to pay 10 dollars a month for more features), it's worth picking up.

Interesting Combination

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I just bought this game over the weekend and I downloaded all the patches and updates and it runs perfectly fine for me. I'm not sure what all the reviews about the flaws were, with the game crashing and such. Maybe there was a recent patch that fixed most of the problems. The graphics are good. Alot of the creatures are very similar as mentioned. It is very much like a combination of diablo and oblivion with FREE online play. Even online you don't have to team with a bunch of nerdys. You can still play solo at your own pace. It has all the rare, semi rare, legendary, common etc etc drops from creatures and rare monsters. Enjoy the game. I've put about 10 hours into it and online is fun except for the spammers trying to make money off of selling game items.

If World of Warcraft and Halo got shot out of a cannon into a swarm of bugs. . .

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Unlike many reviewers I have seen, I actually managed to install this game and play it. So, instead of simply reviewing the crash process of starting the game, I get to actually review the game itself.

The game takes place in a near-futuristic London. Essentially, demons have invaded London (not sure if they got all of the earth actually) and the cities population has retreated to the subways. Not entirely sure why but it seems that demons fear subways and have left them alone for 20 years.

I prefer to lay these reviews out in a Pro/Con format, so allow me to start with the pro's.

Pro:

Some interesting classes to choose from. With your melee, shooter, and caster classes having two professions each, you will likely find something you like. Skill tree systems (almost exactly like WoW) give you a limited chance to customize your character and different types of weaponry is available depending on your class.

The melee classes work in a third person view for some good hacking and slashing fun while the shooters and casters enjoy the use of a first person shooter system of dodging, aiming and rather old school shooter gameplay. The views are adjustable if you feel the need to play a different viewstyle, so don't think that you would be pigeonholed from the start.

Con:

Sorry that the pro's were so short, but that was really about it.
The failing point of this game is that it is simply pure grind. Now I understand that there are people who like grind in their MMORPG's, but in a single-player game, plotless grinding is about as much fun as.. well.. work. Multiplayer may spruce this up a bit, but then again the day I buy a game for the purpose of multiplayer is the day I jam my arm into my mouth and start chewing mindlessly.

I also got a bit annoyed with the "talent trees" for the classes. Due to the huge lack of passive skills and the large slew of pointless skills, you can count on investing points into three or four things the entire game. Couple this with the lack of decent hotkeys for your right mouse button (like Diablo 2 had) you really are only able to make use of 3 talents at a time. It seems that if Hellgate was so intent on ripping off WoW and Diablo 2 they should have simply gone all of the way and snagged the good parts too.

Balance issues were a bit annoying. I first started out as a Blademaster but soon found it to be a meaningless class. I love the idea of putting a weapon in each hand and rushing into combat, but when 95% of the baddies die in one swing, the second weapon is a bit pointless. Essentially, I was able to do lots of damage, but noting lived long enough to make it worthwhile. Since blademasters lack in any sort of defense, I got killed constantly. Rather sad when compared with my Marksman or Evoker characters who never died the entire game.

The user interface can go and dump itself off a bridge for as much as I love it. Due to a terrible inventory system, you can count on opening it and playing a bit of Tetris every three minutes or so. There is no autosort function and it seems that every rat you find is carrying a bazooka for some reason. The minimap does little but show you where you are in respect to the wall next to you, even when zoomed out completely. The main map shows you only that you are in a specific area, not where you are in it. So, enjoy wandering around in circles in a vain attempt to find your exit.

I noticed the random level generation plug in the game description somewhere, but I actually saw very little of it. I played through the first act about three times with different classes and vividly recall going through the exact same level designs. Items, monsters, quest objects and chests would be in different spots but the level layout looked the same each time.

Which brings me to the last con, the look of the game itself. To the people who have already played the game I ask "What was your favorite level, the smashed up city street, the sewer/subway tunnel, the red colored hell level or the red colored smashed up city street level. That was all that I saw in the game. It gets so repetitive that you constantly find yourself backtracking (thank you worthless minimap) and getting nowhere in the badly textured, unimaginative wasteland that is London (or will be, sorry anyone who lives in London).

To recap, Hellgate London is a grindtastic shootfest which exploits bits and pieces from World of Warcraft and any run of the mill shooter to make a dreary dull game. You will do the same quests over and over again, in what looks like the same exact settings. Gameplay issues will challenge you further than the creators ever actually intended as you attempt to uncover anything resembling a plot in this mess.

In all, amusing for the first few hours, but almost a chore for any longer than that.

BUGS!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: November 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Dear Flagship Studios,

When I buy a game, it is because I want to be able to install it and play it. This seems simple but you must have forgotten because what I've done instead is install it and spend 5 hours trying to figure out why it doesn't work even though my system exceeds minimum requirements.

A game should function out of the box. Period. I am in Iraq, so downloading a slew of fix-it patches on a super slow military network is not going to happen. This has proven to be an immensely frustrating experience for me as I was very much looking forward to this game. Next time do a bit more Quality Assurance, mmmkay?

...a HELL filled with software BUGS!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 14
Date: November 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

DO NOT purchase this software. It is filled with game-crashing, system-stopping bugs. I have a great, fully updated system and it still crashes all the time. If you don't believe me, do a Google search of "Hellgate London bugs"...you'll find plenty to read.

SAVE YOUR MONEY AND TIME! RUN!

It's not Diablo III but Hellgate London I

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 14
Date: November 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

A lot of people are disappointed because the assumption of how Hellgate London may be Diablo III like the original creators of F.E.A.R splitting off developing the sequel and naming it differently.

Hellgate London is NOT Diablo III. Think of a Action RPG Third/First Person Adventure.

You cannot really categorize it because there are so many different elements in this game that when someone asks you, What kind of of game is Hellgate London? You only can simply answer them, It's Hellgate London...

This terminology can go different ways, depending on the upcoming content supports and Flagship's ability to deliver their promises to their over eager customers.

In terms of gameplay, and replay value. Yes. Of course, I would suggest getting in to this game with friends. Teaming up with a friend in Hellgate London amplifies the fun in the game by 1000%.

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